Origins of neotropical leafy Hepaticae [PDF]
The neotropical hepatic flora, predominantly constituted by members of the Jungermanniales and Metzgeriales, includes a disproportionate number of genera which are endemic (over 38) and a number which evidently originated here but have shown slight and ...
Schuster, Rudolf M.
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La Guyane Essequibo, ressources et souveraineté : une analyse géopolitique du risque
In 2013, the action of the Venezuelan army prohibiting an oil prospecting mission, highlighted the sovereignty dispute that persists between this country and Guyana in the Essequibo region: a territory of the Guiana Shield rich in resources.
Luis Alejandro Avila Gomez
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Perspectives on Early Amazonian Agriculture from Guyana and Venezuela
Debates about prehistoric Amazonian subsistence, social organization, and landscape use have ranged from ethnographically based characterizations of relatively mobile foragers to archaeological evidence that suggests sedentary agriculturalists. Recently, great antiquity of settled agriculture and complex social organization has been asserted for ...
Mark G. Plew, Pei-Lin Yu
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The Blattodea s.s. (Insecta, Dictyoptera) of the Guiana Shield
Here we provide a checklist of cockroach species known from areas within the Guiana Shield based on literature records and new field collection. We give records of sixteen species collected in Guyana, eight of which are new records for Guyana and one of ...
Dominic A. Evangelista +4 more
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The beetles of Martinique, Lesser Antilles (Insecta: Coleoptera); diversity and distributions [PDF]
This paper summarizes the published information on the beetle fauna of the island of Martinique, in the Lesser Antilles. The fauna is known to contain 42 families, with 201 genera, and 270 species.
Peck, Stewart B.
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A"research"database on infrastructure economic performance [PDF]
The authors present an infrastructure database that was assembled from multiple sources. Its main purposes are: (1) to provide a snapshot of the sector as of the end of 2004; and (2) to facilitate quantitative analytical research on infrastructure.
Estache, Antonio, Goicoechea, Ana
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La relance de l’extraction minière dans la Guyane vénézuélienne ?
In the past decade, gold mining has developed on a large scale in the Bolivar State (Venezuela). The national government seeks to integrate the Guyana region into its “Strategic Plan of Joint Action for the Development of the Orinoco Belt and Mining Arc”
Anne Péné-Annette
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The Lilac-tailed Parrotlet (Touit batavica), a new record for Colombia
The Lilac-tailed Parrotlet has been reported in Surinam, Guyana and Venezuela and on the islands of Trinidad and Tobago. In northern Venezuela (north of the Orinoco river) the species occurs from Sucre west to Merida, and South of the Orinoco east to ...
Ahumada Jorge A. +2 more
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New country record for Tetramereia convexa (Harold, 1869) (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) [PDF]
Tetramereia convexa (Harold, 1869) (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) is reported for the first time from Loreto in Peru, being the western most record of the species in South America.Tetramereia convexa (Harold, 1869) (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae ...
Ampudia Gatty, Christian +2 more
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Geopolityczne implikacje konfliktu terytorialnego między Wenezuelą a Gujaną [PDF]
This article examines the geopolitical implications of the territorial conflict between Venezuela and Guyana over the Essequibo region, contextualizing it within shifting international alliances and economic interests.
Jakub Mikłasz
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