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Mormodes salazarii (Orchidaceae, Catasetinae), a new species with greenish-white flowers from Costa Rica
(Phytotaxa, 2016-01-25)Mormodes salazarii (Orchidaceae, Catasetinae), a new species apparently endemic to Costa Rica, is described and illustrated. It is similar to M. fractiflexa because of its non-resupinate flowers, entire lip and revolute ... -
Morphological and geochemical features of crater lakes in Costa Rica: an overview
(Journal of limnology, 2009)This paper describes the compositional and morphological features of the crater lakes found in the volcanoes of Rincón de La Vieja, Poás, Irazú, Congo and Tenorio volcanoes (Costa Rica). As evidenced by the distribution ... -
Mortality among a Cohort of Banana Plantation Workers in Costa Rica
(Taylor & Francis, 2006)The nematocide 1,2-dibromo-3-chloropropane (DBCP), widely used in Costa Rica during the late 1960s and 1970s, causes sterility in men and is a possible carcinogen. Mortality among a cohort of Costa Rican banana plantation ... -
Mortality and Cancer Incidence of Workers in Finnish Road Paving Companies
(Wiley-Liss, Inc., 2003)Background This study, a component of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) Multicentric Study on Cancer Risk Among European Asphalt Workers, aimed at identifying major mortality risks among workers in ... -
Movements and activities of white-lipped peccaries in Corcovado National Park, Costa Rica
(Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica., 2002)The conservation of remnant populations of white-lipped peccaries in Central America depends on adequate documentation of their habitat needs and behavior. Thus, we monitored the activity patterns, local distributions, ... -
Movimientos y uso del hábitat del tiburón toro (Carcharhinus leucas) en el estero Coyote, Guanacaste, Costa Rica
(Universidad Nacional (Costa Rica). Instituto Internacional en Conservación y Manejo de Vida Silvestre, 2017)El tiburón toro (Carcharhinus leucas) es una especie costera que tiene una gran afinidad por ambientes estuarinos (ríos, manglares y humedales) durante las etapas tempranas de su vida. El uso de hábitat y los patrones ... -
Multi-hazard model for developing countries
(Springer Science+Business Media B.V, 2018-02-28)Disaster risk assessment related to natural events has generally been carried out separately by specialists in each area of earth sciences, which has two negative conse quences: Firstly, results of investigations are ... -
Multiplicación in vitro de Gmelina arborea Roxb en Sistemas de Inmersión Temporal
(Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2013)Gmelina arborea Roxb. es una de las especies que más se emplea en proyectos de reforestación. Comúnmente se propaga por semillas y estacas. También se ha micropropagado en medio de cultivo semisólido. El empleo de Sistemas ... -
Nefropatía mesoamericana: revisión breve basada en el segundo taller del Consorcio para el estudio de la Epidemia de Nefropatía en Centroamérica y México (CENCAM)
(Elsevier, 2016)Mesoamerican nephropathy (MeN) is a form of endemic chronic kidney disease (CKD) unrelated to diabetes or hypertension and its causes are still undetermined. Clinically, patients with MeN have no or only mild proteinuria ... -
Negociación de servicios ambientales de pequeños agricultores de Nicaragua, Guatemala y Brasil en el mercado voluntario de carbono
(Universidad Nacional (Costa Rica). Escuela de Ciencias Agrarias, 2017)La presente investigación fue realizada en Cooperativas de tres países de Latinoamérica. La Cooperativa Nahualá en Sololá, Guatemala; PRODECOOP en Estelí, Nicaragua y Ecocitrus en Montenegro, Estado de Río Grande del ... -
Nematode fauna of Costa Rican protected areas
(Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica., 2003-12-01)The Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (INBio), in collaboration with the Nematology Laborato ry at Universidad Nacional (U.N.A) of Costa Rica, conducted a nematode inventory of Costa Rican wild lands. Hundreds of samples ... -
Nematodos como indicadores ambientales
(2013-08-22)Los nematodos juegan un papel importante en una serie de procesos ecológicos que son clave para el funcionamiento de los ecosistemas. Una aplicación muy particular, que ha tomado auge en los últimos años, es el uso de la ... -
Nematology in Central American countries, a general overview of the present situation
(50TH ANNUAL MEETING OF NEMATOLOGIST OF TROPICAL AMERICA (ONTA 2018), 2018-08)Pesticide use in Central American agriculture has been promoted as an important tool for development since decades, despite in many cases being a hazardous technology for human health and the environment. At the same time ... -
Neotropical dry forest wildlife water hole use and management
(Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica., 1999)Selected wildlife species diurnal use of a natural water hole (QO) and an artificial water hole (AW) were studied during 1990 dry season at Guanacaste Conservation Area, Costa Rica. In total, 919 individuals (six marnmal ... -
Nest-specific composition of the trail pheromone of the stingless bee Trigona corvina within populations
(Springer, 2012)Social insects have evolved highly developed communication systems, enabling them to coordinate complex interactions in their colonies. Pheromones play a major role in the coordination of many tasks. In Trigona corvina, a ... -
New Bruce-ladder multiplex PCR assay for the biovar typing of Brucella suis and the discrimination of Brucella suis and Brucella canis
(Revista de Microbiología Veterinaria, 2011-06-28)Rapid and specific identification of Brucella suis at the biovar level is necessary because some of the biovars that infect animals are pathogenic for humans. None of the molecular typing methods described so far are ... -
New insights into Kawah Ijen’s volcanic system from the wet volcano workshop experiment
(Geological Society London Special Publications, 2016-02-25)Volcanoes with crater lakes and/or extensive hydrothermal systems pose significant challenges with respect to monitoring and forecasting eruptions, but they also provide new opportunities to enhance our understanding of ... -
New Record of the Small Hive Beetle, Aethina tumida, in Africanized Honey Bee Colonies in Costa Rica
(Bee World, 2019-02-27)The small hive beetle (SHB) Aethina tumida Murray (Insecta: Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) is a honey bee parasite native to sub-Saharan Africa (Hepburn & Radloff, 1998). It was first described by Murray in 1867. In 1996, SHBs ... -
Nicoya earthquake rupture anticipated by geodetic measurement of the locked plate interface
(Nature Research, 2013-12-22)The Nicoya Peninsula in Costa Rica is one of the few places on Earth where the seismically active plate interface of a subduction zone is directly overlaid by land rather than ocean. At this plate interface, large megathrust ...
