ListarInvestigación ambiental por tema "Historia natural"
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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 ... -
Land use - Handbook of the Anthropocene in Latin America I
(2024)Socio-ecological conflicts about land use in Latin America are complex: they involve various actors and flare up due to the dynamics of colonization, spatial appropriation, and the commodification of land. This volume of ... -
Mammals eaten by Indians, owls, and Spaniards in the coast region of the Dominican Republic (with two plates)
(1929)In February and March, 1928, I visited the Samana Bay region, northeastern Dominican Republic with the special object of obtaining remains of mammals in the Indian deposits that had been previously examined by Gabb in ... -
Memoir of a Caribbean mermaid: A historical ecology study exploring the changing perspectives and human exploitation of manatees in the Caribbean
(2024)This thesis will focus on the historical ecology of the wider Caribbean region, exploring the changing perceptions and human exploitation of manatees. Central to the research is understanding how socio-economic and cultural ... -
Natural history notes on the Loggerhead Kingbird (Tyrannus caudifasciatus)
(2010)Abstract: We present natural history data on a Bahamas and Greater Antilles endemic, the Loggerhead Kingbird (Tyrannus caudifasciatus), based on published reports and our personal observations. -
New cranium of the endemic Caribbean platyrrhine, Antillothrix bernensis, from La Altagracia province, Dominican Republic
(2017)Recent paleontological collection in submerged caves in the eastern Dominican Republic has yielded new specimens of Antillothrix bernensis. Here we describe a complete cranium of an adult individual (MHD 20) and provide ... -
New megalonychid sloths (Phyllophaga, Xenarthra) from the Quaternary of Hispaniola
(2000)As part of ongoing revisionary work on Antillean Megalonychidae, we document four new sloth species from Quaternary cave localities in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. -
New specimens of late Quaternary extinct mammals from caves in Sánchez Ramírez Province, Dominican Republic
(2000)During the late Quaternary, the island of Hispaniola supported one of the most diverse mammalian faunas in the West Indies. Much of this diversity was lost to extinction in the past 100,000 years, but the timing of these ... -
Quaternary bat diversity in the Dominican Republic
(2013)The fossil record of bats is extensive in the Caribbean, but few fossils have previously been reported from the Dominican Republic. In this paper, we describe new collections of fossil bats from two flooded caves in the ... -
Tertiary fossil plants from the Dominican Republic
(1921)During the reconnaissance of the Dominican Republic, made during 1919 under the direction of T. Wayland Vaughan for the Dominican Government, fossil plants were collected at seven different localities. -
The extinct Cuban and Hispaniolan macaws (Ara, Psittacidae), and description of a new species, Ara cubensis
(1985)The former existence of an extinct macaw of Hispaniola, Ara tricolor Bechstein 1811, in addition to the extinct macaw of Cuba, Ara cubensis n. sp., is demonstrated through an analysis of the literature. Ara tricolor was ... -
The origin of West Indian amphibians and reptiles
(1996)The known West Indian herpetofauna is comprised of 175 species of amphibians (99% endemic) and 457 species of reptiles (93% endemic). Informaation on distributions, relationships, and times of origin, with emphasis on ... -
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 ... -
Water - Handbook of the Anthropocene in Latin America IV
(2024)Conflicts and struggles like urbanization processes and the productive use of water have impacted the relationship of Latin American and Caribbean societies with water for centuries. This volume of the Handbook «The ...
