The world's tropical forests take up and emit large amounts of carbon (C) through photosynthesis and respiration. Their response to global changes in the atmosphere and climate could therefore act as a feedback. Only ...

Near Karnezeika a roughly 140 m thick Upper Cretaceous section consists of interbedded pelagic limestones, cherts and coarse polymict breccias including ophiolites and shallow water limestones. At the base, pink pelagic ...

We describe two new species of anoles from Costa Rica, which previously have been referred to as Norops pachypus or N. tropidolepis by different authors: Norops alocomyos sp. nov. from the Pacific versant of the western ...

We propose a new terrane subdivision of Nicaragua and Northern Costa Rica, based on Upper Triassic to Upper Cretaceous radiolarian biochronology of ribbon radiolarites, the newly studied Siuna Serpentinite Mélange, and ...

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A detailed examination of the ordinary 1980 fruit crop of an ordinary large adult guanacaste tree (Enterolobium cyclocarpum) in Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica (1980) shows that for fruits with about 6-16 seeds (range, ...

Mucuna mutisiana (Leguminosae) is a common large woody liana (vine) of secondary successional rain forest in Corcovado National Park, southwestern Costa A ica. It bears large fruits that are usually 2-seeded (range, 1·3). ...

La conservación voluntaria de la naturaleza por la sociedad civil es un campo que está creciendo en toda Iberoamérica. Dicho auge se puede palpar fácilmente de diferentes maneras. El más evidente es el hecho de que en ...