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, ...

Las estructuras de datos y los algoritmos son temas centrales en Ciencias de la Computación, pero son temas difíciles de comprender. Las estructuras de datos y los conceptos algorítmicos son abstractos y difíciles de ...

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, ...

Tourists can have a strong impact on the behaviour of wild animals, modifying foraging strategies, diet and habitat use, increasing stress, and altering communication and escaping behaviour. Such behavioural changes have ...

Sexual size dimorphism (SSD) is the result of sexual or natural selection operating differently on the body sizes of females and males. Males of most lizard species are larger than females, suggesting intrasexual selection on ...

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 ...

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 ...

Vídeo de la participación en las II Jornadas de Investigación del Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas (IIJ) de la Universidad de Costa Rica, sobre la Generación de datos y criterios de transparencia sobre finanzas públicas.