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Informe Técnico Ambientes Marino Costeros de Costa Rica
Comisión interdisciplinaria marino costera de la zona económica exclusiva de Costa Rica
(TNC (The Nature Conservancy), 2006)
El presente informe técnico se realizó dentro del marco de trabajo definido por la Comisión Interdisciplinaria Marino Costera de la Zona Económica Exclusiva de Costa Rica y con el apoyo técnico y financiero de Conservación ...
The deepwater fishery along the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, Central America
(Lat. Am. J. Aquat. Res., 37(3): 543-554, 2009, 2009)
Global catches of marine fishery resources declined during the last decades; however, there has been a trend of increasing exploitation of deepwater resources that are especially vulnerable to depletion. Such a tendency ...
Las ciencias del mar en la Revista de Biología Tropical en su 50 aniversario
(Rev. Biol. Trop. 50(3/4): 903-907, 2002, 2002)
El primer artículo sobre cualquier tema marino fue
publicado en 1963 y desde entonces ha venido aumentando el número de publicaciones marinas hasta llegar a
637. Este número representa el 27% de todos los artículos ...
By-catch associated with fisheries of Heterocarpus vicarius (Costa Rica) and Heterocarpus reedi (Chile) (Decapoda: Pandalidae): a six-year study (2004-2009)
(Journal of Crustacean Biology, 33(2), 198-209. 2013, 2013)
Growing concern about the quantity and diversity of by-catch species caught in the bottom trawling nets of crustacean fisheries led us to compare the quantity of by-catch recorded in Chilean and Costa Rican deep-water ...
Does a polyphagous caterpillar have the same gut microbiota when feeding on different species of food plants?
(Revista de Biología Tropical 50(2): 547-560, 2002, 2002)
We used classical culture techniques to explore gut bacteria and changes associated with dietary change in the highly polyphagous, tropical caterpillar Automeris zugana(Saturniidae). Fifty-five third instar wild-caught ...
Foraminifera
(I.S. Wehrtmann, J. Cortés (eds.) Marine Biodiversity of Costa Rica, Central America. Springer., 2009)
Eighty-four species of benthic and one species of planktonic Foraminifera,
classified under 40 genera and 34 families reported for Costa Rica are listed in this
paper. These lists are based on literature data and ongoing ...
Bryozoans
(I.S. Wehrtmann, J. Cortés (eds.) Marine Biodiversity of Costa Rica, Central America. Springer., 2009)
Sixty-one species of bryozoans have been reported in the literature from Costa Rica and are distributed as follows: Caribbean: 13 species in 11 genera, 10 families, 1 order, and 1 class; Pacific: 49 species in 41 genera, ...
Abundancia, biomasa y floración de Thalassia testudinum (Hydrocharitaceae) en el Caribe de Costa Rica
(Rev. Biol. Trop. (Int. J. Trop. Biol. ISSN-0034-7744) Vol. 56 (Suppl. 4): 175-189, December 2008, 2008-12)
Three Thalassia testudinumseagrass beds were studied at Cahuita National Park, from August 2003 to August 2006. Additionally, biomass samples of this species were collected at the Gandoca-Manzanillo National Wildlife Refuge, ...
Costa rican international cooperative biodiversity group: using insects and other arthropods in biodiversity prospecting
In: J. Rosenthal (Ed.). Drug discovery, economic development and conservation: The International Cooperative Biodiversity Groups. Pharm. Biol. Vol 37, Supplement, pp. 55-68.
(Pharmaceutical Biology 37(Supplement):55–68. 1999, 1999)
This paper describes the Costa Rican International Collaborative Biodiversity Group (ICBG), which was designed to introduce insects and other arthropods as a source of pharmaceutical compounds, and to generate knowledge ...