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Litterfall dynamics and nutrient cycling under different tropical forest restoration strategies in southern Costa Rica
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2010)
Islas (árboles sembrados en parches de tres tamaños), Control (regeneración natural) y Bosque Secundario joven (7-9 años). Los tratamientos (parcelas de 50 x 50m) fueron establecidos en junio de 2004 en seis sitios en el ...
A functional trait based approach to understand tropical forest composition and function in a Costa Rican landscape
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2014)
Quantifying the factors driving tropical forest composition, structure and function is a continuous area of ecological research. Recently, novel approaches have enabled research
questions on this topic to be addressed not ...
Effects of tropical forest fragmentation on ecology and conservation of migrant and resident birds in lowland Costa Rica
(University of Idaho, Moscow, ID (EUA), Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2007)
The overall objetive of my research was to understand the value of forest fragments to a diverse group of rainforest birds that depend on lowland tropical rainforest for their survival at one part or all of their annual ...
Estimation of aquifer recharge measured by the isotopic fractionation of water vapor and the hydrological balance of the soil in the dry tropical forest of Costa Rica
(Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), 2022)
It develop an approach of an hourly, lumped, conceptual, tracer-aided water balance model that simulates aquifer recharge in a dry tropical forest in Costa Rica. The model considers evaporative fractionation by estimating ...
Land use effects on geometrid and arctiine moth assemblages in the tropical lowlands of southwestern Costa Rica
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2014)
Land use change is one of the greatest threats to biodiversity in tropical human dominated landscapes. Biodiversity assessments provide useful information on the responses of different taxa to these anthropogenic changes, ...
Dry season cattle grazing in the seasonally dry tropical forests of Costa Rica: importance in cattle ranching livelihoods and impacts on forest botanical composition and diversity
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2019)
Central American seasonally dry tropical forests (SDTFs) are one of the most endangered ecosystems in the world, with little surface area under formal conservation status. Although there are no old-growth dry forests left ...
Soil carbon stocks on a tropical forest altitudinal gradient are correlated with bioclimatic factors, soil properties and vegetation functional properties
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2017)
Tropical forests are recognized as the most diverse ecosystems in terms of their wealth and relative abundance. Within these, tropical mountain forests are acknowledged for their key role in the provision of ecosystem ...
Factors affecting variation in forest community characteristics and leaf-litter decomposition in tropical montane forest of Chiapas, México A functional ecology approach
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2016)
A functional ecology approach was combined with floristic studies to seek increased ecological understanding of forest characteristics and processes in the Central Highlands of Chiapas State, Mexico. The study had two main ...