Browsing Investigación ambiental by Subject "Historia natural"

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    • Quaternary bat diversity in the Dominican Republic 

      Velazco, PaúL M.; O'Neill, Hannah; Gunnell, Gregg F.; Cooke, Siobhán B.; Rimoli, Renato; Rosenberger, Alfred L.; Simmons, Nancy B. (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 

      Berry, Edward W. (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 origin of West Indian amphibians and reptiles 

      Hedges, S. Blair (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 

      Hedges, S. Blair (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 ...