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Understory bat roosts, availability and occupation patterns in a Neotropical rainforest of Costa Rica
(Revista de Biología Tropical, 2016-07-03)
The strong link between bats and their roosts is widely recognized as being particularly significant. Despite this, roosting ecology of bats is poorly understood and much of the basic information is still unknown. In this ...
Neighborhood structure influences the convergence in light capture efficiency and carbon gain: An architectural approach for cloud forest shrubs
(Tree Physiology vol.36 no.6 712-724 2016, 2016-03-24)
Although plant competition is recognized as a fundamental factor that limits survival and species coexistence, its relative importance on light capture efficiency and carbon gain is not well understood. Here, we propose a ...
Leaf life span spectrum of tropical woody seedlings: effects of light and ontogeny and consequences for survival
(Oxford University Press, Annals of Botany Company, 2013-03-26)
Background and AimsLeaf life span is widely recognized as a key life history trait associated with herbivory resistance, but rigorous comparative data are rare for seedlings. The goal of this study was to examine how light ...
Rasgos funcionales y variables ambientales que explican la abundancia de anuros (anfibia) en ambientes perturbados en la región tropical de América
(Universidad Nacional (Costa Rica), 2019)
La crisis de anfibios es uno de los fenómenos, provocado por el humano, que ha causado la extinción de especies de anfibios y el declive del 40% de poblaciones del mismo grupo de vertebrados a nivel global. Los bosques ...
Evaluación de la calidad de hábitat en bosques sometidos a manejo forestal usando invertebrados (Lepidóptera y Scarabaeinae) como indicadores biológicos, Zona Noratlántica, Costa Rica
(Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2019)
Este estudio evaluó la calidad de hábitat de bosques en tres fincas de la zona Noratlántica de Costa Rica sometidos a manejo forestal usando invertebrados (Lepidóptera y Scarabaeinae) como indicadores biológicos para un ...
Dietary resource overlap among three species of frugivorous bat in Costa Rica
(Cambridge University Press, 2019-05-03)
The maintenance of biodiversity in tropical forests is thought to be dependent on fine-scale
mechanisms of niche partitioning that allow species to coexist. This study examined whether
three species of short-tailed fruit ...
Use of food and spatial resources by two frogs of the genus Dendropsophus (anura: Hylidae) from La Selva, Costa Rica
(Universidade de Sao Paulo, 2012-06)
Differences in the use of resources by similar species have been related to a reduction in the interspecific competition that allows coexistence. Also, other factors, such as high availability of resources in the environment, ...
Contrasting patterns of taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional variation along a Costa Rican altitudinal gradient in the plant family Melastomataceae
(Cambridge University Press, 2018)
The functional composition of plant communities in montane regions has been studied for decades, and most
recent analyses find that environmentally favourable landscapes at lower altitudes tend to be dominated by species ...
Neotropical flowering epiphyte diversity: local composition and geographic affinities
(Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2013)
Worldwide, the highest diversity of vascular epiphytic plants resides in the
Neotropics. The general pattern of taxonomic composition of the neotropical epiphytic
flora has been described, but information regarding the ...
Complejidad estructural de la vegetación de tres comunidades forestales en restauración a través de fotografías hemisféricas en Orosi, Costa Rica
(Universidad Nacional (Costa Rica), 2015)
Describir principios organizadores que gobiernan la dinámica ecológica a través de múltiples escalas espaciales y temporales, ha sido uno de los principales retos de la ecología de los ecosistemas. Debido a esto es muy ...