‘I’ve got to go somewhere’: Queer Displacement in Northern Central America and Southern Mexico

2018 ◽  
pp. 95-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ailsa Winton
Keyword(s):  
Central America ◽  
Southern Mexico

Paradise Transplanted

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 86-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Central America ◽  
Support Network ◽  
Informal Support ◽  
Community Garden ◽  
Southern Mexico ◽  
Informal Support Network

This article tells the story of a central Los Angeles community garden and the women, who came primarily from Southern Mexico and Central America, who had plots there. The garden fostered an informal support network for the women and families who used it, and a place to grow food and flowers common in their home communities but not found in Los Angeles. The essay then traces the upheaval the followed a local nonprofit’s takeover of, and investment in, the garden.

scholarly journals Assessment of tsunami hazards for the Central American Pacific coast from southern Mexico to northern Peru

2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (7) ◽  
pp. 1889-1903 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Brizuela ◽  
A. Armigliato ◽  
S. Tinti
Keyword(s):  
Central America ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
Probabilistic Approach ◽  
Central American ◽  
Southern Mexico ◽  
Extended Region ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Northern Peru ◽  
Run Up ◽  
Tsunami Run Up

Abstract. Central America (CA), from Guatemala to Panama, has been struck by at least 52 tsunamis between 1539 and 2013, and in the extended region from Mexico to northern Peru (denoted as ECA, Extended Central America in this paper) the number of recorded tsunamis in the same time span is more than 100, most of which were triggered by earthquakes located in the Middle American Trench that runs parallel to the Pacific coast. The most severe event in the catalogue is the tsunami that occurred on 2 September 1992 off Nicaragua, with run-up measured in the range of 5–10 m in several places along the Nicaraguan coast. The aim of this paper is to assess the tsunami hazard on the Pacific coast of this extended region, and to this purpose a hybrid probabilistic-deterministic analysis is performed, that is adequate for tsunamis generated by earthquakes. More specifically, the probabilistic approach is used to compute the Gutenberg–Richter coefficients of the main seismic tsunamigenic zones of the area and to estimate the annual rate of occurrence of tsunamigenic earthquakes and their corresponding return period. The output of the probabilistic part of the method is taken as input by the deterministic part, which is applied to calculate the tsunami run-up distribution along the coast.

Mitochondrial phylogeography of kinkajous (Procyonidae, Carnivora): maybe not a single ESU

2019 ◽  
Vol 100 (5) ◽  
pp. 1631-1652 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuel Ruiz-García ◽  
Maria Fernanda Jaramillo ◽  
Joseph Mark Shostell
Keyword(s):  
Central America ◽  
Isolation By Distance ◽  
Average Diameter ◽  
Mitochondrial Genes ◽  
Bayesian Skyline Plot ◽  
Strong Decrease ◽  
Southern Mexico ◽  
North Central ◽  
Different Populations ◽  
Colombian Amazon

AbstractKnowledge of how a species is divided into different genetic units, and the structure among these units, is fundamental to the protection of biodiversity. Procyonidae was one of the families in the Order Carnivora with more success in the colonization of South America. The most divergent species in this family is the kinkajou (Potos flavus). However, knowledge of the genetics and evolution of this species is scarce. We analyzed five mitochondrial genes within 129 individuals of P. flavus from seven Neotropical countries (Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia). We detected eight different populations or haplogroups, although only three had highly significant bootstrap values (southern Mexico and Central America; northern Peruvian, Ecuadorian, and Colombian Amazon; and north-central Andes and the southern Amazon in Peru). Some analyses showed that the ancestor of the southern Mexico–Central America haplogroup was the first to appear. The youngest haplogroups were those at the most southern area analyzed in Peru and Bolivia. A “borrowed molecular clock” estimated the initial diversification to have occurred around 9.6 million years ago (MYA). All the spatial genetic analyses detected a very strong spatial structure with significant genetic patches (average diameter around 400–500 km) and a clinal isolation by distance among them. The overall sample and all of the haplogroups we detected had elevated levels of genetic diversity, which strongly indicates their long existence. A Bayesian Skyline Plot detected, for the overall sample and for the three most significant haplogroups, a decrease in the number of females within the last 30,000–50,000 years, with a strong decrease in the last 10,000–20,000 years. Our data supported an alignment of some but not all haplogroups with putative morphological subspecies. We have not discounted the possibility of a cryptic kinkajou species.

scholarly journals A revision of the new genus Amiga Nakahara, Willmott & Espeland, gen. n., described for Papilio arnaca Fabricius, 1776 (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Satyrinae)

ZooKeys ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 821 ◽  
pp. 85-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shinichi Nakahara ◽  
Gerardo Lamas ◽  
Stephanie Tyler ◽  
Mario Alejandro Marín ◽  
Blanca Huertas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Central America ◽  
New Taxa ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Common Species ◽  
Morphological Evidence ◽  
Monotypic Genus ◽  
Southern Brazil ◽  
Southern Mexico ◽  
New Subspecies ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic

We here propose a new, monotypic genus, Amiga Nakahara, Willmott & Espeland, gen. n., to harbor a common Neotropical butterfly, described as Papilioarnaca Fabricius, 1776, and hitherto placed in the genus Chloreuptychia Forster, 1964. Recent and ongoing molecular phylogenetic research has shown Chloreuptychia to be polyphyletic, with C.arnaca proving to be unrelated to remaining species and not readily placed in any other described genus. Amigaarnacagen. n. et comb. n. as treated here is a widely distributed and very common species ranging from southern Mexico to southern Brazil. A neotype is designated for the names Papilioarnaca and its junior synonym, Papilioebusa Cramer, 1780, resulting in the treatment of the latter name as a junior objective synonym of the former. A lectotype is designated for Euptychiasericeella Bates, 1865, which is treated as a subspecies, Amigaarnacasericeella (Bates, 1865), comb. n. et stat. n., based on molecular and morphological evidence. We also describe two new taxa, Amigaarnacaadela Nakahara & Espeland, ssp. n. and Amigaarnacaindianacristoi Nakahara & Marín, ssp. n., new subspecies from the western Andes and eastern Central America, and northern Venezuela, respectively.

scholarly journals A new species of Moraria (Crustacea: Copepoda: Harpacticoida) from the Laurentian Great Lakes

Zootaxa ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 205 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
JANET W. REID ◽  
LYNN T. LESKO
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
South America ◽  
Central America ◽  
Lake Michigan ◽  
Lake Huron ◽  
Laurentian Great Lakes ◽  
Southern Mexico ◽  
A New Species

Moraria hudsoni n. sp. is described from Trails End Bay in Lake Michigan and Prentiss Bay in Lake Huron, Michigan, USA. The new species differs from its congeners in chaetotaxy, body ornamentation, and other characters. We review published records of members of Moraria from North and Central America; no species is known from South America. Species of this genus have been found in the mountains of southern Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras, but none of these has been validly described. In North America, eight species have been recorded from Alaska, Canada, and the conterminous USA as far south as North Carolina. We report new geographical records of M. affinis from Virginia, and of both M. cristata and M. virginiana from Maryland and Virginia. We provide a tabular key to aid in identification of the named species of Moraria in North America.

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