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Prenatal mancozeb exposure, excess manganese, and neurodevelopment at 1 year of age in the Infants' Environmental Health (ISA) study
(Environmental Health Perspectives, 2018-05-29)
BACKGROUND: Although growing evidence suggests that early-life excess manganese (Mn) impairs neurodevelopment, data on the neurodevelopmental effects of mancozeb, a fungicide containing Mn, and its main metabolite ...
Carbon accumulation in the biomass and soil of different aged secondary forests in the humid tropics of Costa Rica
(Elsevier, 2011-10-15)
Efforts are needed in order to increase confidence for carbon accounts in the land use sector, especially in
tropical forest ecosystems that often need to turn to default values given the lack of precise and reliable
site ...
Mejora genética y costos iniciales asociados al manejo de plantaciones clonales de Swietenia macrophylla en la región noreste de Costa Rica
(Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2020-07-01)
El objetivo del presente trabajo es presentar las estimaciones de mejora genética y de los costos asociados al cultivo comercial de plantaciones clonales de S. macrophylla. Para la estimación de los costos, se utilizó, ...
Aerial application of mancozeb and urinary ethylene thiourea (ETU) concentrations among pregnant women in Costa Rica: the Infants' Environmental Health Study (ISA)
(Environmental Health Perspectives, 2014-12-01)
Background: Mancozeb and its main metabolite ethylene thiourea (ETU) may alter thyroid function; thyroid hormones are essential for fetal brain development. In Costa Rica, mancozeb is aerially sprayed at large-scale banana ...
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 ...
The effect of the insecticide diazinon on the osmoregulation and the avoidance response of the white leg shrimp (Penaeus vannamei) is salinity dependent
(Elsevier, 2020-12-15)
Diazinon is one of the insecticides that represent a high risk for Costa Rican estuarine environments due to its
widespread use in pineapple plantations. In estuaries, organisms are frequently submitted to stress caused ...
Optimization of the micropropagation of elite adult trees of Sequoia sempervirens: forest species of interest in the Basque Country, Spain
(Revista Bionatura, 2021-01-10)
Forest trees are renewable sources of timber and other valuable non-timber products. Nowadays, the increase in population and demand for forestry products results in overexploitation of forestry. Therefore, there is an ...
Efecto nematicida de extractos de Brugmansia suaveolens y Acnistus arborescens contra Radopholus similis en banano en Costa Rica
(Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2022)
El cultivo del banano se considera de gran importancia a nivel mundial; no obstante, se ve afectado por diferentes plagas, entre ellas los nematodos, los cuales ocasionan pérdidas económicas. Evaluar extractos botánicos ...