Precolumbians - which could not obtain imported foods - must have been self supporting until the Europeans destroyed their societies. Today Peru has to import a large proportion of its basic food. With rapid increasinng population, the gap existing between the needs and the productions may soon become a...
This time we try to review the always amazing world of cacti flowers, its morphology, its importance in maintaining the different plant species and the many ways of interrelationship between and their pollinators....
the authors, lectures on ecology at San Marcos University, present in this paper part of the preliminar results of their studies for conservation of Zárate forest. They discribe general aspects o the forest, including local names and catalogues of the flora and fauna. They also cconsider some interestin...
Maria koephe distinnguished bersetf studying the birdfauna o Peru in relation to ecology. Her death in ar air place accident in 1971 was a tagic loose to ornithology and to Peru in particular. The present article was published in the "journal für Ornitologie" Vol. 115. 1974 in Bonn. The biography by Gü...
This paper wants ato emmphasise some little know points of the cactaceae family and the efforts in conservation of their species in order to prevent its extinction. Besides, it mentions some native species that must be protected and some suggestions about conservation of the flora....
The author - pathologic, university professor, and doctor (M.D.) - has bad ready for publication for more than ten years the text "Medical Geography o Peru ". Only some portions of it have been published to date (Anales de la facultad de medicina UNMSM; Revista de la Sociedada Peruana de Dermatología). ...
the Museo Paleopatológico (principally consisting of the Horkheimer Collection) in 1976 became the Museo Peruano de Ciencias de la Salud. Under the direction o its founder, Dr Fernando Cambieses, the museum is gradually becoming a center of investigation and research and a source o scientific informati...