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Caribbean Words in Mexican Toponymy

Names, 1960
LATE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, men such as Antonio Penafiel, geographer and linguist, Nicolas Leon, anthropologist, and Cecilio Robelo, historian and investigator of native languages, gave the initial impulse to the serious study of Mexican toponyms.
Stanley L. Robe
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Epibiont hydroids on beachcast Sargassum in the Mexican Caribbean. [PDF]

PeerJ, 2020
Massive accumulations of pelagic species of Sargassum have generated recent social, economic and ecological problems along Caribbean shores. In the Mexican Caribbean, these events have prompted the study of diverse biological and ecological aspects of these macroalgae. However, studies on their associated biota, including Hydrozoa, remain scarce.
Mendoza-Becerril MA, Serviere-Zaragoza E, Mazariegos-Villarreal A, Rivera-Perez C, Calder DR, Vázquez-Delfín EF, Freile-Pelegrín Y, Agüero J, Robledo D.   +8 more
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Circulation along the Mexican Caribbean coast [PDF]

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 2006
Data from an array of seven subsurface upward‐looking moored Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers (ADCPs) and four subsurface pressure sensors deployed from August 2002 to August 2003 along the Caribbean coast of Mexico showed that the currents in the area have a predominant northeastward direction along the coast, are coherent within the upper 130 m of ...
P. Cetina, J. Candela, J. Sheinbaum, J. Ochoa, A. Badan   +4 more
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Cytotoxic Furanoditerpenes from the Sponge Spongia tubulifera Collected in the Mexican Caribbean. [PDF]

Mar Drugs, 2019
Two new spongian furanoditerpenes, 3β-hydroxyspongia-13(16),14-dien-2-one (1) and 19-dehydroxy-spongian diterpene 17 (2), along with five known terpenes, the spongian furanoditerpenes 9-nor-3-hydroxyspongia-3,13(16),14-trien-2-one (3), 3β,19 dihydroxyspongia-13(16),14-dien-2-one (epispongiadiol) (4) and spongian diterpene 17 (5), the furanoditerpene ...
Pech-Puch D, Rodríguez J, Cautain B, Sandoval-Castro CA, Jiménez C.   +4 more
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Coral Reef Recovery in the Mexican Caribbean after 2005 Mass Coral Mortality—Potential Drivers

Diversity, 2020
In 2005, an extreme heatwave hit the Wider Caribbean, followed by 13 hurricanes (including hurricanes Emily and Wilma) that caused significant loss in hard coral cover. However, the drivers of the potential recovery are yet to be fully understood.
Xochitl E. Elías Ilosvay, Ameris I. Contreras-Silva, Lorenzo Alvarez-Filip, Christian Wild   +3 more
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Spatio-temporal variation in the diet composition of red lionfish, Pterois volitans (Actinopterygii: Scorpaeniformes: Scorpaenidae), in the Mexican Caribbean: Insights into the ecological effect of the alien invasion [PDF]

Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria, 2016
Background. The observed expansion of the red lionfish, Pterois volitans  (Linnaeus, 1758), in the Caribbean represents one of the most rapid marine fish invasions in the history.
A.T. Arredondo-Chávez, J.A. Sánchez-Jimenez, O.G. Ávila-Morales, P. Torres-Chávez, I. Herrerias-Diego, M. Medina-Nava, X. Madrigal-Guridi, A. Campos-Mendoza, O. Domínguez-Domínguez, J.A. Caballero-Vázquez   +9 more
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Element concentrations in pelagic Sargassum along the Mexican Caribbean coast in 2018-2019. [PDF]

PeerJ, 2020
The massive influx of pelagic Sargassum spp. (sargasso) into the Mexican Caribbean Sea has caused major deterioration of the coastal environment and has affected the tourism industry as well as livelihoods since 2015.
Rodríguez-Martínez RE, Roy PD, Torrescano-Valle N, Cabanillas-Terán N, Carrillo-Domínguez S, Collado-Vides L, García-Sánchez M, van Tussenbroek BI.   +7 more
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Characterization of Geographically Distinct Bacterial Communities Associated with Coral Mucus Produced by Acropora spp. and Porites spp [PDF]

, 2012
Acropora and Porites corals are important reef builders in the Indo-Pacific and Caribbean. Bacteria associated with mucus produced by Porites spp. and Acropora spp.
Alvarez LA, Bell JJ, Boyett HV, Breitbart M, Brown BE, Caporaso JG, Clarke KR, Crabbe MJC, Crabbe MJC, Ducklow HW, Dumbrell AJ, Edwards U, Felsenstein J, Glynn PW, Haapkyla et al, Haapkylä J, Lampert Y, Lampert Y, Lozupone C, McKew BA, Meikle P, Nicol G, Page RDM, Pantos O, Remily ER, Riegl B, Ritchie KB, Ritchie KB, Rohwer F, Rohwer F, Rosenberg E, Ruìz-Renterìa F, Saitou N, Shashar N, Smith DJ, Sogin ML, Solow AR, Wallace CC, Wild C   +38 more
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A checklist of the marine Harpacticoida (Copepoda) of the Caribbean Sea [PDF]

, 2006
Recent surveys on the benthic harpacticoids in the northwestern sector of the Caribbean have called attention to the lack of a list of species of this diverse group in this large tropical basin. A first checklist of the Caribbean harpacticoid copepods is
De Troch, Marleen, FIERS, F, SUAREZ-MORALES, E   +2 more
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Structure of nematocysts isolated from the fire corals Millepora alcicornis and Millepora complanata (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa)

Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases, 2012
Structural characteristics of discharged and undischarged nematocysts from the hydrozoans Millepora alcicornis and Millepora complanata, two fire corals collected in the Mexican Caribbean, were examined using transmission electron, scanning and light ...
A García-Arredondo, A Rojas, R Iglesias-Prieto, A Zepeda-Rodriguez, L Palma-Tirado   +4 more
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