Sensitivity of forest mortality to drought in carbon-­ dense tropical forests remains fraught with uncertainty, while extreme droughts are predicted to be more fre- quent and intense. Here, the potential of temporal ...

a investigación a largo plazo sobre el crecimiento y el rendimiento maderable de las plantaciones con especies forestales nativas del bosque seco tropical es escasa, a pesar de que en muchas de estas especies se reconoce ...

Regular evaluation of jaguar (Panthera onca) population status is an important part of conservation decision-making. Currently, camera trapping has become the standard method used to estimate jaguar abundance and demographic ...

A collection of 16,521 barcoded phorid flies from Área de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG) in northwestern Costa Rica contains 1,498 recognized BINs (Barcode Index Numbers) in the BOLD database. These BINs were identified to ...

The species-level classification of the “celia clade” of the nymphalid butterfly genus Pseudodebis Forster, 1964, is revised as part of ongoing revisionary work on this genus. The “celia clade” contains three species, of ...

Neocardiochiles Szépligeti, 1908, is a rare Neotropical genus of the subfamily Cardiochilinae Ashmead, 1900. The genus was previously synonymized with Heteropteron Brullé, 1846 by Dangerfield et al. (1999). In this study, ...

The Neotropical species of Closterocerus Westwood are revised using morphological data. Sixty- six species are included, of which 60 are described as new, and 45 species are newly recorded from Costa Rica. Four of the ...

The genus Cabamofa Jaschhof previously contained three species: the type species C. mira Jaschhof from Costa Rica, and the Oriental C. orientalis Jaschhof & Ševčík from Thailand and C. vietnamensis Jaschhof & Levesque-Beaudin from ...

Although males often disperse to increase their immediate access to mates, it is unclear whether they also consider potential future reproductive opportunities. We investigated whether immediate or delayed reproductive ...

The study of animal play is highly complex since its potential functions vary with social and environ- mental circumstances. Although play is generally characteristic of immature animals, it may persist in adults in its ...