Vol. 57 (3)
September / Setiembre 2009
CONTENTS / CONTENIDOS
Special Article / Artículo Especial
Gilbert Barrantes & Luis Sandoval
Conceptual and statistical problems associated with the use of diversity indices in ecology
Forum / Foro
Gabriel Quesada A.
Environmental Guarantees in the Constitution: a new ecological-political model for Costa Rica and the rest
of the world
Invited Article / Artículo Invitado
Priscilla Zamora-Trejos & Jorge Cortés
Costa Rica mangroves: the north Pacific
Microbiology / Microbiología
Carlos E. Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Evelyn Rodríguez-Cavallini & Rigoberto Blanco
Bacterial contamination of automotive fuels in a tropical region: the case of Costa Rica
Lilian M. Spencer, Guaniri Mateu, Sylvia Magaldi, Fabiola García & Sofia Mata-Essayag
Humoral response of paracoccidioidomycosis sera in hamsters with different Venezuelan isolates
Aquatic Vertebrates / Vertebrados Acuáticos
María Rondón Médicci, Joaquín Buitrago & Michael Mccoy
Impact of artificial light on nesting in the leatherback turtle Dermochelys coriacea (Testudines:
Dermochelyidae) at Cipara beach, Venezuela
Lenin Arias-Rodríguez, Salomón Páramo-Delgadillo, Wilfrido M. Contreras-Sánchez & Carlos
Alfonso Álvarez-González
Karyotype of the tropical gar Atractosteus tropicus Lepisosteiformes: Lepisosteidae) and chromosomal
variation in their larval and adults
César Román-Valencia, Dahiana K. Arcila-Mesa & Hernando Hurtado T.
Morphological variation in populations of Hemibrycon boquiae and H. rafaelense from Rio Cauca,
Colombia
Alfonso Aguilar-Perera, Carlos González-Salas, Armin Tuz-Sulub & Harold Villegas-
Hernández
Fishery of the Goliath grouper, Epinephelus itajara (Teleostei: Epinephelidae) based on local
ecological knowledge and fishery records in Yucatan, Mexico
Terrestrial Invertebrates / Invertebrados Terrestres
Javier H. Jerez-Jaimes & M. Catalina Bernal-Pérez
Velvet worm taxonomy from Santander, Colombia and thermogravimetry, differential scanning
calorimetry and infrared spectroscopy of the adhesive secretion (Onychophora: Peripatidae)
Wilfredo Oliva-Olivera & Raimundo Real
Land snails from the Viñales limestone highlands, Pinar del Río, Cuba
William Ramírez-Benavides, Julián Monge-Nájera & Juan B. Chavarría
Sex ratio in two species of Pegoscapus wasps (Hymenoptera: Agaonidae) that develop in figs: can
wasps do mathematics, or play sex ratio games?
José Martín Cano, Pilar Gurrea, Blanca Montalbán, Leticia Ureña & Javier Iglesias
Is the butterfly Tomares ballus (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) a potential pest of Lens culinaris (Leguminosae)?
Aquatic Ecology / Ecología Acuática
Yimmy Montoya M. & Néstor Aguirre R.
Nictemeral variation of physical and chemical variables in the Paticos wetland, Ayapel swamp
complex, Colombia
José N. Álvarez-Cadena, Uriel Ordóñez-López, Alma Rosa Almaral-Mendivil & Amira
Uicab-Sabido
Composition and abundance of zooplankton groups from a coral reef lagoon in Puerto Morelos,
Quintana Roo, Mexico, during an annual cycle
Humberto Wright-López Oscar Holguín-Quiñones, Francisco Arreguín-Sánchez & Irene
Roque-Villada
Growht and mortality of the mollusk Pteria sterna in wild banks of Southern Baja California,
Mexico
Liliana Gómez Luna, Antonio Sosa Montano, Isabel Moreno Castillo & Abdiel Jover
Capote
Biodiversity, morphometry and diet of Callinectes crabs (Decapoda: Portunidae) in Santiago de
Cuba
Alain Durán & Rodolfo Claro
The feeding activity of herbivorous fishes and their impact on coral reefs with different levels of
anthropogenic degradation
Edwis Bravo, Nora Eslava & Leo González
Growth and natural mortality of the fish Haemulon aurolineatum (Teleostei: Haemulidae) in the
Southwest of Margarita Island, Venezuela
Moshood K. Mustapha
Influence of watershed activities on the water quality and fish assemblages of a tropical African
reservoir
Gaspar González-Sansón, Consuelo Aguilar, Ivet Hernández, Yureidy Cabrera, Noelis
Suarez-Montes, Fernando Bretos & David Guggenheim
Natural and human-induced variability in the composition of fish assemblages in the Northwestern
Cuban shelf
Armando A. Ortega-Salas, Isabel Cortés G. & Hugo Reyes-Bustamante
Fecundity, growth, and survival of the angelfish Pterophyllum scalare (Perciformes: Cichlidae)
under laboratory conditions
Terrestrial Ecology / Ecología Terrestre
Rodrigo de Andrade Kersten, Marília Borgo & Sandro Menezes Silva
Diversity and distribution of vascular epiphytes in an insular Brazilian coastal forest
Ivón M. Ramírez Morillo, Francisco Chi May, Germán Carnevali & Filogonio May Pat
It takes two to tango: self incompatibility in the bromeliad Tillandsia streptophylla (Bromeliaceae)
in Mexico
Silvia Solís, Jorge Lobo & Mayori Grimaldo
Phenology and recruitment of Caryocar costaricense (Caryocaceae), an endemic tree species of
Southern Central America
Marcelo Nahuel Morandini & Marta Leonor de Viana
Pre-dispersal seed predation in three populations of the tree Enterolobium contortisiliquum (Fabaceae)
Adriana Hissae Hayashi & Beatriz Appezzato-da-Glória
Resprouting from roots in four Brazilian tree species
Jorge A. Leiva, Rafael Mata, Oscar J. Rocha & Marco V. Gutiérrez Soto
Chronology of tropical dry forest regeneration in Santa Rosa, Guanacaste, Costa Rica. I. Edaphic
characteristics
Jorge A. Leiva, Oscar J. Rocha, Rafael Mata & Marco V. Gutiérrez-Soto
Chronology of tropical dry forest regeneration in Santa Rosa, Guanacaste, Costa Rica. II.
Vegetation in relation to the soil
Javier Ruiz, Cherryl Ingram-Flóres, Douglas H. Boucher & Luis F. Chaves
Beneficial effect of spider presence on seedling recruitment of the tropical rainforest tree Dipteryx
oleifera (Fabaceae)
Javier A. López, Pablo A. Scarabotti, María C. Medrano & Romina Ghirardi
Is the red spotted green frog Hypsiboas punctatus (Anura: Hylidae) selecting its preys? The
importance of prey availability
John E. Steffen
Perch-height specific predation on tropical lizard clay models: implications for habitat selection
in mainland neotropical lizards
Federico A. Chinchilla
Seed predation by mammals in forest fragments in Monteverde, Costa Rica
Manuel Ruiz-García, María Martinez-Agüero, Diana Álvarez & Simon Goodman
Genetic variability in Neotropical deer genera (Mammalia: Cervidae) according to DNA microsatellite
loci
Book Reviews / Reseñas de Libros
Julián Monge-Nájera
Llorente-Bousquets, J. & J.J. Morrone. 2005. Regionalización biogeográfica en Iberoamérica
y tópicos afines
Julián Monge-Nájera
García G., J.E. & G. Fuentes G. (eds.). 2007. Opciones al uso unilateral de plaguicidas en
Costa Rica
