Browsing Investigación ambiental by Author "Carreras de León, Rosanna"

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    • Genetic analysis of juvenile hawksbills from a feeding ground in the Dominican Republic 

      Carreras de León, Rosanna; Sofía, Denise; Vélez-Zuazo, Ximena; León, Yolanda M. (2010)
      Póster presentado en el XXX International Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation, Goa, India que resume los resultados de un análisis genético de las tortugas carey en la República Dominicana.

    • Genetic diversity and reproductive biology of two species of Vaccinium (Ericaceae) in the Dominican Republic 

      Rodríguez-Peña, Rosa A.; Carreras de León, Rosanna; Manzueta-Acevedo, Katherin; Fernández-Canela, Josué; Bastardo, Ruth H. (2021)
      Vaccinium ekmanii Berazain (Ericaceae) is an endemic species from the Dominican Republic whose habitat is particularly vulnerable to human activities due to their proximity to developed areas. Its related species, V. ...

    • Genetic structure at three spatial scales is consistent with limited philopatry in Ricord's Rock Iguanas (Cyclura ricordii) 

      Carreras de León, Rosanna; Pasachnik, Stesha A.; Gerber, Glenn P.; Brooks, Christopher P.; Rupp, Ernst; Welch, Mark E. (2019)
      Cyclura ricordii is an endemic iguana from Hispaniola Island and is threatened on the IUCN Red List. The main threats are predation by introduced mammals, habitat destruction, and hunting pressure. The present study focused ...

    • Green Iguanas (Iguana iguana) in the Dominican Republic 

      Pasachnik, Stesha A.; Carreras de León, Rosanna; Reynoso, Víctor Hugo; Rupp, Ernst; León, Yolanda M.; Incháustegui, Sixto J. (2012)
      This species was unknown from the Dominican Republic until the early 1990s when Green Iguanas began to be sold as pets. From 10 February through 9 March 2012, we conducted a series of interviews in local communities ...

    • Innovative assembly strategy contributes to understanding the evolution and conservation genetics of the endangered Solenodon paradoxus from the island of Hispaniola 

      Grigorev, Kirill; Kliver, Sergey; Dobrynin, Pavel; Komissarov, Aleksey; Wolfsberger, Walter; Krasheninnikova, Ksenia; Afanador-Hernández, Yashira M.; Brandt, Adam L.; Paulino, Liz A.; Carreras de León, Rosanna; Rodríguez, Luis E.; Nuñez, Adrell; Brandt, Jessica R.; Silva, Filipe; Hernández-Martich, David; Majeske1, Audrey J.; Antunes, Agostinho; Roca, Alfred L.; O’Brien, Stephen J.; Martínez-Cruzado, Juan Carlos; Oleksyk, Taras K. (2018)
      Solenodons are insectivores that live in Hispaniola and Cuba. They form an isolated branch in the tree of placental mammals that are highly divergent from other eulipothyplan insectivores The history, unique biology, and ...

    • Lost iguanas : trouble in paradise 

      Pasachnik, Stesha A.; Carreras de León, Rosanna (2014)
      Hispaniola is second only to Cuba in size and biodiversity among West Indian islands, and is unique in being the only island with two native species of Rock Iguanas, the Rhinoceros Iguana (Cyclura cornuta) and Ricord’s ...

    • Photo-identification of juvenile hawksbills using facial scales 

      Féliz, Pablo; León, Yolanda M.; Revuelta, Ohiana; Aucoin, Serge; Sofía, Denise; Carreras de León, Rosanna (2010)
      The ability to identify individuals within a population is a key issue for most behavioral, ecological and conservation studies. Most sea turtle mark-recapture studies use external flipper tags (metal or plastic) previously ...