• Nursery-reared coral outplanting success in an upwelling-influenced area in Costa Rica 

  Fabregat Malé, Sònia; Mena González, Sebastián; Alvarado Barrientos, Juan José (2023)

  Introduction: Environmental and intrinsic factors such as seawater temperature, salinity, nutrient concentration, upwelling, species, and life history can influence coral outplant survival and growth, and in consequence, ...

• Patterns of reef fish taxonomic and functional diversity in the Eastern Tropical Pacific 

  Dubuc, Alexia; Quimbayo, Juan Pablo; Alvarado Barrientos, Juan José; Araya Arce, Tatiana; Arriaga Madrigal, Andrea Yure; Ayala Bocos, Arturo; Casas Maldonado, José Julio; Chasqui Velasco, Luis Hernán; Cortés Núñez, Jorge; Cupul Magaña, Amilcar Levi; Olivier, Damien; Olán González, Manuel; González Leiva, Alberto; López Pérez, Ramón Andrés; Reyes Bonilla, Héctor; Smith, Franz; Rivera, Fernando; Rodríguez Zaragoza, Fabián Alejandro; Rodríguez Villalobos, Jenny Carolina; Segovia Prado, Johanna Vanessa; Zapata, Fernando A.; Bejarano, Sonia (2023)

  A core challenge in ecology is identifying the factors that determine species distribution and functional diversity of species assemblages. Reef fish are the most diverse group of vertebrates, form taxonomically rich and ...

• Echinoderm research perspectives: A Central American bibliometric review 

  Alvarado Barrientos, Juan José; Fabregat Malé, Sònia (2021)

  Introduction: Central America, a narrow strip of land dividing the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, has a high diversity of marine and terrestrial species. Echinoderms are one of the most diverse marine groups with 420 reported ...

• Distribution and diversity of echinoderms (Asteroidea, Echinoidea, Holothuroidea) in the islands of the Gulf of Chiriqui, Panama 

  Alvarado Barrientos, Juan José; Guzmán Espinal, Héctor M.; Breedy Shadid, Odalisca (2012-04)

  Los estudios de equinodermos en el Pacífico Panameño han sido enfocados principalmente en análisis moleculares y evolutivos, y los pocos trabajos ecológicos se han enfatizado en dos especies: Diadema mexicanum y Acanthaster ...

• Lissothuria caboblanquensis n. sp., a new species of sea cucumber (Holothuroidea: Dendrochirotida: Psolidae) from Costa Rica 

  Arriaga Ochoa, Julio A.; Alvarado Barrientos, Juan José; Solís Marín, Francisco Alonso; Laguarda Figueras, Alfredo (2014-05-23)

  A new species of sea cucumber of the genus Lissothuria Verrill, 1867 is described. Lissothuria caboblanquensis n. sp. was found in the Costa Rican Pacific, at 17 m depth. The presence of towers with spiny apex and the ...

• Bioerosion by the sea urchin Diadema mexicanum along Eastern Tropical Pacific coral reefs 

  Alvarado Barrientos, Juan José; Cortés Núñez, Jorge; Guzmán Espinal, Héctor M.; Reyes Bonilla, Héctor (2016-07-07)

  Bioerosion is a natural process in coral reefs. It is fundamental to the health of these ecosystems. In the Eastern Tropical Pacific (ETP) coral reefs, the most important bioeroders are sponges, bivalves, sea urchins and ...

• Diversidad de los hábitats submareales de la Península de Santa Elena e Islas Murciélago, Pacífico Norte, Costa Rica 

  Fernández García, Cindy; Salas Moya, Carolina; Mena González, Sebastián; Azofeifa Solano, Juan Carlos; Alvarado Barrientos, Juan José (2021-10-30)

  Introduction: Worldwide, coastal habitats are experiencing increasing pressure from pollution, coastal development, fisheries, and climate change. Identifying and recording coastal biodiversity is essential to assess ...

• Ascidian diversity of Costa Rica, including new records for the North Pacific 

  González Sánchez, Kaylen; Flores Alvarado, Bryan; Montiel Barrantes, Paula; Gómez Arce, Gonzalo; Alvarado Barrientos, Juan José (2021-10-30)

  Introduction: The class Ascidiacea has about 3 000 species, which fulfill various roles in the ecosystem, for example, they filter high amounts of particles, and are shelter and food for other animals. Furthermore, the ...

• Succession of the sessile benthic community at a coral reef restoration site 

  Chomitz Ray, Benjamin; Kleypas, Joan Anne; Cortés Núñez, Jorge; Alvarado Barrientos, Juan José (2023)

  Introduction: Ecosystem restoration facilitates ecological succession. When a coral reef experiences a disturbance, the community of sessile benthic organisms can follow a successional trajectory that favors the dominance ...

• Change in the composition of fauna associated with Pocillopora spp. (Scleractinia, Pocilloporidae) following transplantation 

  Chomitz Ray, Benjamin; Kleypas, Joan Anne; Cortés Núñez, Jorge; Alvarado Barrientos, Juan José (2023-04-30)

  Introduction: Associated fauna comprises most of the diversity of a coral reef and performs ecological functions essential to the reef’s survival. Since Pocillopora corals harbor an important associated fauna, reef ...

