• Fungi with history: Unveiling the mycobiota of historic documents of Costa Rica 

      Escudero Leyva, Efraín; Vieto Fonseca, Sofía; Avendaño Vega, Roberto; Rojas Gätjens, Diego; Agüero Gamboa, Paola; Pacheco Ureña, Carlos; Montero Villalobos, Mavis Lili; Chaverri Echandi, Priscila; Chavarría Vargas, Max (2022-06-12)
      Through nondestructive techniques, we studied the physicochemical characteristics and mycobiota of five key historic documents from Costa Rica, including the Independence Act of Costa Rica from 1821. We determined that for ...
    • Rapid shift in microbial community structure in a neutral hydrothermal hot spring from Costa Rica 

      Rojas Gätjens, Diego; Arce Rodríguez, Alejandro; Puente Sánchez, Fernando; Avendaño Vega, Roberto; Libby Hernández, Eduardo; Conejo Barboza, Geraldine; Mora Amador, Raúl Alberto; Rojas Jiménez, Keilor Osvaldo; Pieper, Dietmar H.; Chavarría Vargas, Max (2020)
      In this work, we characterize the geochemistry and microbial community of Bajo las Peñas, a neutral (pH 6.5-7.4), hot spring (T = 62.0-68.0°C) located near Turrialba Volcano, Costa Rica. The microbiota at its two sources ...
    • Tropical Atmospheric Corrosion of Galvanized Steel, in a light urban atmosphere in the San José Valley of Costa Rica 

      Rodríguez Yáñez, Javier E.; Uruchurtu Chavarin, Jorge; Sanabria Chinchilla, Jean (2022)
      Costa Rica imports most of the metallic materials it uses. In construction, Galvanized Steel (GS) is one of the most used elements in urban areas, where atmospheric corrosion is the main problem of its environmental ...