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Water, oceanic fracture zones and the lubrication of subducting plate boundaries - insights from seismicity [PDF]

, 2015
We investigate the relationship between subduction processes and related seismicity for the Lesser Antilles Arc using the Gutenberg-Richter law. This power lawdescribes the earthquakemagnitude distribution, with the gradient of the cumulative magnitude ...
Baptie, B, Blundy, J, Bouin, MP, Collier, JS, Kendall, JM, Latchman, JL, Massin, F, Schlaphorst, D, Verdon, JP   +8 more
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Bats of Vieques National Wildlife Refuge, Puerto Rico, Greater Antilles [PDF]

Check List, 2013
Herein, we present captures of bats from Vieques, a small subtropical island located southeast of Puerto Rico. We captured 82 individuals representing 4 species, including 59 Noctilio leporinus, 9 Artibeus jamaicensis, 9 Molossus molossus, and 5 ...
Isha Alexander, Keith Geluso
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A new species of the ant genus Bothriomyrmex Emery, 1869 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from the Caribbean region

European Journal of Taxonomy, 2016
Bothriomyrmex enigmaticus sp. nov. is described from the island of Hispañola based on one nest collection. This is the first collection of the genus Bothriomyrmex (Emery, 1869) from the Caribbean region, and the second species to be described from the ...
Matthew Prebus, David Lubertazzi
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On the floristic relationships between Cuba and other Tropical regions based on the distribution of Cuban Asplenium L. species (Aspleniaceae, Pteridophyta)

Anales del Jardín Botánico de Madrid, 2003
Based on the world distribution of the species of Asplenium occurring in Cuba, a presenceabsence matrix for 17 selected geographical áreas was constructed.
Ledis Regalado Gabancho, Carlos Sánchez Villaverde   +1 more
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Confirmation of Polygyra cereolus (Gastropoda: Polygyridae) in Puerto Rico, Greater Antilles

Novitates Caribaea, 2020
Polygyra cereolus (Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1816) is a small air-breathing snail originating in Florida, which is considered as an invasive species and is reported from a wide area in the south of the United States to Mexico and in some in some Caribbean ...
Laurent Charles, Arnaud Lenoble
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Variation in Upper Plate Crustal and Lithospheric Mantle Structure in the Greater and Lesser Antilles From Ambient Noise Tomography

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 2021
The crust and upper mantle structure of the Greater and Lesser Antilles Arc provides insights into key subduction zone processes in a unique region of slow convergence of old slow‐spreading oceanic lithosphere.
D. Schlaphorst, N. Harmon, J. M. Kendall, C. A. Rychert, J. Collier, A. Rietbrock, S. Goes, the VoiLA Team   +7 more
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A new species of Crematogaster (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae) with contrasting coloration unique to the Caribbean

Novitates Caribaea
The cosmopolitan ant genus Crematogaster is a conspicuous lineage of myrmicine ants. Here, we describe a new species from Hispaniola, Crematogaster dorada sp. nov. C.
Gianpiero Fiorentino, América Sánchez, Phillip Barden   +2 more
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The Dynamic Character Impressions Regarding the Life and Person of Thomas “Indian Warner”

Caribbean Quilt, 2020
“The Dynamic Character of Impressions Regarding the Life and Person of Thomas ‘Indian’ Warner,” is an analysis of the “The Case of ‘Indian’ Warner,” a part of the wider anthology Wild Majesty: Encounters With Caribs from Columbus to the Present Day by ...
Mollie Sheptenko
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New evidence for late Eocene-early Oligocene uplift of Aves Ridge and paleogeography of GAARlandia

Geologica Acta, 2023
The GAARlandia hypothesis has produced vigorous debate among biologists regarding whether now-submerged landforms that existed in the Caribbean region during the late Paleogene might have acted as a barrier for marine organisms and as a bridge for ...
Manuel Antonio Iturralde Vinent, Ross D.E.   +1 more
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Caribbean Corals in Crisis: Record Thermal Stress, Bleaching, and Mortality in 2005 [PDF]

, 2015
BACKGROUND The rising temperature of the world's oceans has become a major threat to coral reefs globally as the severity and frequency of mass coral bleaching and mortality events increase.
Alvarez-Filip, Lorenzo, Baca, Bart, Bartels, Erich, Bastidas, Carolina, Bouchon, Claude, Brandt, Marilyn, Bruckner, Andrew W., Bunkley-Williams, Lucy, Cameron, Andrew, Causey, Billy D., Chiappone, Mark, Christensen, Tyler R. L., Crabbe, M. James C, Day, Owen, de la Guardia, Elena, DiResta, Daniel, Díaz-Pulido, Guillermo, Eakin, C. Mark, Gil-Agudelo, Diego L., Gilliam, David S., Ginsburg, Robert N., Gore, Shannon, Guzmán, Héctor M., Hendee, James C., Hernández-Delgado, Edwin A., Heron, Scott F., Husain, Ellen, Jeffrey, Christopher F. G., Jones, Ross J., Jordán-Dahlgren, Eric, Kaufman, Les S., Kline, David I., Kramer, Philip A., Lang, Judith C., Lirman, Diego, Liu, Gang, Mallela, Jennie, Manfrino, Carrie, Marks, Ken, Maréchal, Jean-Philippe, Mihaly, Jennifer, Miller, W. Jeff, Morgan, Jessica A., Mueller, Erich M., Muller, Erinn M., Orozco Toro, Carlos A., Oxenford, Hazel A., Ponce-Taylor, Daniel, Quinn, Norman, Ramírez, Alberto Rodríguez, Ritchie, Kim B., Roberson, Kimberly Woody, Rodríguez, Sebastián, Romano, Sandra, Samhouri, Jameal F., Schmahl, George P., Shank, Burton V., Skirving, William J., Smith, Tyler B., Steiner, Sascha C. C., Sánchez, Juan A., Villamizar, Estrella, Walsh, Sheila M., Walter, Cory, Weil, Ernesto, Williams, Ernest H., Yusuf, Yusri   +66 more
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