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Titre(s) : Costa Rican ecosystems [Texte imprimé] / edited by Maarten Kappelle
Publication : Chicago (Ill.) ; London : University of Chicago press, cop. 2016
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XXII-775 p.) : ill. en coul. ; 28 cm
Comprend : Foreword / Thomas E. Lovejoy ; Presentation / Rodrigo Gámez Lobo ; Preface / Maarten
Kappelle ; Part I. Introduction. Costa Rica's ecosystems : setting the stage / Maarten
Kappelle ; Part II. The physical environment. Climate of Costa Rica / Wilberth Herrera
; Geology, tectonics, and 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 ; Part III. The Pacific Ocean and Isla
del Coco. The Pacific coastal and marine ecosystems / 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 ; Part IV.
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 ; Part V. 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 A. 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 ; Part VI. 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 ; Part VII. The wet Caribbean lowlands. The
Caribbean lowland evergreen moist and wet forests / Deedra McClearn, J. Pablo Arroyo-Mora,
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 ; Part VIII. The Caribbean Sea
and shore. The Caribbean coastal and marine ecosystems / Jorge Cortés ; Part IX.
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 ; Part X. Conclusion.
Costa Rican ecosystems : a brief summary / Maarten Kappelle.
Note(s) : Notes bibliogr. Index
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Kappelle, Maarten (1962-....). Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Écologie -- Costa Rica
Indice(s) Dewey :
577.097 286 (23e éd.) = Écologie - Costa Rica
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780226121505 (alk. paper). - ISBN 022612150X (rel.). - ISBN 9780226278933. -
ISBN 022627893X (br.). - ISBN 9780226121642 (e-book)
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Notice n° :
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