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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Yucatan Peninsula"”.
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Evaluation of Long Term Effects of Erosion Due to Groin Placement in the Northern Yucatan Peninsula
… re-nourishment and beach restoration in the Yucatan peninsula. The study includes the evaluation of six control points located on Chelem beach in Yucatan, Mexico, very close to the Progreso pier. The control points were set up in an active groin field to record data on the re-nourishment …
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Erasing the object : sculptural manoeuvres into the sublime
… Holt (1938 - )2 travelled to the Yucatan peninsula, Mexico (Roberts 2000: 552).Over a century earlier, in 1841, the American 'travel writer' John Lloyd Stephens(1805 -1852)3 had embarked on a similar voyage to the Yucatan peninsula and documented his encounters in his then …
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Papel de la etnicidad en la sociedad yucateca, El: una continuación del colonialismo interno en el sur de México
… the presence of an internal colonialism in the peninsula in which there exists a dominate class (of the ladino population) and an exploited class (of the Mayan population), a relationship supported by an ethnic differentiation ideology. As a consequence, there exists the phenomenon of changing …
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Studies of the Annual Cycle of the Swallow-Tailed Kite (<em>Elanoides forficatus</em>): Migration, Habitat Use, and Parasites
… significance: stopover behavior on Cuba and the Yucatan Peninsula, range-wide habitat associations, and parasites. Because Cuba and the Yucatan Peninsula are situated along the migratory route after a long over-water crossing, they may be potentially important stopover sites. To examine this …
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Negative Social Perceptions and their Impacts on the Maya People
… not encompass geographically the entirety of the Yucatan Peninsula. Furthermore, the majority of literature on colorism that is available in English is focused on the impact of colorism on mental health and poverty levels, mostly for Afro-Latinos (preferably referred to as afrodescendientes), …
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Low rare earth element concentration impact glass from the K/T Boundary at Beloc
… is widely agreed that a large bolide struck the Yucatan Peninsula roughly 65 Ma spreading a worldwide iridium anomaly. However, there is only one case of a piece of the impactor being found (Kyte et al., 1995). Impact glass from the K/T boundary at Beloc, Haiti has been widely researched with …
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Investigating Mexican paleoclimate with precisely dated speleothems
… and limited precipitation variability in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. Chapters 3 and 4 present novel climate records from northeastern Mexico, an understudied region of North America. Both records come from cave sites within the Mexican arid zone, which is simultaneously experiencing …
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Investigating Mexican paleoclimate with precisely dated speleothems
… and limited precipitation variability in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. Chapters 3 and 4 present novel climate records from northeastern Mexico, an understudied region of North America. Both records come from cave sites within the Mexican arid zone, which is simultaneously experiencing …
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Evaluating the use of acoustic monitoring for surveying tropical birds
… across six tropical habitats in the northeastern Yucatan Peninsula. SRS performed in a similar fashion to point counts for estimating species richness and composition, two main features of community structure. Estimates of species richness were not significantly different between methods in any of …
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Temporal variability in chemical cycling of the subterranean estuary and associated chemical loading to the coastal ocean
… and field and modeling studies in the Yucatan Peninsula. Coral barium was well correlated with precipitation for a twelve-year record, with coral geochemistry reflecting the passage of a hurricane in 2002. While additional complexities in deciphering coral records remain, this proxy …
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Temporal variability in chemical cycling of the subterranean estuary and associated chemical loading to the coastal ocean
… and field and modeling studies in the Yucatan Peninsula. Coral barium was well correlated with precipitation for a twelve-year record, with coral geochemistry reflecting the passage of a hurricane in 2002. While additional complexities in deciphering coral records remain, this proxy …
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Benthic meiofaunal and micro-eukaryotic inhabitation of extreme environments: Submerged caves and hydrocarbon seeps
… gradients in submerged cave systems of the Yucatan Peninsula and Cozumel Island, Mexico using metabarcoding analysis. Despite a large percentage of unidentified sequences, diverse protistan, metazoan, and fungal taxa were detected, spanning a range of feeding strategies, with community …
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Investigating the role of non-structural genes in the genotype and phenotype of yellow fever vaccine strain 17D
… fever outbreak was recorded in 1648 in the Yucatan Peninsula. Almost 300 years later, a live-attenuated vaccine against yellow fever virus, the causative agent of yellow fever, was successfully derived by serial passage of Asibi virus 176 times in chick and mouse embryo tissue. The resulting …
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The Remipedia (Crustacea): A Study of Their Reproduction and Ecology
… found in caves in the West Indies, one from the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico and one from the Canary Islands. Most of what is known about these animals has come mainly from taxonomic descriptions. Little has been published about their reproductive biology or ecology. The objectives of this …
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Habitat and population structure of the Morelet’s crocodile (Crocodylus moreletii) in Calakmul Biosphere Reserve, Campeche, Mexico
The Yucatan Peninsula (YP) is one of the most recognizable parts of Mexico and is well known as one of the significant areas in Mesoamerica which supported the Mayan civilization. In the southern portion of the Peninsula, natural aquatic habitats occur at relatively low densities across the region …
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Phytochemical and pharmacological studies on some endemic Yucatecan medicinal plants
Four endemic medicinal plants from the Yucatan peninsula belonging to genera with little pharmacological and phytochemical reported information and used for medicinal purposes by local communities were selected. The species selected included Jacquinia flammea Millsp. ex Mez, Sideroxylon …
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Design and Model-based Approaches for Estimating Abundance of American Horseshoe Crab
… throughout its native range from Maine to the Yucatan Peninsula. Harvested for fertilizer and livestock feed in the 19th century, the species is now harvested as bait for whelk and eel fisheries, and for their blood by the biomedical industry. The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission …
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Water resource management by the ancient Maya of Yucatan, Mexico
<p>Since the publication of popular accounts of exploration by adventurers such as John Lloyd Stephens captured the attention of an audience eager for tales from exotic places, scholars of the ancient civilizations of Mesoamerica have been fascinated with the silent crumbling remains of ancient …