Investigación ambiental: Recent submissions
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Temporal dynamics and seed dispersal in plant-frugivore communities of the Dominican Republic
(2022)Plant-animal mutualisms are a foundational component of biodiversity in terrestrial ecosystems. Most tropical forest plants have adapted to produce fleshy fruits to attract frugivorous animals to disperse seeds. Interaction ... -
Holocene climate and environmental history of Laguna Saladilla, Dominican Republic
(2011)Stratigraphic analyses of lacustrine sediments provide powerful tools for reconstructing past environments. The records that result from these analyses are key to understanding present-day climate mechanisms and how the ... -
Late-Holocene environmental history in the northeastern Caribbean : multi-proxy evidence from two small lakes on the southern slope of the Cordillera Central, Dominican Republic
(2007)This dissertation presents multi-proxy evidence of paleoenvironmental change preserved in sediment records recovered from two lakes on the southern (Caribbean) slope of the Cordillera Central in the Dominican Republic: ... -
Social-economic benefits of payment for environmental services in Yaque del Norte watershed, Dominican Republic
(2018)This research analyzes private and social costs of forest conservation in Yaque del Norte watershed, Dominican Republic. It calculates private costs as average annual income from farming activities and social costs as the ... -
Paleodietary reconstruction of endemic rodents from the precolumbian Dominican Republic : discriminating wild feeding behavior from diets linked to human niche construction activities
(2022)In the Greater Antilles, certain animal taxa that have long been theorized to have been managed by indigenous peoples prior to AD1492, the main candidates being a group of endemic caviomorph rodents known as hutias ...