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Valoración económica del Sistema Nacional de Áreas Protegidas de la República Dominicana
(2014)
El estudio de Valoración Económica del Sistema Nacional de Áreas Protegidas (SINAP), se llevó a cabo en el marco de la consultoría del mismo nombre, como parte de las actividades centrales del Proyecto de Reingeniería del ...
Risk perception assessment of Sargassum blooms in Dominican Republic
(2024)
The Sargassum have become a cyclical phenomenon that generates ecological, economic, and social problems in the Caribbean. The situation becomes more serious in a context of voluntary acceptance of the problem, which ...
VIII Congreso de Biodiversidad Caribeña : Simposio “Experiencias en la Gestión de los Servicios Ecosistémicos en Centroamérica y el Caribe” : resaltando la importancia de la conservación y manejo sostenible de los servicios ecosistémicos en la región de Centroamérica y el Caribe
(2014)
El Simposio: “Experiencias en la Gestión de los Servicios Ecosistémicos en Centroamérica y el Caribe", en el marco del VIII Congreso de Biodiversidad Caribeña, permitirá que los investigadores, organizaciones nacionales e ...
The disconnect between knowledge and perceptions : a study of fishermen’s local ecological knowledge and their perception of the state of fisheries and how these are managed in the Dominican Republic
(2022)
Understanding what fishers know about the ecology of the fish they catch, and how they perceive the state and management of their fisheries can guide efforts towards more sustainable fishing practices. We tested relationships ...
Studying common-pool resources over time : a longitudinal case study of the Buen Hombre fishery in the Dominican Republic
(2016)
Like many small-scale fishing communities around the world, the community of Buen Hombre in the Dominican Republic is dealing with a set of challenges to reconcile its fishing activities with the ecology on which it depends. ...
Reefs from space : satellite imagery, marine ecology, and ethnography in the Dominican Republic
(1994)
Coral reef bleaching is an obvious indication that coastal marine ecosystems are being stressed. However, bleached reefs alone are poor indicators because they reflect the final stages of stress. This research project used ...
How mangrove forests adjust to rising sea level
(2014)
Mangroves are among the most well described and widely studied wetland communities in the world. The greatest threats to mangrove persistence are deforestation and other anthropogenic disturbances that can compromise habitat ...
Hurricane impacts on a mangrove forest in the Dominican Republic : damage patterns and early recovery
(2006)
On 22 September 1998, Hurricane Georges passed over the Dominican Republic causing extensive damage to a 4700 ha mangrove forest that has been the site of a detailed study of vegetation and ecosystem dynamics since 1994. ...
Tropical montane vegetation dynamics near the upper cloud belt strongly associated with a shifting ITCZ and fire
(2022)
Tropical montane forests house unusual and diverse biota and are considered highly vulnerable to climate change, particularly near the trade wind inversion (TWI) – the upper end of the cloud belt that defines tropical ...
Spatial patterns of biomass and aboveground net primary productivity in a mangrove ecosystem in the Dominican Republic
(2003)
The objective of this study was to quantify spatial patterns in above and below ground biomass, primary productivity, and growth efficiency along a tidal gradient in a 4700-ha mangrove forest in the Dominican Republic. We ...