Hurricanes Substantially Reduce the Nutrients in Tropical Forested Watersheds in Puerto Rico

Host-parasite interactions of tropical bats in Puerto Rico

Despite having nearly one thousand known extant species in the order of Chiroptera (Wilson and Reeder, 2005), bats remain little studied in terms of the parasites and pathogens they harbor, particularly those from tropical regions. This lack of documentation of the parasite fauna of bats is of some concern since tropical bats have been implicated in the emergence of several important zoonotic i...

Trailblazing the Carbon Cycle of Tropical Forests from Puerto Rico

We review the literature that led to clarifying the role of tropical forests in the global carbon cycle from a time when they were considered sources of atmospheric carbon to the time when they were found to be atmospheric carbon sinks. This literature originates from work conducted by US Forest Service scientists in Puerto Rico and their collaborators. It involves the classification of forests...

Slavery in Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico

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Antibacterial properties of tropical plants from Puerto Rico.

In an effort to document the antibacterial properties of plants commonly used by the people of Puerto Rico, we studied the effects of 172 plant species, utilizing the disc diffusion method, against Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus. The methanolic extracts of 14 species showed antibacterial activities during this preliminary screen. These positive plant extracts were tested successivel...