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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Boschman, L. M.; van der Wiel, E.; Flores, K. E.; Langereis, C. G.; van Hinsbergen, D. J. J.(JGR Solid Earth, 2019-05-04)
Plate kinematic reconstructions play an essential role in our understanding of global geodynamics, but become increasingly difficult to constrain back in geological time due to the subduction of oceanic lithosphere. Here, ...
Fuller, Todd K.; Silva, Alexander M.; Montalvo, Victor H.; Sáenz-Bolaños, Carolina; Carrillo, Eduardo(Journal of Mammalogy, 2019-12-04)
The reproductive season of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) has been hypothesized to be aseasonal
south of about 14°–18°N latitude, where annual variation in day length is low. We tested this idea by using
camera-trap ...
Burington, Zelia L.; Inclán-Luna, Diego J.; Pollet, Marc; Stireman, John O.(Insect Conservation and Diversity, 2020-04-06)
Insect parasitoids may be an exception to the typical biogeographic pattern of increasing species richness at lower latitudes exhibited by most taxa. Evidence for this ‘anomalous’ latitudinal gradient has been derived from ...
A new genus of Xanthopygina rove beetles is described here as Lendatus gen. nov. The new genus includes three new species: L. bolivianus sp. nov., described from Bolivia, L. philothalpiformis sp. nov. described from Costa ...
The science of plant hydraulics has long sought to understand the fundamental mechanisms of how water moves through plant vascular systems (Dixon & Joly, 1895). Over the last 50 years, advances in our understanding of ...
Jordal, Bjarte H.; Kirkendall, Lawrence R.(ZooKeys, 2019-07-11)
Quantitative collecting efforts over the last several decades in Costa Rica have resulted in many new species of insects. The Arthropods of La Selva projects included collecting from a typical lowland Neotropical forest ...
Añino, Yostin J.; Cambra, Roberto A.; Windsor, Donald M.; Zuñiga, Ronald; Quintero, Diomedes(Acta Biológica Colombiana, 2020-05-05)
A taxonomic revision of the genus Scolia Fabricius, 1775 (Hymenoptera: Scoliidae) from Central America is presented. Two species of Scolia are present in Central America: S. (Discolia) guttata Burmeister, 1853 and S. ...
Owen, Kiirsti; Melin, Amanda D.; Campos, Fernando A.; Fedigan, Linda M.; Gillespie, Thomas W.; Mennill, Daniel J.(ResearchGate, 2020-06)
With expanding anthropogenic disturbances to forests around the world, forest restoration is increasingly important for bird conservation. Restoration monitoring is critical for understanding how birds respond to forest ...
Alvarado, Guillermo E.; Aguilar, Teresita(Revista De Biología Tropical, 2019-07)
La explotación de ostras perlíferas en Costa Rica fue una industria importante y de calidad internacional, con una intensa explotación adicional de la concha de nácar (madreperla) durante el siglo XIX. La fama de estas ...
Cordero-Umaña, Keilor E.; Santidrián-Tomillo, Pilar(Revista De Biología Tropical, 2020-09-07)
Introduction: North Pacific Costa Rica is generally considered rich in marine habitats and spe-
cies. However, some areas are subject to fishing pressures that could degrade ecosystems. The Gulf of Papagayo
comprises ...
Falcón-Ordaz, Jorge; Monzalvo-López, René J.; García-Prieto, Luis(SciELO, 2020-06-26)
richuris guanacastei n sp., a parasite isolated from the Salvin’ spiny mouse Heteromys salvini, collected from the Guanacaste Conservation Area, Costa Rica, during February 1996 is described. The new species was compared ...
Parks, K.S.; Janzen, Daniel H.; Hallwachs, Winnie; Fernandez-Triana, J.; Dyer, L. A.; Rodriguez, J. J.; Arias-Penna, D. C.; Whitfield, J. B.(ScienceDirect, 2020-09)
Parapanteles Ashmead (Braconidae: Microgastrinae) is a medium-sized genus of microgastrine wasps that was erected over a century ago and lacks a unique synapomorphic character, and its monophyly has not been tested by any ...
Sánchez, Ethel; Espinoza, Ana M.(Revista de Biología Tropical, 2005-06-24)
Oryza glumaepatula is a perennial wild rice species,endemic to tropical America, previously known as the Latin American race of Oryza rufipogon .In Costa Rica, it is found in the northern region of the country, mainly in ...
Fleming, AJ; Wood, D. Monty; Smith, M. Alex; Dapkey, Tanya; Hallwachs, Winnie; Janzen, Daniel H.(Biodiversity Data Journal, 2020-02-21)
Background
We describe one new genus and its one new species from Area de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG) in northwestern Costa Rica. Our study provides a concise description of this new species using morphology, life ...