Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Scholarly Works: Recent submissions
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In Memoriam: Professor William Arthur Kelly
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Patenting Human Evolution
(University of Kansas School of Law, 2008-06)Patent protection for genetic enhancements would tend to spur genetic innovation, but would tend to limit access to those genetic enhancements through discriminatory mechanisms such as price and favoritism. The patent ... -
The Limits of American Generosity
(Fordham University School of Law, 2006) -
Teaching China GATT
(National Law University, 2009)How would China fare in its first WTO case? That question has been of interest to international trade law practitioners and scholars ever since China acceded to the WTO on 11 December 2001, and indeed even before then, in ... -
Predicting species invasions using ecological niche modeling
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Modeled climate change effects on distributions of Canadian butterfly species
(National Research Council Canada, 2004-07-30)Abstract: Climate change effects on biodiversity are being documented now frequently in the form of changes in phenology and distributional shifts. However, the form that these effects will take over a longer timespan is ... -
Invasive potential of common carp (*Cyprinus carpio*) and Nile tilapia (*Oreochromis niloticus*) in American freshwater systems
(National Research Council Canada, 2006-07-25)Nonnative fish introductions disrupt ecosystem processes and can drive native species to local extinction. Two of the most widespread, introduced species are the common carp (Cyprinus carpio) from Eurasia and the Nile tilapia ... -
Fine-scale predictions of distributions of Chagas disease vectors in the state of Guanajuato, Mexico
(Entomological Society of America, 2005-11)One of the most daunting challenges for Chagas disease surveillance and control in Mexico is the lack of community level data on vector distributions. Although many states now have assembled representative domestic ... -
A bird-finding guide to Mexico [Review]
(University of Chicago Press, 2000-06) -
Birder's Mexico [review]
(University of Chicago Press, 2001-09) -
Ecological niche and potential geographic distribution of the invasive fruit fly *Bactrocera invadens* (Diptera, Tephritidae)
(CAB International Publishing, 2010-02)Two correlative approaches to the challenge of ecological niche modeling (genetic algorithm, maximum entropy) were used to estimate the potential global distribution of the invasive fruit fly, Bactrocera invadens, based ... -
Preliminary global assessment of terrestrial biodiversity consequences of sea level rise mediated by climate change
(Springer, 2010-02-25)Considerable attention has focused on the climatic effects of global climate change on biodiversity, but few analyses and no broad assessments have evaluated the effects of sea level rise on biodiversity. Taking advantage ... -
Phylogenetic relationships of flowerpeckers (Aves: Dicaeidae): Novel insights into the evolution of a tropical passerine clade
(Elsevier Inc., 2009-12)Understanding the relationships and evolution of flowerpeckers has been challenging, particularly as no phylogenetic study has as yet assessed the group. Here, we present a first such analysis of this clade based on sequences ... -
Molecular systematics and evolution of the Cyanocorax jays
(Elsevier Inc., 2010-03)Phylogenetic relationships were studied in the genus Cyanocorax (Aves: Corvidae) and related genera, Psilorhinus and Calocitta, a diverse group of New World jays distributed from the southern United States south to Argentina. ... -
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 ... -
Interpretation of models of fundamental ecological niches and species' distributional areas
(University of Kansas, 2005)Estimation of the dimensions of fundamental ecological niches of species to predict their geographic distributions is increasingly being attempted in systematics, ecology, conservation, public health, etc. This technique ... -
Predicting the geography of species' invasions via ecological niche modeling
(University of Chicago Press, 2003-12)Species’ invasions have long been regarded as enormously complex processes, so complex as to defy predictivity. Phases of this process, however, are emerging as highly predictable: the potential geographic course of an ... -
Speciation in the Emerald Toucanet (*Aulacorhynchus prasinus*) complex
(University of California Press, 2008-01)We analyzed genetic variation in the Emerald Toucanet (Aulacorhynchus prasinus), a species complex that ranges primarily along the montane forests of southern and eastern Mexico south to Bolivia. Segments of three mitochondrial ... -
Ecological niche modeling as a new paradigm for large-scale investigations of diversity and distribution of birds
(U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, 2005)These two volumes contain in part papers presented at the Third International Partners in Flight Conference: A Workshop on Bird Conservation Implementation and Integration, which was held 20-24 March 2002 at the Asilomar ... -
Pervasive poleward shifts among North American bird species
(Taylor and Francis, 2009)Climate change is expected to influence species’ geographic distributions in the form of poleward and upward range expansion combined with extirpations from the equatorial and downslope sides of the distribution, but such ...