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New Survey Explores the Northern Hispaniola Offshore Margin

open access: yes, 2015
The highly oblique convergence between the North American and Caribbean plates has yielded that the thickened crust of Bahamas banks impinges into northern Hispaniola developing a narrow band of compressive deformation (northern Hispaniola margin) and a ...
Carbo Gorosabel, Andrés   +6 more
core  

Rebuilding trust in national police: The case of the UN mission in Mali

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract International interventions often aim to reinforce both capacity as well as perceived legitimacy of national security forces. However, how peacekeeping operations manage to improve trust in the national police has received limited attention. In this article, we evaluate whether and how UN missions can (re‐)build trust in the national police ...
Nadine Ansorg   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluating the protection status and exposure to warming of Caribbean reefs with high functional potential

open access: yesConservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Over the past decades, climate change has emerged as a major threat to global biodiversity, negatively affecting the integrity and functioning of ecosystems and the benefits they provide to people. To mitigate these impacts, it is essential to identify climate refugia that support the persistence of the structure and function of reef ...
Sara M. Melo‐Merino   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Especies de equinodermos recientes (Echinodermata : crinoidea: asteroidea: ophiuroidea: echinoidea y holothuroidea) conocidas para la Hispaniola

open access: yesCiencia y Sociedad, 2004
El presente trabajo resume y actualiza el conocimiento de la biodiversidad de los equinodermos recientes de la Isla Hispaniola, ofreciendo una lista con 154 especies, divididas en 23 especiees de crinoidea, 33 de asteroidea, 30 de ophiuroidea, 51 de ...
Alejandro Herrera Moreno   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Integrating fossil data in ecological niche models to improve predictions of future habitat of Caribbean corals

open access: yesConservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Ecological niche models (ENMs) are used to assess the abiotic preferences of species by linking their occurrences to the environmental conditions in which they live. We developed a fossil‐informed ENM framework that integrates mid‐Holocene and modern occurrences to test niche stability and reconstruct abiotic niche characteristics for four ...
Claire. M. Williams   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

New Miocene limoniid craneflies from Dominican amber and their evolutionary importance

open access: yesActa Palaeontologica Polonica
This paper describes three new species belonging to the genus Styringomyia, based on specimens preserved in Early Miocene (Burdigalian) Dominican amber: Styringomyia caridadi sp. nov., S. caribeana sp. nov., and S. grimaldii sp. nov.
Katarzyna Kopeć   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

New records of Triacanthagyna trifida (Odonata: Aeshnidae) from La Altagracia, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic

open access: yesRevista Chilena de Entomología, 2019
The first records of Triacanthagyna trifida from La Altagracia are reported. These records extend the known geographic range of Triacanthagyna trifida to the eastern limit of Hispaniola.
Joaquín Márquez-Rodríguez
doaj   +1 more source

New Hispaniola locality record for the endemic beetle Nicrophorus hispaniola Sikes & Peck, 2000 (Coleoptera: Silphidae: Nicrophorinae)

open access: yes, 2016
The endemic Hispaniolan beetle Nicrophorus hispaniola Sikes & Peck, 2000, is reported from the locality of Zapotén, Sierra de Bahoruco, Dominican Republic, a national park outpost near the border with Haiti.
Daniel E. Perez-Gelabert   +1 more
core   +1 more source

Behind the Curtain: COVID‐19 as a Lens to Precarity in Museum Labor

open access: yesCurator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using in‐depth interviews with emerging and early professional museum workers in New Orleans, Louisiana, this article expands on scholarship around the perceived and actual value of nonprofit labor. It adds qualitative support to the argument that museum labor is real labor—open to exploitation and abuse while constantly negotiated internally ...
Miriam Taylor Fair
wiley   +1 more source

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