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Benefits of biodiverse marine resources to child nutrition in differing developmental contexts in Hispaniola
(2018)
There is an urgent need for an improved empirical understanding of the relationship among biodiverse marine resources, human health and development outcomes. Coral reefs are often at this intersection for developing nations ...
Cities favour the recent establishment and current spread of the Eurasian collared dove Streptopelia decaocto (Frivaldszky, 1838) in Dominican Republic
(2018)
The Eurasian collared dove Streptopelia decaocto (Frivaldszky, 1838) spread over the world in the last century. Its presence in America started in the Caribbean islands in the 1970s due to an accidental escape, but the ...
Advances in the knowledge of the vegetation of Hispaniola (Caribbean Central America)
(2018)
The vegetation types and floristic diversity in the Dominican Republic are analysed, a territory with a tropical climate and ombrotypes that range from dry to humid-hyperhumid, due to the Atlantic winds and the phenomenon ...
Importance of biotic predictors in estimation of potential invasive areas : the example of the tortoise beetle Eurypedus nigrosignatus, in Hispaniola
(2018)
We report the leaf beetle Eurypedus nigrosignatus as an alien species in the Dominican Republic and investigate whether biotic factors played a meaningful role in the distributional expansion of the species into the Caribbean.
Novitates Caribaea núm. 12
(2018)
Artículos destacados de este número: Relación entre varias especies de aves y Trema micrantha en bosques montanos de La Española. -- Composición, riqueza, diversidad y abundancia de aves en cuatro áreas verdes de Santo ...
Impacto de las aguas superficiales en el aumento del nivel de las aguas del Lago Enriquillo
(2018)
[Español] A partir del 2014 el lago Enriquillo, localizado en el suroeste de la República Dominicana, empezó a evidenciar un continuo crecimiento en el nivel de sus aguas llegando, de 265 km2 hasta alrededor de 375 km2. ...
Cities may save some threatened species but not their ecological functions
(2018)
Urbanization is one of the main causes of biodiversity loss worldwide. Wildlife responses to urbanization, however, are greatly variable and, paradoxically, some threatened species may achieve much larger populations in ...
On the relationship among birds and Trema micrantha in montane forests of Hispaniola
(2018)
[English] Avian frugivores are of great interest to ecologists because they play an important role in ecosystem functioning, and can serve as important components in habitat restoration. In the Neotropics, observational ...
Innovative assembly strategy contributes to understanding the evolution and conservation genetics of the endangered Solenodon paradoxus from the island of Hispaniola
(2018)
Solenodons are insectivores that live in Hispaniola and Cuba. They form an isolated branch in the tree of placental mammals that are highly divergent from other eulipothyplan insectivores The history, unique biology, and ...
Reflexiones jurídicas, políticas y sociales del entramado ambiental dominicano
(2018)
En este trabajo de investigación se abordan diversas temáticas entrelazadas como el cambio climático, las evaluaciones ambientales, el desarrollo sostenible, el medio ambiente, y los ecosistemas, entre otras, en la República ...