Browsing Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales by Subject "PACÍFICO"
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A first estimation of tsunami hazard of the Pacific coast of Costa Rica from local and distant seismogenic sources
(Springer, 2021-06-04)Costa Rica has been affected by several local and distant tsunamis in the past, but the historical information is scarce and incomplete. Its Pacific coast stretches for over a thousand kilometers, and tsunami hazard has ... -
Caracterización espacial de los vertebrados marinos y su aprovechamiento económico en Bahía Santa Elena, Costa Rica
(Universidad Nacional (Costa Rica), 2021)En este trabajo se realizó una caracterización geomorfológica de los sustratos marinos y los elementos abióticos asociados a la bahía Santa Elena, donde encontramos arrecifes rocosos, playas arenosas, playas rocosas y zonas ... -
Cloning, purification and characterization of nigrelysin, a novel actinoporin from the sea anemone Anthopleura nigrescens
(Elsevier B.V., 2019)Actinoporins constitute a unique class of pore-forming toxins found in sea anemones that being secreted as soluble monomers are able to bind and permeabilize membranes leading to cell death. The interest in these proteins ... -
Distribución y abundancia de las ascidias de los fondos rocosos de la Bahía de Cuajiniquil, Costa Rica
(Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras "José Benito Vives de Andréis" (Colombia), 2010)Las ascidias de la costa del Pacífico centroamericano están muy poco estudiadas a pesar de que este grupo se destaca entre los miembros de la fauna bentónica de los fondos duros de la región. Teniendo en cuenta lo anterior, ... -
Ecological Integrity Impairment and Habitat Fragmentation for Neotropical Macroinvertebrate Communities in an Agricultural Stream
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) (Suiza), 2022)The Volcán River watershed in the south Pacific of Costa Rica comprises forests, small urban settlements, cattle fields, and intensive agriculture (mostly pineapple and sugarcane). The ecological integrity and quality ... -
Estructura y composición en un manglar del Pacífico Central de Costa Rica: población de moluscos de interés comercial
(Universidad Nacional (Costa Rica), 2024-01-01)[Objetivo]. Se evaluó el manglar de Chacarita en el Pacífico Central de Costa Rica, a través de la composición florística y las poblaciones de moluscos asociados de interés comercial, con el fin de proponer actividades ... -
Groundwater recharge mechanisms inferred from isoscapes in a complex tropical mountainous region
(AGU Publications, 2016-05-23)Stable isotope variations and groundwater recharge mechanisms remain poorly understood across the tropics, particularly in Central America. Here stable isotopes (δ18O and δ2H) in groundwater, surface water, and rainfall ... -
Growth and photosynthetic performance of five tree seedlings species in response to natural light regimes from the Central Pacific of Costa Rica
(Universidad de Costa Rica, 2013)Growth and photosynthetic performance of five seedlings of tree species in response to natural light regimes in the Central Pacific of Costa Rica. Environmental heterogeneity mostly dominated by differing light regimes ... -
Influence of oceanographic conditions on nesting abundance, phenology and internesting periods of east Pacific green turtles
(Springer Verlag, 2019)Sea turtles are migratory animals that travel from foraging grounds to specifc nesting beaches every few years and that, therefore, can be infuenced by oceanographic conditions in several diferent habitats. We assessed ... -
Numerical modeling of tsunamis originated at Colombia-Ecuador Trench for Costa Rica
(IV Assembly of the Latin American and Caribbean Seismological Commission, LACSC 2022, 2022-10-04)Costa Rica is exposed to tsunamis at both Pacific and Caribbean coasts. Costa Rica has experienced 41 tsunamis since 1746 with moderated impact (Chacón-Barrantes et al., 2021), but the coastal population has increased ... -
Posicionamiento taxonómico del género Neogonodactylus mediante marcadores moleculares y biometría en Bahía Santa Elena y Bahía Thomas, Pacífico Norte, Costa Rica
(Universidad Nacional (Costa Rica), 2021)Los estomatópodos poseen una morfología que los distingue del resto de especies de la clase Malacostraca, las características que más destacan son, los ojos, los maxlípedos, los apéndices raptoriales, el telson y la placa ...