A5073776739- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Historical and socio-economic studies of Spain and related regions
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Climate variability and models
- Forest ecology and management
- Regional Development and Innovation
- Landslides and related hazards
- Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture
- Fisheries and Aquaculture Studies
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
- Tree-ring climate responses
- Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
- Coffee research and impacts
- Cuban History and Society
- Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis
International Institute of Tropical Forestry
2015-2024
US Forest Service
2003-2024
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado da Bahia
2019
University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras
2017
Abstract Spatially explicit climate data contribute to watershed resource management, mapping vegetation type with satellite imagery, present and hypothetical future ecological zones, predicting species distributions. The regression‐based parameter–elevation regressions on independent slopes model (PRISM) uses spatial sets, a knowledge base expert interaction generate grids of variables that are compatible geographical information systems. This study applied PRISM maps mean monthly annual...
Abstract The potential ecological and economic effects of climate change for tropical islands were studied using output from 12 statistically downscaled general circulation models (GCMs) taking Puerto Rico as a test case. Two model selection/model averaging strategies used: the average all available GCMs that are able to reproduce observed large-scale dynamics control precipitation over Caribbean. Five island-wide multidecadal averages daily temperature estimated by way climatology-informed...
Global food security concerns emphasize the need for sustainable agriculture and local production. In Puerto Rico, over 80 percent of is imported, production levels have reached historical lows. Efforts to increase are driven by government agencies, non-government organizations, farmers, consumers. Integration geographic information helps plan balance reinvention invigoration sector while maintaining ecological services. We used simple criteria that included currently protected lands...
The impact of Hurricane Maria on the U.S. Caribbean was used to study causes remotely-sensed spatial variation in effects (1) vegetation index loss and (2) landslide occurrence. is a measure canopy ‘greenness’, combination leaf chlorophyll, area, cover structure. A generalized linear model made for each kind effect, using idealized maps hurricane forces, along with three landscape characteristics that were significantly associated. In model, one these forest fragmentation, another...