... of zooplankton density. Specifically, previous work has documented that the availability of major prey of Bahamas mosquitofish (zooplankton, mainly copepods; Araujo et al. 2014 ; Gluckman and Hartney 2000 ; Riesch et al. unpubl. ms) consistently varies among blue holes (e.g. Heinen et al., 2013 ; Hulthén et...

... the retail case a primary concern for potential contact with a foodborne pathogen if the meat is contaminated. There was a lack of baseline information for Salmonella presence in retail meat sold in retail locations in the Bahamas. With the need for an establishment of Salmonella presence...

... interval centered on ∼400 ka (Marine Isotope Stage 11), nearly all of the archipelago's terrestrial life would have been lost because most land was inundated ( Steadman and Franklin 2017 ). Contrastingly, during the Last Glacial Maximum (∼25 ka), the Bahamas was composed of 17 large islands totaling...

...Elizabeth H Silvy; M Nils Peterson; Justa L Heinen-Kay; R Brian Langerhans Bahamas colonialism governmentality fisheries neo-liberalism poaching Illegal harvest of marine resources is a phenomenon with major impacts on biodiversity, conservation and sustainability. Illegal wildlife harvest...

... (Anolis sagrei) distributed across seven islands in The Bahamas. We used microsatellite markers to estimate gene flow among islands and then examined the correlation between thermal performance and island temperature. The thermal optimum for sprint performance was correlated with both mean...

... inspected for physical injuries caused by the caging process and dissected to assess feeding. ^‡C/O Cape Eleuthera Island School, PO Box EL-26029, Rock Sound, Eleuthera, The Bahamas and USA Handling editor: Shijie Zhou 04 01 2016 20 04 2016 25 04 2016 © International Council...

... The Bahama Woodstar (Calliphlox evelynae), a hummingbird endemic to the Bahama Archipelago, comprises two currently recognized subspecies: Calliphlox e. evelynae, found throughout the Bahamas and in the Turks and Caicos Islands, except on Great and Little Inagua; and C. e. lyrura...

... Scientific Research in The Bahamas issued to the authors on 17 December 2012 by The Bahamas Environment, Science & Technology (BEST) Commission of the Ministry of The Environment and Housing. As mobile, endobenthic invertebrates, the distribution patterns of Uca are clearly affected...

...Charles R. Knapp; Kirsten N. Hines; Trevor T. Zachariah; Caro Perez-Heydrich; John B. Iverson; Sandra D. Buckner; Shelley C. Halach; Christine R. Lattin; L. Michael Romero Editor: Steven Cooke Figure 1. Allen Cays rock iguana from Leaf Cay, Bahamas ingesting a grape fed by a tourist. Photograph...

...Brett C. Gonzalez; Alena Singpiel; Peter Schlagner Abstract We describe a new species of Godzillius, a remipede belonging to Godzilliidae, discovered from Dan’s Cave and Ralph’s Sink, two inland anchialine blue holes on Abaco Island, Bahamas. Godzillius fuchsi n. sp...

... evaluated both spatial and temporal patterns of nestedness in the insular floras of four archipelagoes of small islands in the Bahamas and the potential underlying environmental gradients. Methods The NODF (a nestedness metric based on overlap and decreasing fill) and the matrix temperature measure...

...DAVID S. WOODRUFF; STEPHEN JAY GOULD Abstract Cerion's exuberant morphological diversity (600 described ‘species’) combined with the extreme rarity of reproductive isolation among morphotypes (only one unambiguous case of sympatry in the Bahamas) has long made this genus an object...

... was singular for his lack of statistical support of his assertions. One reviewer indicated from his data that statistically significant isolation effects might be present. Here data for the Bahamas and Gulf of Guinea islands were examined. In both cases isolation from the mainland colonisation source...

... to survey the distribution of nearctic migrant landbirds wintering in 15 habitat types on the islands of Andros, New Providence, and Great Inagua in the Bahamas, and in western Cuba, Jamaica, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and St. John in the Greater Antilles. Of 150 species detected, 23% were...

.... The settlement of loyalists from the southern colonies in the Bahamas was supported, trade with the Spanish colonies was encouraged and plans for disrupting the Spanish empire by inciting Indian and creole revolts were revived in 1790 at the prospect of war with Spain. The English had initially been drawn...

...This chapter explores the historical, cultural, and religious dimensions of Muslimah identity in the Bahamas and Brazil. Muslimahs (Muslim women) are constituted within a changing network of power relations including the ideological practices of Islam and the social construction of the ideal...

... Railroads Fisher Jane Miami Beach Atlantic City N J Horseracing Hurricanes Real estate Vizcaya villa African Americans U S Bahamas Bahamians Coral Gables Fla Havana Cuba Key West Fla Nassau New Providence Bahamas Seminoles Gambling Progressivism Prostitution Ressler David Sippial Tiffany...

... mermaid ” “Separate spheres” paradigm Alcohol “Felipa” Woolson Feminism Prohibition Woolson Constance Fenimore Bahamas Bahamians Borderlands Butler “Mother” Frances Equal Suffrage League Nassau New Providence Bahamas Shaw Anna Howard Thompson Vance Tinker Lettie Universal Negro Improvement...

...This chapter suggests that music in the Bahamas has been deeply influenced and shaped by three separate but deeply interrelated themes embedded in the chapter's epigraphs: the physical interposition of the Bahamas between the United States and the rest of the Caribbean, tourism, and the nation's...

...The idea of the postcolony was born on July 10, 1973, and the newly independent Bahamas celebrated with Junkanoo, a new national anthem, and monuments to music and culture such as the album A Nation Is Born: A Musical History of the Bahamas. This chapter explores the difficult...