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Biodiversidad y producción agropecuaria: Necesidad de nuevos enfoques de conservación
(Diálogo en bioeconomía: la UNA al servicio del desarrollo nacional, 2020)
La conservación de la biodiversidad se ha enfocado principalmente en el establecimiento de áreas silvestres protegidas. Se ha puesto muy poco énfasis en lo que está pasando en las zonas que rodean las áreas protegidas y ...
Reverse Taxonomy for Elucidating Diversity of Insect-Associated Nematodes: A Case Study with Termites
(Public Library of Science, 2012-08-28)
Background: The molecular operational taxonomic unit (MOTU) has recently been applied to microbial and microscopic animal biodiversity surveys. However, in many cases, some of the MOTUs cannot be definitively tied to any ...
Determining nature’s contributions to achieve the sustainable development goals
(Springer Tokyo, 2019-03-01)
Academics and policy-makers recognize that humans and nature should be studied and managed as integrated social–ecological systems. Recently, the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem ...
Propuesta de un plan específico de cambio climático en el Parque Nacional Isla San Lucas, Área de Conservación Pacífico Central, Puntarenas, para el periodo 2023-2028
(Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2022-09)
Este trabajo es un aporte a la resiliencia ante el cambio climático de las Áreas
Silvestres Protegidas (ASP) y sistemas insulares del país, específicamente, para el Parque
Nacional Isla San Lucas (PNISL) y el Área de ...
Quality differentiation of cocoa beans: implications for geographical indications
(Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, 2021-01-09)
Geographical indications may stimulate collective actions of governance for quality control, trade and marketing as well as innovation based on the use of local resources and regional biodiversity. Cocoa production, however, ...
Climate reverses directionality in the richness–abundance relationship across the World’s main forest biomes
(Nature Comunications, 2020-12-01)
More tree species can increase the carbon storage capacity of forests (here referred to as the
more species hypothesis) through increased tree productivity and tree abundance resulting
from complementarity, but they can ...
Polychaetes associated with decaying wood in Térraba mangrove, South Pacific, Costa Rica
(Universidad de Costa Rica, 2015-04)
The present study shows spatial patterns in the faunal assemblage of decaying wood and sediments, with emphasis on the polychaetes. The survey was executed across a salinity gradient in a tropical mangrove estuary of Costa ...
Lower tier toxicity risk assessment of agriculture pesticides detected on the Río Madre de Dios watershed, Costa Rica
(Springer, 2016-10-25)
Costa Rica is a tropical country with one of the highest biodiversity on Earth. It also has an intensive agriculture, and pesticide runoff from banana and pineapple plantations may cause a high toxicity risk to non-target ...
Impactos socioeconómicos y aspectos ambientales del Programa de Conservación de la Biodiversidad (PCB)
(Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2022-07)
Evalua el impacto socioeconómico y los principales aspectos ambientales del PCB, en sus 113 contratos ejecutados en las Regiones Operativas de Guanacaste Norte, Huetar Norte, Caribe y Península de Osa, para conocer el ...
Pesticides Burden in Neotropical Rivers: Costa Rica as a Case Study
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2021-11-29)
Neotropical ecosystems are highly biodiverse; however, the excessive use of pesticides has polluted freshwaters, with deleterious effects on aquatic biota. This study aims to analyze concentrations of active ingredients ...