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Informe de la expedición científica UCR-UNA-COCO-III
(2011-04-06)
El proyecto “Interacción océano-atmósfera y la biodiversidad marina del Parque
Nacional Isla del Coco, Costa Rica” es financiado por el Consejo Nacional de Rectores
(CONARE). Del 26 de marzo al 03 de abril del 2011, un ...
Interannual variability of the midsummer drought in Central America and the connection with sea surface temperatures
(2016)
The midsummer drought (MSD) in Central America is characterised in order to create annual indexes representing the timing of its phases (start, minimum and end), and other features relevant for MSD forecasting such as the ...
Dynamics in benthic community composition and influencing factors in an upwelling-exposed coral reef on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica
(2015-11-24)
Seasonal upwelling at the northern Pacific coast of Costa Rica offers the opportunity to investigate the effects of pronounced changes in key water parameters on fine-scale dynamics of local coral reef communities. This ...
Systematics and biogeography of Pleurobranchus Cuvier, 1804, sea slugs (Heterobranchia: Nudipleura: Pleurobranchidae)
(2015)
Species of Pleurobranchus (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Heterobranchia: Nudipleura: Pleurobranchidae) are commonly found worldwide, but there is a substantial amount of confusion regarding the ranges and identification of individual ...
Analysis of the Latin American west coast rainfall predictability using an ENSO index
(2015)
El objetivo de este estudio es determinar la probabilidad de ocurrencia de estaciones lluviosas o secas a lo largo de la costa oeste de Centro y Sudamérica, mediante la construcción de perfiles latitudinales para la ...
New records of gelatinous zooplankton from an oceanic island in the Eastern Tropical Pacific
(2017)
Gelatinous zooplankton are an abundant and diverse group of animals in the pelagic environment. However, knowledge of species diversity and spatial distributions, as well as their ecological role, is scarce. We present ...
Fixed-Nitrogen Loss Associated with Sinking Zooplankton Carcasses in a Coastal Oxygen Minimum Zone (Golfo Dulce, Costa Rica)
(2017)
Oxygen minimum zones (OMZs) in the ocean are of key importance for pelagic fixed-nitrogen loss (N-loss) through microbial denitrification and anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox). Recent studies document that zooplankton ...
Seagrass morphometrics at species level in Moreton Bay, Australia from 2012 to 2013
(2017)
Seagrass above, below and total biomass, density and leaf area, length and width were quantified at a species level for 122 sites over three sampling periods in Moreton Bay, Australia. Core samples were collected in two ...
Coastal Environments
(WCRP Conference for Latin America and the Caribbean: Developing, linking, and applying climate knowledge (WRCP-LAC), 2014-09-08)
It is presented in this document the summary community-based position paper on "Coastal environments", on the outcomes of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) Conference for Latin America and the Caribbean, Developing, ...
Informe de la expedición científica CIMAR-COCO-II
(2011-04-06)
El proyecto “Conocimiento y gestión de medios marinos y coralinos del Área de Conservación Marina Isla del Coco” es financiado por el Fondo Francés para el Medio Ambiente Mundial (FFEM) y la Universidad de Costa Rica. Del ...