Sea surface temperatures and vertical wind shear are essential to tropical cyclone formation. TCs need warm SSTs low for genesis. Increasing decreasing VWS influences storm development. This work analyzes SST trends the Caribbean, surrounding region, Atlantic hurricane main developing region from 1982–2020. Storm intensity increases significantly during this period. Annual seasonal show that re...

BACKGROUND Marine allopatric speciation involves interplay between intrinsic organismal properties and extrinsic factors. However, the relative contribution of each depends on the taxon under study and its geographic context. Utilizing sea catfishes in the Cathorops mapale species group, this study tests the hypothesis that both reproductive strategies conferring limited dispersal opportunities...

background: this study was aimed to investigate the main and buffering effects of positive religious coping on the association between the number of chronic medical conditions and major depressive disorder (mdd) among african americans, caribbean blacks and non‑hispanic whites. methods: this cross‑sectional study used data from the national survey of american life, 2001 and 2003. this study enr...

In the Dutch Caribbean EEZ, at least 27 elasmobranch species have been documented. Of these, nine are listed as “critically endangered” and eight as “near threatened” by the IUCN. Elasmobranchs are not a target fishery in the Dutch Caribbean, but do occur as bycatch in artisanal fisheries. Sharks are considered nuisance species by fishermen. Most sharks caught are not discarded, but consumed lo...

The diversity of deep-water corals in the Caribbean Sea was studied using records from oceanographic expeditions performed by the R/V Pillsbury. Sampled stations were sorted according to broad depth ranges and ecoregions and were analyzed in terms of species accumulation curves, variance in the species composition and contributions to alpha, beta and gamma diversity. According to the analysis o...

This article describes six ocean datasets consistent in anomalies of biogeochemical, physical, sea wave, biological, oceanic and chemical parameters (DACS-BGC, DACS-PHY, DACS-WAVE, DACS-BIO, DACS-OCE DACS-CHEM) several time scales from 3-hourly to monthly frequencies, either on the surface, downward/upward fluxes between atmosphere water column Caribbean basin (Gulf Mexico, Sea Atlantic Ocean) ...

Previous studies have shown how the passage of eddies from Caribbean Sea (CS) to Gulf Mexico (GoM) can impact Loop Current (LC) system, in particular detachments LC Eddies (LCEs). Here we used numerical modeling investigate eddy field CS on predictions. We a HYCOM ocean model configuration North Atlantic at 1/12° resolution perform two data-assimilative experiments: one which all available obse...