Investigación ambiental: Recent submissions
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Global amphibian declines : a perspective from the Caribbean
(1993)Recent concern over the possibility of a global decline in amphibians prompted this assessment of the West Indian species. At the species level, the West Indian amphibian fauna (156 species, all frogs and toads) has not ... -
Participatory assessment of a community’s climate resilience and potential for the REDD+ program in the Dominican Republic (Doctoral dissertation, Université de Sherbrooke).
(2018)To adapt to climate change, the Dominican Republic is writing its national strategy for the REDD+ program. An ongoing conservation project managed by the Fondo Agua Santo Domingo got fast and cost-effective results compatible ... -
Diving for monkeys
(2012)From deep in the pools of Caribbean caves, CUNY Graduate Center anthropologists retrieve the remains of a long extinct primate and other prize fossils -
Food habits of the endemic ashy-faced owl (Tyto glaucops) and recently arrived barn owl (T. alba) in Hispaniola
(2010)The Ashy-faced Owl (Tyto glaucops) is endemic to Hispaniola, where the Barn Owl (T. alba) became established after ca. 1950. I examined 8322 vertebrate prey of the two species, using regurgitated pellets and prey remains ... -
A new species of the beetle genus Brachypsectra from the Dominican Republic, with fossil connections (Coleoptera: Brachypsectridae)
(2002)With the description of Brachypsectra vivafosile n. sp., from the Cabo Rojo desert area of Hispaniola, the beetle family Brachypsectridae now contains 4 described species. The family was originally known from the Dominican ...
