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Understanding how access shapes the transformation of ecosystem services to human well-being with an example from Costa Rica
(Elsevier, 2017-10-26)Increasingly, ecosystem services have been applied to guide poverty alleviation and sustainable develop-ment in resource-dependent communities. Yet, questions of access, which are paramount in determiningbenefits from the ... -
Use of cholinesterase activity as a biomarker of pesticide exposure used on Costa Rican banana plantations in the native tropical fish Astyanax aeneus (Günther, 1860)
(Journal of Environmental Biology, 2014-01)In Costa Rica, thousands of tones of agricultural pesticides have been used for decades and their use is continuously increasing due to intensive and expanding production of coffee, pineapple, rice, ornamental plants and ... -
Usefulness of the working conditions and health survey in central America in prevention. Author response to comments by Jensen
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2015-06-05)We appreciate Dr Jensen's comments1 on the Central American Survey on Working Conditions and Health (ECCTS)2 and his concern that our sampling methodology may have produced biased results. The ECCTS has broadly followed ... -
Variación estacional y características fisicoquímicas e hidrológicas que influyen en los macroinvertebrados acuáticos, en un río tropical
(Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica, 2020-10-22)Introduction: The distribution of aquatic macroinvertebrates in rivers may be determined by the type of substrate, the shape of the river channel, the hydrological regime, and interactions with biotic and abiotic factors. ... -
Who is where in the Plastisphere, and why does it matter?
(Wiley Periodicals, 2020-04-24)To fully understand how plastic is affecting the ocean, we need to understand how marine life interacts directly with it. Besides their ecological relevance, microbes can affect the distribution, degradation and transfer ... -
Work and health in Latin America: Results from the working conditions surveys of Colombia, Argentina, Chile, Central America and Uruguay
(BMJ Journals, 2017-01-16)Objective To describe working and employment conditions, and health status between non-agricultural employees with a written contract from Colombia, Argentina, Chile, Central America and Uruguay. Methods We compared data ... -
Workplace Carcinogen and Pesticide Exposures in Costa Rica
(Taylor & Francis, 2003)The CAREX data system converts national workforce volumes and proportions of workers exposed to workplace carcinogens into numbers of exposed in 55 industrial categories. CAREX was adapted for Costa Rica for 27 carcinogens ...