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Tracing holotype trajectories: Mapping the movement of the most valuable herbarium specimens
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Global efforts to protect biodiversity depend on fair access to key plant specimens. This study examines the distribution of 119,361 holotypes—unique herbarium specimens used to formally describe new plant species. By linking collection and storage data, we found that holotypes are increasingly held closer to their places of origin, particularly in ...
Dominik Tomaszewski +2 more
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Genres as Social Affect: Cultivating Moods and Emotions through Playlists on Spotify
Social Media + Society, 2019 This article bridges work on media technologies and affect theories through an analysis of how users appropriate playlists on Spotify. Our study draws on 30 interviews with users of music streaming services in Costa Rica and an analysis of their accounts
Ignacio Siles +3 more
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Borders Manifest: Racializing the Nicaraguan Refugee in Costa Rica [PDF]
, 2019 I look to border responses of North American countries as refugees and migrants move across them to argue that border responses racialize the foreign other in receiving countries.
Twidwell, Theodore B.
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Exploring Costa Rica's fungal trends: Insights from digitized specimens
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Fungi are essential to tropical ecosystems but remain largely absent from conservation agendas. By analyzing over 78,000 fungal records from Costa Rica—a globally recognized biodiversity hotspot—this study reveals key patterns in fungal diversity, distribution, and seasonality.
Melissa Mardones +2 more
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Revista Costarricense de Psicología, 2016 La discusión en torno a la influencia del ambiente sobre la ontogenia ha alimentado la interrogante sobre cuál es el grado en el que, a través de la manipulación del contexto, se modifican las características de los individuos.
Johanna Sibaja-Molina +3 more
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Costa Rica During the Global Recession: Fiscal Stimulus with Tight Monetary Policy [PDF]
This paper shows that, in spite of a reasonably sized fiscal stimulus package, Costa Rica’s economy continues on a downward path, partly because fiscal policy is being offset by a tightening of monetary policy.
Jose Antonio Cordero
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Niche breadth and overlap of Sphagnum species in Costa Rica [PDF]
, 1995 Niche breadth and overlap values of Sphagnum species in Costa Rica are similar to those reported for Sphagnum-dominated peatlands in North America. Sphagnum magellanicum Brid. and S.
McQueen, Cyrus B.
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Thirty years of glyphosate‐resistant crops and weeds: Current situation and future prospects
Pest Management Science, EarlyView.Since 1996, when the first glyphosate‐resistant crop was commercialized and the first resistant weed was reported, resistance has expanded globally. This review analyzes emergence patterns across weed species, crops, regions, resistance mechanisms, and herbicides.
Ricardo Alcántara‐de la Cruz +7 more
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Agronomía MesoamericanaIntroducción. La medición de la dureza del frijol cocido en Costa Rica se realiza con un método sensorial y sin un método instrumental estandarizado. Objetivo.
Fluvio Artavia-Vindas +4 more
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From Coffee Beans to Microchips: Export Diversification and Economic Growth in Costa Rica [PDF]
During the early 1980s Costa Rica experienced its worst economic crisis since World War II, which led to the abandonment of the import substitution model of development adopted in the 1960s.
Ferreira, Gustavo F.C.
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