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Variabilidad genética de la avifauna de las tierras altas de Costa Rica: Consecuencias del calentamiento global.
(2011-07-09)
Determinar la susceptibilidad de un grupo de aves pertenecientes a diferentes líneas evolutivas (e.g.trochilidae, tyrannidae, emberizidae) a los cambios ambientes que pueden ocurrir como consecuencia del incremento en la ...
La viuda negra en Costa Rica: información general
(2016)
La viuda café (Latrodectus geometricus) ha sido probablemente introducida a América desde la región mediterránea de África. Desde su llegada a Costa Rica, esta especie ha expandido su distribución rápidamente colonizando ...
Cocoon web induced by Eruga telljohanni (Ichneumonidae: Pimplinae) in Leucauge sp. (Tetragnathidae)
(2017)
The hosts and cocoon webs of koinobiont-ectoparasitic wasps in the genus Eruga Townes in Townes & Townes, 1960 are known for only two species. We describe here the host spider and cocoon web of a third Eruga species: E. ...
Abundancia y fluctuaciones de aves limícolas (Charadriiformes) en una playa fangosa de Chomes, Costa Rica
(1992)
We recorded 27 species of Charadriiformes on the mud flats of Chomes, Golfo de Nicoya, Costa Rica, during biweekly censuses over one year. These were grouped taking into account their abundance and permanence on the flat. ...
Conceptual and statistical problems with the use of the Shannon-Weiner entropy index in bioacoustic analyses
(2018-04-03)
Information theory and its indices were developed for human communication to predict the amount of information transferred in a message. One such index, the Shannon-Weiner index (SWI), has often been used to analyse ...
Morphological adaptations for relatively larger brains in hummingbird skulls
(2018)
A common allometric pattern called Haller’s Rule states that small species have relatively larger brains and eyes than larger species of the same taxonomic group. This
pattern imposes drastic structural changes and ...
Cues guiding uloborid construction behavior support orb web monophyly
(2015)
Behavior can provide useful traits for testing phylogenetic hypotheses, and some details of orb web construction behavior have been especially useful in characterizing higher-level groups in spiders. The cues used to guide ...
Sexual size dimorphism and acoustical features of the pre-advertisement and advertisement calls of Rhinophrynus dorsalis Duméril & Bibron, 1841 (Anura: Rhinophrynidae)
(2015)
Las interacciones entre selección natural, selección sexual, y los requerimientos ecológicos específicos de las especies son responsables de la evolución de comportamientos complejos de cortejo y estrategias reproductivas. ...
Song plasticity over time and vocal learning in clay-colored thrushes
(2015)
Songbirds have been traditionally classified into close-ended or open-ended learning species according to the length of the sensitive period during which birds are able to memorize new vocalizations. Closed-ended learners ...
Effect of fragmentation on the Costa Rican dry forest avifauna
(2016)
Deforestation and changes in land use have reduced the tropical dry forest to isolated forest patches in northwestern Costa Rica. We examined the effect of patch area and length of the dry season on nestedness of the entire ...