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2011 Accomplishment Report: International Institute of Tropical Forestry
The International Institute of Tropical Forestry (the Institute) is a tropical forestry research and technologytransfer institute. It is located in Río Piedras, Puerto Rico, and has a long and productive history.Created in 1939 as the Tropical Forest Experiment Station in cooperation with the University of Puerto Rico,the Institute has been in operation continually for 72 ...
Vulnerability to climate change (sea level rise, flooding and salinity) of communities in the Río Piedras River Watershed: San Juan, Puerto Rico (2005-2105).
José Seguinot- Barbosa Department of environmental Health Graduate School of Public Health Medical Sciences Campus University of Puerto Rico jose.seguinot @ upr.edu ABSTRACT The main purpose of this study was to measure the impact of sea level rise (SLR) and its effects on flooding and salinity in the different communities of Río Piedras River Basin. ...
Vulnerabilidad de las comunidades al cambio climático (ascenso del nivel del mar, inundaciones y salinidad) en la cuenca hidrográfica del río Piedras: San Juan, Puerto Rico (2005-2105).
José Seguinot Barbosa Recinto de Ciencias Médicas Universidad de Puerto Rico Apartado 365067 San Juan, PR 00936-5067 jose.seguinot@upr.edu RESUMEN El propósito principal de este estudio fue medir el impacto del cambio climático (ascenso (ANM) del nivel del mar, inundaciones (IN) y salinidad (SAL)) en las diferentes comunidades de la cuenca del río Piedras. También se ...
The Río Piedras Watershed
Introduction Today, more people live in cities than in rural environments. In Puerto Rico, the proportion of the population that lives in cities passed the 50-percent threshold in the late 1960s and was 94 percent in 2000 (López Marrero and Villanueva Colón 2006). Such a high concentration of human activity raises numerous conservation challenges. On the one ...
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