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Coffee breeding in a time of crisis: F1 hybrids in Central America since 1990

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 6, Issue 5, Page 1070-1079, September 2024.
Central America is renowned for producing some of the world's finest coffee, prized for its quality and flavor. With coffee being a major export crop for many countries, the region's economic, social, and cultural well‐being is closely linked to the success of its coffee industry.
Stuart McCook, Andrea Montero‐Mora
wiley   +1 more source

ELSEWHERES OF THE UNBUILT: The Global Effects of Transnational Energy Infrastructure Projects

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 48, Issue 5, Page 916-935, September 2024.
Abstract Pipelines and refineries, hydropower dams, and solar and wind power projects feeding into emerging transnational energy networks make up the thrust of a new push for infrastructural expansion in the global South. This article argues that understanding the effects of this expansion requires attending to the multiple elsewheres of transnational ...
Maren Larsen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exposure of protected areas in Central America to extreme weather events

open access: yesConservation Biology, Volume 38, Issue 4, August 2024.
Abstract Central America and the Caribbean are regularly battered by megadroughts, heavy rainfall, heat waves, and tropical cyclones. Although 21st‐century climate change is expected to increase the frequency, intensity, and duration of these extreme weather events (EWEs), their incidence in regional protected areas (PAs) remains poorly explored.
Juan David González‐Trujillo   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Los sucesos de la violencia. Mapeo de noticias sobre violencia contra las mujeres en el mes de julio de 2015 en los diarios La Prensa, Nicaragua y Prensa Libre, Guatemala

open access: yesCuadernos Inter.c.a.mbio sobre Centroamérica y el Caribe, 2016
En el presente artículo, las autoras analizan las noticias que abordan la violencia contra las mujeres en los periódicos La Prensa, Nicaragua y Prensa Libre, Guatemala en el mes de julio del año 2015.
Yanet Martínez Toledo   +1 more
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Interactions between nutrients and fruit secondary metabolites shape bat foraging behavior and protein absorption

open access: yesEcosphere, Volume 15, Issue 4, April 2024.
Abstract Frugivore foraging behavior is largely influenced by two key groups of chemical traits: nutrients and secondary metabolites. Many secondary metabolites function in plant defense, but their consumption can negatively impact both mutualistic and antagonistic frugivores, often due to toxic properties of the metabolites or through nutrient ...
Mariana Gelambi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Geodynamics Project

open access: yesGeofísica Internacional, 1973
Se presenta un bosquejo histórico del desarrollo de las ideas sobre dinámica de la tierra, y sobre los procesos que originan su constitución exterior. Este desarrollo culmina con el Proyecto de Geodinámica, una empresa científica internacional auspiciada
Charles L. Drake
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Illuminating arthropod diversity in a tropical forest: Assessing biodiversity by automatic light trapping and DNA metabarcoding

open access: yesEnvironmental DNA, Volume 6, Issue 2, March–April 2024.
Metabarcoding of automatic light traps in a tropical forest reveals great diversity. Comparing metabarcoding to local long‐term monitoring program reveals this to be successful at capturing known diversity of focal species. Abstract Although studies of insect decline have recently dominated headlines worldwide, their interpretation requires caution ...
Daniel Souto‐Vilarós   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Empathy and attitudes toward protecting migrants from criminal violence

open access: yesLatin American Policy, Volume 15, Issue 1, Page 99-128, March 2024.
Abstract Migrants in Latin America are increasingly vulnerable to organized crime violence while en route to their destination. Public opinion regarding how to address this problem varies. While many residents of countries along migration routes support policies protecting migrants from organized crime, others oppose them. What explains this variation?
Rebecca Bell‐Martin   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Edelberto Torres-Rivas

open access: yesRevista de Historia, 2020
Los aportes de Edelberto Torres a la sociología de Centroamérica y de América Latina han sido ampliamente presentados, en especial desde su fallecimiento acaecido el 31 de diciembre del 2018.
Rafael Cuevas Molina
doaj   +1 more source

El fideicomiso de acciones de la sociedad concesionaria como garantía de los acreedores en la concesión de obra con servicio público en Costa Rica

open access: yesDerecho PUCP, 2011
El fideicomiso de garantía de las acciones de la sociedad concesionaria ha permitido los step in rights de los acreedores en los proyectos de concesión en Costa Rica.
Luis Ortiz Zamora
doaj  

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