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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. ...
Lactrodectismo en Costa Rica
Latrodectism in Costa Rica
(2017)
Se reporta un accidente causado por la araña Latrodectus geometricus, incluida en el grupo conocido como “viudas negras”, en Costa Rica. El accidente le ocurrió a una mujer de 27 años vecina de la ciudad de Cartago, en su ...
Functional changes in web design along the ontogeny of two orb-weavers
(2017-08-01)
Orb webs evolved primarily to capture prey, though they also have other functions. Recently, it has been argued that the orb web does not work as a functional unit, but instead some sections or components have presumably ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
Environmental rugosity, body size and access to food: a test of the size-grain hypothesis in tropical litter ants
(2004)
In terrestrial walking organisms, long legs help to decrease the cost of running, allowing animals to step over environmental interstices rather than walking through them. However, long legs can complicate the infiltration ...