El Instituto Centro de Investigaciones Apícolas Tropicales (CINAT) de la Facultad de Ciencias de la Tierra y el Mar (FCTM) de la Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica, es un instituto especializado en el estudio de las ...

Los pepinos de mar (clase Holothuroidea) son invertebrados exclusivamente marinos pertenecientes al grupo de los equinodermos (Filo Echinodermata) (erizos de mar, estrellas de mar, lirios de mar entre otros). A nivel mundial ...

La intensificación del uso de la tierra en los alrededores de las áreas protegidas a menudo amenaza la integridad ecológica de espacios protegidos y hace que su administración sea más difícil y costosa. En el paisaje densamente ...

Coccodiella is a genus of plant-parasitic species in the family Phyllachoraceae (Phyllachorales, Ascomycota), i.e., tropical tar spot fungi. Members of the genus Coccodiella are tropical in distribution and are ...

Most conservation efforts in seasonally dry tropical forests have overlooked less obvious targets for conservation, such as mycorrhizal fungi, that are critical to plant growth and ecosystem structure.We documented the ...

The seedling stage is particularly vulnerable to resource limitation, with potential consequences for community composition. We investigated how light and soil variation aff ected early growth, biomass partitioning, ...

A detailed knowledge of plants is fundamental to human life on Earth. Plants underpin all aspects of our everyday life – from the food that we eat, to the clothes that we wear, the materials we use, the air we breathe, ...

This study describes records of scavenging behaviour of pumas Puma concolor at jaguar Panthera onca kills in Costa Rica. We set camera traps at fresh carcasses predated by jaguars on Nancite beach between March 2010 and ...

infant health, disease prevalence and general food availability. Its study therefore has the potential to inform bioarchaeologists about numerous aspects of early-life experience in the past. In this study we present ...