Biblioteca Virtual de Educación Ambiental Rosa Margarita Bonetti: Recent submissions

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    • The conservation status of amphibians in the West Indies 

      Hedges, S. Blair; Díaz, Luis M. (2011)
      There are 196 species of amphibians known from the West Indies, 188 of which are native. With only a few exceptions, all of those native species are endemic to single islands or island banks, and most are restricted to a ...

    • The extinct Cuban and Hispaniolan macaws (Ara, Psittacidae), and description of a new species, Ara cubensis 

      Wetherbee, David Kenneth (1985)
      The former existence of an extinct macaw of Hispaniola, Ara tricolor Bechstein 1811, in addition to the extinct macaw of Cuba, Ara cubensis n. sp., is demonstrated through an analysis of the literature. Ara tricolor was ...

    • The decline of an adaptation in the absence of a presumed selection pressure 

      Cruz, Alexander; Wiley, James W. (1989)
      The colonial nesting Village Weaver (Ploceus cucullatus) lays eggs that vary in ground color and pattern, but individual females lay similar eggs each time. Tests on captive African stocks have shown that females reject ...

    • Origin of the bird fauna of the West Indies 

      Bond, James (1948)
      Although our knowledge in ornithology of the West Indies (which include the Antilles, Cayman and Swan Islands, St. Andrew and Old Providence, and the Bahama Islands) far surpasses that in any other natural science, there ...

    • In memoriam : Alexander Wetmore 

      Oesher, Paul H. (1980)
      If anyone could be called the 20th-century doyen of American ornithology, it was Alexander Wetmore. From his very youth, the study of birds was his passion. He trained himself as a biologist and never wavered from his ...