For tropical wild biodiversity to survive, it must occupy a large terrain, be permanently endowed, and be integrated with its local, national, and international society. Among other things, integration will be enormously ...

When four 400-fruit crops and one 5000-fruit crop of Enterolobium cyclocarpum (Leguminosae) were presented to 17 range horses in the early rainy season in a 10 ha pasture in the deciduous forest lowlands of Pacific ...

Costa Rican range horses break the hard, ripe fruits of Crescentia alata with their incisors and swallow the small seeds imbedded in the sugar-rich fruit pulp. The seeds survive the trip through the horse and germinate ...

The percent seeds killed by pollinating agaonid wasps and their associated parasitic Hymenoptera in four species of Cos~d Rican deciduous forest fig trees averaged 41 to 77 percent in nine samples. No fig fruits lost less ...

The dry and largely deciduous forests in Santa Rosa National Park in northwestern lowland Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica, Central America, have a moth fauna of about 2800 species. These moths pass the six month rain-free ...

Hydrologic connectivity refers to water-mediated transfer of matter, energy, and/or organisms within or between elements of the hydrologic cycle (sensu Pringle 2001). While this property is essential to maintaining the ...

Dipterocarpaceae, the dominant family of Bornean canopy trees, display the unusual reproductive strategy of strict interspecific mast-fruiting. During 1986–99, more than 50 dipterocarp species dispersed seed only within a ...

Jaguar (Panthera onca) predation on sea turtles occurs across the Americas; however, records are scattered and not frequently presented in terms of their potential effects on sea turtle populations. In this study, we ...