• 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 ...
• The Caribbean and Farallon Plates Connected: Constraints From Stratigraphy and Paleomagnetism of the Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica 

  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, ...
• Reproduction of white-tailed deer in a seasonally dry tropical forest of Costa Rica: a test of aseasonality 

  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 ...
• Latitudinal patterns in tachinid parasitoid diversity (Diptera: Tachinidae): a review of the evidence 

  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 ...
• Lendatus, a new genus of Xanthopygina (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae) with description of three new species 

  Chatzimanolis, Stylianos (PeerJ, 2019-10-23)

  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 ...
• Hydraulics in the 21st century 

  McDowell, Nate G.; Brodribb, Timothy J.; Nardini, Andrea (New Phytologist, 2020-10-01)

  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 ...
• Rainforest and cloud forest Scolytodes (Curculionidae, Scolytinae, Hexacolini) from the Arthropods of La Selva inventory in Costa Rica: new species, new synonymy, new records 

  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 ...
• Review of Scolia (Hymenoptera: Scoliidae) from Central America, including seasonal flight activity in Scolia guttata 

  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. ...
• Bioacoustic analyses reveal that bird communities recover with forest succession in tropical dry forests 

  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 ...
• La explotación de ostras perlíferas en Costa Rica (América Central) desde la conquista hasta inicios del Siglo XXI: historia, conquiliología y algunas reflexiones 

  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 ...
• Conservation status of fish and marine invertebrate of rocky reefs and sandy substrates in two unprotected bays of the Papagayo Gulf, Costa Rica 

  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 ...
• New species of Trichuris (Nematoda: Trichuridae) parasitizing Heteromys salvini (Rodentia: Heteromyidae) from Costa Rica, with a key to Trichuris species described from Heteromyidae 

  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 ...
• A five-gene molecular phylogeny reveals Parapanteles Ashmead (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) to be polyphyletic as currently composed 

  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 ...
• Ultrastructure of Oryza glumaepatula , a wild rice species endemic of tropical America 

  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 ...
• A new genus and new species in the tribe Uramyini (Diptera: Tachinidae) from Area de Conservación Guanacaste in northwestern Costa Rica 

  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 ...
• Aprica: a new genus and life history for the pteridivore Xanthiapatula Druce, 1898 (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae) 

  Goldstein, Paul Z.; Janzen, Daniel H.; Hallwachs, Winnie (ZooKeys, 2019-07-24)

  Aprica Goldstein, gen. nov. is described to accommodate Xanthiapatula Druce, 1898. Recent discovery of its larva, which has been recorded eating foliage of species in six families of leptosporangiate ferns, suggest a ...
• Wing morphology predicts individual niche specialization in Pteronotus mesoamericanus (Mammalia: Chiroptera) 

  Fernandes-Magalhães de Oliveira, Hernani; Ferreira-Camarg, Nícholas; Hemprich-Bennett, David R.; Rodríguez-Herrera, Bernal; Rossiter, Stephen J.; Clare, Elizabeth L. (PLOS ONE, 2020-05-11)

  Morphological variation between individuals can increase niche segregation and decrease intraspecific competition when heterogeneous individuals explore their environment in different ways. Among bat species, wing shape ...

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