• The origin and speciation of orchids 

  Pérez Escobar, Oscar Alejandro; Bogarín Chaves, Diego Gerardo; Przelomska, Natalia A.S.; Ackerman, James D.; Balbuena, Juan A.; Bellot, Sidonie; Bühlmann, Roland P.; Cabrera, Betsaida; Aguilar Cano, José; Charitonidou, Martha; Chomicki, Guillaume; Clements, Mark A.; Cribb, Phillip; Fernández Campos, Melania; Flanagan, Nicola S.; Gravendeel, Barbara; Hágsater, Eric; Halley, John M.; Hu, Ai-Qun; Jaramillo Muñoz, Carlos Alberto; Mauad, Anna Victoria; Maurin, Olivier; Müntz, Robert; Leitch, Ilia J.; Li, Lan; Negrão, Raquel; Oses Salas, Lizbeth Melissa; Phillips, Charlotte; Rincón González, Milton; Salazar Chávez, Gerardo Adolfo; Simpson, Lalita; Smidt, Eric; Solano Gómez, Rodolfo; Parra Sánchez, Edicson; Tremblay, Raymond L.; van den Berg, Cassio; Villanueva Tamayo, Boris Stefan; Zuluaga Trochez, Alejandro; Zuntini, Alexandre; Chase, Mark W.; Fay, Michael; Condamine, Fabien L.; Forest, Félix; Nargar, Katharina; Renner, Susanne S.; Baker, William J.; Antonelli, Alexandre (2024)

  Orchids constitute one of the most spectacular radiations of flowering plants. However, their origin, spread across the globe, and hotspots of speciation remain uncertain due to the lack of an up-to-date phylogeographic ...

• The crown‑of‑thorns seastar species complex: knowledge on the biology and ecology of five corallivorous Acanthaster species 

  Uthicke, Sven; Pratchett, Morgan S.; Bronstein, Omri; Alvarado Barrientos, Juan José; Wörheide, Gert (2024-01)

  Coral-eating crown-of-thorns seastars (CoTS, Acanthaster spp.) are major contributors to the coral reef crises across the Indo-Pacific region. Until recently, CoTS throughout the Indo-Pacific were regarded to be a single ...

• Predators of the sea urchin Diadema mexicanum (Diadematoida: Diadematidae) at the Eastern Tropical Pacific coral reefs 

  Hernández Pérez, José Carlos; Alfonso Hernández, Beatriz; Guzmán Mora, Ana Gloria; Alvarado Barrientos, Juan José (2024)

  Introduction: The coral reefs of Isla del Coco National Park are some of the most pristine ecosystems on Earth. The sea urchin Diadema mexicanum (Diadematoida: Diadematidae) is a common inhabitant with a pivotal role in ...

• A posteriori error analysis of a semi-augmented finite element method for double-diffusive natural convection in porous media 

  Álvarez Guadamuz, Mario Andrés; Colmenares García, Eligio Antonio; Sequeira Chavarría, Filander A. (2024)

  This paper presents our contribution to the a posteriori error analysis in 2D and 3D of a semi-augmented mixed-primal finite element method previously developed by us to numerically solve double-diffusive natural convection ...

• Variation of the diet of the sea urchin (Diadema mexicanum (Diadematoida: Diadematidae)) according to its size in the Eastern Tropical Pacific 

  Bogantes Retana, Andrea; Barquero Jackson, José; Vargas Guerrero, Mario; Alvarado Barrientos, Juan José (2024-03)

  Introduction: The sea urchin Diadema mexicanum, due to its bioerosion activity, is considered of ecological importance. This phenomenon could negatively or positively affect coral reef ecosystems. The bioerosion process varies ...

• Central America urgently needs to reduce the growing adaptation gap to climate change 

  Ley, Débora; Guillén Bolaños, Tania; Castaneda, Antonethe; Hidalgo León, Hugo G.; Girot Pignot, Pascal Oliver; Fernández, Rodrigo; Alfaro Martínez, Eric J.; Castellanos López, Edwin Josué (2023-11-24)

  Central America is highly impacted by current extreme events associated with climate variability and the adverse effects of climate change, showing high vulnerability compounded by its historical context and socioeconomic ...

• Climate variability of precipitation in Ceará Region, Northeast of Brazil 

  da Silva, Maria Daniele Pereira Bessa; Alvarado Alcócer, Juan Carlos; da Silva, Maria Leidinice; Mora Sandí, Natali Pamela; Alfaro Martínez, Eric J.; Hidalgo León, Hugo G.; Pessoa, Paulo Roberto Silva; Pinto, Olienaide Ribeiro de Oliveira (2023-11-20)

  The state of Ceará is a semi-arid region located in the Northeast region of Brazil, characterized by an irregular rainy season, great climate variability mainly driven by the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO), Sea Surface ...

• Characterization of principal bundles: the noncommutative algebraic case 

  Ugalde Gómez, William Javier (2024)

  We review Hopf–Galois extensions, in particular faithfully flat ones, accepted to be the noncommutative algebraic dual of a principal bundle. We also make a short digression into how quantum groups relate to Hopf—Galois ...

• Central America [in State of the Climate in 2022] 

  Hidalgo León, Hugo G.; Amador Astúa, Jorge Alberto; Alfaro Martínez, Eric J.; Calderón Solera, Blanca; Mora Sandí, Natali Pamela (2023-09)

  This chapter provides summaries of the 2022 temperature and precipitation conditions across seven broad regions: North America, Central America and the Caribbean, South America, Africa, Europe and the Middle East, Asia, ...

• Presencia de hierro y manganeso en aguas subterráneas en Esparza y Orotina 

  Santamaría Garro, Roberto (2023)

  Se tomaron muestras del agua subterránea obtenida en pozos de abastecimiento para consumo humano de las localidades de San Juan Grande y Juanilama, en el cantón de Esparza, en Puntarenas, así como, Uvita y Coyolar de ...

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