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    • Urban forest sustainability in residential areas in the city of Santo Domingo 

      Bonilla-Duarte, Solhanlle; Gómez-Valenzuela, Víctor; Vargas-de la Mora, Alma-Liz; García-García, Agustín (2021)
      Cities are territories vulnerable to climate change. An alternative to increase resilience and mitigate the effects of the climate context is urban forest planning to increase ecosystem services. This research constructed ...
    • Urban-forest assessment in the Dominican Republic 

      Pérez, Mervin E.; Meléndez-Ackerman, Elvia; Bonilla-Duarte, Solhanlle; Bauer, Gerald; Volcán, Mirel; Pou, Ana; Caballero, Claudia; Cortés, Leonardo; Arendt, Wayne J.; Muñoz, Tischa A.; Nowak, David (2019)
      The world´s urbanization forecast shows that 60% of the human population will be living in cities by 2050 (United Nations et al. 2017). This growth will negatively impact natural forests surrounding urban areas and will ...
    • Avian conservation planning in the Caribbean : experience and recommendations from the Dominican Republic 

      Latta, Steven C.; Fernández, Eladio (2005)
      The Dominican Republic, on the island of Hispaniola, supports more bird species than any other Caribbean country except Cuba. More than 300 species of birds have been recorded in the country, including 285 native residents ...
    • Global plant ecology of tropical ultramafic ecosystems 

      Garnica-Díaz, Claudia; Berazaín Iturralde, Rosalina; Cabrera, Betsaida; Calderón-Morales, Erick; Felipe, Fermín L.; García, Ricardo; Gómez Hechavarría, José Luis; Franklin Guimarães, Aretha; Medina, Ernesto; Paul, Adrian L. D.; Rajakaruna, Nishanta; Restrepo, Carla; Siebert, Stefan J.; van den Berg, Eduardo; van der Ent, Antony; Velásquez, Grisel; Hulshof, Catherine M. (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 ...
    • Investigating the sources of fresh water affecting the hydrological balance of lakes Enriquillo and Azuei (Hispaniola) : data analysis 

      Comarazamy, Daniel; González, Jorge; Moshary, Fred; Piasecki, Michael; Moknatian, Mahrokh; Ibsen, John (2014)
      The Enriquillo and Azuei are saltwater lakes located in a closed water basin in the southwestern region of the island of la Hispaniola, these have been experiencing dramatic changes in total lake-surface area coverage ...