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The Red List of Magnoliaceae
(2007)
This global evaluation of the conservation status of the Magnoliaceae has been one of the few attempts to evaluate an entire plant family. In total there are about 245 taxa described in the family and IUCN Red List categories ...
Assessing Magnoliaceae through time : major global efforts to track extinction risk status and ex situ conservation
(2023)
Comprehensive Red List assessments act as valuable resources for informing protected area designations, national protected species legislation and action strategies, and international biodiversity agreements, yet they are ...
Mangrove deforestation in the Dominican Republic, 1969 to 2012
(2013)
The twin objectives of this study are to refine our understanding of the changes in mangrove area in the Dominican Republic over the period of rapid tourist expansion and to assess if mangrove forests in tourist locations ...
Projected hydroclimate changes on Hispaniola Island through the 21st century in CMIP6 models
(2021)
Climate change might increase the frequency and severity of longer-lasting drought in the Caribbean, including in Hispaniola Island. Nevertheless, the hydroclimate changes projected by the state-of-the-art earth system ...
Análisis socioeconómico y contexto de la vulnerabilidad de los municipios Hondo Valle, Juan Santiago, El Cercado y Vallejuelo localizados en la frontera sur entre la República Dominicana y Haití
(2022)
El proyecto “Adaptación basada en los ecosistemas y restauración forestal en las comunidades rurales vulnerables del Corredor Biológico del Caribe”, también conocido como “Comunidades Caribeñas Resilientes”, tiene por ...
Responses of Caribbean mangroves to quaternary climatic, eustatic, and anthropogenic drivers of ecological change : a review
(2022)
Mangroves are among the world’s most threatened ecosystems. Understanding how these ecosystems responded to past natural and anthropogenic drivers of ecological change is essential not only for understanding how extant ...
Flow of economic benefits from coral reefs in a multi-use Caribbean marine protected area using network theory
(2021)
Adaptation to changes in the delivery of ecosystem services while maintaining resilience of natural systems is one of the main challenges faced by multi-use marine protected areas (MPAs). To overcome this, it is crucial ...
Investing in nature-based solutions : cost profiles of collective-action watershed investment programs
(2023)
Highlights: • We surveyed costs of municipal-scale collective-action watershed investment programs. • Administrative and transaction costs on average account for over one-third of total costs. • Average annual costs varied ...
Pérdida de sedimento asociada a la retirada de depósitos de Sargassum spp. en las playas del Caribe
(2022)
La retirada de restos vegetales de Sargassum spp. depositados sobre la playa emergida constituyen una parte de la limpieza de playas en el Caribe. Estas gestiones realizadas a lo largo de las últimas décadas han dado lugar ...
Continued survival of Hispaniolan solenodon Solenodon paradoxus in Haiti
(2008)
The Hispaniolan solenodon Solenodon paradoxus, one of only two surviving native Hispaniolan land mammals, has declined drastically in Haiti and has only been recorded from the Duchity region of the Massif de la Hotte in ...