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Bahamian pineyards, the Glossary

The Bahamian pineyards are a tropical and subtropical coniferous forest ecoregion in the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands.^[1]

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Ecoregions of the Bahamas
Ecoregions of the Caribbean
Flora of the Turks and Caicos Islands
Geography of the Bahamas
Geography of the Turks and Caicos Islands
Tropical and subtropical coniferous forests

Abaco Islands

The Abaco Islands lie in the northern Bahamas, about 193 miles (167.7 nautical miles or 310.6 km) east of Miami, Florida.

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The American Revolution was a rebellion and political movement in the Thirteen Colonies which peaked when colonists initiated an ultimately successful war for independence against the Kingdom of Great Britain.

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Andropogon glomeratus

Andropogon glomeratus is a species of grass known by the common names bushy bluestem and bushy beardgrass.

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Andros, Bahamas

Andros Island is an archipelago within The Bahamas, the largest of the Bahamian Islands.

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Anthropogenic biome

Anthropogenic biomes, also known as anthromes, human biomes or intensive land-use biome, describe the terrestrial biosphere (biomes) in its contemporary, human-altered form using global ecosystem units defined by global patterns of sustained direct human interaction with ecosystems.

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Arecaceae

The Arecaceae is a family of perennial, flowering plants in the monocot order Arecales.

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Bahama nuthatch

The Bahama nuthatch (Sitta insularis) is a nuthatch species endemic to the pineyards of Grand Bahama island in the Bahamas.

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Bahama oriole

The Bahama oriole (Icterus northropi) is a species of songbird in the New World blackbird family Icteridae (the orioles).

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Bahama swallow

The Bahama swallow (Tachycineta cyaneoviridis) is an endangered swallow endemic to The Bahamas.

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Bahama warbler

The Bahama warbler (Setophaga flavescens) is an endangered species of bird in the family Parulidae that is endemic to The Bahamas.

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Bahama woodstar

The Bahama woodstar or Bahama hummingbird (Nesophlox evelynae) is a species of hummingbird endemic to the Lucayan archipelago, including the Bahamian and Turks and Caicos islands.

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Bahama yellowthroat

The Bahama yellowthroat (Geothlypis rostrata) is a New World warbler.

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Bahamas National Trust

The Bahamas National Trust is a non-profit organisation in the Bahamas that manages the country's 32 national parks.

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Bahamian dry forests

The Bahamian dry forests are a tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forest ecoregion in the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands, covering an area of. Bahamian pineyards and Bahamian dry forests are ecoregions of the Bahamas, ecoregions of the Caribbean, Flora of the Bahamas, Flora of the Turks and Caicos Islands and geography of the Turks and Caicos Islands.

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Bird

Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.

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Bird migration

Bird migration is a seasonal movement of birds between breeding and wintering grounds that occurs twice a year.

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Bletia purpurea

Bletia purpurea, common name pine-pink or sharp-petaled bletia, is a species of orchid widespread across much of Latin America and the West Indies, and also found in Florida.

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Buffy flower bat

The buffy flower bat (Erophylla sezekorni) is a species of bat in the leaf-nosed bat family, Phyllostomidae.

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Bursera simaruba

Bursera simaruba, commonly known as gumbo-limbo, copperwood, almácigo, chaca, West Indian birch, naked Indian, and turpentine tree, is a tree species in the family Burseraceae, native to the Neotropics, from South Florida to Mexico and the Caribbean to Brazil, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.

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Caribbean pine

The Caribbean pine (Pinus caribaea) is a hard pine species native to Central America and the northern West Indies (in Cuba, the Bahamas, and the Turks and Caicos Islands). Bahamian pineyards and Caribbean pine are Flora of the Turks and Caicos Islands.

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Cassava

Manihot esculenta, commonly called cassava, manioc,--> or yuca (among numerous regional names), is a woody shrub of the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae, native to South America, from Brazil, Paraguay and parts of the Andes.

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Cassytha filiformis

Cassytha filiformis or love-vine is an orangish, wiry, parasitic vine in the family Lauraceae.

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Casuarina equisetifolia

Casuarina equisetifolia, commonly known as coastal she-oak, horsetail she-oak, ironwood, beach sheoak, beach casuarina, whistling tree or Australian pine is a species of flowering plant in the family Casuarinaceae and is native to Australia, New Guinea, Southeast Asia and India.

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Chelonoidis alburyorum

Chelonoidis alburyorum is an extinct species of giant tortoise that lived in the Lucayan Archipelago (including The Bahamas and Turks and Caicos Islands) from the Late Pleistocene to around 1400 CE.

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Chiococca alba

Chiococca alba is a species of flowering plant in the coffee family (Rubiaceae) native to Florida and the extreme southern tip of Texas in the United States, Bermuda, Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, the Galápagos, and tropical South America.

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Climate change

In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system.

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Coccothrinax argentata

Coccothrinax argentata, commonly called the Florida silver palm, is a species of palm tree. Bahamian pineyards and Coccothrinax argentata are Flora of the Turks and Caicos Islands.

