The mature dormant seeds from a single large crop of Lonchocarpus
costaricensis were found to weigh about 4 percent less when they came
from 2-seeded fruits as when they came from 1-seeded fruits in the
deciduous forest ...
Mucuna mutisiana (Leguminosae) is a common large woody liana (vine)
of secondary successional rain forest in Corcovado National Park, southwestern
Costa A ica. It bears large fruits that are usually 2-seeded (range,
1·3). ...
A detailed examination of the ordinary 1980 fruit crop of an ordinary large adult guanacaste
tree (Enterolobium cyclocarpum) in Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica (1980) shows that for
fruits with about 6-16 seeds (range, ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Crafoord Prize for 1984 was awarded in biosciences with particular emphasis
on ecology. The field selected was "coevolution - the mutual adaption
of organism populations in the natural environment". The prizewinner, ...
The tropics are subject to seasonal
extremes. There are times of year when
the weather is harsh, when food is scarce,
when there is too much sun, or too much
rain. Many tropical animals tough out the hard times
by ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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.