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Cristian Poveda 16 Jan 2024
Investigating the Impact and Methods of Control of the Smooth-Billed Ani, an Invasive Bird in Galapagos
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Nicole Acosta-Vásconez 4 Jan 2024
Mapping Galapagos Invaders with Drones and Machine Learning: An Estimation of Spread Rates of Invasive Plants and Identification of Management Keys for Endemic
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Andrés Moreira-Mendieta 10 Mar 2023
Effects of Microplastic Bioaccumulation on the Endangered Galapagos Sea Lions and its Relationship with their Feeding Patterns
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Andrea Isabel Sosa Alcívar 20 Oct 2022
Community-Based Model for the Conservation of Sea Turtles: Training Local Youth at the Galera-San Francisco Marine Reserve, Ecuadorian Coastal Chocó
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Francisco Velásquez-Espín 28 Jul 2022
Unexplored Biodiversity: Canopy Amphibians in the Cloud Forest
Ilke Geladi 20 Apr 2022
Informing a Conservation Plan for Galapagos Landbirds through Building Local Capacity in the Agricultural Zone of Santa Cruz Island
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Hugo Miguel Venceslau Carvalho e Silva 14 Jan 2022
Distribution of Laterallus Spilonota on Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos, and Assessment of the Role of Habitat Disturbance and Interspecific Competition
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Estefania Rosero 13 Jan 2022
Identification of Areas for Reforestation with Vegetable Species of Importance for the Andean Bear in the Province of Imbabura, Ecuador
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Mateo David León Durán 27 Sep 2021
Conservation and Soil Restoration on Forest Fires Degraded Areas in the Tambillo Community Protected Area, Ecuador through Native Species Reforestation
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Andrés Moreira-Mendieta 21 Apr 2021
Assessing the Presence of Microplastics in Galapagos Sea Lions’ Scats as a Bioindicator of Pollution in the Galapagos Marine Reserve
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Eliana Montenegro 6 Feb 2020
Occupancy and Habitat Preferences of the Secretive and Endangered Banded Ground-Cuckoo (Neomorphus radiolosus) in Northwest Ecuador
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Diego Armijos Ojeda 15 Jan 2020
Protecting the Tropical Dry Forest, Home to Unique Amphibians
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Yasuní Chiriboga 8 Jan 2020
Evaluating By-Catch Stress Levels Related to Growth and Survivorship of Juvenile Blacktip Sharks in San Cristobal, Galapagos Marine Reserve
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Robert Lamb 11 Nov 2019
Building Resilience of Galapagos Marine Food Webs to Climate Change
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Estefania de los Angeles Boada Viteri 28 Oct 2019
The Behaviour and Ecology of Lava Lizards: A Neglected Feature of the Galapagos Ecosystem
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Enzo Marcelo Rodriguez Reyes 14 Oct 2019
Conserving a Highly Social Endangered Bird Species via Reintroduction: The Floreana Mockingbird
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Gabriel Massaine Moulatlet 27 Sep 2019
Mapping the Distribution of Ferns and Lycophytes and its Relation to Other Taxa Along the Andean-Amazonian Corridor
Margherita Scazza 26 Sep 2019
Resisting Extractivism and Deforestation in the Ecuadorian Amazon - Technological Interventions to Protect Waorani’s Ancestral Lands
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José Fernando Pontón Cevallos 20 Sep 2019
All Voices Matter: Incorporating Fishers' and Expert Knowledge to Improve Fisheries Decision-Making in the Galapagos
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Angela Patricia Palomino Gaviria 29 Apr 2019
Transboundary Movements of Smooth Hammerhead Shark (Sphyrna zygaena), in Ecuador and Peru