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Breeding season ecology and behavior of Ridgway's Hawk (Buteo ridgwayi)
(1981)
Ridgway's Hawk (Buteo ridgwayi) is endemic to Hispaniola and its satellites, where it occurs in a wide variety of habitats. We studied this hawk in the wet limestone karst forest of the Dominican Republic between January ...
Foresta : alternativa de desarrollo
(1984)
Compendio de los trabajos presentados en el seminario «Foresta: alternativa de desarrollo», celebrado en Santiago (República Dominicana) los días 30 de septiembre y 1 de octubre del 1983, bajo auspicios de la Comisión ...
Hypotheses for the Recent Hispaniolan spider fauna based on the Dominican Republic amber spider fauna
(1999)
The Dominican Republic amber fossil spider record is examined and hypotheses generated concerning the Recent Hispaniolan spider fauna which is, at present, poorly known. The families Cyrtaucheniidae, Microstigmatidae, ...
The potential of whale watching in the Caribbean : 1999+ : a new report from the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society
(1999)
In the Greater Caribbean — comprising some 23 island nations and overseas territories of France, Britain, and the Netherlands — whale watching is still a fairly new idea. Begun in southern California in 1955, commercial ...
Caddis flies (Trichoptera) from the Dominican Republic (West Indies). II. All families except Hydroptilidae; with general observations for Hispaniola
(1996)
This is the second part of the results of a travel (1995) to the Dominican Republic devoted to study of Trichoptera. All families except Hydroptilidae are dealt with; 30 taxa were recognized, several new for Hispaniola or ...
Caribherp : amphibians and reptiles of Caribbean Islands
(1999)
Caribherp is an online database containing information on amphibians and reptiles of the Caribbean Islands. It was established in 1999 and serves as a resource for determining the species that occur on specific islands, ...
Marine mammal captivity in the northeastern Caribbean, with notes on the rehabilitation of stranded whales, dolphins and manatees
(1998)
ABSTRACT. —Marine mammals have been of interest to zoos and aquaria since the middle of the eighteenth century. With increasingly successful captive maintenance since the 1960s, a greater demand for captive whales, dolphins, ...
Dieta y alimentación hispano-americana en el Caribe y la Florida en el siglo XVI
(1991)
Los esfuerzos coloniales europeos alcanzaron un mayor éxito en aquellas zonas americanas donde se arraigaron las plantas y los animales que los españoles llevaron consigo. Esta afirmación parece indicar que las plantas ...
Vicariance and dispersal in Caribbean biogeography
(1996)
The species diversity and phylogenetic relationships of West Indian vertebrates are incompletely known, but several lines of evidence support a dispersal origin for most of the fauna. Crother and Guyer have contested much ...
Determination of gender in cetaceans by the polymerase chain reaction
(1992)
We determined the gender of a variety of cet can species, including both ondotocetes and mysticetes, using the polymerase chain reaction for amplification of the sex chromosome specific regions ZFY/ZFX and SRY. This quick ...