Vol. 57 (4)
December / Diciembre 2009
CONTENTS / CONTENIDOS
Special Article / Artículo Especial
Luis D. Gómez P.
Plants and Charles Darwin
Microbiology / Microbiología
Andrea J. Mantilla-Paredes, Gladys. I. Cardona, Clara P. Peña-Venegas, Uriel Murcia, Mariana Rodríguez & Maria M. Zambrano
Distribution of potentially nitrogen-fixing bacteria and its relationship with physicochemical parameters in soils with three vegetation types in the southern Colombian Amazon region
Rafael Stuani Floriano, Rosa Maria Barilli Nogueira, Michiko Sakate, Cecília Braga Laposy, Yudney Pereira da Motta, Fabíola Sangiorgio, Heloísa Costa David & Joao Marcelo Nabas
Effect of Mikania glomerata (Asteraceae) leaf extract combined with anti-venom serum on experimental Crotalus durissus (Squamata: Viperidae) envenomation in rats
Marine Ecology / Ecología Marina
Elvira Alvarado Ch. & Alberto Acosta
Natural lesions and regeneration of ramets of Montastraea annularis (Scleractinia: Faviidae) in a degraded reef of the Colombian Caribbean
X. Guzmán-García, A.V. Botello, L. Martinez-Tabche & H. González-Márquez
Effects of heavy metals on the oyster (Crassostrea virginica) at Mandinga Lagoon, Veracruz, Mexico
Adriana López-Ordaz, Mario Ortaz & José G. Rodriguez-Quintal
Trophic network of a fish community in a seagrass bed in the Venezuelan Caribbean
Ivet Hernández Hernández, Consuelo Aguilar Betancourt & Gaspar González Sansón
Abundance variations of fishes from sites with different levels of pollution in the sublittoral sector of Havana City, Cuba
Oscar Delgadillo-Garzón & Camilo B. García
Impact of two artificial reefs on diurnal artisanal fishing at gulf of Morrosquillo, Colombian Caribbean
Freshwater Biology / Biología de Agua Dulce
Moshood K. Mustapha
Phytoplankton assemblage of a small, shallow, tropical African reservoir
Moshood K. Mustapha
Zooplankton assemblage of Oyun Reservoir, Offa, Nigeria
Jesús Alvarado-Flores, María Del Rosario Montoya-Garcia, Javier Ventura Juárez & Roberto Rico-Martínez
Immunodetection of Luteinizing Hormone (LH), Follicle-Stimulating Hormone (FSH),
Thyroid Stimulating Hormone (TSH) and Prolactin (PRl) in Brachionus calyciflorus (Rotifera: Monogononta)
María C. Tranchida, María V. Micieli, Arnaldo Maciá & Juan J. García
Native Argentinean cyclopoids (Crustacea: Copepoda) as predators of Aedes aegypti and Culex pipiens (Diptera: Culicidae) mosquitoes
Juan Felipe Blanco-Libreros & Andrea Arroyave-Rincón
Predator damage and shell size on the diadromous snail Neritina virginea (Gastropoda: Neritidae) in the Mameyes River, Puerto Rico
Alejandra Filippo Gonzalez Neves dos Santos, Francisco Racca-Filho, Luciano Neves dos Santos & Francisco Gerson Araújo
The fish Trachelyopterus striatulus (Siluriforms: Auchenipteridae) used to sample insects in a tropical reservoir
Moshood K. Mustapha
Limnological evaluation of the fisheries potentials and productivity of a small shallow tropical African reservoir
Mario O. Tovar, Martha J. Obando, Edwin Gómez, María L. Caldas & Hernán Hurtado
Histology and morphometry of the eye in the freshwater Paracheirodon axelrodi (Characiformes: Characidae)
Botany / Botánica
Gladys Inés Cardona, Clara Patricia Peña-Venegas & Manuel Ruiz-García
Communities of Actynomicetes fungy in three vegetation types of the Colombian Amazon: abundance, morphotypes and the 16s rDNA gene
Edgar Javier Rincón Barón, Leidy Vivivana Gélvez Landazábal, Helkin Giovany Forero Ballesteros, Dagoberto Arrieta Prieto & José Sergio Hleap
Sporangia ontogeny and sporogenesis of the lycopodium Huperzia brevifolia (Lycopodiaceae) from the high mountains of Colombia
Alejandra Sepúlveda-Lozada, Violette Geissen, Susana Ochoa-Gaona, Aarón Jarquín-Sánchez, Simón Hernández de la Cruz, Edward Capetillo & Luis Felipe Zamora-Cornelio
Influence of three types of riparian vegetation on fluvial erosion control in Pantanos de Centla, Mexico
Juan D. León, Gladys Vélez & Adriana P. Yepes
Structure and floristic composition of three oak forests in the northern region of the Central Cordillera in Colombia
Javier Otero & Miren Onaindia
Landscape structure and live fences in Andes Colombian agrosystems: upper basin of the Cane-Iguaque River
Adeolu A. Adedapo, Margaret O. Sofidiya & Anthony J. Afolayan
Anti-inflammatory and analgesic activities of the aqueous extracts of Margaritaria discoidea (Euphorbiaceae) stem bark in experimental animal models
Gina Bagnarello, Luko Hilje, Vanessa Bagnarello, Víctor Cartín & Marco Calvo
Phagodeterrent activity of the plants Tithonia diversifolia and Montanoa hibiscifolia (Asteraceae) on adults of the pest insect Bemisia tabaci (Homoptera: Aleyrodidae)
Terrestrial Invertebrates / Invertebrados Terrestres
Lidiane Silva, Liliane Meireles, Tércia Vargas, Flávia O. Junqueira & Elisabeth C.A. Bessa
Life history of the land snail Habroconus semenlini (Stylommatophora: Euconulidae) under laboratory conditions
Olger Calderón-Arguedas, Adriana Troyo, Mayra E. Solano, Adrián Avendaño & John C. Beier
Urban mosquito species (Diptera: Culicidae) of dengue endemic communities in the Greater Puntarenas area, Costa Rica
Silvio Alejandro López-Pazos, John Wilson Martínez, Adriana Ximena Castillo & Jairo Alonso Cerón Salamanca
Presence and significance of Bacillus thuringiensis Cry proteins associated with the Andean weevil Premnotrypes vorax (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)
Helga Blanco-Metzler, Allan D. Watt & Derek Cosens
The effect of parasitism on the population dynamics of the macadamia nutborer Gymnandrosoma aurantianum (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae)
Terrestrial Vertebrates / Vertebrados Terrestres
Brian C. Bock, Angela M. Ortega, Ana María Zapata & Vivian P. Páez
Microgeographic body size variation in a high elevation Andean anole (Anolis mariarum;
Squamata, Polychrotidae)
Alexis Herminio Plasencia Vázquez, Yatsunaris Alonso Torrens & Fernando Ramón Hernández Martínez
Vertical distribution of the birds Dendroica pityophila and Teretistris fernandinae (Passeriformes:
Parulidae) in Pinar del Río, Cuba
Alejandro Marín, Margarita Casas-Valdez, Silvia Carrillo, Hugo Hernández, Alberto Monroy, Leonor Sanginés & Fernando Pérez-Gil
The marine algae Sargassum spp. (Sargassaceae) as feed for sheep in tropical and subtropical regions
Book Review / Reseña de Libro
Luis D. Gómez P.
I. Wehrtmann, J. Córtes (eds.). 2009. Marine Biodiverstiy of Costa Rica, Central America
