ListarInvestigación ambiental por tema "Historia natural"
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A new megalonychid sloth from the late Wisconsinan of the Dominican Republic
(2002)An unusually well preserved skull, mandible, and indisputably associated post-cranial elements of new sloth, Acratocnus (Miocnus), were recovered from a cave in Jaragua National Park, Dominican Republic. The animal died ... -
A second Anolis lizard in Dominican amber and the systematics and ecological morphology of Dominican amber anoles.
(1998)A fossil Anolis lizard in the collections of the American Museum of Natural History is the second anole preserved in amber from the Dominican Republic (Miocene epoch) to be studied... -
An overview of the evolution and conservation of West Indian amphibians and reptiles
(2006)The total area of the West Indies is small, only 0.15% of Earth’s land area, but the region supports 3.0% (180 species) of the world’s amphibians and 6.3% (520 species) of the world’s known reptiles. Nearly all species are ... -
Ancient DNA suggests single colonization and within-archipelago diversification of Caribbean caviomorph rodents
(2021)Reconstructing the evolutionary history of island biotas is complicated by unusual morphological evolution in insular environments. However, past human-caused extinctions limit the use of molecular analyses to determine ... -
Caribbean biogeography : molecular evidence for dispersal in West Indian terrestrial vertebrates
(1992)The geological association of the Greater Antilles with North and South America in the late Cretaceous led to the hypothesis that the present Antillean biota reflects those ancient land connections. Molecular data from ... -
Caribbean Herpetology
(2010)Caribbean Herpetology is a non-profit, peer-reviewed, online-only, open access journal. It publishes manuscripts on a diversity of topics related to Caribbean herpetology, including evolution, ecology, behavior, biogeography, ... -
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 ... -
Discolomopsis dominicana, a new genus and species of Endomychidae (Coleoptera) from Dominican amber
(2006)Discolomopsis, a new genus of Endomychidae (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea), is described and illustrated based on a fossil endomychid embedded in amber resin from the Dominican Republic. Discolomopsis dominicana sp. nov. is ... -
Essai sur l'histoire naturelle de l'isle de Saint-Domingue : avec des figures en taille - douce
(1776)[Español] Descripción, por un fraile dominico, de Saint-Domingue en el siglo XVIII. Trata sobre la historia y describe la administración y la actividad industrial de la colonia. Dedica gran parte de su obra a la descripción ... -
Extinction and biogeography in the Caribbean : new evidence from a fossil riodinid butterfly in Dominican amber
(2004)We describe a new species of extinct riodinid butterfly, Voltinia dramba, from Oligo-Miocene Dominican amber (15-25 Myr ago). This appears to be the first butterfly to be taxonomically described from amber, and the first ... -
First skull of Antillothrix bernensis, an extinct relict monkey from the Dominican Republic
(2011)The nearly pristine remains of Antillothrix bernensis, a capuchin-sized (Cebus) extinct platyrrhine from the Dominican Republic, have been found submerged in an underwater cave. This represents the first specimen of an ... -
Hedges Lab : Evolutionary Biology
(2016)Este portal web, desarrollado por el científico norteamericano Stephen Blair Hedges, Ph.D. (Carnell Professor and Director, Center for Biodiversity, Science Education & Research Center, Temple University, Philadelphia), ... -
Historia general y natural de las Indias, islas y tierra-firme del mar océano : primera parte
(1851)Historia general y natural de las Indias, islas y tierra firme del mar océano es un libro escrito por Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés en el siglo XVI, aunque fue publicado íntegramente mucho tiempo después de su muerte, ... -
La historia natural de Saint Domingue (ensayo)
(2020)«La historia natural de Saint Domingue» es una traducción al español de la obra «Essai sur l’histoire naturelle de l’isle de Saint-Domingue», publicada originalmente años después del fallecimiento de su autor, el padre ... -
La historia natural en tiempos del emperador Carlos V : la importancia de la conquista del Nuevo Mundo
(2000)A lo largo del siglo XVI se produjo un significativo desarrollo científico en Europa y en los reinos de España. El humanismo y el descubrimiento de América fueron factores esenciales en el impulso dado al estudio de la ... -
Historical biogeography of endemic plants in the Caribbean and Podocarpus as a case study
(2019)Despite numerous floristic studies of the Caribbean region, the large-scale evolutionary origins of its diversity remain relatively under-explored. Here, I add to the empirical knowledge of the origin and assembly of the ... -
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 ... -
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 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 ...