Investigación ambiental: Recent submissions

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    • Forest baseline and deforestation map of the Dominican Republic through the analysis of time series of MODIS data 

      Sangermano, Florencia; Bol, Leslie; Galvis, Pedro; Gullison, Raymond E.; Hardner, Jared; Ross, Gail S. (2015)
      Deforestation is one of the major threats to habitats in the Dominican Republic. In this work we present a forest baseline for the year 2000 and a deforestation map for the year 2011. Maps were derived from Moderate ...

    • A scuticociliate causes mass mortality of Diadema antillarum in the Caribbean Sea 

      Hewson, Ian; Ritchie, Isabella T.; Evans, James S.; Altera, Ashley; Behringer, Donald; Bowman, Erin; Brandt, Marilyn; Budd, Kayla A.; Camacho, Ruleo A.; Cornwell, Tomas O.; Countway, Peter D.; Cróquer, Aldo; Delgado, Gabriel A.; DeRito, Christopher; Duermit-Moreau, Elizabeth; Francis-Floyd, Ruth; Gittens Jr, Samuel; Henderson, Leslie; Hylkema, Alwin; Kellogg, Christina A.; Kiryu, Yasunari; Kitson-Walters, Kimani A.; Kramer, Patricia; Lang, Judith C.; Lessios, Harilaos; Liddy, Lauren; Marancik, David; Nimrod, Stephen; Patterson, Joshua T.; Pistor, Marit; Romero, Isabel C.; Sellares-Blasco, Rita I.; Sevier, Moriah L. B.; Sharp, William C.; Souza, Matthew; Valdez-Trinidad, Andreina; van der Laan, Marijn; Vilanova-Cuevas, Brayan; Villalpando, María; Von Hoene, Sarah D.; Warham, Matthew; Wijers, Tom; Williams, Stacey M.; Work, Thierry M.; Yanong, Roy P.; Zambrano, Someira; Zimmermann, Alizee; Breitbart, Mya (2023)
      Echinoderm mass mortality events shape marine ecosystems by altering the dynamics among major benthic groups. The sea urchin Diadema antillarum, virtually extirpated in the Caribbean in the early 1980s by an unknown cause, ...

    • Species assemblages of insular Caribbean Sticta (lichenized Ascomycota: Peltigerales) over ecological and evolutionary time scales 

      Mercado-Díaz, Joel A.; Lücking, Robert; Moncada, Bibiana; Campbell, Keron C. St. E.; Delnatte, Cesar; Familia, Lemuel; Falcón-Hidalgo, Banessa; Motito-Marín, Angel; Rivera-Queralta, Yoira; Widhelm, Todd J.; Lumbsch, Thorsten (2023)
      Phylogenetic approaches to macroevolution have provided unique insight into evolutionary relationships, ancestral ranges, and diversification patterns for many taxa. Similar frameworks have also been developed to assess ...

    • Small island nations can achieve food security benefits through climate-adaptive blue food governance by 2050 

      Teneva, Lida; Free, Christopher M.; Hume, Andrew; Agostini, Vera N.; Klein, Carissa J.; Watson, Reg A.; Gaines, Steven D. (2023)
      Small island nations are highly dependent on food from aquatic environments, or blue food, and vulnerable to climate change and global food market price volatility. By 2050, rising populations will demand more food through ...

    • Phytosociological study, diversity and conservation status of the cloud forest in the Dominican Republic 

      Cano Ortiz, Ana; Musarella, Carmelo María; Pinto Gomes, Carlos José; Quinto Canas, Ricardo; Piñar Fuentes, José Carlos; Cano Carmona, Eusebio (2020)
      The study of the forest in rainy environments of the Dominican Republic reveals the presence of four types of vegetation formations, clearly differentiated from each other in terms of their floristic and biogeographical ...