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Common Era

Common Era (CE) and Before the Common Era (BCE) are year notations for the Gregorian calendar (and its predecessor, the Julian calendar), the world's most widely used calendar era.

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Cuban crocodile

The Cuban crocodile (Crocodylus rhombifer) is a small-medium species of crocodile endemic to Cuba.

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Cuban pine forests

The Cuban pine forests are a tropical coniferous forest ecoregion on the Caribbean islands of Cuba and Isla de la Juventud. Bahamian pineyards and Cuban pine forests are ecoregions of the Caribbean, Neotropical ecoregions and tropical and subtropical coniferous forests.

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Cyclura

Cyclura is a genus of lizards in the family Iguanidae.

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Ecological succession

Ecological succession is the process of change in the species that make up an ecological community over time.

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Endemism

Endemism is the state of a species only being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.

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Epicrates (snake)

Epicrates is a genus of non-venomous snakes in the subfamily Boinae of the family Boidae.

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Eugenia

Eugenia is a genus of flowering plants in the myrtle family Myrtaceae.

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Extinction

Extinction is the termination of a taxon by the death of its last member.

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Fabaceae

The Fabaceae or Leguminosae, Article 18.5 states: "The following names, of long usage, are treated as validly published:....Leguminosae (nom. alt.: Fabaceae; type: Faba Mill.);...

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Fire regime

A fire regime is the pattern, frequency, and intensity of the bushfires and wildfires that prevail in an area over long periods of time.

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Firewood

Firewood is any wooden material that is gathered and used for fuel.

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Grand Bahama

Grand Bahama is the northernmost of the islands of the Bahamas, with the town of West End located east of Palm Beach, Florida.

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Greater Antilles mangroves

The Greater Antilles mangroves is a mangrove ecoregion that includes the coastal mangrove forests of the Greater Antilles – Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico. Bahamian pineyards and Greater Antilles mangroves are Neotropical ecoregions.

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Hispaniola

Hispaniola (also) is an island in the Caribbean that is part of the Greater Antilles.

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Hurricane Andrew

Hurricane Andrew was a compact, but very powerful and destructive Category 5 Atlantic hurricane that struck the Bahamas, Florida, and Louisiana in August 1992.

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Hurricane Dorian

Hurricane Dorian was an extremely powerful and catastrophic Category 5 Atlantic hurricane, which became the most intense tropical cyclone on record to strike the Bahamas, and is tied with the 1935 Labor Day hurricane for the strongest landfall in the Atlantic basin in terms of maximum sustained winds.

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Hurricane Frances

Hurricane Frances was the second most intense tropical cyclone in the Atlantic during 2004 and proved to be very destructive in Florida.

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Hurricane Jeanne

Hurricane Jeanne was a Category 3 hurricane that struck the Caribbean and the Eastern United States in September 2004.

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Hurricane Matthew

Hurricane Matthew was an extremely powerful Atlantic hurricane which caused catastrophic damage and a humanitarian crisis in Haiti, as well as widespread devastation in the southeastern United States.

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Invasive species

An invasive species is an introduced species that harms its new environment.

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Jack pine

Jack pine (Pinus banksiana), also known as grey pine or scrub pine, is a North American pine.

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Juniper

Junipers are coniferous trees and shrubs in the genus Juniperus of the cypress family Cupressaceae.

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Juniperus barbadensis

Juniperus barbadensis, also known as West Indian juniper, is a species of conifer in the family Cupressaceae endemic to the West Indies.

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Kirtland's warbler

Kirtland's warbler (Setophaga kirtlandii), also known in Michigan by the common name jack pine bird, or the jack pine warbler, is a small songbird of the New World warbler family (Parulidae).

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Local extinction

Local extinction, also extirpation, is the termination of a species (or other taxon) in a chosen geographic area of study, though it still exists elsewhere.

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Lower Peninsula of Michigan

The Lower Peninsula of Michigan – also known as Lower Michigan – is the larger, southern and less elevated of the two major landmasses that make up the U.S. state of Michigan; the other being the Upper Peninsula, which is separated by the Straits of Mackinac.

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Loyalist (American Revolution)

Loyalists were colonists in the Thirteen Colonies who remained loyal to the British Crown during the American Revolutionary War, often referred to as Tories, Royalists, or King's Men at the time.

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Lucayan people

The Lucayan people were the original residents of The Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands before the European colonisation of the Americas.

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Mangrove

A mangrove is a shrub or tree that grows mainly in coastal saline or brackish water.

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Metopium toxiferum

Metopium toxiferum, the poisonwood, Florida poisontree, or hog gum, is a species of flowering tree in the cashew or sumac family, Anacardiaceae, that is native to the American Neotropics.

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Miconia bicolor

Miconia bicolor is a species flowering plant in the glory bush family, Melastomataceae, that is native to southern Florida in the United States and the Caribbean.

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Myrica cerifera

Myrica cerifera is a small evergreen tree or large shrub native to North and Central America and the Caribbean.

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Neotropical realm

The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface. Bahamian pineyards and Neotropical realm are ecoregions of the Caribbean.

