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Tertiary fossil plants from the Dominican Republic
(1921)
During the reconnaissance of the Dominican Republic, made during 1919 under the direction of T. Wayland Vaughan for the Dominican Government, fossil plants were collected at seven different localities.
New plants from the Dominican Republic
(1924)
The new species described in this paper are based upon material collected by Dr. W. L. Abbott in the early part of 1922. Prior to 1920 only a small proportion of the plants known to occur in the Dominican Republic were ...
Notes on a collection of ferns from the Dominican Republic
(1922)
In November, 1920, Dr. W. L. Abbott revisited the Dominican Republic, spending the period to May, 1921, in an investigation of the natural history of the Samana Peninsula and of the region lying between Sanchez (at the ...
Descriptions of four new forms of birds from Hispaniola
(1929)
Continued studies of birds from Haiti and the Dominican Republic in the National Museum have In'ought to attention three geographic races found on small islands oil the coast that differ sufficiently from the groups ...
Las lagunas como recursos naturales : Laguna Saladilla y Salada
(1977)
Se describen los estudios realizados por el Parque Zoológico Nacional (República Dominicana) sobre hábitats de la fauna local, hábitats acuáticos, hábitat de montaña. Se expone la investigación realizada en las lagunas ...
Investigación de seis (6) hábitats de fauna autóctona dominicana
(1977)
Se describen diferentes ecosistemas dominicanos tomando en cuenta los lugares, las condiciones climáticas, la vegetación y los elementos fáunicos. Se incluyen en el análisis discusiones sobre los valores biológicos y el ...
The herpetogeography of Hispaniola, West Indies
(1980)
The modern West Indian island of Hispaniola is in actuality a fusion of two formerly separate islands, each of which presumably supported a distinctive herpetofauna. With the union of these two paleoislands, there has been ...
Phylogenetic relationships of the order insectivora based on complete 12S rRNA sequences from mitochondria
(1999)
Despite numerous studies, there is no single accepted hypothesis of eutherian ordinal relationships. Among the least understood mammalian orders is the group Insectivora. Currently, molecular and morphological data are in ...
On the diet of the boa Epicrates striatus on Hispaniola, with notes on E. fordi and E. gracilis
(1987)
The stomach contents of 214 specimens of Hispaniolan Epicrates (Serpentes: Boidae) were examined for prey remains...The diet of E. striatus would have gradually shifted from native to introduced mammals, and by the early ...
Occurrence, abundance, and length frequency distribution of queen conch, Strombus gigas (Gastropoda) on shallow waters of the Jaragua National Park, Dominican Republic
(1999)
[English] The distribution of juvenile queen conch has been associated with certain ecologically unique characteristics within seagrass beds, such as strong tidal circulation patterns, depth of 2 to 4 m, and seagrass beds ...