inflammability limits (4-75% in air), and is difficult
(sometimes dangerous) to store as a liquid.
Its principal benefits are that it would allow the
storage of energy in a post-fossil-fuel era, when electricity
is ...
2008 has been another successful year for our long-term project on the social and ecological factors affecting the
social organization of spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi) in Santa Rosa National Park, Costa Rica, which ...
Janzen, Daniel H.; Hallwachs, Winnie; Gámez, Rordrigo(1993)
INBio has accepted the responsibility of undertaking a national inventory of Costa
Rica's biodiversity in a ten-year period beginning in approximately 1993. This is being
done in strong collaboration with the Ministry ...
Janzen, Daniel H.; Price D., Jones; Solomon, M. E.(1972-01)
What effect does the array of animals that kill seeds (and seedlings), henceforth
termed the seed predator guild, have on the community structure of
the plants in a forest? In north temperate forests, one of the major ...
The Santa Elena peninsula, northern Pacific coast of Costa Rica, is formed by three structural units: a relative autochthonous unit, an allochthonous peridotitic unit and a sedimentary cover (Campano/Maastrichtian to ...
Pauly, Daniel(Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 2007-06)
The Sea Around Us Project, initiated by the Pew Charitable Trusts in Philadelphia, PA, and located at the Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, started in mid 1999. Its goal was (and still ...
Kisel, Yael(Imperial College London, Division of Biology., 2010-12)
Many environmental factors and taxon traits have been studied as potential
controllers of diversification, but there is still no consensus as to which are most
important or how to link them into a general theory of ...
The national parks are more than landmarks, monuments,
and territories, more than mountains, forests, lakes, and
geologic wonders. They represent a piece of the American soul.
Edwin Bernbaum, PhD, is director of the ...
May-Collado, Laura J.; Wartzok, Douglas; Agnarsson, Ingi; Palacios, Jose David; Taubitz, Evi(2007)
The Bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops spp.) among the best known dolphin species
worldwide, largely for being the ‘favorite’ species to have in aquaria (Defran and Pryor
1980). Bottlenose dolphins are easily identified by ...
His style is ambidextrous and probably unique. He catches two forewings of a dead moth simultaneously
and pins them to his drying board, and then, in a continuous sweep, he does the same with the hind wings.
He repeats ...
A national park is an area and its biota that are managed
for permanent survival and maintenance of the
park's biodiversity as best as is possible given its surrounding
habitats (which are normally severely altered
by ...
An interpretive ecledic review of the
widesprelld lind diffuse liter.llture on the om;
nipresent phenomenon of lInimals preying
on seeds, this paper focuses on the dif·
ferences between pre- lind post-ciisperllll
seed ...
Our pet African grey parrot (origin: Cameroon), living in a free-flight wood and screen indoor cage (3 x
2 x 1 m), uses 1.5-4cm long splinters of wood to scratch the skin on the posterior part of its head.
The Costa Rican National Biodiversity Institute (I NBlo) is about to stan a 10·year total biodiversity
inventory of Costa Rica. The INBio parataxonmists are rural persons vocationally trained by INBio to
conduct the bulk ...
Daniel H., Janzen; Hallwachs. Winnie; Jorge, Jimenez(1992-10)
The Costa Rican National Biodiversity Institute (INBIo) is about to start a 10-year total biodiversity
inventory of Costa Rica. The INBio parataxonmists are rural persons vocationally trained by INBio t o
conduct the ...