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Bot meets whale: best practices for mitigating negative interactions between marine mammals and microROVs
(2019)
To better understand the potential risks and to establish an anticipatory framework to minimize negative interactions between MicroROV operators and marine mammals, we, a group of six experts in microROVs and/or marine ...
An overview of the evolution and conservation of West Indian amphibians and reptiles
(2006)
The total area of the West Indies is small, only 0.15% of Earth’s land area, but the region supports 3.0% (180 species) of the world’s amphibians and 6.3% (520 species) of the world’s known reptiles. Nearly all species are ...
Marine mammal captivity in the northeastern Caribbean, with notes on the rehabilitation of stranded whales, dolphins and manatees
(1998)
ABSTRACT. —Marine mammals have been of interest to zoos and aquaria since the middle of the eighteenth century. With increasingly successful captive maintenance since the 1960s, a greater demand for captive whales, dolphins, ...
Vicariance and dispersal in Caribbean biogeography
(1996)
The species diversity and phylogenetic relationships of West Indian vertebrates are incompletely known, but several lines of evidence support a dispersal origin for most of the fauna. Crother and Guyer have contested much ...
Determination of gender in cetaceans by the polymerase chain reaction
(1992)
We determined the gender of a variety of cet can species, including both ondotocetes and mysticetes, using the polymerase chain reaction for amplification of the sex chromosome specific regions ZFY/ZFX and SRY. This quick ...
Caribbean-wide, long-term study of seagrass beds reveals local variations, shifts in community structure and occasional collapse
(2014)
The CARICOMP monitoring network gathered standardized data from 52 seagrass sampling stations at 22 sites (mostly Thalassia testudinum-dominated beds in reef systems) across the Wider Caribbean twice a year over the period ...
The Caribbean Coastal Marine Productivity Program (CARICOMP)
(2001)
CARICOMP is a regional scientific program to study land-sea interaction processes in the Caribbean coastal zone. It has been collecting data since 1992, when a Data Management Centre was established at the University of ...
Geographic extent and chronology of the invasion of non-native lionfish (Pterois volitans [Linnaeus 1758] and P. miles [Bennett 1828]) in the Western North Atlantic and Caribbean Sea
(2009)
The Indo-Pacific lionfishes (Pterois volitans [Linnaeus 1758] and P. miles [Bennett 1828]: Family Scorpaenidae) are the first non-native marine fishes to establish in the Western North Atlantic. The chronology of the ...
Lista Roja y extinciones : la foca monje
(2011)
La foca monje del Caribe fue formalmente declarada extinta en 1996, en la Lista Roja de Animales Amenazados de la UICN. La última vez que se vio fue en 1952, en el Banco Seranilla, entre Jamaica y Honduras, donde se sabía ...
Status of Caribbean forest endemics special issue : editors' foreword
(2017)
The high degree of avian endemism in the Caribbean is arguably one of the most defining qualities of the region, and an irreplaceable part of its natural heritage. However, these Small Island Developing States (SIDS) face ...