Vol. 61 No. 3 (2013): Volume 61 – Regular number 3 – September 2013

ECOLOGY

Gerardo Avalos, Mauricio Fernández Otárola, James Theodore Engeln

1415–1424

Successional stage, fragmentation and exposure to extraction influence the population structure of Euterpe precatoria (Arecaeae)

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Mayrene Guimarais, Adán Zúñiga, Fabián Pina, Felipe Matos

1425–1432

Hurricane Paloma’s effects on seagrasses along Jardines de la Reina archipelago, Cuba

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J. Antonio Guzmán Q., Roberto A. Cordero S.

1433–1444

Growth and photosynthetic performance of five tree seedlings species in response to natural light regimes from the Central Pacific of Costa Rica

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Róssalyn Hoyos G., Ligia Estela Urrego G., Álvaro Lema T.

1445–1461

Natural regeneration response in mangroves of the Gulf of Urabá (Colombia) to the environmental and intra-annual climate variability

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Emmanuel Taiwo Idowu, Oyenmwen Judith Aimufua, Yomi Onilude Ejovwoke, Bamidele Akinsanya, Olubumi Adetoro Otubanjo

1463–1473

Toxicological effects of prolonged and intense use of mosquito coil emission in rats and its implications on malaria control

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Esteban Jiménez Sánchez, Roberto Quezada García, Jorge Padilla Ramírez

1475–1491

Necrophilous beetles diversity (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae, Silphidae, Staphylinidae and Trogidae) in a semiarid area of Zapotitlán de las Salinas valley, Puebla, Mexico

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Michael E. Loik, Rebecca J. Cole, Karen D. Holl, Gabriel C. Sady

1493–1507

Photosynthesis of seedlings of Otoba novogranatensis (Myristicaceae) and Ruagea glabra (Meliaceae) in abandoned pasture, secondary forest and plantation habitats in Costa Rica

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David Monteagudo Sabaté, Moisés Armando Luis Martínez

1509–1520

Altitudinal richness patterns of Papilionidae, Pieridae and Nymphalidae (Lepidoptera) in Mexican mountain areas

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Eric J. Fuchs, Tatiana Robles, James L. Hamrick

1521–1533

Distribución espacial de Guaiacum sanctum (Zygophyllaceae) en relación con la cobertura de dosel en el Parque Nacional Palo Verde, Costa Rica

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AQUATIC INVERTEBRATES

Rosalinda Abeytia, Héctor M. Guzmán, Odalisca Breedy

1157–1160

Species composition and bathymetric distribution of gorgonians (Anthozoa: Octocorallia) on the Southern Mexican Pacific coast Rosalinda

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Eugenio Alberto Aragón Noriega

1167–1174

Individual growth modeling of the penshell Atrina maura (Bivalvia: Pinnidae) using a multi model inference approach

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Rodolfo Enrique del Río Rodríguez, Daniel Pech, Sonia Araceli Soto Rodriguez, Monica Isela Gomez Solano, Atahualpa Sosa Lopez

1175–1188

A ten-month diseases survey on wild Litopenaeus setiferus (Decapoda: Penaeidae) from Southern Gulf of Mexico

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Juan Figueroa, David Mero

1189–1199

Length of capture and reproduction of green spiny lobster Panulirus gracilis (Decapoda: Palinuridae) from the coast of Manabí, Ecuador.

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Milena Gucic, Edilmar Cortés Jacinto, Denis Ricque Marie, Luis Rafael Martínez Córdova

1201–1213

Apparent carbohydrate and lipid digestibility of feeds for whiteleg shrimp, Litopenaeus vannamei (Decapoda: Penaeidae), cultivated at different salinities

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Carolina Esther Melgar Valdes, Everardo Barba Macías, