A tropical country’s wildlands and their biodiversity can be major engines for
national development through high-quality sustainable use of these wildlands by society,
which is in turn the key to the implementation of ...
Hebert, Paul D. N.; Penton, Erin H.; Burns, John M.; Janzen, Daniel H.; H. Winnie(2004-08-20)
Astraptes fulgerator, first described in 1775, is a common and widely distributed neotropical skipper butterfly (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae). We combine 25 years of natural history observations in northwestern Costa Rica ...
Con el contexto actual de crisis de la biodiversidad y el cambio climático, es más que necesario proteger los ecosistemas naturales a través de Áreas Naturales Protegidas (ANP). Para maximizar su conservación, es esencial ...
Regeneración arbórea y características edáficas en bosques secos tropicales
desarrollados sobre la meseta ignimbrítica de Santa Rosa, Noroeste de Costa Rica. El objetivo
general del estudio fue analizar la estructura y ...
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 ...