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Diversidad y afinidades biogeográficas de los tiburones, rayas y quimeras (Chondrichthyes: Elasmobranchii, Holocephali) de México

Rev. biol. trop; 64 (4), 2016
Resumen:A pesar de la gran importancia ecológica, evolutiva y económica de los condrictios, su diversidad ha sido escasamente estudiada en México. En este estudio se describe la diversidad de especies de condrictios que se han registrado hasta el momento para México, la cual se compone de 214 especie...

Distribución altitudinal de la riqueza y composición de "ensamblajes" de aves en una zona montañosa al sur de Nayarit, México

Rev. biol. trop; 64 (4), 2016
Resumen:Los estudios sobre gradientes altitudinales han permitido examinar cambios en la riqueza y composición de los ensamblajes de aves, lo que hace posible obtener información sobre las variables ambientales que determinan su distribución y factores que definen la estructura. En este trabajo se des...

Large mammal community composition and density under a disturbance gradient in Northeast Costa Rica

Rev. biol. trop; 64 (4), 2016
Abstract:Large mammal communities, integral components of Neotropical ecosystems, are increasingly threatened by habitat fragmentation and degradation due to anthropogenic pressures and climate change. Lowland Neotropical palm forests harbor diverse mammal communities, including threatened and endangered...

Evaluación de análisis de endemicidad y PAE para identificar trazos generalizados, a partir de las serpientes del estado de Hidalgo, México

Rev. biol. trop; 64 (4), 2016
Resumen:Uno de los conceptos centrales en la Panbiogeografía es el trazo generalizado, el cual representa una biota ancestral que se ha fragmentado por eventos geológicos y puede recuperarse a través de distintos métodos, que incluyen el análisis de simplicidad de endemismos (PAE) y el análisis de ...

Efecto de borde en la distribución de líquenes y el contenido de clorofilas en fragmentos de Polylepis quadrijuga (Rosaceae) en el páramo de La Rusia (Boyacá-Colombia)

Rev. biol. trop; 64 (4), 2016
Resumen:La fragmentación de los ecosistemas es uno de los fenómenos antrópicos de mayor impacto global, y el efecto borde provoca que solo el interior de los fragmentos conserve sus características bióticas y abióticas originales. Los líquenes son organismos especialmente susceptibles a la variabi...

A living fossil Tetrapus fig wasp (Hymenoptera: Agaoninae) developing in extant Neotropical fig species (Moraceae: Ficus, section Pharmacosycea )

Rev. biol. trop; 64 (4), 2016
Abstract:It has been assumed that Tetrapus female wasps (Agaonidae s.s.), the pollinators of the figs of the New World, section Pharmacosycea, are mainly characterized by the presence of one mandibular appendange only, and that it is the most ancestral clade of extant Agaonidae s.s., and the males are te...

One year weekly dynamics of limnological conditions and phytoplankton in Lake Bonilla, Costa Rica

Rev. biol. trop; 64 (4), 2016
Abstract:The detailed response of tropical lake phytoplankton to weather variations has been little studied, but it seems that composition varies in response to rain and wind variability over the course of the year. In order to gather more evidence on this variation, the weekly variability of phytoplankt...

Identification and genetic diversity analysis of Memecylon species using ISSR, RAPD and Gene-Based DNA barcoding tools

Electron. j. biotechnol; 19 (6), 2016
Background: Memecylon species are commonly used in Indian ethnomedical practices. The accurate identification is vital to enhance the drug's efficacy and biosafety. In the present study, PCR based techniques like RAPD, ISSR and DNA barcoding regions, such as 5s, psbA-trnH, rpoC1, ndh and atpF-atpH, were ...

Understory bat roosts, availability and occupation patterns in a Neotropical rainforest of Costa Rica

Rev. biol. trop; 64 (3), 2016
Abstract:The strong link between bats and their roosts is widely recognized as being particularly significant. Despite this, roosting ecology of bats is poorly understood and much of the basic information is still unknown. In this study, we investigated the availability and occupation patterns of four ro...

Scorpion maintenance in captivity for venom extraction in Costa Rica

Rev. biol. trop; 64 (3), 2016
Abstract:Approximately 2 000 scorpion species can be found around the world; although few species are considered "harmful" to human beings, a high number of scorpionism cases are reported all over the world. The elaboration of anti-scorpion sera requires the establishment of an animal collection maintain...