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Dolphin ecology and behaviour in the southeastern waters of the Dominican Republic: preliminary observations
(2006)
Between June 2004 and April 2006, 381 hours of dolphin surveys were undertaken in the waters off the village of Bayahíbe and Parque Nacional del Este on the southeastern coast of the Dominican Republic. This was the first ...
Stable isotopes reveal seasonal dietary responses to agroforestry in a venomous mammal, the Hispaniolan solenodon (Solenodon paradoxus)
(2022)
While trends in tropical deforestation are alarming, conservation biologists are increasingly recognizing the potential for species survival in human-modified landscapes. Identifying the factors underlying such persistence, ...
A social-ecological approach to studying variation in urban trees and ecosystem services in the National Municipal District of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
(2022)
[English] Maintaining a diverse urban forest that provides ecosystem services can promote urban sustainability and resilience to environmental change. Around the world, cities have taken to inventorying their urban trees ...
Ciencia, ambiente y clima
(2018)
Revista científica editada en la República Dominicana que pretende contribuir con la difusión de resultados originales e inéditos de investigación básica y aplicada sobre temas de ciencias naturales, ambiente, clima, ...
Changing ecosystems and their services
(2020)
[English] Changing Ecosystems and their Services provides a very interesting account of the frontiers of biodiversity and ecological research. It consists of seven chapters covering mass extinctions: the "Big Five" and ...
Forest loss and fire in the Dominican Republic during the 21st Century
(2019)
[English] [Preprint] We used Landsat-based estimates of tree cover change to document the loss and gain of forest in the Dominican Republic between 2000 and 2016. Overall, 2,795 km 2 of forest were lost, with forest gain ...
Fire history along environmental gradients in the subtropical pine forests of the Cordillera Central, Dominican Republic
(2006)
[English] Fire history was reconstructed from fire-scarred individuals of the endemic pine (Pinus occidentalis) along climatic gradients in the Cordillera Central, Dominican Republic.
Patterns of growth, recruitment, mortality and biomass across an altitudinal gradient in a neotropical montane forest, Dominican Republic
(2012)
[English] We examined stand dynamics and biomass along an altitudinal gradient in a tropical montane forest (TMF) in the disturbance-prone Cordillera Central, Dominican Republic. We tested the general hypothesis that chronic ...
Natural regeneration of subtropical montane forest after clearing fern thickets in the Dominican Republic
(2004)
[English] Tropical forests can recover after anthropogenic disturbances of light to moderate intensity; however, severe disturbances (e.g. compaction or loss of soil) often result in conditions that prevent forest recovery. ...
Aspectos ecológicos de Diaphorina citri Kuwayama, 1908, en el cultivo de cítricos en Villa Altagracia y El Seibo, República Dominicana
(2016)
[Español] Se determinó la distribución espacial y dinámica de la plaga Diaphorina citri Kuwayama, 1908 (Hemiptera: Psyllidae) en plantaciones de cítricos en los municipios de Villa Altagracia, provincia San Cristóbal y en ...