A tropical country’s wildlands and their biodiversity can be major engines for
national development through high-quality sustainable use of these wildlands by society,
which is in turn the key to the implementation of ...
The Rincón de la Vieja (10º 49′ 40″ N, 85º 19′ 42″ W, 1700 m a.s.l.),
andesitic stratovolcano is located at about 25 km NE of Liberia city, in
NW Costa Rica, on the Guanacaste volcanic range. Its historical volcanic
activity ...
Woodworth, Paddy(University of Chicago Press, 2013)
Woodworth interviews Janzen and Hallwachs on the path to restoration and the preservation of the wildland. The interview addresses the need to buy terrain to protect and conserve, as well as the need to educate the public ...
Earth’s history has been punctuated by
vast magmatic episodes. These events
are preserved in the geological record
as large igneous provinces — areas of
Earth’s surface flooded by millions of cubic
kilometres of lava ...
2008 has been another successful year for our long-term project on the social and ecological factors affecting the
social organization of spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi) in Santa Rosa National Park, Costa Rica, which ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Janzen, Daniel H.(American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1988-01-15)
Tropical wildlands (restored or preserved) are intellectual
bumps on a verdant agroscape. Wildlands play the same societal
roles as do libraries, universities, museums, symphony halls, and
newspapers. They must be ...
We describe two new species of anoles from Costa Rica, which previously have been referred to as
Norops pachypus or N. tropidolepis by different authors: Norops alocomyos sp. nov. from the Pacific versant of the
western ...