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Title: Prospects for Caribbean mariculture.
Creator: Ryther, John H., Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute
Date Issued: 1988
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007297
Subject Headings: Caribbean Area, Mariculture
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Queen conch mariculture in the Caribbean region and its potential for Bermuda.
Creator: Creswell, R. LeRoy, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute
Date Issued: 1984
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/3183724
Subject Headings: Queen conch, Mariculture --Caribbean Area
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Cultural imperialism: The Caribbean's case of colonization, media imperialism, and tourism.
Creator: Sabga, Nicole., Florida Atlantic University, Fejes, Fred A.
Abstract/Description: This study focuses on some of the complexities of cultural imperialism in the Caribbean. Five hundred years of colonization by Europe, as well as the hegemonic influence of United States' international broadcast media, has contributed to the multiple identities that Caribbean peoples recognize and possess. Tourism and the development of consumer societies has contributed to the consumption of Caribbean culture. These issues, colonization, media imperialism, and tourism, are discussed with...
Show moreThis study focuses on some of the complexities of cultural imperialism in the Caribbean. Five hundred years of colonization by Europe, as well as the hegemonic influence of United States' international broadcast media, has contributed to the multiple identities that Caribbean peoples recognize and possess. Tourism and the development of consumer societies has contributed to the consumption of Caribbean culture. These issues, colonization, media imperialism, and tourism, are discussed with regard to their influences on Caribbean identities and consumption of Caribbean culture. The efforts of international organizations and the defenses of Caribbean countries are also discussed regarding the effects of cultural imperialism.
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Date Issued: 1995
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15147
Subject Headings: Tourist trade--Caribbean area, Caribbean area--Social life and customs, Mass media and culture--Caribbean area, Imperialism
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Growth of Florida fighting conch, Strombus alatus, in recirculating systems.
Creator: Shawl, Amber L., Jenkins, Dave, Davis, Megan, Main, Kevan L.
Date Issued: 2005
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/2100807
Subject Headings: Aquaculture, Queen conch, Marine ecology --Caribbean Area
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Historical overview: aquaculture in the Caribbean.
Creator: Ryther, John H., Creswell, R. LeRoy, Alston, D. E., Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute
Date Issued: 1991
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007406
Subject Headings: Caribbean Area, Aquaculture, Macrobrachium rosenbergii, Tilapia
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Effects of dietary calcium and substrate on growth and survival of juvenile queen conch (Strombus gigas) cultured for stock enhancement.
Creator: Shawl, Amber L., Davis, Megan
Date Issued: 2006
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/2144514
Subject Headings: Queen conch, Aquaculture, Marine ecology --Caribbean Area
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Real Mothers or Otherwise.
Creator: Aldana, Melissa, Brown, Susan Love, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Center for Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Abstract/Description: This thesis is a memoir of the women in my family and their relationship to motherhood, both adoptive and biological. The primary source of this work is memory and is contextualized within the Caribbean culture. The process of interpreting these memories relies on narrative, cultural, and life history theory that disarticulate ideas of motherhood found in North America from those in the Caribbean. The beginning chapters are a personal memoir of motherhood while the end chapters are analyses...
Show moreThis thesis is a memoir of the women in my family and their relationship to motherhood, both adoptive and biological. The primary source of this work is memory and is contextualized within the Caribbean culture. The process of interpreting these memories relies on narrative, cultural, and life history theory that disarticulate ideas of motherhood found in North America from those in the Caribbean. The beginning chapters are a personal memoir of motherhood while the end chapters are analyses of the theoretical foundations of what I have explored. In the last chapter, I reflect upon the personal process of writing memoir. There is no equivalent study of the perception of the adoptive mother versus the biological mother in the Caribbean. These stories of my family contribute to our understanding of motherhood in the lives of women of color in the Americas, many of which have been missing from history's larger narrative.
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Date Issued: 2018
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013050
Subject Headings: Motherhood., Mothers--Caribbean Area., Memoirs.
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: INSULAR BIOGEOGRAPHIC PATTERNS IN THE CARIBBEAN ORCHIDACEAE: A TEST OF THE THEORY OF ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY.
Creator: PLOTECIA, RAYMOND KNIGHT., Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: The distribution of orchid species on nineteen islands of the Greater and Lesser Antilles is listed. These data are used to test hypotheses inferred from the MacArthur and Wilson (1967) theory of island biogeography. Linear regressions show that the slope of the species area curve for orchids on these islands is not different from the range 0.20 to 0.35 predicted in the theory. The slope of this line increases with distance from Central America, the suspected source of colonizing species....
Show moreThe distribution of orchid species on nineteen islands of the Greater and Lesser Antilles is listed. These data are used to test hypotheses inferred from the MacArthur and Wilson (1967) theory of island biogeography. Linear regressions show that the slope of the species area curve for orchids on these islands is not different from the range 0.20 to 0.35 predicted in the theory. The slope of this line increases with distance from Central America, the suspected source of colonizing species. Multiple regression analysis is used to test the relationship of the total number of species, the number of endemics, and the number of non-endemics with the geographic parameters of area, altitude, distances from Central and South America, and inter-island isolation. The validity of the theory and the biological implications of the geographic parameters are discussed.
