Citation: Stuhldreier I, Sánchez-Noguera C, Roth F, Cortés J, Rixen T and Wild C (2015) Upwelling Increases Net Primary Production of Corals and Reef-Wide Gross Primary Production Along the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica. Front. Mar. Sci. 2:113. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2015.00113 Upwelling Increases Net Primary Production of Corals and Reef-Wide Gross Primary Production Along the Pacific Coast of Costa...

Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713817190 Differences in forest use and colonization by Neotropical tree-hole damselflies (Odonata: Pseudostigmatidae): Implications for forest conversion Ola M. Fincke a; Ingemar Hedström b a Department of Zoology, Un...

MÁRCIA DALASTRA LAURENTI*, LUIS FERNANDO CHAVES, THAÍSE YUMIE TOMOKANE, IBRAHIM ABBASI, ALON WARBURG and FERNANDO TOBIAS SILVEIRA Laboratory of Pathology of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pathology, Medical School, University of São Paulo, São Paulo (SP), Brazil Centro de Investigación en Enfermedades Tropicales, Universidad de Costa Rica, San Pedro de Montes de Oca, Costa Rica Programa de ...

The African hedgehog is one of the newly imported exotic pets which have been observed with increasing regularity in veterinary clinics in Costa Rica. Despite their popularity, information about their diseases is scarce. Within skin diseases of hedgehogs, mange caused by Caparinia spp. is a common diagnosis in other countries. Two adult African hedgehogs, one male and one female, were brought t...

Two new species of Protium (Burseraceae) are described and illustrated: Protium aguilariisp. nov., from the Pacific slope of the Osa Peninsula, Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica; and Protium hammeliisp. nov., from wet forests on the Caribbean slopes of Nicaragua and Costa Rica. In addition, Protium brenesiicomb. nov., is proposed as a new combination based on Trichilia brenesii, a name that was b...

Auxiliary nurses compare favourable with other health providers in mortality and morbidity. Working in shifts with low pay level and exposed to ergonomic, chemical and biological and mechanical agents, auxiliary nurses and related employees are a priority group for workplace health promotion (WHP). A total of 204 auxiliary nurses in three hospitals in Finland, Spain and Costa Rica participated ...

—The spectacular giant anole lizard Anolis insignis is widely distributed but infrequently collected outside of northern Costa Rica. We recently collected several individuals similar to Anolis insignis from localities in Panama and southern Costa Rica. These populations differ from type locality A. insignis in male dewlap color and morphology. We associate one set of these populations with Anol...

1 Department of Mathematics, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota 2 School of Physics, Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica 3 Department of Mathematics, Whittier College, Whittier, California 4 Department of Biology, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas 5 Applied Mathematics for the Life and Social Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 6 Glo...

For 16 years, Costa Rica was the only country in the world that banned IVF, after it had been successfully conducted from 1995 to 2000. It also has been the only country that banned IVF based on the argument that it protects the embryo. After years of conflict, the prohibition has finally been lifted and the first baby girl was born in March 2017. This paper recounts the judicial and legal stru...

A new genus of oak gallwasp, Coffeikokkos Pujade-Villar & Melika, gen. n., is described from Costa Rica. Diagnostic characters and generic limits of the new genus are discussed in detail. The new genus includes Coffeikokkos copeyensis Pujade-Villar & Melika, sp. n., which induces galls on stems of Quercus bumelioides, an endemic oak to Costa Rica, Honduras and Panama. The new species and galls ...