The Network of MaB National Committees and Biosphere Reserves of Iberoamerica and the Caribbean -IberoMAB, conducted the “Conferencia de Reservas de Biosfera de Iberoamérica” which took place in Puerto Morelos, Quintana Roo, Mexico in November 2010. This event brought together…

Chemical ecology comprises the study of interactions of organisms with their environment that are mediated by the chemicals they produced. In general, chemicals that mediate interactions between organisms are called semiochemicals. Semiochemicals are divided into two major groups depending on…

The environmental risks associated with genetically-engineered (GE) organisms have been controversial, and so have the models for the assessment of these risks. We propose an ecologically-based environmental risk assessment (ERA) model that follows the 1998 USEPA guidelines, focusing on potential…

Background. The extraction of salt from seawater by means of coastal solar salterns is a very well-described process. Moreover, the characterization of these environments from ecological, biochemical and microbiological perspectives has become a key focus for many research groups all…