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Date Issued: 1975
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13709
Subject Headings: Orchids--Caribbean Area--Geographical distribution
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: GENETIC STRUCTURE OF SHALLOW AND MESOPHOTIC POPULATIONS OF A DOMINANT, BROADCAST SPAWNING CORAL, MONTASTRAEA CAVERNOSA, IN THE GULF OF MEXICO AND WESTERN CARIBBEAN.
Creator: Sturm, Alexis B., Voss, Joshua D., Florida Atlantic University, Department of Biological Sciences, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
Abstract/Description: Coral reef ecosystems across the Tropical Western Atlantic, are rapidly degrading due to a combination of anthropogenic stressors including coastal development, overfishing, and climate change-induced coral bleaching and disease outbreaks. Despite this general pattern, certain reef ecosystems are less exposed to these stressors due to a lack of/or distance from coastal development and/or their depth. These characteristics protect these coral reef ecosystems from rapid degradation and these...
Show moreCoral reef ecosystems across the Tropical Western Atlantic, are rapidly degrading due to a combination of anthropogenic stressors including coastal development, overfishing, and climate change-induced coral bleaching and disease outbreaks. Despite this general pattern, certain reef ecosystems are less exposed to these stressors due to a lack of/or distance from coastal development and/or their depth. These characteristics protect these coral reef ecosystems from rapid degradation and these coral populations potentially serve as important refugia. Developing an understanding of the connectivity dynamics among these refugia and to more degraded reefs is critical to developing networks of marine protected areas and management to ensure the persistence and recovery of coral metapopulations. In particular, increased research focus has been placed on mesophotic coral ecosystems (MCEs, 30-150 m) which are deeper and more buffered from anthropogenic stressors than shallow reefs (<30 m). A collection of hypotheses known as the Deep Reef Refugia Hypothesis surmises that MCEs may serve as larval sources to reseed shallow coral populations following a disturbance-driven decline. This dissertation research focuses on quantifying the population genetic structure of a dominant, depthgeneralist, coral species, Montastraea cavernosa, across previously understudied shallow and mesophotic reefs throughout the Gulf of Mexico and Western Caribbean to quantify the refugia potential of these reefs and characterize their roles in the regional coral metapopulation. Chapter 1 provides a review of the ecology and population genetic connectivity dynamics of shallow and mesophotic coral populations in the Tropical Western Atlantic.
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Date Issued: 2022
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00014054
Subject Headings: Montastraea, Corals, Mexico, Gulf of, Caribbean Area
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Integrated water quality and coral reef monitoring on fringing reefs of Tobago: chemical and ecological evidence of sewage-driven eutrophication in the Buccoo Reef Complex.
Creator: Lapointe, Brian E., Potts, Arthur C., Day, Owen, Langton, Richard, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute
Date Issued: 2003
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/2100737
Subject Headings: Coral reef ecology, Marine parks and reserves --Caribbean Area, Marine ecology --Caribbean Area
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: At the bank of paradise: and other stories.
Creator: McIntosh, Monique, Bucak, Ayse Papatya, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: From modern-day parking lot snipers to 18th century Romantic picturesque painters, At the Bank of Paradise: and Other Stories explores the unexpected boundaries of the Caribbean, following those who have come, those who have stayed, and those who have left the Caribbean behind. Inspired by real historical figures at the periphery of the Caribbean experience, these stories dive into untold narratives only glimpsed in the footnotes of history.
Date Issued: 2015
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004390, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004390
Subject Headings: Short stories, American, Caribbean Area--Civilization, Caribbean Area--Historiography
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Title: Image ratioing as appropriate technology for monitoring vegetation cover in the Caribbean.
Creator: Delahunty, Justine Louise., Florida Atlantic University, Roberts, Charles
Abstract/Description: Satellite image processing should not be dismissed as a tool to monitor vegetation cover because of cost concerns or classification problems due to topographic extremes. Low cost imagery and image processing software's are available and the image ratio technique can be used to minimize classification problems due to topography. The Forestry Division of St. Vincent island has minimum resources and the island's topography varies from sea level to 1,324 meters. The plight of the endemic,...
Show moreSatellite image processing should not be dismissed as a tool to monitor vegetation cover because of cost concerns or classification problems due to topographic extremes. Low cost imagery and image processing software's are available and the image ratio technique can be used to minimize classification problems due to topography. The Forestry Division of St. Vincent island has minimum resources and the island's topography varies from sea level to 1,324 meters. The plight of the endemic, endangered St. Vincent Parrot (Amazona guildingii) was used as a case study. An appropriate habitat monitoring technique was formulated for the Forestry Division so that it may better conserve the species. This technique employs 57 meter resolution imagery and the IDRISI software package. The resulting classification maps areas of habitat versus non-habitat. This technique of low cost, vegetation cover mapping can be used for many natural resource planning and interpretation applications throughout the Caribbean.
