• Informe de la expedición científica UCR-UNA-COCO-IV 

      Moreno Díaz, Mary Luz; Gavlas, Ann Marie; Cortés Núñez, Jorge; Morales Ramírez, Álvaro; Lizano Rodríguez, Omar Gerardo; Alfaro Martínez, Eric J.; Sibaja Cordero, Jeffrey Alejandro; Gómez Ramírez, Eddy; Nivia Ruiz, Jaime; Murillo Zumbado, Gustavo; García Céspedes, Jairo; Ruiz Campos, Eleazar; Salazar Murillo, Alberto Jesús (2011-07-20)
      El proyecto “Interacción océano-atmósfera y la biodiversidad marina del Parque Nacional Isla del Coco, Costa Rica” es financiado por el Consejo Nacional de Rectores (CONARE). Del 30 de junio al 10 de julio del 2011, un ...
    • INFORME FINAL, Proyecto: Interacción océano-atmósfera y la biodiversidad marina del Parque Nacional Isla del Coco, Costa Rica 

      Alfaro Martínez, Eric J.; Lizano Rodríguez, Omar Gerardo; Acuña González, Jenaro; Cortés Núñez, Jorge; Morales Ramírez, Álvaro; Brenes Rodríguez, Carlos; Ballestero Sakson, Daniel; Moreno Díaz, Mary Luz (2012-11-30)
      La Isla del Coco es la única isla oceánica de América Central y el único punto emergido de la montaña submarina, Cordillera Volcánica de Coco, que se extiende desde las Islas Galápagos, Ecuador hasta la Península de Osa, ...
    • Intra- and inter-annual variation in a seagrass meadow on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica: 2009-2015 

      Loría Naranjo, Margarita; Samper Villarreal, Jimena; Sandoval Siles, Marylaura; Cortés Núñez, Jorge (2018)
      Seagrass beds are an important ecosystem on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica. At Cahuita National Park (CNP) a seagrass bed at Perezoso has been monitored continually since 1999 within the CARICOMP program. Thalassia ...
    • Marine biodiversity baseline for Área de Conservación Guanacaste, Costa Rica: published records 

      Cortés Núñez, Jorge (2017)
      The diversity of tropical marine organisms has not been studied as intensively as the terrestrial biota worldwide. Additionally, marine biodiversity research in the tropics lags behind other regions. The 43,000 ha Sector ...
    • Marine Biodiversity in the Caribbean: Regional Estimates and Distribution Patterns 

      Miloslavich de Klein, Patricia; Díaz Merlano, Juan Manuel; Klein Salas, Eduardo; Alvarado Barrientos, Juan José; Díaz, Cristina; Gobin, Judith F.; Escobar Briones, Elva; Cruz Motta, Juan José; Weil, Ernesto; Cortés Núñez, Jorge; Bastidas, Carolina; Robertson, Ross; Zapata, Fernando A.; Martín Zazo, Alberto; Castillo, Julio; Kazandjian, Aniuska; Ortíz, Manuel (2010)
      This paper provides an analysis of the distribution patterns of marine biodiversity and summarizes the major activities of the Census of Marine Life program in the Caribbean region. The coastal Caribbean region is a large ...
    • Marine Biodiversity of Eastern Tropical Pacific Coral Reefs 

      Cortés Núñez, Jorge; Enochs, Ian C.; Sibaja Cordero, Jeffrey Alejandro; Hernández, Luis; Alvarado Barrientos, Juan José; Breedy Shadid, Odalisca; Cruz Barraza, José Antonio; Esquivel Garrote, Octavio; Fernández García, Cindy; Hermosillo, Alicia; Kaiser, Kirstie L.; Medina Rosas, Pedro; Morales Ramírez, Álvaro; Pacheco, Cristian; Pérez Matus, Alejandro; Reyes Bonilla, Héctor; Riosmena Rodríguez, Rafael; Sánchez Noguera, Celeste; Wieters, Evie A.; Zapata, Fernando A. (2017)
      The eastern tropical Pacific (ETP) is an isolated oceanic region exposed to extreme oceanographic conditions, including low salinity, low pH, high temperatures during El Niño, and low temperatures during La Niña and seasonal ...
    • Natural ocean acidification at Papagayo upwelling system (north Pacific Costa Rica): implications for reef development 

      Sánchez Noguera, Celeste; Stuhldreier, Ines; Cortés Núñez, Jorge; Jiménez Centeno, Carlos; Morales Ramírez, Álvaro; Wild, Christian; Rixen, Tim (2018)
      Numerous experiments have shown that ocean acidification impedes coral calcification, but knowledge about in situ reef ecosystem response to ocean acidification is still scarce. Bahía Culebra, situated at the northern ...
    • New records of gelatinous zooplankton from an oceanic island in the Eastern Tropical Pacific 

      Corrales Ugalde, Marco; Quesada, Andrés J.; Naranjo Elizondo, Beatriz; Cortés Núñez, Jorge (2017)
      Gelatinous zooplankton are an abundant and diverse group of animals in the pelagic environment. However, knowledge of species diversity and spatial distributions, as well as their ecological role, is scarce. We present ...
    • Pesca artesanal en Bahía Salinas, Guanacaste: factores ambientales y socioeconómicos relevantes para su gestión 

      Zavala Álvarez, Delia (2013)
      La comunidad de El Jobo es una zona dedicada de forma exclusiva a la pesca artesanal. No obstante, presenta capturas por unidad de esfuerzo muy bajas durante todo el año, a pesar de mostrar un afloramiento costero que ...
    • Seasonal phenology of Sargassum liebmannii J. Agardh (Fucales, Heterokontophyta) in an upwelling area of the Eastern Tropical Pacific 

      Cortés Núñez, Jorge; Samper Villarreal, Jimena; Bernecker Lucking, Andrea (2014)
      Seasonal changes in growth, biomass, abundance and reproduction of brown algae have been reported from subtropical and temperate regions, but there are very few reports from tropical regions, and none from the Eastern ...
    • Upwelling Increases Net Primary Production of Corals and Reef-Wide Gross Primary Production Along the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica 

      Stuhldreier, Ines; Sánchez Noguera, Celeste; Roth, Florian; Cortés Núñez, Jorge; Rixen, Tim; Wild, Christian (2015-12-23)
      Photosynthetic production is a key ecosystem service provided by tropical coral reefs, but knowledge about the contribution of corals and other reef-associated organisms and the controlling environmental factors is scarce. ...
    • Widespread local chronic stressors in Caribbean coastal habitats 

      Chollett, Iliana; Collin, Rachel; Bastidas, Carolina; Cróquer, Aldo; Gayle, Peter M. H.; Jordán Dahlgren, Eric; Patterson, Heather M.; Koltes, Karen H.; Oxenford, Hazel A.; Rodríguez Ramírez, Alberto; Weil, Ernesto; Alemu I., Jahson B.; Bone, David; Buchan, Kenneth C.; Creary Ford, Marcia; Escalante Mancera, Edgar; Garzón Ferreira, Jaime; Guzmán Espinal, Héctor M.; Kjerfve, Björn; Klein Salas, Eduardo; McCoy, Croy; Potts, Arthur C.; Ruíz Rentería, Francisco; Smith, Struan R.; Tschirky, John J.; Cortés Núñez, Jorge (2017)
      Coastal ecosystems and the livelihoods they support are threatened by stressors acting at global and local scales. Here we used the data produced by the Caribbean Coastal Marine Productivity program (CARICOMP), the longest, ...