• Seasonal High Road Mortality of Incilius luetkenii (Anura: Bufonidae) Along the Pan-American Highway Crossing the Guanacaste Conservation Area, Costa Rica 

  Monge Velázquez, Michelle; Langen, Tom; Sáenz, Joel (2022-04-30)

  The Pan-American Highway in Costa Rica is currently undergoing expansion in capacity as a response to growth in vehicle traffic associated with growing international trade. This highway bisects the Pacific lowlands Tropical ...
• Visits at artificial RFID flowers demonstrate that juvenile flower-visiting bats perform foraging flights apart from their mothers 

  Rose, Andreas; Tschapka, Marco; Knörnschild, Mirjam (Springer, 2020-07-21)

  During the transition from parental care to independent life, the development of adequate foraging skills is a major challenge for many juvenile mammals. However, participating in their parents’ knowledge by applying social ...
• Revision of the New World genus Enderleiniella Becker, 1912 (Diptera, Chloropidae) 

  Mlynarek, Julia J. (ZooKeys, 2019-10-30)

  The genus Enderleiniella Becker, 1912 is revised. The genus is distinguished on the basis of a somewhat flattened head with the inner vertical setae located anteromedially to the outer vertical setae, three lightly incised ...
• Neotropical Copestylum Macquart (Diptera: Syrphidae) Breeding in Fruits and Flowers, Including 7 New Species 

  Ricarte, Antonio; Marcos-García, M. Ángeles; Hancock, E. Geoffrey; Rotheray, Graham E. (PLOS ONE, 2015-11-18)

  en species of Copestylum (Diptera: Syrphidae) were reared from fruits and flowers in Costa Rica, Ecuador and Trinidad. Seven were new and in this paper, we describe them, their development sites and the third stage larva ...
• Allometric scaling laws linking biomass and rooting depth vary across ontogeny and functional groups in tropical dry forest lianas and trees 

  Smith-Martin, Chris M.; Xu, Xiangtao; Medvigy, David; Schnitzer, Stefan A.; Powers, Jennifer S. (New Phytolgist, 2019-10-29)

  There are two theories about how allocation of metabolic products occurs. The allometric biomass partitioning theory (APT) suggests that all plants follow common allometric scaling rules. The optimal partitioning theory ...

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