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Assessing and genotyping threatened staghorn coral Acropora cervicornis nurseries during restoration in southeast Dominican Republic
(2020)
Acropora cervicornis is a structurally and functionally important Caribbean coral species. Since the 1980s, it has suffered drastic population losses with no signs of recovery and has been classified as a critically ...
Assisted fertilization of threatened Staghorn Coral to complement the restoration of nurseries in Southeastern Dominican Republic
(2018)
Acropora cervicornis and Acropora palmata have declined dramatically in the Caribbean since the early 80’s, and are classified as Critically Endangered Species. To promote their recovery, restoration programs focusing on ...
Información biológica pesquera y socioeconómica en apoyo a la zonificación marina de la bahía de Samaná
(2010)
Estudio realizado en el marco del Programa para la Protección Ambiental de USAID en la República Dominicana y del proyecto “Zonificación basada en ecosistemas en la bahía de Samaná, República Dominicana”. Este proyecto ...
Zonificación basada en ecosistemas en la bahía de Samaná, República Dominicana: una visión para la administración de áreas marinas protegidas con la participación de los usuarios claves
(2010)
Estudio realizado en el marco del Programa para la Protección Ambiental de USAID en la República Dominicana. El Centro para la Conservación y Ecodesarrollo de la Bahía de Samaná, CEBSE y el Programa del Caribe de The Nature ...
The transformation of Caribbean coral communities since humans
(2021)
The mass die-off of Caribbean corals has transformed many of this region’s reefs to macroalgal-dominated habitats since systematic monitoring began in the 1970s. Although attributed to a combination of local and global ...
Editorial
(2022)
Nota editorial del vol. 68, núm. 1 (2022) de AULA, Revista de humanidades y ciencias sociales [UNPHU, ISSN: 2636-2236] dedicado al tema de los océanos, los arrecifes de coral y su impacto en la sociedad.
Importancia de los viveros de coral y su impacto socioeconómico
(2022)
[Español] Desde el 2004, en la República Dominicana se ha impulsado la restauración de ecosistemas marinos mediante este método y se ha llegado a ver cómo estas acciones han afectado positivamente a las comunidades costeras ...
Benefits of biodiverse marine resources to child nutrition in differing developmental contexts in Hispaniola
(2018)
There is an urgent need for an improved empirical understanding of the relationship among biodiverse marine resources, human health and development outcomes. Coral reefs are often at this intersection for developing nations ...
Assisted coral reproduction in the Dominican Republic : a successful story to replicate in the Caribbean
(2021)
Coral assisted fertilization, larval rearing and recruit propagation success in significant ecological scales, largely depend on scaling up and replicating these efforts in as many regions as possible. The Dominican ...
Clonal diversity impacts coral cover in Acropora cervicornis thickets : potential relationships between density, growth, and polymorphisms
(2019)
As coral reefs decline, cryptic sources of resistance and resilience to stress may be increasingly important for the persistence of these communities. Among these sources, inter- and intraspecific diversity remain understudied ...