Plant species diversity and composition of life form categories were recorded in a tropical dry forest in northwestern Costa Rica. Nine pairs of spatially separated plots were described representing each of different ...

Ants, by consuming floral nectar, are potential parasites of plant–pollinator mutualisms, the persistence of which depends on mechanisms preventing ants from visiting flowers. Here I report the existence of such a mechanism ...

Imagine a portable DNA barcode scanner that could transform people’s relationship with nature. Could such futuristic technology be to biodiversity what the printing press was to literacy?

Fungus-growing ants (Attini) live in an obligate mutualism with the fungi they cultivate for food. Because of the obligate nature of this relationship, the success of the ants is directly dependent on their ability to grow ...

Insect outbreaks are expected to increase in frequency and inten-sity with projected changes in global climate through direct effectsof climate change on insect populations and through disruption ofcommunity interactions. ...

Tropical ecosystems support a diversity of species and ecological processes that are unparalleled anywhere else on Earth. Despite their tremendous social and scientific importance, tropical ecosystems are rapidly disappearing. ...

For tropical wild biodiversity to survive, it must occupy a large terrain, be permanently endowed, and be integrated with its local, national, and international society. Among other things, integration will be enormously ...

Macrobaris Champion is synonymized with Iops Casey (new synonym), transferred from Baridini: Baridina to Apostasimerini: Madopterina (new placement), and revised. Twenty one species are documented from fourteen countries, ...

In the mid-1980’s, while lecturing at a small university in Sabah, I accompanied my honours student to the Danum Valley Field Centre for fieldwork, an inventory of small mammals near the Danum station. The university was ...

Fifty-five bryophyte species (21 hepatics, 34 mosses) are reported from the dry lowland forests and moist montane forests of the Santa Elena Peninsula and Islas Murciélago, Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica. Over 50% of the ...