Browsing Investigación ambiental by Subject "Biodiversidad"

Hylid tadpoles from the Caribbean island of Hispaniola : ontogeny, description and comparison of external morphology

Galvis, Pedro A.; Sánchez-Pacheco, Santiago J.; Ospina-Sarria, Jhon Jairo; Anganoy-Criollo, Marvin; Gil, José; Rada, Marco (2014)

[English] The island of Hispaniola (Dominican Republic and Haiti) is home to four endemic species of treefrogs: Hypsiboas heilprini, Osteopilus dominicensis, O. pulchrilineatus and O. vastus. These species occur sympatrically ...

Identifying critical areas for conservation : biodiversity and climate change in Central America, Mexico, and the Dominican Republic

Anderson, Eric R.; Cherrington, Emil A.; Tremblay-Boyer, Laura; Flores, Africa I.; Sempris, Emilio (2008)

Given the rapidity and intensity of anthropogenic impacts on natural systems, assessing the effectiveness of current protected areas in preserving biodiversity is especially important in Mesoamerica and the Caribbean, which ...

Islas del tesoro verde : descubrimientos botánicos en el Caribe

Fuentes Bazan, Susy (ed.); Grotz, Kathrin (ed.); Berazaín, Rosalina; Borsch, Thomas; Fuentes Bazan, Susy; García, Ricardo Guarionex; Greuter, Werner; Grotz, Kathrin; Gutiérrez Amaro, Jorge; Hoppe, Jürgen; Iturralde-Vinent, Manuel A.; Manitz, Hermann; Martínez Betancourt, Julio Ismael; Hernández Monterrey, Nora; Peguero, Brígido; Rankin Rodríguez, Rosa; Tavares, Juan Tomás (2016)

Catálogo de la exhibición “Islas del tesoro verde: descubrimientos botánicos en el Caribe”, un proyecto que refleja, tanto en contenido como en elaboración, el intercambio y cooperación cercana que existe entre los jardines ...

IX Congreso de la Biodiversidad Caribeña [libro de resúmenes]

Hernández Martich, José David (ed.) (2017)

El Congreso de la Biodiversidad Caribeña organizado por la Escuela de Biología de la Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (UASD), República Dominicana, junto con otras instituciones colaboradoras, es un evento trienal que ...

James Bond (1900–1989) — U.S. ornithologist — and his network of contributors to the avifauna of the West Indies

Aubrecht, Gerhard (2022)

Abstract: James Bond, the well-known author of the field guide Birds of the West Indies, published numerous scientific papers on Caribbean avifauna that are based on decades of field research and involved numerous regional ...

Last search for the Jamaican Golden Swallow (Tachycineta e. euchrysea)

Proctor, C. Justin; Inman, Seth E.; Zeiger, John M.; Graves, Gary R. (2017)

Abstract: The Golden Swallow (Tachycineta euchrysea) is an aerial insectivore and obligate secondary cavity nester endemic to the Caribbean islands of Jamaica and Hispaniola. The declining Hispaniolan subspecies (T. e. ...

Lista de especies de quitones (Mollusca: Polyplacophora) conocidas para la Hispaniola

Herrera-Moreno, Alejandro; Betancourt Fernández, Liliana (2010)

[Español] El presente trabajo ofrece una lista con 23 especies de quitones conocidas para la isla Hispaniola. Para República Dominicana, esta compilación actualiza el último inventario nacional de la biodiversidad marina ...

Lista Roja y extinciones : la foca monje

Academia de Ciencias de la República Dominicana (editores) (2011)

La foca monje del Caribe fue formalmente declarada extinta en 1996, en la Lista Roja de Animales Amenazados de la UICN. La última vez que se vio fue en 1952, en el Banco Seranilla, entre Jamaica y Honduras, donde se sabía ...

Lizards in an evolutionary tree: ecology and adaptive radiation of anoles

Losos, Jonathan B. (2009)

[English] Adaptive radiation, which results when a single ancestral species gives rise to many descendants, each adapted to a different part of the environment, is possibly the single most important source of biological ...

Low contribution of Caribbean-based researchers to academic publications on biodiversity conservation in the insular Caribbean

Vallès, Henri; Labaude, Sophie; Bezault, Etienne; Browne, Darren; Deacon, Amy; Guppy, Reia; Pujadas Clavel, Aimara; Cézilly, Frank (2021)

The insular Caribbean is among the most threatened global biodiversity hotspots, warranting urgent and effective action in conservation. However, the capacity of Caribbean-based researchers to address challenges in ...

Major Caribbean and Central American frog faunas originated by ancient oceanic dispersal

Heinicke, Matthew P.; Duellman, William E.; Hedges, S. Blair (2007)

Approximately one-half of all species of amphibians occur in the New World tropics, which includes South America, Middle America, and the West Indies. Of those, 27% (801 species) belong to a large assemblage, the ...

Manual ilustrado para el monitoreo de aves silvestres

Ruiz Gutiérrez, Viviana; Berlanga García, Humberto Antonio; Calderón Parra, Rafael; Savarino Drago, Annamaria; Aguilar Gómez, Miguel Ángel; Rodríguez Contreras, Vicente (2020)

Con base en experiencias y con el fin de fortalecer las capacidades y potenciar el valor científico de los registros (observaciones) de los monitores comunitarios de aves, el Laboratorio de Ornitología de Cornell y la ...

Marine biodiversity in the Caribbean : regional estimates and distribution patterns

Miloslavich, Patricia; Díaz, Juan Manuel; Klein, Eduardo; Alvarado, Juan José; Díaz, Cristina; Gobin, Judith; Escobar-Briones, Elva; Cruz-Motta, Juan José; Weil, Ernesto; Cortés, Jorge; Bastidas, Ana Carolina; Robertson, Ross; Zapata, Fernando; Martín, Alberto; Castillo, Julio; Kazandjian, Aniuska; Ortiz, Manuel (2010)

This paper provides an analysis of the distribution patterns of marine biodiversity and summarizes the major activities of the Census of Marine Life program in the Caribbean region. The coastal Caribbean region is a large ...

Marine mammal captivity in the northeastern Caribbean, with notes on the rehabilitation of stranded whales, dolphins and manatees

Mignucci-Giannoni, Antonio A. (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, ...

Marine mammals in the Wider Caribbean : current research and priorities for future studies

Lucke, Klaus; Scheidat, Meike; Geelhoed, Steve; Debrot, Dolfi; Ward, Nathalie; Hatch, Leila; Wiley, Dave; McDonald, Craig; Reynolds, John; Hoetjes, Paul; Bolaños, Jaime; Souan, Hélène; Vandersarren, Gaëlle; Gandhilon, Nadège (2014)

Numerous research activities aiming at marine mammals have been commenced by individual organisations as well as regional or even international collaborations throughout the Wider Caribbean over the past years. These ...

Natural history of the often-misunderstood Govenia utriculata (Orchidaceae): discovery of a Mexican population upsets West Indies endemism

Salazar, Gerardo A.; Octaviano-Landa, Víctor I.; Jiménez-Machorro, Rolando; Fragoso-Martínez, Itzi; Clase, Teodoro; Ackerman, James D. (2021)

Govenia utriculata (Sw.) Lindl. has been pervasively confused in herbaria and the literature, despite showing both vegetative and florally distinctive attributes. Here we document for the first time its presence in Mexico, ...