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Contribution to the knowledge of the plant communities of the Caribbean-Cibensean Sector in the Dominican Republic
(2012)
The Caribbean-Cibensean Sector (Eastern Coastal Plain) is situated in the east of Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic). Despite intense tourist activity and farming, two types of forest can still be found in this area. This ...
Educación ambiental y educación para la sostenibilidad : historia, fundamentos y tendencias
(2019)
Los retos propuestos en el ámbito educativo en este siglo demandan del educador una formación proactiva y autocrítica, lo que significa que éste debe utilizar diferentes caminos para aproximarse y comprender la dinámica ...
Forests and landscapes of Dominican Republic
(2015)
Aims: This, in conjunction with the diversity of the substrates and the fact that the island is home to the highest mountains in the Caribbean and with a high rate of endemic species, allows them to be differentiated into ...
Socio-technical transitions and sustainable agriculture in Latin America and the Caribbean : a systematic review of the literature 2010–2021
(2023)
The challenges and opportunities Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries face to meet sustainable development force nations to seek technological alternatives to ensure better policy design. It also includes technology ...
Distribution patterns of endemic flora to define hotspots on Hispaniola
(2016)
Nineteen areas on the island of Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic) were studied with the aim of determining the distribution pattern of the endemic flora in these areas, and their variability with altitude. The ...
Three new scorpion species from the Dominican Republic, Greater Antilles (Scorpiones: Buthidae, Scorpionidae)
(2014)
We describe herein three new species of scorpions from the Dominican Republic, in the Greater Antillean Island of Hispaniola: Microtityus minimus sp. n. (probably the smallest scorpion in the world from the southernmost ...
Guía de identificación de los murciélagos de la Española y anotaciones sobre las familias y especies
(2019)
[Español] Se presenta una guía ilustrada de identificación de los quirópteros de la Española, basada en diez años de trabajo de campo y laboratorio. Se incluyen dos claves dicotómicas, una de las familias y otra de las ...
Home range and habitat data for Hispaniolan mammals challenge assumptions for conservation management
(2019)
Conservation decision-making for threatened species in human-modified landscapes requires detailed knowledge about spatial ecology, but robust data derived from tracking individual animals are often unavailable, with ...
Trends in Dominican Republic coral reef biodiversity 2015–2022
(2023)
In 2015, we initiated a country-wide coral reef ecosystem-monitoring program in the Dominican Republic (DR) to establish biodiversity baselines against which trends in the most important components of coral reef ecosystem’s ...
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.