Assessing the role of humans in Greater Antillean land vertebrate extinctions: New insights from Cuba

J Orihuela, LW Viñola, OJ Vázquez… - Quaternary Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
The Caribbean archipelago is a hotspot of biodiversity characterized by a high rate of
extinction. Recent studies have examined these losses, but the causes of the Antillean Late …

Dwarfism and gigantism drive human-mediated extinctions on islands

R Rozzi, MV Lomolino, AAE van der Geer, D Silvestro… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Islands have long been recognized as distinctive evolutionary arenas leading to
morphologically divergent species, such as dwarfs and giants. We assessed how body size …

Large-scale reptile extinctions following European colonization of the Guadeloupe Islands

C Bochaton, E Paradis, S Bailon, S Grouard, I Ineich… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Large-scale extinction is one of the defining challenges of our time, as human processes
fundamentally and irreversibly reshape global ecosystems. While the extinction of large …

Paleodietary reconstruction of endemic rodents from the precolumbian Dominican Republic: Discriminating wild feeding behavior from diets linked to human niche …

GT Shev, JE Laffoon - International Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract In the Greater Antilles, certain animal taxa that have long been theorized to have
been managed by indigenous peoples prior to AD1492, the main candidates being a group …

Changing ecological communities along an elevation gradient in seasonally dry tropical forest on Hispaniola (Sierra Martín García, Dominican Republic)

J Franklin, LC Majure, Y Encarnación, T Clase… - Biotropica, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
We report the results of systematic vascular plant and bird surveys in Seasonally Dry
Tropical Forest (SDTF) across leeward and windward elevation gradients (31–884 masl) in …

Predictors of bat species richness within the islands of the Caribbean Basin

JD Hoffman, G Kadlubar, SC Pedersen, RJ Larsen… - 2019 - digitalcommons.unl.edu
Several mechanisms have been shown to influence species richness among island
ecosystems, yet most studies limit their focus to a few predictor variables. The objective of …

Spatial distribution of bat species on Hispaniola Island, the Greater Antilles

MS Núñez-Novas, R Torres… - Acta …, 2021 - ingentaconnect.com
Hispaniola shows the highest environmental heterogeneity among the Greater Antilles
mainly due to its complex land relief, encompassing a high ecosystemic heterogeineity, and …

Guía de identificación de los murciélagos de La Española y anotaciones sobre las familias y especies

MS Núñez-Novas, R Guzmán-Pérez… - Novitates …, 2019 - novitatescaribaea.do
Se presenta una guía ilustrada de identificación de los quirópteros de La Española, basada
en diez años de trabajo de campo y laboratorio. Se incluyen dos claves dicotómicas, una de …

Biogeography and Validation of species limits in Caribbean Red Bats (Vespertilionidae: Lasiurus)

JA Soto-Centeno, CA Calderón-Acevedo - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Defining species limits using an integrative framework is crucial for biodiversity assessments
and to maintain taxonomic stability. These approaches are robust and can be useful to also …

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ET She - 2022 - scholarlypublications …
Abstract In the Greater Antilles, certain animal taxa that have long been theorized to have
been managed by indigenous peoples prior to AD1492, the main candidates being a group …