Comunidad Técnico-profesional y científica: Recent submissions
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Short-term temporal trends of a coral reef in Samana (Dominican Republic) : the value of a permanent monitoring program to identify drivers of rapid change
(2024)Abstract: Permanent monitoring programs are valuable to identify drivers of ecosystem trends. For example, in 2021, we reported the first record of Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease (SCTLD) along the northeastern coast of ... -
Half of Atlantic reef-building corals at elevated risk of extinction due to climate change and other threats
(2024)Atlantic reef-building corals and coral reefs continue to experience extensive decline due to increased stressors related to climate change, disease, pollution, and numerous anthropogenic threats. To understand the impact ... -
Columbus’ footprints on Hispaniola from a coastal perspective : multi-proxy reconstruction of environmental change in the northern Dominican Republic
(2018)Columbus founded the very first permanent settlement in the New World, La Isabela, on the northwestern coast of the Dominican Republic on the island of Hispaniola during his second voyage in AD 1493. Assessment of the ... -
Lake sediment-based reconstructions of Late-Holocene lowland environments of Dominican Republic and Barbuda, northern Caribbean
(2018)This dissertation explores the long-term environmental history of two northern Caribbean sites through sediment core analysis. At Laguna Alejandro (Dominican Republic), sediment and isotope data reveal ten storm events ... -
A 1000-year sedimentary record of hurricane, fire, and vegetation history from a coastal lagoon in southwestern Dominican Republic
(2011)Our knowledge of whether hurricanes cause lasting changes in forest composition and the patterns and role of fire in Caribbean dry forests are lacking. This project combines paleoecological and paleotempestological methods ...
