• VIII CONGRESO MESOAMERICANO DE ABEJAS NATIVAS: BIOLOGÍA, CULTURA Y USO SOSTENIBLE 

  Aguilar M., Ingrid; Barquero R., Karla; Solano C., Ivonne; Fallas M., Natalia; Vargas P., José Pablo; Sanchez Ch., Luis A.; van Veen, Johan; Umaña R., Eduardo; Zamora F., Gabriel; Aguilar M., Ingrid; Solano C., Ivonne; Herrera G., Eduardo; Calderón F., Rafael; Ramírez A., Fernando; González A., Sergio; Castro T., Alberto; Ramírez A., Guillermo; Ramírez M., Marianyela; Reichle, Christian (2013-08-26)

  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 ...
• Estudio taxonómico de las esponjas perforadoras (Porifera, Demospongiae) de arrecifes de coral del Pacífico de Costa Rica 

  Pacheco Solano, Cristian (2012-02-24)

  Entre las esponjas, podemos distinguir un tipo particular denominado esponjas perforadoras que viven en cavidades y galerías que ellas mismas excavan en estructuras de carbonato de calcio (corales y sustrato coralino, ...
• EVALUACIÓN ECOLÓGICA RÁPIDA DE LOS AMBIENTES ARRECIFALES DE LAS ISLAS MURCIÉLAGO Y ALREDEDORES, ÁREA DE CONSERVACIÓN GUANACASTE, CON ESPECIAL ÉNFASIS EN PEPINOS DE MAR 

  Cortés Núñez, Jorge; Alvarado, Juan José; Beita Jiménez, Andrés; Mena González, Sebastián (2014-07)

  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 ...
• Pagos de Servicios Ambientales: Un Estudio de Caso de Reforestación en la Cuenca Tempisque 

  Daniels, Amy; García, Carlos; Lee, Margaret; De San Román, Gabriela (2005)
• Reglamentación del uso de la tierra al interior y en la periferia de las áreas protegidas: marcos legales, mejores prácticas y requerimientos de capacitación en México y América Central 

  Wallace, George N.; Barborak, James R.; MacFarland, Craig (2006-12)

  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 ...
• The Spiritual and Cultural Significance of National Parks 

  Bernbaum, Edwin (2008-07)

  The national parks are more than landmarks, monuments, and territories, more than mountains, forests, lakes, and geologic wonders. They represent a piece of the American soul. Edwin Bernbaum, PhD, is director of the ...
• Contribution to the phylogeny and a new species of Coccodiella (Phyllachorales) 

  Mardones, M.; Trampe Jaschik, T.; Hofmann, T. A.; Piepenbring, M. (2017-10-23)

  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 ...
• Phylogeny of the order Phyllachorales (Ascomycota, Sordariomycetes): among and within order relationships based on five molecular loci 

  Mardones, M.; Trampe Jaschik, T.; Oster, S.; Elliott, M.; Urbina, H. (2017-03-01)

  The order Phyllachorales (Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota) is a group of biotrophic, obligate plant parasitic fungi with a tropical distribution and high host specificity. Traditionally two families are recognised within this ...
• Ectomycorrhizal diversity and community structure in stands of Quercus oleoides in the seasonally dry tropical forests of Costa Rica 

  Desai, Nikhilesh S.; Wilson, Andrew W.; Powers, Jennifer S.; Mueller, Gregory M.; Egerton Warburton, Louise M. (2016-10-21)

  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 ...
• Potencial de manejo de los bosques secundarios en la zona seca del noroeste de Costa Rica 

  Spittler, Patrick (2001)

  Debido a pérdidas en la rentabilidad de la actividad ganadera, la situación financiera de los dueños de fincas en la zona seca de Costa Rica ha ido empeorando en las últimas dos décadas. Sobre los pastizales abandonados ...
• Effects of soil type and light on height growth, biomass partitioning, and nitrogen dynamics on 22 species of tropical dry forest tree seedlings: Comparisons between legumes and nonlegumes 

  Smith Martin, Christina M.; Gei, Maria G.; Bergstrom, Ellie; Becklund, Kristen K.; Becknell, Justin M.; Waring, Bonnie G.; Werden, Leland K.; Powers, Jennifer S. (2017)

  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, ...
• The long-term cooling of Earth’s mantle is recorded in the declining temperature and volume of its volcanic outpourings over time. However, analyses of 89-million-year-old lavas from Costa Rica suggest that extremely hot mantle still lurks below. 

  Shorttle, Oliver (2017-05-22)

  Earth’s history has been punctuated by vast magmatic episodes. These events are preserved in the geological record as large igneous provinces — areas of Earth’s surface flooded by millions of cubic kilometres of lava ...
• State of the World’s Plants 

  Willis, Kathy J. (2017)

  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, ...
• Secondary nesting beaches for leatherback turtles on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica 

  Santidrián-Tomillo, Pilar; Robinson, Nathan J.; Fonseca, Luis Gabriel; Quirós-Pereira, Wagner; Arauz, Randall; Beange, Madeleine; Piedra, Rotney; Vélez, Elizabeth; Paladino, Frank V.; Spotila, James R.; Wallace, Bryan P. (2017)

  Leatherback turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) have declined dramatically in the eastern Pacific Ocean (EP) in recent decades. Traditionally, population assessments have relied on the numbers of turtles on the beaches with ...
• Records of pumas scavenging at jaguar kills in Santa Rosa National Park, Costa Rica 

  Fonseca, Luis G.; Arroyo-Arce, Stephanny; Thomson, Ian; Villachica, Wilbert N.; Valverde, Roldán A. (2018)

  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 ...
• New records of jaguar predation on sea turtles, Pacific coast, Costa Rica 

  Fonseca, Luis G.; Arroyo-Arce, Stephanny; Thomson, Ian; Villachica, Wilbert N.; Valverde, Roldán A. (2017)

  We report here new sites where jaguars Panthera onca prey upon sea turtles in Costa Rica. We conducted carcass counts (n = 228) along eight beaches located in Santa Rosa National Park NP, which makes part of Guanacaste ...
• Morphological Correlates of Locomotor Mode in the Volar Pads of Strepsirrhine Primates 

  Kingston, Amanda K. (2015)

  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 ...
• La Conciencia Ambiental en Costa Rica 

  González Mejía, Hernán; Aramburo Rojas, Darío (2017)

  El proyecto para la Promoción del Manejo Participativo en la Conservación de la Biodiversidad (MAPCOBIO), presenta los resultados de la sistematización del proceso de formación de la conciencia ambiental en Costa Rica. ...
• Forest ecosystem-service transitions: the ecological dimensions of the forest transition 

  Wilson, Sarah Jane; Schelhas, John; Grau, Ricardo; Nanni, A. Sofia; Sean, Sloan (2017)

  New forests are expanding around the world. In many regions, regrowth rates are surpassing deforestation rates, resulting in “forest transitions,” or net gains in forest cover. Typically measured only in terms of ...
• Fishes recorded in surveys of streams in Guanacaste Conservation Area (ACG) 

  Tobler, Michael; Culumber, Zach; Greenway, Ryan (2015)

  In March 2015, we visited ACG with the primary objective to characterize fish communities around Rincon de la Vieja National Park and other habitats. We were particularly interested in identifying sites that are characterized ...

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