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Xiaobiao Xu, Eric P. Chassignet, Philippe Miron and Olmo Zavala-Romero
The persistent increase in marine plastic litter has become a major global concern, with one of the highest plastic concentrations in the world?s oceans found in the Wider Caribbean Region (WCR). In this study, we use marine plastic litter tracking simul...
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Liana Ricci and Maryline Mangenot
Adaptation is crucial for addressing current and future climate change challenges in Small Island Developing States (SIDS), and climate finance instruments, such as the Green Climate Fund (GCF) can play a key role in increasing their adaptive capacity an...
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Jacqueline D. Ifield and Chia-Han Yang
The structure of multilateral financial partnerships has many relationship challenges, which need to be solved to positively impact sustainable human development. There is a lack of understanding in the development relationship between the so-called deve...
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Jordan R. Cissell, Steven W. J. Canty, Michael K. Steinberg and Loraé T. Simpson
In this paper, we present the highest-resolution-available (10 m) national map of the mangrove ecosystems of Belize. These important ecosystems are increasingly threatened by human activities and climate change, support both marine and terrestrial biodiv...
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Luke Blentlinger and Hannah V. Herrero
The lowland savannas of Belize are important areas to conserve for their biodiversity. This study takes place in Payne?s Creek National Park (PCNP) in the southern coastal plain of Belize. PCNP protects diverse terrestrial and coastal ecosystems, unique ...
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Pierre Rochette, Natalia S. Bezaeva, Andrei Kosterov, Jérôme Gattacceca, Victor L. Masaitis, Dmitry D. Badyukov, Gabriele Giuli, Giovani Orazio Lepore and Pierre Beck
High velocity impacts produce melts that solidify as ejected or in-situ glasses. We provide a review of their peculiar magnetic properties, as well as a new detailed study of four glasses from Siberia: El?gygytgyn, Popigai, urengoites, and South-Ural gla...
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Peter C. Esselman, Shiguo Jiang, Henry A. Peller, David G. Buck and Joel D. Wainwright
Land transformation can have cascading effects on hydrology, water quality, and human users of water resources, with serious implications for human health. An interdisciplinary analysis is presented, whereby remote-sensing data of changing land use and c...
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Rico Kongsager
Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is proposed as a necessity, as the agricultural sector will need to adapt to resist future climatic change, to which high emissions from the sector contribute significantly. This study, which is an exploratory case study b...
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Isabel C. Romero, Myrna E. Jacobson-Meyers, Jed A. Fuhrman and Douglas G. Capone
The diversity of diazotrophs was studied in the sediment of mangrove forests (Twin Cays, Belize) subjected to a long-term fertilization with nitrogen and phosphorus. Terminal Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism (TRFLP) and cloning of PCR-amplified n...
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Marco Otarola Rojas, Sean Collins, Victor Cal, Francisco Caal, Kevin Knight, John Arnason, Luis Poveda, Pablo Sanchez-Vindas and Todd Pesek
The present work showcases a model for holistic, sustainable healthcare in indigenous communities worldwide through the implementation of traditional healing practices. The implementation of this model promotes public health and community wellness while ...
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