The Santa Elena peninsula, northern Pacific coast of Costa Rica, is formed by three structural units: a relative autochthonous unit, an allochthonous peridotitic unit and a sedimentary cover (Campano/Maastrichtian to ...
Pauly, Daniel(Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 2007-06)
The Sea Around Us Project, initiated by the Pew Charitable Trusts in Philadelphia, PA, and located at the Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, started in mid 1999. Its goal was (and still ...
Kisel, Yael(Imperial College London, Division of Biology., 2010-12)
Many environmental factors and taxon traits have been studied as potential
controllers of diversification, but there is still no consensus as to which are most
important or how to link them into a general theory of ...
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 ...
May-Collado, Laura J.; Wartzok, Douglas; Agnarsson, Ingi; Palacios, Jose David; Taubitz, Evi(2007)
The Bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops spp.) among the best known dolphin species
worldwide, largely for being the ‘favorite’ species to have in aquaria (Defran and Pryor
1980). Bottlenose dolphins are easily identified by ...
His style is ambidextrous and probably unique. He catches two forewings of a dead moth simultaneously
and pins them to his drying board, and then, in a continuous sweep, he does the same with the hind wings.
He repeats ...
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 ...
An interpretive ecledic review of the
widesprelld lind diffuse liter.llture on the om;
nipresent phenomenon of lInimals preying
on seeds, this paper focuses on the dif·
ferences between pre- lind post-ciisperllll
seed ...
Our pet African grey parrot (origin: Cameroon), living in a free-flight wood and screen indoor cage (3 x
2 x 1 m), uses 1.5-4cm long splinters of wood to scratch the skin on the posterior part of its head.
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 ...
Daniel H., Janzen; Hallwachs. Winnie; Jorge, Jimenez(1992-10)
The Costa Rican National Biodiversity Institute (INBIo) is about to start a 10-year total biodiversity
inventory of Costa Rica. The INBio parataxonmists are rural persons vocationally trained by INBio t o
conduct the ...
Hulshof, Catherine M.; Waring, Bonnie G.; Powers, Jennifer S.; Harrison, Susan P.(American Journal of Botany, 2020-06-04)
Premise
Clouds have profound consequences for ecosystem structure and function. Yet, the direct monitoring of clouds and their effects on biota is challenging especially in remote and topographically complex tropical cloud ...
El Bosque Seco Tropical es uno de los ecosistemas neotropicales mas amenazados actualmente. La deforestación con fines agricolas y ganaderos son tan solo algunas de las principales causas de su desaparición y alteración a ...
Calvo A., Julio; Jiménez R., Cesar; Sánchez A., Arturo(2015-03-01)
Tropical dry forests (TDF) in Mesoamerica are highly endangered by the expansion of human activities (e.g., agriculture and cattle ranching). In contrast, TDF in Costa Rica have experienced outstanding restoration due to ...
Laurance, William F.(Nature Publishing Group, 2012-07-25)
Establishing protection over a swath of land seems like a good way to conserve its species and its ecosystems. But in a new study, University of Pennsylvania biologist Daniel Janzen joins more than 200 colleagues to report ...
Establishing protection over a swath of land seems like a good way to conserve its species and its ecosystems. But biologists report that protected areas are still vulnerable to damaging encroachment, and many are suffering ...