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Análisis del sistema de gestión de residuos sólidos urbanos de la ciudad de Santiago de los Caballeros (República Dominicana). Propuesta de actuaciones de mejora ambiental
(2019)
El objetivo base de este trabajo es identificar el comportamiento del sistema en función de la gestión integral de residuos sólidos urbanos (GIRSU) en la ciudad de Santiago de los Caballeros (República Dominicana), por lo ...
pH, aluminio y factores ambientales en suelos bajo bosques de la cordillera Central, República Dominicana
(2015)
Se analizaron datos químicos de 36 secciones de suelos bajo bosques naturales en la cordillera Central dominicana, 20 de ellas ubicadas en interfluvios y las 16 restantes en ambientes ribereños. En los interfluvios predominan ...
Water governance in Latin America and the Caribbean: a multi-level approach
(2012)
The water debate in relation to poverty alleviation has one dimension that is often sidelined: its relationship with public governance. This report attempts to shed some light on the governance of water policy in Latin ...
Drought characteristics and management in the Caribbean
(2016)
The present report pertains to the characterization and management of drought in the Caribbean, a region commonly hit by climate-related hazards, including drought. We hope that it will contribute to fostering the fundamental ...
Insights from a new high-resolution drought atlas for the Caribbean spanning 1950–2016
(2017)
Climate change is expected to increase the severity and frequency of drought in the Caribbean. Understanding drought variability and its trends is therefore critical for improving resiliency and adaptation capacity of this ...
Exacerbation of the 2013–2016 Pan-Caribbean drought by anthropogenic warming
(2018)
The Caribbean islands are expected to see more frequent and severe droughts from reduced precipitation and increased evaporative demand due to anthropogenic climate change. Between 2013 and 2016, the Caribbean experienced ...
A new species of extinct Late Quaternary giant tortoise from Hispaniola
(2017)
Insular giant tortoise diversity has been depleted by Late Quaternary extinctions, but the taxonomic status of many extinct populations remains poorly understood due to limited available fossil or subfossil material, ...
Historical demography of bird populations from Hispaniola assessed by nuclear and mitochondrial gene sequences
(2015)
Molecular markers can be used to infer the demographic history of a given species, but many historic processes simultaneously impact multiple species. Thus, comparative historical demography has the potential to provide ...
Independent evolutionary histories in allopatric populations of a threatened Caribbean land mammal
(2016)
Aim: To determine the evolutionary history, relationships and distinctiveness of allopatric populations of Hispaniolan solenodon (Solenodon paradoxus), a highly threatened Caribbean ‘relict’ mammal, to understand spatio-temporal ...
Population history of the Hispaniolan hutia Plagiodontia aedium (Rodentia: Capromyidae) : testing the model of ancient differentiation on a geotectonically complex Caribbean island
(2012)
Hispaniola is a geotectonically complex island consisting of two palaeo-islands that docked c. 10 Ma, with a further geological boundary subdividing the southern palaeo-island into eastern and western regions. All three ...