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Date Issued: 1997
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15487
Subject Headings: Vegetation mapping--Caribbean Area, Amazon parrots, Vegetation monitoring--Caribbean Area--Remote sensing
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Use of real-time qPCR to quantify members of the unculturable heterotrophic bacterial community in a deep sea marine sponge, Vetulina sp.
Creator: Cassler, M., Peterson, C. L., Ledger, Angela, Pomponi, Shirley A., Wright, Amy E., Winegar, R., McCarthy, Peter J., Lopez, Jose V.
Date Issued: 2008
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/2708323
Subject Headings: Microbiology --Research, Sponges --Microbiology, Marine biology --Caribbean Area
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Productivity and biomass of Thalassia testudinum as related to water column nutrient availability and epiphyte levels: field observations and experimental studies.
Creator: Tomasko, D. A., Lapointe, Brian E.
Date Issued: 1991
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/3350863
Subject Headings: Seagrasses, Seagrasses --Ecology, Seagrasses --Caribbean Area --Congresses, Seagrasses --Florida, Epiphytes
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: An assessment of the aquaculture potential of the Caribbean spiny lobster, Panulirus argus.
Creator: Jeffs, Andrew, Davis, Megan
Date Issued: 2003
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/2100708
Subject Headings: Aquaculture, Lobster fisheries --Florida, Lobster fisheries --Caribbean Area
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: ARTIFACTS IN ARCHAEOLOGY: A CARIBBEAN CASE STUDY.
Creator: KEEGAN, WILLIAM FRANCIS., Florida Atlantic University, Kennedy, William J., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Anthropology
Abstract/Description: The term artifact denotes a framework for conceptualizing the physio-chemical modification of environmentally occurring raw materials by human, cultural processes. This thesis examines the categories of artifact analysis, and integrates these into a development sequence. This sequence represents the processes which pattern all artifacts. They can be summarized as occurring at four stages: (1) selection of raw materials; (2) construction techniques; (3) artifact use and function; (4) formation...
Show moreThe term artifact denotes a framework for conceptualizing the physio-chemical modification of environmentally occurring raw materials by human, cultural processes. This thesis examines the categories of artifact analysis, and integrates these into a development sequence. This sequence represents the processes which pattern all artifacts. They can be summarized as occurring at four stages: (1) selection of raw materials; (2) construction techniques; (3) artifact use and function; (4) formation of the archaeological record. The result of this integration is a heuristic model that recognizes the unity and complexity of cultural materials, and provides a base for processual studies. A separate part of this thesis employs Strombus gigas shell artifacts from the prehistoric cultures of the Caribbean to indicate the utility of the artifact development sequence as a theoretical conceptualization.
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Date Issued: 1981
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14072
Subject Headings: Antiquities, Caribbean Area--Antiquities, Analysis, Strombus gigas
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: “Between my life that is over and my life to come”: Embodying Authorial Ambivalence in Fred D'Aguiar's Feeding the Ghosts (1997).
Creator: Gifford, Sheryl C., Machado, Elena, Graduate College
Date Issued: 2011-04-08
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3164529
Subject Headings: Authorship --Sex differences, Caribbean literature (English) --History and criticism, Caribbean Area --Fiction
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Transport over a narrow shelf: Exuma Cays, Bahamas.
Creator: Smith, Ned P.
Date Issued: 2004
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/2795920
Subject Headings: Exuma Islands, Bahamas --Maps, Continental shelf, Continental shelf --Caribbean Area, Marine ecology, Ocean temperature --Caribbean Sea --Charts, diagrams, etc.
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: The impact of the informal economic GDP growth in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Creator: Wedderburn, Chantal., College of Business, Department of Economics
Abstract/Description: The informal, underground or shadow economy is a significant, growing force throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, contributing to overall output, yet diminishing productivity, congesting public services, and depriving developing nations of potential fiscal revenues. This paper discusses the various definitions and methods of measurement of the informal sector, with the aim of showing the importance of collecting taxes in informal economies. Informal economy participants engage in tax...
Show moreThe informal, underground or shadow economy is a significant, growing force throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, contributing to overall output, yet diminishing productivity, congesting public services, and depriving developing nations of potential fiscal revenues. This paper discusses the various definitions and methods of measurement of the informal sector, with the aim of showing the importance of collecting taxes in informal economies. Informal economy participants engage in tax evasion and avoidance of governmental regulations, therefore the implications of excessive tax burdens and onerous bureaucracy are studied, with a focus on their impact on GDP growth. Informal sector enterprises can greatly contribute to the official, recorded GDP measures if they have significant incentives to joining the formal sector. These incentives are presented and must be considered seriously by policymakers concerned with capturing additional tax revenues and improving economic growth in their nations.
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Date Issued: 2009
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/186773
Subject Headings: Gross domestic product, Gross domestic product, International economic relations, Economic conditions, Economic conditions
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Epizoic red alga allelopathic to a Caribbean coral.
Creator: Littler, Mark M., Littler, Diane S., Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute
Date Issued: 1997
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/3318891
Subject Headings: Allelopathy, Red algae, Coral reef ecology --Caribbean Area, Allelochemicals, Allelopathic agents
Format: Document (PDF)

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