Vol. 55 (1)
March / Marzo 2007
CONTENTS / CONTENIDOS
In Memoriam
Zaidett Barrientos & Monika Springer
Dwight Willard Taylor “Don Guillermo”
Ecology and Conservation/ Ecología y Conservación
Surajit Das, P.S. Lyla & S. Ajmal Khan
Biogeochemical processes in the continental slope of Bay of Bengal: I. Bacterial solubilization of
inorganic phosphate
Luisa Fernanda Lema Vélez & Jaime Polanía
Structure and dynamics of the mangrove forest in the Ranchería river delta, Colombian Caribbean [Spanish]
Ana C. Fonseca E., Jorge Cortés & Priscilla Zamora
Monitoring the Gandoca, Costa Rica, mangrove forest [Spanish]
Farid A. Tabash Blanco
A biogeochemical model for the Gulf of Nicoya, Costa Rica [Spanish]
Ignacio Winfield, Sergio Cházaro-Olvera & Fernando Álvarez
Does sea-grass biomass control the density of peracarids (Crustacea: Peracarida) in tropical lagoons? [Spanish]
Ana C. Fonseca E., Vanessa Nielsen M. & Jorge Cortés
Seagrass monitoring at Perezoso, Cahuita, Costa Rica (CARICOMP site) [Spanish]
Sylvie Tomanova & Pablo Tedesco
Body size, ecological tolerance and potential for water quality bioindication in the genus Anacroneuria (Plecoptera: Perlidae) from South America [Spanish]
Enrique Reyes Novelo, Hugo Delfín-González & Miguel Ángel Morón
Copro-necrophagous beetle (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) diversity in an agroecosystem in Yucatan, Mexico
R. Carrillo, R. Alarcón & M. Neira
The effects of carabid beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) on the arthropod fauna of wheat fields in Chile
Biomedicine and Applied Parasitology / Biomedicina y Parasitología Aplicada
Fernando Chaves, Mauricio Chacón, Beatriz Badilla & Carolina Arévalo
Effect of Echinacea purpurea (Asteraceae) aqueous extract on antibody response to Bothrops
asper venom and immune cell response
Rafael-Oswaldo Angel B., Misael Chinchilla C., Olga Marta Guerrero B. & Alfredo Castro C.
In vitro growth kinetics of two Trypanosoma cruzi (Kinetoplastida: Trypanosomatidae) clones in
myocardial cells from rodents of different susceptibility [Spanish]
Roger I. Rodríguez-Vivas, Franklin J. Quiñones-Avila, Genny T. Ramírez-Cruz, David Cruz & Gale Wagner
Isolation of a field strain of Babesia bigemina (Piroplasma: Babesiidae) and establishment of in
vitro culture for antigen production [Spanish]
Aquatic Invertebrates / Invertebrados Acuáticos
Amparo Canosa & Gabriel Pinilla
Relations between bacterioplankton and phytoplankton abundance in three lentic ecosystems in
the Colombian Andes [Spanish]
Ana Lía Estévez & John T. Polhemus
The small species of Belostoma (Heteroptera: Belostomatidae): Revision of plebejum group
María Jesús Ferrara-Guerrero, María Elena Castellanos-Páez & Gabriela Garza-Mouriño
Variation of a benthic heterotrophic bacteria community with different respiratory metabolisms
in Coyuca de Benítez coastal lagoon (Guerrero, Mexico)
Cedar I. García-Ríos, Migdalia Álvarez-Ruiz, José E. Barraza, Ana M. Rivera & Carlos R. Hasbún
Chitons (Mollusca: Polyplacophora) from El Salvador, Central America [Spanish]
Cedar I. García Ríos & Migdalia Álvarez Ruiz
Polyplacophoran communities (Mollusca: Polyplacophora) at Bahía de la Paz, Baja California
Sur, México [Spanish]
Andrés Martín Góngora Gómez, Ana Laura Domínguez Orozco, Norma Patricia Muñoz
Sevilla & Luis Alfonso Rodríguez Gil
Obtaining of egg masses of the snail, Strombus pugilis (Mesogastropoda: Strombidae) under
laboratory conditions [Spanish]
J.A. Calderón-Pérez, S. Rendón-Rodríguez & R. Solís-Ibarra
Daily cycle and body characteristics of mating Litopenaeus vannamei shrimps (Decapoda:
Penaeidae) in the wild off southern Sinaloa, Mexico [Spanish]
Sergio Rendón Rodríguez, Emilio Macías Regalado, José Antonio Calderón Pérez,
Arturo Núñez Pastén & Rafael Solís Ibarra
Comparison of some reproductive characteristics of farmed and wild white shrimp males
Litopenaeus vannamei (Decapoda: Penaeidae)
Farid A. Tabash Blanco
Exploitation of the shrimp trawl fishery in the period 1991-1999 at the Gulf of Nicoya, Costa
Rica [Spanish]
Megan E. Griffiths, Basma A. Mohammad & Andres Vega
Dry season distribution of land crabs, Gecarcinus quadratus (Crustacea: Gecarcinidae), in
Corcovado National Park, Costa Rica
Luis Hernández & José Alfredo Arreola-Lizárraga
Size frequency distribution and growth of the crabs Callinectes arcuatus and C. bellicosus (Decapoda: Portunidae) in las Guásimas coastal lagoon, Mexico [Spanish]
Héctor J. Ortiz-León, Alberto de Jesús-Navarrete & Eloy Sosa Cordero
Temporal and spatial distribution of the crab Callinectes sapidus (Decapoda: Portunidae) in
Chetumal Bay, Quintana Roo, Mexico [Spanish]
Aida Hernández-Zanuy, José Luis Carballo, Alida García-Cagide, Santiago Naranjo & Macario Esquivel
Distribution and abundance of the ascidian Ecteinascidia turbinata (Ascidiacea: Perophoridae)
in Cuba [Spanish]
Patricio Tello, Viviane Jerez & Viviana Olmos
Leeches (Hirudinea: Glossiphoniidae) associated to Cryphiops caementarius (Decapoda:
Palaemonidae) of the Limarí river, Chile [Spanish]
Terrestrial Invertebrates / Invertebrados Terrestres
Z. Peña-Contreras, R.V. Mendoza-Briceño, L. Miranda-Contreras, E.L Palacios-Prü
Synaptic dimorphism in Onychophoran cephalic ganglia
Nico M. Franz
Pollination of Anthurium (Araceae) by derelomine flower weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)
Vertebrates / Vertebrados
Leo W. González, Jorge Euán, Nora Eslava & Jesús Suniaga
Association of sardine fishery, Sardinella aurita (Teleostei: Clupeidae) and environmental
variability of the coastal upwelling ecosystem of Nueva Esparta, Venezuela [Spanish]
Jorge E. Ramírez-Albores
Bird diversity and conservation of Alto Balsas (Southwestern Puebla), Mexico
Jorge E. López & Christopher Vaughan
Food niche overlap among neotropical frugivorous bats in Costa Rica
Fernanda Michalski, Peter G. Crawshaw JR., Tadeu G. de Oliveira & Marta E. Fabián
Efficiency of box-traps and leg-hold traps with several bait types for capturing small carnivores
(Mammalia) in a disturbed area of Southeastern Brazil
Special Article / Artículo Especial
Axel P. Retana-Salazar
Thysanopterans of the generic group Anaphothrips (Thripidae: Thripinae) with emphasis in
Central America [Spanish]
Book Review / Reseña de Libro
