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Sea breeze in the Colombian Caribbean coast

ATMÓSFERA, 2018
Circulation of sea breeze is a well-known and important mesoscale system, boosted by different properties of reception and storage of solar heat between land and sea during one day, and its effect on waves, currents, and transport of atmospheric contaminants, among others, has been proven.
Pérez R., Ascario, Ortíz R., Juan, Bejarano A., Luis F., Otero D., Luis, Restrepo L., Juan C., Franco H., Andrés   +5 more
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Sustainable Productivity Growth in Agriculture: The Role of Shifts in R&D Investments and Technology

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The objective of the paper is to evaluate the long‐term prospects of sustainable productivity growth linked to plausible assumptions on public agricultural R&D investments as the key productivity driver. Second, it investigates the role of changing R&D focus from yield maximization to input saving technologies (fertilizers and pesticides). The
Zuzana Smeets Křístková, Michiel van Dijk, Robert M'Barek, Hans van Meijl, Tomas Ratinger   +4 more
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Isolated, neglected, and likely threatened: a new species of Magoniella (Polygonaceae) from the seasonally dry tropical forests of Northern Colombia and Venezuela revealed from nuclear, plastid, and morphological data

Frontiers in Plant Science
Seasonally tropical dry forests (SDTFs) in the American tropics are a highly diverse yet poorly understood and endangered ecosystem scattered from Northern Mexico to Southern Argentina.
José Aguilar-Cano, Oscar Alejandro Pérez-Escobar, Camila Pizano, Eduardo Tovar, Alexandre Antonelli, Alexandre Antonelli, Alexandre Antonelli   +6 more
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Descolonizando el “compromiso caribe”: hacia la formulación e identificación de perspectivas otras sobre el Caribe Colombiano

Jangwa Pana, 2012
El presente texto hace una lectura del documento Compromiso Caribe y explora el contexto en el cual ha sido planteado. Se formula una crítica de la forma en que este discurso ha dificultado la emergencia de otros planteamientos y reivindicaciones de ...
Jorge Sánchez Maldonado
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Seagrass blue carbon stocks and sequestration rates in the Colombian Caribbean

Scientific Reports, 2021
Seagrass ecosystems rank amongst the most efficient natural carbon sinks on earth, sequestering CO2 through photosynthesis and storing organic carbon (Corg) underneath their soils for millennia and thereby, mitigating climate change.
Oscar Serrano, Diana Isabel Gómez-López, Laura Sánchez-Valencia, Andres Acosta-Chaparro, Raul Navas-Camacho, Juan González-Corredor, Cristian Salinas, Pere Masque, Cesar A. Bernal, Núria Marbà   +9 more
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Cephalopoda (Mollusca) of the Colombian Caribbean Sea

Boletín de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras, 2021
The cephalopod fauna in Colombian Caribbean waters is poorly known. This work gives an overview of the species found in the area. For elaborating this list, the most relevant natural history collections where the material of the area’s is material is deposited were consulted, identifications were verified compared with type material and original ...
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Length-weight relationships of demersal fishes from the upper continental slope off Colombia [PDF]

, 2000
Parameters of the length–weight relationship of the form W=aLb are presented for 45 demersal fish species caught on the upper continental slope of the Caribbean Sea off Colombia. The b values varied between 2.13 and 4.97, with the mean b = 3.042 (95% CI,
Acero, A., Diaz, L.S., Garcia, C.B., Navas, G., Roa, A.   +4 more
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Afrodescendants, Law, and Race in Latin America [PDF]

, 2019
Law and Society research in and about Latin America has been particularly beneficial in elucidating the gap between the ideals of racial equality laws in the region and the actual subordinated status of its racialized subjects.
Hernandez, Tanya K.
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Extent, characteristics and policy applications of Key Biodiversity Areas

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A global standard for the identification of Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) was published 10 years ago to provide a unified set of criteria for identifying ‘sites of significance for the global persistence of biodiversity’. We review the initiative's origins, the KBA identification process, characteristics of the current network, threats, policy
Stuart H. M. Butchart, Olivia Crowe, Tom Scott, Andrew J. Plumptre, Megan Eldred, Ellen McKee, Zoltan Waliczky, Ibrahim Al Hasani, Adrián B. Azpiroz, Daniele Baisero, Fred Barasa, Alison E. Beresford, Bezeng S. Bezeng, Charlotte Boyd, Thomas M. Brooks, Graeme Buchanan, Gill Bunting, Sofia Capellan, Neil Cox, Tim R. B. Davenport, Tammy E. Davies, Gina Della Togna, Wendy Elliott, Matt Foster, Jo Gilbert, Jonathan M. Handley, Diego Juffe‐Bignoli, Victoria R. Jones, Naomi Kingston, Jeannot Kivono, John Lamoreux, Penny F. Langhammer, James Lewis, Bruce Liggitt, Daniel Marnewick, Paul Matiku, Erin McCreless, Rachel A. Neugarten, Catherine Numa, Mark O'Brien, Madhu Rao, Ciara Raudsepp‐Hearne, Justina C. Ray, Samridhi Rijal, Jon Paul Rodríguez, Jurgis Sapijanskas, Wes Sechrest, Martin Sneary, Andrew Snyder, Konstantina Spiliopoulou, Thomas Starnes, Cecilia Tobar, Gautam Surya, Marcelo F. Tognelli, Andrew W. Tordoff, Maria G. Toscano, Yongyut Trisurat, Amy Upgren   +57 more
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The natural capital of the Colombian Caribbean Basins. Evidence of rapid anthropic transformation

Sustainable Futures
The Caribbean basins play a crucial role in human settlement. The Colombian Caribbean basins occupy an area of approx. 10 million hectares, located in the country's north.
César Augusto Ruiz-Agudelo, Francisco de Paula Gutiérrez-Bonilla   +1 more
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