A5094200737- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
- Marine animal studies overview
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
Asociación Demográfica Costarricense
2024
While protected areas (PAs) are an important conservation strategy to protect vulnerable ecosystems and species, recent analyses question their effectiveness in curbing deforestation maintaining landscape connectivity. The spatial arrangement of forests inside outside PAs may affect ecosystem functioning wildlife movement. Osa Peninsula—and Costa Rica general—are unique case studies due high biodiversity, extensive PA network, environmental policies, payment for services (PES) programs. This...
Tree cavities are an important ecological component of forests, used by animals for roosting, foraging, hunting, nesting, hiding, and hibernating. However, there has been a taxonomic bias toward investigating cavity use birds, geographical temperate regions. We camera traps to understand mammal in tropical rainforest. did so relation two contexts: (1) artificial early-stage restored rainforest, (2) natural old-growth detected rich community 20 species single large ground bird around -with 17...