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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 ...
Global plant ecology of tropical ultramafic ecosystems
(2022)
[Español] Los ecosistemas ultramáficos son reconocidos por su endemismo y especialización del hábitat. Sin embargo, la mayor parte de nuestra comprensión de la ecología vegetal ultramáfica proviene de climas mediterráneos ...
Navigating social-ecological trade-offs in small-scale fisheries management : an agent-based population model of stoplight parrotfish (Sparisoma viride) for a Caribbean coral reef fishery
(2019)
Parrotfish (family Scaridae) consume macroalgae, an essential process for sustaining the ecological health of coral reefs. They have become fisheries targets in several Caribbean locations, a practice that provisions food ...
Changing ecological communities along an elevation gradient in seasonally dry tropical forest on Hispaniola (Sierra Martín García, Dominican Republic)
(2019)
[English] We report the results of systematic vascular plant and bird surveys in Seasonally
Dry Tropical Forest (SDTF) across leeward and windward elevation gradients (31–
884 masl) in the Sierra Martín García (SMG), ...
Biogeografía de la sección Cymbostemon (Illicium, Schisandraceae) en el Nuevo Mundo
(2018)
[Español] Illicium es un genero de la familia Schisandraceae (Angiospermas Basales), nativo del Sudeste Asiático, del Viejo Mundo, las Indias Occidentales, el Caribe mexicano y el sudeste de Estados Unidos, en el Nuevo ...
Nota de la 3.ª Edición del Simposio Internacional sobre Ambientes Extremos y Organismos Extremófilos (ISE3O). Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo, República Dominicana, 2022
(2022)
El 3.er Simposio Internacional sobre Ambientes Extremos y Organismos Extremófilos (ISE30) se llevó a cabo del 21 al 23 de noviembre de 2022 en República Dominicana, teniendo como sede las instalaciones de la Universidad ...
Coastal-hinterland exchange and garden hunting practices prior to the European invasion of Hispaniola
(2021)
This study analyses zooarchaeological material recovered from the late precolumbian site of El Flaco (AD 990–1450), northern Dominican Republic. The faunal assemblage from this inland settlement demonstrates terrestrially ...
Primer reporte de ingesta de plástico y presencia de nematodos en individuos de iguana verde en la isla de Santo Domingo
(2022)
[Español] El consumo de plástico se reporta cada vez con mayor frecuencia en reptiles acuáticos y terrestres. No siempre es fatal, pero indudablemente afecta la calidad de vida de los animales en formas que aún no son del ...
On the relationship among birds and Trema micrantha in montane forests of Hispaniola
(2018)
[English] Avian frugivores are of great interest to ecologists because they play an important role in ecosystem functioning, and can serve as important components in habitat restoration. In the Neotropics, observational ...