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Annotated checklist of the freshwater fishes of continental and insular Costa Rica: additions and nomenclatural revisions [PDF]

open access: yesCheck List, 2013
Based on a combination of intensive literature review, electronic database searches, re-identification of museum specimens and fieldwork, we hereby provide an updated checklist of the freshwater fishes of continental and insular Costa Rica.
Arturo Angulo   +3 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Jorge Debravo (1938-1967): A dead poet in Costa Rican literature?

open access: yes, 2021
En este artículo académico dedicado a los 53 años de la muerte física del poeta turrialbeño Jorge Debravo, se presenta un estudio crítico-literario sobre el poema “No te ofrezco la paz hermano hombre” (1994), el cual no ha sido analizado en ningún documento académico encargado de estudiar su vida y obra.
openaire   +2 more sources

Varied motivations for secondary forest reclearing among landholders make forest persistence challenging

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Remote sensing studies show that ephemeral forest regeneration is widespread in the tropics, limiting the climate and biodiversity benefits from net increases in forest cover. Socioeconomic, biophysical and landscape variables can help explain the spatial distribution of reforestation reversals.
Francis H. Joyce
wiley   +1 more source

Más abajo de la piel como contestación al racismo (Más abajo de la piel as a Response to Racism)

open access: yesLetras, 2017
Se analiza la poética étnico-cultural de Más abajo de la piel, de Abel Pacheco, para destacar el tránsito de una visión negrista hacia una visión de la negritud.
Jorge Ramírez Caro
doaj   +1 more source

Limón’s Costa Rica of Color, Species and Land: A First Vegan Ecofeminist Queer Ecological Reading of Rossi’s Limón Reggae and Lobo’s Calypso

open access: yes452ºF, 2023
This essay applies a vegan ecofeminist queer ecological methodology to a comparative reading of two novels by Costa Rican authors, Limón Reggae (2007) by Anacristina Rossi, and Calypso (1996) by Tatiana Lobo.
Adriana Jimenez
doaj   +1 more source

Exploring Costa Rica's fungal trends: Insights from digitized specimens

open access: yesPLANTS, 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
wiley   +1 more source

Narratives from the Pineapple Republic. On national self-understanding and sustainability paradoxes in Costa Rica as detected in Adrián Jiménez Brais’ play PIÑA

open access: yesRevista Académica Arjé
The following article analyzes the play PIÑA (2023) by Costa Rican author Adrían Jiménez Brais. Based on an understanding of literature as a repository of social knowledge, where urgent narratives, discourses and issues are made visible and negotiated ...
Susanne Schlünder
doaj   +1 more source

Bananeraies et environnement : l’impact du mode d’exploitation

open access: yesBelgeo, 2009
After having presented the location logics in the two territories studied, we analyzed the differentiation factors of the Costa Rican and Martinican banana value chains, as to their influence on the environmental impact of the exploitations.
Benoît Quittelier
doaj   +1 more source

Borders Manifest: Racializing the Nicaraguan Refugee in Costa Rica [PDF]

open access: yes, 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.
core   +1 more source

Calibration of the species threat abatement and restoration metric's threat abatement component in a Costa Rican landscape

open access: yesConservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Achieving global conservation policy goals requires the ability to set and measure progress toward science‐based targets for biodiversity. The species threat abatement and restoration (STAR) metric was developed to enable actors to set science‐based targets for species.
Louise Mair   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source

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