Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Scholarly Works: Recent submissions
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DATASETS FOR Zika Virus, Elevation, and Transmission Risk
(PLoS Currents Outbreaks, 2016-04-29)Introduction: Zika virus has appeared in the Americas in the form of a major outbreak, and is now known to cause birth defects when pregnant women are infected. As a result, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ... -
Bird conservation and biodiversity research in Mexico: status and priorities
(Wiley, 2016-03-28)Mexico holds a megadiverse avifauna that includes many endemic elements, as well as rich sets of species from both farther north and farther south in the Americas. This avifauna, nonetheless, has suffered considerable ... -
DATASETS FOR Digital Accessible Knowledge and Well-inventoried Sites for Birds in Mexico: Baseline Sites for Measuring Faunistic Change
(2016-04-12)A dataset that summarizes sites across Mexico for which detailed, complete inventories of bird faunas are available for prior to 1980, and the many locality names that correspond to each site (note that these names include ... -
DATASETS FOR Digital Accessible Knowledge and Well-inventoried Sites for Birds in Mexico: Baseline Sites for Measuring Faunistic Change
(2016-04-12)Two datasets that summarize sites across Mexico for which detailed, complete inventories of bird faunas are available for prior to 1980. Both are shapefiles for use in GIS programs, and are in the WGS 1984 coordinate system ... -
Indices of Biodiversity Pattern Based on Presence-Absence Matrices: A GIS Implementation
(University of Kansas, 2015)In this work we present mathematical notation and formulae relating a number of indices of the biodiversity pattern of an aggregate of species, and an Open Source implementation of them as a plug-in for the increasingly ... -
Interpretation of Models of Fundamental Ecological Niches and Species’ Distributional Areas
(University of Kansas, 2005)Ecological niche modeling?that is, estimation of the dimensions of fundamental ecological niches of species?to predict their geographic distributions is increasingly being employed in systematics, ecology, conservation, ... -
Uses and Requirements of Ecological Niche Models and Related Distributional Models
(University of Kansas, 2006)Modeling approaches that relate known occurrences of species to landscape features to discover ecological properties and predict geographic occurrences have seen extensive recent application in ecology, systematics, and ... -
Unlocking the Doors to the Worlds of Guaman Poma and His Nueva corónica
(University of Chicago Press, 2015)Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala’s handwritten illustrated book, Nueva corónica y buen gobierno, from 1615—honored by UNESCO as a “Memory of the World” item—rewrote Andean history in accordance with his goals of reforming Spanish ... -
Guano Inside-Out
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Patenting Human Evolution
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In Memoriam: Professor William Arthur Kelly
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Design and Challenges of Banking and Foreign Exchange Regulation in India
(2015)In the post-British Raj Era, two hallmarks characterize Indian banking law: financial inclusion and financial liberalization. Indian banking law and policy has emphasized incorporation of the unbanked and under-banked as ... -
“Respecting the Separateness of Others:” Segregationist Opposition to American Foreign Aid and the Formation of a Southern Internationalism, 1946-1973
(University of Kansas, 2015-05-31)The end of World War II, decolonization, and the emerging Cold War made forming an antiracist foreign and domestic policy an imperative for the United States. This context meant that segregation at home tarnished the ... -
Visualizing the Passion in Andrés de Li's Summa de paciencia
(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014-06)In 1505, Jorge Coci reprinted in Zaragoza Andrés de Li’s Summa de paciencia. Its sole pictorial element is a single, full-page image of Christ as the Man of Sorrows, also known as the Imago pietatis. This essay explores ... -
Paraguay and MERCOSUR: The Lesser of Two Evils?
(Taylor & Francis, 2014-06)This paper examines Paraguay’s experience with MERCOSUR in terms of its impact on economic growth, trade, investment, industrial competitiveness and income distribution. Of particular interest is MERCOSUR’s impact on the ... -
The Pragmatics of Proverb Performance in Limonese Creole
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Biodiversity Governance: A Tower of Babel of Scales and Cultures
(Public Library of Science, 2015-03-12)The recently created Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), originally focused on multilateral and global issues, is shifting its focus to address local issues and to include in its ... -
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Reviewed Work: Modeling Nature
(Central Ornithology Publication Office, 1986-11-01)No abstract is available for this item. -
Reviewed Work: Evolution as Entropy: Toward a Unified Theory of Biology
(Central Ornithology Publication Office, 1987-08-01)No abstract is available for this item.