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Assessing seed desiccation responses of native trees in the Caribbean
(2020)
Native trees from the Caribbean were tested for seed desiccation responses, by adapting the “100-seed test” protocol. Ninety-seven seed lots of 91 species were collected in the Dominican Republic and tested for germination ...
The 1932 expedition of David Fairchild to the Caribbean on board Utowana : botanizing in Beata, Saona, Trinidad, Tobago, and Tortola islands
(2022)
Research conducted in the Archive and Library of Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, the U.S. National Archives, and the U.S. National Herbarium allowed us to reconstruct field work performed by David Fairchild (1869–1954) ...
Conucos en barreras, Azua : entorno de vida para la subsistencia y el estudio etnobotánico : prácticas de cultivo: segunda parte
(2016)
[Español] El propósito de esta investigación es describir las prácticas de cultivo que utiliza el campesino de Barreras, Azua, República Dominicana. Se realizó utilizando la metodología propia de la investigación etnobotánica. ...
Conucos en barreras, Azua: entorno de vida para la subsistencia y el estudio etnobotánico: primer parte
(2015)
[Español] El propósito general de esta investigación fue determinar la diversidad de especies vegetales que el habitante de Barreras (Azua, República Dominicana), incluye en sus cultivos. Se utilizaron la metodología y ...
Diversidad, estructura y composición de la flora vascular del campus de la Universidad ISA, Santiago, República Dominicana
(2020)
[Español] Se presenta la lista de especies, estructura y composición de la flora vascular del Campus de la Universidad ISA, Santiago, República Dominicana. La lista incluye el nombre científico, la familia botánica, la ...
Caribbean women’s health and transnational ethnobotany
(2022)
Immigrants from the Dominican Republic (DR) and Haiti are among the top foreign–born communities in New York City (NYC). As people migrate to new countries, they bring their ethnomedical beliefs and practices, and adapt ...
Endemic Juniperus gracilior varieties of the Hispaniola island, tree taxa of environmental and economic relevance and a valuable phytochemical source
(2021)
[English] This review aims to compile the known information on the usage, bioactivity and chemical composition of the Hispaniolian J. gracilior varieties and their phylogenetically proximal taxa (J. gracilior var. saxicola, ...
Podocarpus in the palaeogeographically complex island of Hispaniola : a stepping-stone colonization and conservation recommendations
(2022)
Hispaniola is the second largest island in the Caribbean and a hot spot of biodiversity. The island was formed by the fusion of a northern and southern palaeoislands during the mid-Miocene (15 Ma). The historical split of ...
Studies in neotropical polypores 11 : Antrodia aurantia, a new species from the Dominican Republic, Greater Antilles
(2001)
Antrodia aurantia Lodge, Ryvarden & Perdomo-Sanchez is described as new. It has bright orange resupinate basidiomes that lack rhizomorphs and has pores that are deep, soft, large, and angular to sinuous; it is associated ...
Plantscapes of dwelling : Precolonial household mounds, phytocultural dynamics and the ensuing human ecosystems at El Flaco and El Carril (cal. AD 990–1450), northern Dominican Republic
(2020)
Caribbean Amerindian societies had sophisticated regional socio-political and economic systems linked to important crops by the late 15th century when Spanish conquerors initiated the invasion of the Americas. These systems ...