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Livelihoods matter : a comparative political ecology of forest use on Hispaniola
(2022)
Forests provide grounds for human well-being through direct material, indirect environmental, and immaterial contributions. Here, we analyze the example of Hispaniola to understand reasons for (un)sustainable forest use. ...
Feeding strategies and diet variation in livebearing fishes of the genus Limia (Cyprinodontiformes: Poeciliidae) in the Greater Antilles
(2022)
Feeding specialisations are known to play an important role in the ecology and evolution of many organisms. In this study, we performed a comparative analysis based
on the data of the gut content of eight species of the ...
Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) : Dominican Republic
(2022)
[English] Hosted by the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), this database provides open access to biodiversity data about all types of life on Earth. The GBIF-Dominican Republic provides open access to occurrence ...
Caribbean women’s health and transnational ethnobotany
(2022)
Immigrants from the Dominican Republic (DR) and Haiti are among the top foreign–born communities in New York City (NYC). As people migrate to new countries, they bring their ethnomedical beliefs and practices, and adapt ...
Systematics and conservation of an endemic radiation of Accipiter hawks in the Caribbean islands
(2021)
[English] More than one-third of the bird species found in the Caribbean are endemic to a set of neighboring islands or a single island. However, we have little knowledge of the evolutionary history of the Caribbean avifauna, ...
Endemic Juniperus gracilior varieties of the Hispaniola island, tree taxa of environmental and economic relevance and a valuable phytochemical source
(2021)
[English] This review aims to compile the known information on the usage, bioactivity and chemical composition of the Hispaniolian J. gracilior varieties and their phylogenetically proximal taxa (J. gracilior var. saxicola, ...
First record of Tomostele musaecola (Morelet, 1860) (Gastropoda: Eupulmonata: Streptaxidae) from the Dominican Republic and its current distribution in the Western Hemisphere
(2021)
The presence of alien mollusc species in an ecosystem has a negative impact on the endemic mollusc fauna and can result in economic losses. The West African land snail Tomostele musaecola (Morelet) was previously recorded ...
First record of the genus Syritta Le Peletier & Audinet-Serville, 1828 (Diptera, Syrphidae) from the West Indies
(2020)
We report the genus Syritta Le Peletier & Audinet-Serville, 1828 (Diptera, Syrphidae) from West Indies for the first time. A female of the synanthropic species Syritta flaviventris Macquart, 1842 was photographed in the ...
Plant–frugivore interactions across the Caribbean islands : modularity, invader complexes and the importance of generalist species
(2022)
Mutualistic interactions between plants and animals are fundamental for the maintenance of natural communities and the ecosystem services they provide. However, particularly in human-dominated island ecosystems, introduced ...
Sustainable economic development education : the use of artificial neural networks for the profile estimation of students from developing countries
(2022)
[English] Environmentally friendly behaviour and the equitable and sustainable use of natural resources can contribute to solving various environmental, economic, and social problems in different countries. The analysis ...