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Communities of endophytic fungi in a Puerto Rican rainforest vary along a gradient of disturbance due to Hurricane Maria. [PDF]
Ecol Evol, 2022 Even more than a year after the catastrophic passage of Hurricane Maria, communities of endophytic symbionts in a Puerto Rican rainforest bear a signature of forest disturbance. Abstract Increases in the frequency and intensity of hurricanes influence the structure, function, and resilience of Caribbean forests.
Colón Carrión N, Troche CL, Arnold AE.
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Skeletal age during hurricane impacts fluctuating asymmetry in Cayo Santiago rhesus macaques. [PDF]
Ecol Evol, 2023 Fluctuating asymmetry (FA), or random deviations from symmetry, can be used as a proxy for developmental instability, and anthropogenic and natural disruptions have been associated with increased levels of FA. In this study, we investigate the effect of demographic variables (age, sex, and decade of birth) and hurricane experience on FA in a model ...
Romero AN +3 more
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Visualización de diferentes variables atmosféricas alrededor de los huracanes
Revista IDI+, 2023 Este artículo se enfocó en una visualización de los datos sobre las características de los huracanes del Atlántico norte y variables atmosféricas en un periodo de 100 años (1920-2020). Asimismo, el propósito de la visualización fue identificar posibles correlaciones entre las variables atmosféricas y algunas de las características de los huracanes ...
Nathalia Soto-Abarca +3 more
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How do you solve a problem like Maria? The politics of disaster response in Puerto Rico, Florida and Texas. [PDF]
World Med Health Policy, 2022 Abstract COVID‐19 is not the first, nor the last, public health challenge the US political system has faced. Understanding drivers of governmental responses to public health emergencies is important for policy decision‐making, planning, health and social outcomes, and advocacy.
Willison CE +5 more
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Moth Communities Reveal High Stability Despite Ongoing Compositional Shifts Over Five Years Following Hurricane Disturbance. [PDF]
Ecol EvolWe examined the temporal dynamics and ecological stability of tropical forest moth communities using a unique dataset spanning 6 months before and up to 5 years after two extreme hurricanes. While abundance and richness recovered within 2 years, species composition continued to shift, indicating ongoing reassembly with a directional trajectory toward ...
Alonso-Rodríguez AM +3 more
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Disturbance ecology in human societies
People and Nature, Volume 5, Issue 4, Page 1082-1093, August 2023., 2023 Abstract We define societal disturbances as discrete events that abruptly disrupt the functioning of human societies. There is a variety of such events, including hurricanes, floods, epidemics, nuclear accidents, earthquakes and wars, among others. These disturbances can interact, further increasing their impacts.
Juli G. Pausas, Alexandro B. Leverkus
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The dynamics of power in disaster response networks
Risk, Hazards &Crisis in Public Policy, Volume 12, Issue 4, Page 418-433, December 2021., 2021 Abstract A major challenge for disaster scholars and policymakers is to understand the power dimension in response networks, particularly relating to collaboration and coordination. We propose a conceptual framework to study interests and negotiations in and between various civic and professional, response networks drawing on the concepts of ...
Kees Boersma +3 more
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A systematic review of 20 years of crisis and disaster research: Trends and progress
Risk, Hazards &Crisis in Public Policy, Volume 12, Issue 4, Page 374-392, December 2021., 2021 Abstract The field of crisis and disaster studies has proliferated over the past two decades. Attention is bound to grow further as the world negotiates the prolonged challenges of the Covid‐19 pandemic. In this review, we provide an overview of the main foci, methods, and research designs employed in the crisis and disaster research fields in the ...
Jeroen Wolbers +2 more
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De Raíz Diversa Revista Especializada en Estudios Latinoamericanos, 2023 Este artículo presenta los resultados del análisis comparativo entre dos obras escritas por autoras contemporáneas: Temporada de huracanes (2017) de Fernanda Melchor y La Compañía (2019) de Verónica Gerber Bicecci.
David Loría Araujo +1 more
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Oralidad fingida e identidad: el caso de Chabela en Temporada de huracanes de Fernanda Melchor
La Palabra, 2023 En este trabajo se analiza la oralidad fingida en el discurso directo del personaje de Chabela en Temporada de huracanes (2017), de Fernanda Melchor, y su relación con la identidad del personaje.
Nathaly Bernal
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