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Descripción preliminar de las llamadas de anuncio de Eleutherodactylus patriciae (Anura: Eleutherodactylidae), en el Parque Nacional Valle Nuevo, República Dominicana
(2022)
[Español] La mayoría de las especies del género Eleutherodactylus de la Hispaniola carecen de descripciones cuantitativas de sus llamadas de anuncio. Entre tales especies se encuentra E. patriciae, una rana endémica de la ...
Confirmación de la presencia de Progomphus integer (Odonata: Gomphidae) en República Dominicana
(2021)
[Español] Progomphus integer es una de las cuatro especies de Gomphidae endémicas de las Antillas Mayores, reportada para República Dominicana en referencias del siglo pasado. Más recientemente, se sugirió que su presencia ...
Nuevos registros de Thaloe ennery Brescovit, 1993, y Thaloe leboulet Brescovit & Oliveira, 2019 (Araneae: Anyphaenidae) de República Dominicana
(2020)
[English] The Hispaniola endemic species Thaloe ennery Brescovit and Thaloe leboulet Brescovit & Oliveira, previously known from Haiti, are found for the first time in Dominican Republic. Eleven male specimens of T. ennery ...
A scuticociliate causes mass mortality of Diadema antillarum in the Caribbean Sea
(2023)
Echinoderm mass mortality events shape marine ecosystems by altering the dynamics among major benthic groups. The sea urchin Diadema antillarum, virtually extirpated in the Caribbean in the early 1980s by an unknown cause, ...
Small island nations can achieve food security benefits through climate-adaptive blue food governance by 2050
(2023)
Small island nations are highly dependent on food from aquatic environments, or blue food, and vulnerable to climate change and global food market price volatility. By 2050, rising populations will demand more food through ...
Adaptation and sustainable management of massive influx of Sargassum in the Caribbean
(2021)
The massive influx of sargassum is a problem that affects several countries in Africa and the Caribbean. Even though a decade has passed since the first event, an integrated management and adaptation strategy for this ...
Species assemblages of insular Caribbean Sticta (lichenized Ascomycota: Peltigerales) over ecological and evolutionary time scales
(2023)
Phylogenetic approaches to macroevolution have provided unique insight into evolutionary relationships, ancestral ranges, and diversification patterns for many taxa. Similar frameworks have also been developed to assess ...
Phytosociological study, diversity and conservation status of the cloud forest in the Dominican Republic
(2020)
The study of the forest in rainy environments of the Dominican Republic reveals the presence of four types of vegetation formations, clearly differentiated from each other in terms of their floristic and biogeographical ...
Free-swimming fauna associated with influxes of pelagic sargassum : implications for management and harvesting
(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 ...
Seasonal variation in morphotype composition of pelagic Sargassum influx events is linked to oceanic origin
(2023)
The recent proliferation of pelagic Sargassum spp. in the Tropical Atlantic causes major ecological and socioeconomic impacts to the wider Caribbean when it washes ashore, with regional fisheries and tourism industries ...