The campus of the University of Costa Rica in Limón port city, Costa Rica, known as Sede del Caribe (SC), includes a secondary forest of ca. 40 years old. This forest holds a great potential for environmental education, ...

La región del Golfo Dulce está compuesta de bosque estacionalmente húmedo primario y secundario. Esta guía incluye especies representativas de las familias presentes en las tierras bajas de la región (< de 400 m.s.n.m), ...

Este documento corresponde con la memoria completa del X Congreso Internacional sobre Sistemática y Ecología de Mixomicetes (ICSEM10) celebrado en la Sede del Atlántico de la Universidad de Costa Rica entre el 25 y el 28 ...

Muchos individuos de la especie Homo sapiens consideran estar separada del resto de criaturas del Reino Animal. Esto implica que hay un desligamiento de las relaciones entre el ser humano y el entorno natural, cuyas causas ...

Expone un plan de manejo y desarrollo para la Reserva Biológia Alberto Manuel Brenes, la cual es administrada por la Universidad de Costa Rica. Es un instrumento de planificación orientador de todas las acciones que deben ...

Individuals benefit from socially acquired information to avoid predation risks and enhance foraging efficiency. Spix's disc-winged bats, Thyroptera tricolor, form very stable social groups despite their need to find a new ...

Establishing dominance is an important mechanism for determining access to resources such as mates or territories. However, levels of aggression and dominance may vary among populations based on history and variation in ...

While sound is a signal modality widely used by many animals, it is very susceptible to attenuation, hampering effective long-distance communication. A strategy to minimize sound attenuation that has been historically used ...

An updated analysis of myxomycete diversity in Costa Rica is provided herein as a product of an extensive data mining-based study intended to normalize the information on myxomycetes from that country. Within the context ...

In ectotherms such as lizards, temperature is a key determinant of their behavior and their ability to signal to conspecifics. We asked whether changes in the thermal environment along the distribution of an agamid lizard, ...