Las aves cumplen un rol crítico en los bosques tropicales al polinizar flores y dispersar las semillas de muchas especies (Kato 2017, Rocca y Sazima 2008, Stiles y Skuth 1989). Los colibríes son el principal grupo de aves ...

Grooming is a widespread behavior in the animal kingdom primarily geared towards the care of the body surface; nonetheless, other behavioral functions have been investigated and postulated. For example, rodents display ...

This chapter provides an overview of the species diversity and conservation status of the freshwater decapods in Central America and the Caribbean islands that date back to the late 1800s in both areas. The majority of the ...

Although insects are one of the most diverse groups of organisms on earth, relatively few species are found associated with marine habitats. The majority of these marine species live in intertidal or coastal habitats and ...

Costa Rica is a country with abundant and diverse freshwater ecosystems, which are influenced and characterized by different orographic precipitation regimes. This variety of habitats harbors great biological diversity, ...

Las aves son hospederas de una gran diversidad de ácaros, pueden vivir en la superficie de las plumas, en las patas (Latta 2003) la piel, los nostrilos y las vías respiratorias (Proctor 2003). Los ácaros plumícolas son ...

The data were taken from 28 sandy beaches of Costa Rica (16 from the Pacific Coast and 12 from the Caribbean). This study aimed to (1) determine the differences of sediment and beach characteristics between both Pacific ...

Psidium friedrichsthalianum (O. Berg) Nied es una especie cultivable de origen tropical de la familia Myrtaceae, subfamilia Myrtoideae, tribu Myrteae (Lucas et al. 2019).Actualmente, no hay información sobre la cantidad ...

A method for genetic transformation of maize for resistance to viral diseases. A system for the genetic transformation of maize was developed for two Costa Rican varieties: CR-7 and Diamantes 8843, that can allow the ...

En Costa Rica, se determinó que para reproducir la especie arbórea Enterolobium cyclocarpum (Fabaceae), las semillas seleccionadas deben tener una masa de 0,7 a 1,0 g. En general, mayor masa del fruto implica mayor masa ...