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Species richness and density of seabirds in Isla del Coco bays, Costa Rica, related to the occurrence of breeding colonies
(2016-10-15)
Isla del Coco is one of the five oceanic islands situated on the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean and represents an important nesting and roosting site for seabirds. Despite several factors that can potentially impact its ...
Hydrogen production by immobilized Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803
(2016)
The ability of the immobilized Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 cells to produce hydrogen via an indirect light driven process was investigated. Cells were successfully immobilized in a calcium alginate gel matrix. Beads were ...
Rediscovering the value of families for psychiatric genetics research
(2018-06-28)
As it is likely that both common and rare genetic variation are important for complex disease risk, studies that examine the full range of the allelic frequency distribution should be utilized to dissect the genetic ...
First records of myxomycetes from El Salvador
(2013-11-02)
Myxomycetes have been studied formally in most of Central America except for El
Salvador. Even though this country is the last in the region to begin an official inventory for this
group of organisms, the 37 new records ...
Relaciones hídricas en árboles del bosque tropical seco: el caso de Enterolobium cyclocarpum
(2011)
Las relaciones hídricas en árboles de Enterolobium cyclocarpum del Parque Nacional Santa Rosa, Costa Rica,
se estudiaron en diferentes momentos del curso diurno y a lo largo de dos ciclos fenológicos. La característica ...
Habitat adaptation drives speciation of a Streptomyces species with distinct habitats and disparate geographic origins
(2022-01-11)
Microbial diversification is driven by geographic and ecological factors, but how the relative importance of these factors varies among species, geographic scales, and habitats remains unclear. Streptomyces, a genus of ...
The influence of temperature and pH on bacterial community composition of microbial mats in hot springs from Costa Rica
(2019)
We used the 16S rRNA gene pyrosequencing approach to investigate the microbial diversity and community composition in several Costa Rican hot springs alongside the latitudinal axis of the country, with a range of temperatures ...
Cannibalism by large tadpoles of Rhinophrynus dorsalis (Anura: Rhinophrynidae)
(2018)
In June 2014, we captured approximately 100 R. dorsalis tadpoles in a net from a seasonal wetland in Palo Verde National Park (10.3428 N, 85.3375 W) in N, 85.3375 W) in northwestern Costa Rica. While rearing the tadpoles ...
Plan de Manejo del Jardín Botánico José María Orozco, 2020-2025
Plan de manejo del Jardín Botánico José María Orozco, 2021-2026
(2021)
El objetivo del plan de manejo es mantener un espacio con plantas vivas que puedan servir para la enseñanza de la botánica y el aprecio por estas a través de la educación ambiental y el esparcimiento, para promoción de la ...
Megaherbivore exclusion led to more complex seagrass canopies and increased biomass and sediment Corg pools in a tropical meadow
(2022)
In some regions of the Caribbean Sea, seagrasses have been negatively affected by sea turtle overgrazing. Seagrass canopy complexity has declined at a long-term monitoring site in Costa Rica. We deployed megaherbivore ...