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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, ...
Dieta y alimentación hispano-americana en el Caribe y la Florida en el siglo XVI
(1991)
Los esfuerzos coloniales europeos alcanzaron un mayor éxito en aquellas zonas americanas donde se arraigaron las plantas y los animales que los españoles llevaron consigo. Esta afirmación parece indicar que las plantas ...
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 ...
Global amphibian declines : a perspective from the Caribbean
(1993)
Recent concern over the possibility of a global decline in amphibians prompted this assessment of the West Indian species. At the species level, the West Indian amphibian fauna (156 species, all frogs and toads) has not ...
Phylogeography of the West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus): how many populations and how many taxa?
(1998)
To resolve the population genetic structure and phylogeography of the West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus), mitochondrial (mt) DNA control region sequences were compared among eight locations across the western Atlantic ...
The forests of the Dominican Republic
(1922)
Physiographic divisions -- Temperature and rainfall -- The general relations of the forest vegetation -- The evergreen hardwood forest type -- The partly evergreen hardwood type -- The pine forest type -- Thorn forest ...
Guía para la identificación de los anfibios y réptiles de la Hispaniola
(1984)
Esta guía es de gran importancia y utilidad para especialistas y aficionados de la identificación de anfibios y reptiles de la Hispaniola y de la región del Caribe. Desde el año 1941, en el que Doris M. Cochran publicara ...
Aspectos hidrogeológicos de la región Suroeste
(1983)
Se describen las caraterísticas geológicas y la hidrografía de la región Suroeste de la República Dominicana.
Conferencias geológicas
(1994)
El libro recoge un conjunto de trabajos de especialistas sobre diversos tópicos relacionados con la geología de República Dominicana que fueron presentados en conferencias.