The polluting of marine ecosystems with plastics is both a global and a local problem with potentially severe consequences for wildlife, economic activity, and human health. It is a problem that originates in countries ...

Landcover change has substantially reduced the amount of tropical rain forests since the 1950s. Little is known about the extent of remaining forest types. A multivariate analysis of 144 forest plots across Costa Rica's ...

Human land use threatens global biodiversity and compromises multiple ecosystem functions critical to food production. Whether crop yield–related ecosystem services can be maintained by a few dominant species or rely on ...

The current study shows the process and the results of a methodology proposed to contribute with the issue of how to evaluate the adaptation to climate variability and future climate change. The proposed methodology consists ...

Un inventario reciente de los bosques secundarios en terrenos potenciales para la producción de madera en Puerto Rico, indica que casi la mitad de ellos (52000 ha) ya contiene, sin sembrarlos, una nueva cosecha potencial ...

Este trabajo se llevó a cabo en la Estación Experimental de Hule, en Turrialba, Costa Rica, de Octubre de 1953 a Julio de 1954. Se deseaba producir plántulas de Hevea con deficiencias minerales conocidas y estudiar el ...

The gap modelig approach was used to develop a simulation model for Pentaclethra forests of the Central American Atlantic Moist ecoregion. The model uses empirically estimated functions fitted from a eight-years field ...