Browsing Investigación ambiental by Subject "Recursos naturales"

El contexto de los servicios ecosistémicos en la región de Centroamérica y el Caribe

Barrantes, Gerardo (2014)

La biodiversidad es la principal riqueza que tiene Centroamérica y el Caribe para su desarrollo económico y social; riqueza que se manifiesta en existencias de recursos naturales y de flujos de servicios ecosistémicos para ...

Establishing a marine conservation baseline for the insular Caribbean

Knowles, John E.; Doyle, Emma; Schill, Steven R.; Roth, Lynnette M.; Milam, Amy; Raber, George T. (2015)

Highlights: • A single insular Caribbean protected area dataset with accurate boundary information was developed. • MPA coverage across the insular Caribbean is not far behind global reference values. • The insular Caribbean ...

El estado de los manglares del mundo 2021

Spalding, Mark (ed.); Leal, Maricé (ed.) (2022)

[Spanish] El estado de los manglares del mundo proporciona la más reciente información sobre lo que sabemos acerca de los manglares y lo que se hace para apoyar estos extraordinarios hábitats. En 2018, la Conservation ...

El estado de los manglares del mundo 2022

Leal, Maricé (ed.); Spalding, Mark (ed.) (2022)

[Español] Actualmente los manglares son ampliamente valorados, por su biodiversidad y por su contribución a la sociedad humana, tanto a nivel local como mundial. Global Mangrove Alliance (GMA) se esfuerza por aumentar la ...

Exacerbation of the 2013–2016 Pan-Caribbean drought by anthropogenic warming

Herrera, Dimitris A.; Ault, Toby R.; Fasullo, John T.; Coats, Sloan J.; Carrillo, Carlos M.; Cook, Benjamin I.; Williams, A. Park (2018)

The Caribbean islands are expected to see more frequent and severe droughts from reduced precipitation and increased evaporative demand due to anthropogenic climate change. Between 2013 and 2016, the Caribbean experienced ...

Free-swimming fauna associated with influxes of pelagic sargassum : implications for management and harvesting

Alleyne, Kristie S. T.; Small, Micaela; Corbin, Makeda; Vallès, Henri; Oxenford, Hazel A. (2023)

Mass accumulations of pelagic sargassum (Sargassum natans and S. fluitans) in the Tropical Atlantic, across the Caribbean and off the coast of West Africa, are causing extensive ecological and socioeconomic harm. The ...

Gestión integrada de las cuencas hidrográficas : hacia un nuevo paradigma en la gobernanza del agua

Maldonado Santana, Casimiro; Franco-Billini, Carol; Jáuregui-Haza, Ulises J. (2023)

Resumen: Las cuencas hidrográficas son ecosistemas esenciales para la vida de nuestro planeta. Los estudios revelan que los modelos de gestión integrada toman en cuenta la planificación de las políticas públicas y la ...

Global significance of mangrove blue carbon in climate change mitigation

Alongi, Daniel M. (2020)

Mangrove forests store and sequester large area-specific quantities of blue carbon (Corg). Except for tundra and peatlands, mangroves store more Corg per unit area than any other ecosystem. Mean mangrove Corg stock is 738.9 ...

Impactos del cambio climático sobre las aguas superficiales en Centroamérica y la Española

Anderson, Eric R.; Limaye, Ashutosh; Flores, Africa I.; Cherrington, Emil A. (2011)

Esta evaluación regional examina los impactos potenciales del cambio climático en el escurrimiento de las aguas superficiales bajo una amplia gama de escenarios de precipitación en el futuro. A través del uso de un modelo ...

Insights from a new high-resolution drought atlas for the Caribbean spanning 1950–2016

Herrera, Dimitris A.; Ault, Toby R. (2017)

Climate change is expected to increase the severity and frequency of drought in the Caribbean. Understanding drought variability and its trends is therefore critical for improving resiliency and adaptation capacity of this ...

Mangrove mortality in a changing climate : an overview

Sippo, James Z.; Lovelock, Catherine E.; Santos, Isaac R.; Sanders, Christian J.; Maher, Damien T. (2018)

Mangroves provide vital ecosystem services at the dynamic interface between land and oceans. Recent reports of mangrove mortality suggest that mangroves may be adversely affected by climate change. Here, we review historical ...

Mangroves as coastal protection for local economic activities from hurricanes in the Caribbean

Miranda, Juan José; Butron, Luigi; Pantoja, Chrissie; Gunasekera, Rashmin (2021)

In recent decades, hurricane frequency and intensity have increased in the Caribbean Basin. From 2000 to 2012, more than 100 hurricanes impacted lives, infrastructure, and economic activity along the region’s shorelines. ...

Mangroves enhance the biomass of coral reef fish communities in the Caribbean

Mumby, Peter J.; Edwards, Alasdair J.; Arias-González, J. Ernesto; Lindeman, Kenyon C.; Blackwell, Paul G.; Gall, Angela; Gorczynska, Malgosia I.; Harborne, Alastair R.; Pescod, Claire L.; Renken, Henk; Wabnitz, Colette C. C.; Llewellyn, Ghislane (2004)

Mangrove forests are one of the world's most threatened tropical ecosystems with global loss exceeding 35%. Juvenile coral reef fish often inhabit mangroves, but the importance of these nurseries to reef fish population ...