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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
In situ toxicity and ecological risk assessment of agro-pesticide runoff in the Madre de Dios River in Costa Rica
(SpringerEuCheMS Division of Chemistry and the Environment, 2016-10-18)
The River Madre de Dios (RMD) and its lagoon is a biodiversity rich watershed formed by a system of streams, rivers, channels, and a coastal lagoon communicating with the Caribbean Sea. This basin sustains a large area of ...
Variabilidad espacial y temporal de la ocurrencia de eventos extremos de precipitación en la región tropical húmeda del Caribe de Costa Rica, Centroamérica
(Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2023-12-07)
Este trabajo de tesis propone mejorar el conocimiento de la variabilidad espacio temporal de la precipitación y de sus eventos extremos y los mecanismos físicos responsables de dicha variabilidad en la Región Tropical ...
Evaluación de mezclas de fungicidas alternativos para el control de sigatoka negra [Pseudocercospora fijiensis (M. Morelet) Deighton] en el cultivo de banano (Musa spp.) en Costa Rica
(Universidad Nacional (Costa Rica), 2023-05)
El objetivo de este estudio fue evaluar el comportamiento y desempeño de mezclas de fungicidas con coadyuvantes, con la finalidad de generar nuevas estrategias alternativas para el control de sigatoka negra (Pseudocercospora ...