The Dominican Republic is the most visited insular tourist destination in the Caribbean, being its beaches its main attractiveness. This tourism generates 37% of the total revenues of the country, concentrated in coastal ...

The American crocodile is the most widely distributed of the New World crocodiles, ranging from the southern tip of Florida, along both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of southern Mexico, Central America, and northern South ...

La tala y quema en los bosques tropicales húmedos para usos agrícolas o de pasto, vienen siendo las prácticas más habituales de la población humana ubicada en el territorio de la única reserva de la biosfera existente en ...

Los conocimientos relativos a la contaminación de los suelos que tienen los escolares al finalizar la enseñanza obligatoria tanto en España como en otros países latinoamericanos son, en general, escasos y, a veces, erróneos. ...

Diagnostic laboratories receive carcasses and samples for diagnostic evaluation and pathogen/toxin detection. The intent of a case definition is to provide scientifically based criteria for determining (1) if an individual ...

Currently, the primary instrument of fisheries management legislation in the Dominican Republic is the Fisheries and Aquaculture Act (Law 307-04) of 2004. The legislation does not incorporate a definition of fisheries ...

Valuing Caribbean biodiversity for health and wealth requires knowledge of the bioresource so as to better appreciate the myriad of uses and services it provides. Increasing the knowledge base provides increasingly accurate ...

El paisaje vegetal del territorio de la reserva de la biosfera dominicana incluyendo sus principales ecosistemas. La altitud es el factor ambiental que determina variaciones climáticas contrastadas y que se reflejan en la ...

Las experiencias de manejo participativo de áreas protegidas en República Dominicana preceden el marco legal existente. Se iniciaron formalmente en 1989 con la firma de convenios entre la Dirección Nacional de Parques y ...

There are 196 species of amphibians known from the West Indies, 188 of which are native. With only a few exceptions, all of those native species are endemic to single islands or island banks, and most are restricted to a ...