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Assessment of soil heavy metal pollution and the ecological risk in an agricultural area from Sánchez Ramírez province, Dominican Republic
(2024)
Heavy metal pollution in agricultural soils is one of the main problems in agricultural production worldwide, which threatens human health and the environment. To evaluate the pollution levels of heavy metals and the ...
Assessing Magnoliaceae through time : major global efforts to track extinction risk status and ex situ conservation
(2023)
Comprehensive Red List assessments act as valuable resources for informing protected area designations, national protected species legislation and action strategies, and international biodiversity agreements, yet they are ...
Projected hydroclimate changes on Hispaniola Island through the 21st century in CMIP6 models
(2021)
Climate change might increase the frequency and severity of longer-lasting drought in the Caribbean, including in Hispaniola Island. Nevertheless, the hydroclimate changes projected by the state-of-the-art earth system ...
Pérdida de sedimento asociada a la retirada de depósitos de Sargassum spp. en las playas del Caribe
(2022)
La retirada de restos vegetales de Sargassum spp. depositados sobre la playa emergida constituyen una parte de la limpieza de playas en el Caribe. Estas gestiones realizadas a lo largo de las últimas décadas han dado lugar ...
Baseline urinalysis results in 32 healthy Antillean manatees (Trichechus manatus manatus)
(2021)
Objective: To describe results of analysis of free-catch urine samples collected from Antillean manatees (Trichechus manatus manatus) under human care in the Caribbean.
Animals: 32 Antillean manatees in 5 Caribbean oceanaria ...
La respuesta constitucional a la crisis ambiental : el caso ecuatoriano, boliviano y dominicano
(2023)
La crisis ambiental es uno de los magnos problemas internacionales y nacionales que aquejan a la humanidad, razón por la que diversos sectores del pensamiento han formulado su veredicto sobre las implicancias que entraña. ...
Gestión integral de riesgo de desastres en República Dominicana : pequeño estado Insular en desarrollo
(2024)
El enfoque de manejo de riesgo de desastres ha ido evolucionando a través del tiempo. Este artículo de revisión pretende describir el proceso histórico y las bases legales de la Gestión Integral de Riesgo de Desastres ...
The 1932 expedition of David Fairchild to the Caribbean on board Utowana : botanizing in Beata, Saona, Trinidad, Tobago, and Tortola islands
(2022)
[English] Research conducted in the Archive and Library of Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, the U.S. National Archives, and the U.S. National Herbarium allowed us to reconstruct field work performed by David Fairchild ...
Pleistocene aridification underlies the evolutionary history of the Caribbean endemic, insular, giant Consolea (Opuntioideae)
(2021)
Premise: The Caribbean islands are in the top five biodiversity hotspots on the planet; however, the biogeographic history of the seasonally dry tropical forest (SDTF) there is poorly studied. Consolea consists of nine ...