Browsing Artículos científicos by Subject "BIODIVERSITY"
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...