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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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Coral diseases and bleaching on Colombian Caribbean coral reefs [PDF]

Revista de Biología Tropical, 2015
<span>Desde 1998 el “Sistema Nacional de Monitoreo de Arrecifes Coralinos de Colombia” SIMAC, ha observado la ocurrencia de enfermedades coralinas y blanqueamiento en arrecifes colombianos (estaciones fijas en la Isla de San Andrés, Tayrona, Islas del Rosario, Islas de San Bernardo y Urabá Chocoano).
Navas-Camacho, Raul, Gil-Agudelo, Diego Luis, Rodríguez-Ramírez, Alberto, Reyes-Nivia, Catalina, Garzon-Ferreira, Jaime   +4 more
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Evaluating for Learning: Latin American Strategies and Experiences From the Evalparticipativa Community

New Directions for Evaluation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article documents EvalParticipativa's 6‐year effort to democratize evaluation across Latin America through participatory approaches rooted in the region's traditions of Popular Education, Participatory Action Research, and Sistematización de Experiencias.
Pablo Rodríguez Bilella, Esteban Tapella   +1 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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Checklist of myriapods (Arthropoda: Myriapoda) from the colombian Caribbean region

Intropica, 2022
Based on the available literature and a review of collections of organisms, a checklist of 69 myriapod species was made for the Colombian Caribbean region; two symphyls, 15 Chilopods, and 52 Diplopods.
Martín Carrillo-Pallares, Daniela Martínez-Torres, Gabriel R. Navas-S   +2 more
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Molecular detection of Salmonella spp., Listeria spp. and Brucella spp. in fresh artisanal cheese marketed in the city of Barranquilla: A pilot study

Biomédica: revista del Instituto Nacional de Salud, 2018
Introduction: Each year approximately 3 million people die as the result of foodborne diseases. The fresh artisan (handmade) cheese produced and distributed in the Colombian Caribbean region is a native product from the departments of Córdoba, Sucre ...
Zamira E. Soto-Varela, Clara Gilma Gutiérrez, Yurina de Moya, Ramón Mattos, Hernando José Bolívar-Anillo, José Luis Villarreal   +5 more
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Storms or cold fronts: what is really responsible for the extreme waves regime in the Colombian Caribbean coastal region? [PDF]

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2016
The aim of this study is to determine the contribution and importance of cold fronts and storms to extreme waves in different areas of the Colombian Caribbean in an attempt to determine the extent of the threat posed by the flood processes to which these
L. J. Otero, J. C. Ortiz-Royero, J. K. Ruiz-Merchan, A. E. Higgins, S. A. Henriquez   +4 more
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Quality of life and depression in COPD patients in the Colombian Caribbean

The Clinical Respiratory Journal, 2021
AbstractObjectiveTo establish the association between quality of life and depression among COPD patients of the Colombian Caribbean.MethodA cross‐sectional study was carried out with the participation of adult COPD patients. COPD‐related quality of life was quantified with the COPD Assessment Test (CAT) and depression using the Zung 10‐item Self‐rating
John Carlos Pedrozo‐Pupo, Adalberto Campo‐Arias, Guillermo Augusto Ceballos‐Ospino   +2 more
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Exchange Rates and Sovereign Risk: A Nonlinear Approach Based on Local Gaussian Correlations

International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We empirically assess the interlinkages between sovereign risk, measured in terms of CDS spreads, and exchange rates for a sample of emerging markets. Our period of analysis includes episodes of severe stress, such as the Global Financial Crisis, the COVID‐19 pandemic, and the Ukrainian War.
Reinhold Heinlein, Gabriella D. Legrenzi, Scott M. R. Mahadeo   +2 more
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On the botanical history and nomenclature of the New World genus Piscidia (Fabaceae)

Nordic Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
Piscidia L. (Fabaceae) is a New World genus with nine recognized taxa (seven species and two varieties). The previous nomenclatural revisions, made in 1910 and in 1969, are revisited here. The names Derris grandifolia Heyde & Lux ex Donn.Sm. and P. cubensis Urb. required step II lectotypifications, with an epitype for the latter name.
Camila Sánchez‐ Vega, Kanchi Gandhi, Alfonso Delgado‐ Salinas, Benjamin Deloso, Javier Francisco‐ Ortega   +4 more
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