vices. As a symbiotic alternative, plants have evolved more easily obtainable food sources such as extra-floral nectaries; these and other devices have conferred on the comparatively sedentary (and often aggressive) ants a ...

In mid· July 1977, there was a strong emergence of cicadas, Oiceroprocta apache, in the vicinity of Tacna, Yuma County, southwestern Arizona. In this desert habitat the adult cicadas were feeding on the sap of many ...

A captive adult male Baird's tapir (Tapirus bairdil1 was offereathe foliage of 381 species of plants native to tapir habitat in Guanacaste Provo ince, Costa Rica. It absolutely rejected 55 percent, unambiguously accepted 29 ...

The tropics are very seasonal. There are times of year when the carnivores are more numerous, when there is more sun, when food is more scarce, when there is more rain. Many tropical plants and animals sit tight and tough ...

Mucuna mutisiana (Leguminosae) is a common large woody liana (vine) of secondary successional rain forest in Corcovado National Park, southwestern Costa A ica. It bears large fruits that are usually 2-seeded (range, 1·3). ...

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 ...