Costa Rican ecosystems
By: edited by Maarten Kappelle
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 744
ISBN-13: 9780226121505; 9780226278933; 9780226121642
Subjects: Ecology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface / Maarten Kappelle; title: Introduction. Costa Rica's ecosystems: setting the stage / Maarten Kappelle; title: The physical environment. Climate of Costa Rica / Wilberth Herrera ; Geology and tectonic geomorphology of Costa Rica: a natural history approach / Guillermo E. Alvarado and Guaria Cárdenes ; Soils of Costa Rica: an agroecological approach / Alfredo Alvarado and Rafael Mata; title: The Pacific Ocean and Isla del Coco. The Pacific coastal-marine ecosystem / Jorge Cortés ; The Gulf of Nicoya Estuarine ecosystem / José A. Vargas ; Isla del Coco: coastal and marine ecosystems / Jorge Cortés ; Isla del Coco: terrestrial ecosystems / Michel Montoya; title: The Northern Pacific dry lowlands. The Northern Pacific lowland seasonal dry forests of Guanacaste and the Nicoya Peninsula / Quírico Jiménez M., Eduardo Carrillo J., and Maarten Kappelle ; Biodiversity conservation history and future in Costa Rica: the case of Área de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG) / Daniel H. Janzen and Winnie Hallwachs; title: The Central and Southern Pacific seasonally moist lowlands and Central Valley. The Central Pacific seasonal forests of Puntarenas and the Central Valley / Quírico Jiménez M. and Eduardo Carrillo J. ; The Southern Pacific lowland evergreen moist forest of the Osa Region / Lawrence E. Gilbert, Catherine Christen, Mariana Altrichter, John T. Longino, Peter M. Sherman, Rob Plowes, Monica B. Swartz, Kirk O. Winemiller, Jennifer A. Weghorst, Andres Vega, Pamela Phillips, Christopher Vaughan, and Maarten Kappelle; title: The moist and clouded highlands. The Montane cloud forests of the volcanic Cordilleras / Robert O. Lawton, Marcy F. Lawton, R. Michael Lawton, and James D. Daniels ; The Montane cloud forests of the Cordillera de Talamanca / Maarten Kappelle ; The Páramo ecosystem of Costa Rica's highlands / Maarten Kappelle and Sally P. Horn; title: The wet Caribbean lowlands. The Caribbean lowland evergreen moist and wet forests / Deedra McClearn, Enrique Castro, Ronald C. Coleman, Javier F. Espeleta, Carlos García-Robledo, Alex Gilman, José González, Armond T. Joyce, Erin Kuprewicz, John T. Longino, Nicole L. Michel, Carlos Manuel Rodríguez, Andrea Romero, Carlomagno Soto, Orlando Vargas, Amanda Wendt, Steven Whitfield, and Robert M. Timm; title: The Caribbean Sea and shore. The Caribbean coastal and marine ecosystems / Jorge Cortés; title: The rivers, lakes, and wetlands. Rivers of Costa Rica / Catherine M. Pringle, Elizabeth P. Anderson, Marcelo Ardón, Rebecca J. Bixby, Scott Connelly, John H. Duff, Alan P. Jackman, Pia Paaby, Alonso Ramírez, Gaston E. Small, Marcia N. Snyder, Carissa N. Ganong, and Frank J. Triska ; Lakes of Costa Rica / Sally P. Horn and Kurt A. Haberyan ; Bogs, marshes and swamps of Costa Rica / Jorge A. Jiménez; title: Conclusion. Costa Rican ecosystems: a brief summary / Maarten Kappelle.