Las aves cumplen un rol crítico en los bosques tropicales al polinizar flores y dispersar las semillas de muchas especies (Kato 2017, Rocca y Sazima 2008, Stiles y Skuth 1989). Los colibríes son el principal grupo de aves ...

Habituation is the ability to passively reduce a response after repeated or prolonged exposures to a particular stimulus. From a cognitive perspective, habituation is a basic, information-gating process that contributes ...

In rats, environmental enrichment (EE) is a form of physical-social stimulation used for modeling the impact of optimal developmental conditions on animal’s phenotype. When implemented during early life, EE improves animal’s ...

En la actualidad se desarrollan y se cultivan comercialmente plantas transgénicas que expresan endotoxinas de Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) como biopesticida para el control específico de insectos. Sin embargo, se teme que ...

The campus of the University of Costa Rica in Limón port city, Costa Rica, known as Sede del Caribe (SC), includes a secondary forest of ca. 40 years old. This forest holds a great potential for environmental education, ...

Tourists can have a strong impact on the behaviour of wild animals, modifying foraging strategies, diet and habitat use, increasing stress, and altering communication and escaping behaviour. Such behavioural changes have ...

This article reports how to build and analyze student profiles to influence the perception that girls and young women have of the profession, and of the diverse work opportunities that exist in Computer Science in Costa ...