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New Providence

New Providence is the most populous island in the Bahamas, containing more than 70% of the total population.

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Pine

A pine is any conifer tree or shrub in the genus Pinus of the family Pinaceae.

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Pollen

Pollen is a powdery substance produced by most types of flowers of seed plants for the purpose of sexual reproduction.

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Pteridium aquilinum

Pteridium aquilinum, commonly called bracken, brake, pasture brake, common bracken, and also known as eagle fern, is a species of fern occurring in temperate and subtropical regions in both hemispheres.

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Pyrogenic flowering

Pyrogenic flowering is the fire-adapted trait in plants that is defined by an increase or a peak in flowering after a fire event.

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Reptile

Reptiles, as commonly defined, are a group of tetrapods with usually an ectothermic ('cold-blooded') metabolism and amniotic development.

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Sinkhole

A sinkhole is a depression or hole in the ground caused by some form of collapse of the surface layer.

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Slavery in Pre-Columbian America

Slavery was widely practiced by the Indigenous peoples of the Americas, both prior to European colonisation and subsequently.

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Solanum

Solanum is a large and diverse genus of flowering plants, which include three food crops of high economic importance: the potato, the tomato and the eggplant (aubergine, brinjal).

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South Andros

South Andros is a district of the nation of the Bahamas.

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South Florida rocklands

The South Florida rocklands ecoregion, in the tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests biome, occurs in southern Florida and the Florida Keys in the United States, where they would naturally cover an area of.

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Spanish colonization of the Americas

The Spanish colonization of the Americas began in 1493 on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic) after the initial 1492 voyage of Genoese mariner Christopher Columbus under license from Queen Isabella I of Castile.

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The Bahamas

The Bahamas, officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an island country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the Atlantic Ocean.

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The Nature Conservancy

The Nature Conservancy (TNC) is a global environmental organization headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.

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Trema lamarckianum

Trema lamarckianum (or Trema lamarckiana), Lamarck's trema, West Indian nettle tree, or pain-in-the-back is a plant species in the genus Trema of the family Cannabaceae.

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Tropical and subtropical coniferous forests

Tropical and subtropical coniferous forests are a tropical forest habitat type defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature.

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Tropical cyclone

A tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm system with a low-pressure center, a closed low-level atmospheric circulation, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain and squalls.

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Turks and Caicos Islands

The Turks and Caicos Islands (abbreviated TCI; and) are a British Overseas Territory consisting of the larger Caicos Islands and smaller Turks Islands, two groups of tropical islands in the Lucayan Archipelago of the Atlantic Ocean and northern West Indies.

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Understory

In forestry and ecology, understory (American English), or understorey (Commonwealth English), also known as underbrush or undergrowth, includes plant life growing beneath the forest canopy without penetrating it to any great extent, but above the forest floor.

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Vachellia

Vachellia is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae, commonly known as thorn trees or acacias.

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West Indian woodpecker

The West Indian woodpecker (Melanerpes superciliaris) is a species of bird in subfamily Picinae of the woodpecker family Picidae.

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Wildfire

A wildfire, forest fire, or a bushfire is an unplanned, uncontrolled and unpredictable fire in an area of combustible vegetation.

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Zamia integrifolia

Zamia integrifolia, also known as coontie palm, is a small, tough, woody cycad native to the southeastern United States (in Florida and Georgia), and the Bahamas. Bahamian pineyards and Zamia integrifolia are Flora of the Bahamas.

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1090

Year 1090 (MXC) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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1200

The Proleptic Gregorian calendar called it a century leap year.

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830

Year 830 (DCCCXXX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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875

Year 875 (DCCCLXXV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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970

Year 970 (CMLXX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar, the 970th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini designations, the 970th year of the 1st millennium, the 70th year of the 10th century, and the 1st year of the 970s decade.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahamian_pineyards

Also known as Bahamian pine forests, Bahamian pine mosaic, Bahamian pineyard.

, Juniperus barbadensis, Kirtland's warbler, Local extinction, Lower Peninsula of Michigan, Loyalist (American Revolution), Lucayan people, Mangrove, Metopium toxiferum, Miconia bicolor, Myrica cerifera, Neotropical realm, New Providence, Pine, Pollen, Pteridium aquilinum, Pyrogenic flowering, Reptile, Sinkhole, Slavery in Pre-Columbian America, Solanum, South Andros, South Florida rocklands, Spanish colonization of the Americas, The Bahamas, The Nature Conservancy, Trema lamarckianum, Tropical and subtropical coniferous forests, Tropical cyclone, Turks and Caicos Islands, Understory, Vachellia, West Indian woodpecker, Wildfire, Zamia integrifolia, 1090, 1200, 830, 875, 970.

Bahamian pineyards, the Glossary

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See also

Ecoregions of the Bahamas

Ecoregions of the Caribbean

Flora of the Turks and Caicos Islands

Geography of the Bahamas

Geography of the Turks and Caicos Islands

Tropical and subtropical coniferous forests

References