| Titre : | Caribbean marine biodiversity : the known and the unknown | | Type de document : | texte imprimé | | Auteurs : | Patricia Miloslavich, Auteur ; Eduardo Klein, Auteur | | Editeur : | Lancaster : DEStech Publications | | Importance : | 310 p. | | Présentation : | ill., graph., tabl., ref. | | ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-1-932078-48-0 | | Langues : | Anglais (eng) | | Catégories : | Liste Plan de classement
L202 (Conservation (Parcs nationaux - Faunes sauvages) [Classement Kourou]
Thésaurus Agrovoc
Cuba ; Jamaïque ; République dominicaine ; Porto Rico ; Venezuela (République bolivarienne du) ; Colombie ; Panama ; Costa Rica ; Mollusca ; Écosystème
| | Résumé : | An introductory chapter in the first section links marine biodiversity research and conservation in the Caribbean by summarizing the goals and discussions held during the workshop. This section also has separate chapters on the status of knowledge of marine biodivesity in Panama, Costa Rica, Mexico, Bermuda, Cuba, Perto Rico, Jamaica, Dominican Republic, Venezuela and Colombie. The last chapter of this section deals with an historical component of Caribbean biodivesity : the prehispanic fisheries of the queen conch. The second section introduces the Census of Marine life program and its projects : OBIS (Ocean Biogeographic Information System), NaGISA (Natural Geography in Shore Areas), HMAP (History of Marine Animal Populations), and Coral Reefs. The third section describes the research programs and institution currently active in the Caribbean or interested in joining new initiatives such as CARICOMP (Caribbean Coastal Marine Productivity), STRI (Smithsonian
Tropical Research Institute), FishBASE, the Harte Research Institute (Gulf of Mexico studies), and IOCaribe (Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission - Caribbean). The final section presents a summary of the activities, goals and mission in the Caribbean of the conservation agencies Conservation International and The Nature Conservation, and the oil companies Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), Chevron Texaco, and Conoco Phillips. | | Type de document : | Livre | | Permalien de la notice : | https://infodoc.agroparistech.fr/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=153072 |
Caribbean marine biodiversity : the known and the unknown [texte imprimé] / Patricia Miloslavich, Auteur ; Eduardo Klein, Auteur . - Lancaster (US) : DEStech Publications, [s.d.] . - 310 p. : ill., graph., tabl., ref. ISBN : 978-1-932078-48-0 Langues : Anglais ( eng) | Catégories : | Liste Plan de classement
L202 (Conservation (Parcs nationaux - Faunes sauvages) [Classement Kourou]
Thésaurus Agrovoc
Cuba ; Jamaïque ; République dominicaine ; Porto Rico ; Venezuela (République bolivarienne du) ; Colombie ; Panama ; Costa Rica ; Mollusca ; Écosystème
| | Résumé : | An introductory chapter in the first section links marine biodiversity research and conservation in the Caribbean by summarizing the goals and discussions held during the workshop. This section also has separate chapters on the status of knowledge of marine biodivesity in Panama, Costa Rica, Mexico, Bermuda, Cuba, Perto Rico, Jamaica, Dominican Republic, Venezuela and Colombie. The last chapter of this section deals with an historical component of Caribbean biodivesity : the prehispanic fisheries of the queen conch. The second section introduces the Census of Marine life program and its projects : OBIS (Ocean Biogeographic Information System), NaGISA (Natural Geography in Shore Areas), HMAP (History of Marine Animal Populations), and Coral Reefs. The third section describes the research programs and institution currently active in the Caribbean or interested in joining new initiatives such as CARICOMP (Caribbean Coastal Marine Productivity), STRI (Smithsonian
Tropical Research Institute), FishBASE, the Harte Research Institute (Gulf of Mexico studies), and IOCaribe (Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission - Caribbean). The final section presents a summary of the activities, goals and mission in the Caribbean of the conservation agencies Conservation International and The Nature Conservation, and the oil companies Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), Chevron Texaco, and Conoco Phillips. | | Type de document : | Livre | | Permalien de la notice : | https://infodoc.agroparistech.fr/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=153072 |
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