A central goal of comparative phylogeography is determining whether codistributed species experienced (1) concerted evolutionary responses to past geological and climatic events, indicated by congruent spatial and temporal ...
A new non-protein amino acid, tetrahydrolathyrine (2(S)-3(2-amino-l,4,5,6-tetrahydropyrimidin-4-
yl)alanine), has been isolated from seeds of Lonchocarpus costaricensis.
Smith, Scott A; Bermingham, Eldredge(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2005)
Aim:This paper examines the importance of regional processes in determining the patterns of distribution and diversity of lower Mesoamerican freshwater fishes.
Location: We focused our analyses on the lower Mesoamerican ...
Boschman, L. M.; van der Wiel, E.; Flores, K. E.; Langereis, C. G.; van Hinsbergen, D. J. J.(JGR Solid Earth, 2019-05-04)
Plate kinematic reconstructions play an essential role in our understanding of global geodynamics, but become increasingly difficult to constrain back in geological time due to the subduction of oceanic lithosphere. Here, ...
Gotlieb, Yosef; Pérez-Briceño, Paula M.; Hidalgo, Hugo; Alfaro, Eric(2019-03-01)
A unique gathering of climate, development and
environmental experts took place from September
25-28, 2017 in San José and Guanacaste Province,
Costa Rica. The subject of their deliberations was
the Central American ...
The planners of this conference have asked me for a discussion of the interactions
between legumes and herbivores. This is a request for an examination of
traits of legumes as pertains to herbivores. On the one hand, I ...
Cuthbert, Jessica L.; Mennill, Daniel J.(The Condor, 2007-08)
We provide the first detailed analysis of the vocal behavior of Pacific coast Plain Wrens (Thryothorus modestus modestus). Male Plain Wrens sing two categories of song phrase; one phrase is given as a solo song or duet ...
A Bombus pullatus nest 5.5 m above the ground in the foliage of a banana plant
was collected at 1,400 m elevation near San Vito de Java, Costa Rica. Containing
36 presumably virgin queens, 259 workers, and 48 males, the ...
My goal is to understand the ecological significance of seed chemistry to
the seed and to its potential consumers and to identify some of the selection
pressures by seed predators that may lead to and maintain chemical ...
The Rincón de la Vieja (10º 49′ 40″ N, 85º 19′ 42″ W, 1700 m a.s.l.),
andesitic stratovolcano is located at about 25 km NE of Liberia city, in
NW Costa Rica, on the Guanacaste volcanic range. Its historical volcanic
activity ...
Whether there is a future for tropical ecology, and of what it will consist, does
not lie in the unveiling of yet another intricate animal-plant interaction, in the
application of technological marvels, or in the discovery ...
The Galapagos Islands are repeatedly
mentioned in the classical observational literature
of evolution and speciation and are
much loved by Darwinophiles, but it is only
with the publication of this Proceedings of
the ...
Rowell, Charles H. F.(The Orthopterists’ Society, 2013-11)
A preliminary checklist of the Orthopterans from the Ñambí River Natural reserve is presented. A total of 26 species were studied, five new species are herein described: Championica nambiensis n. sp., Cocconotus awa n. ...
The hooded skunk (Mephitis macroura) is described for the first time
from Costa Rica. There is a population of these animals in Santa Rosa
National Park and its vicinity, south to Liberia. Brief notes are made on
the ...
Janzen, Daniel H.; Lynn, David G.; Fellows, Linda E.; H. Winnie(1982)
L-Hypaphorine has been isolated as a major constituent of the seeds of Pterocarpus officinalis,
seeds which are rejected as a food source by a wide variety of seed-eating rodents dwelling in the same
habitat. Incorporation ...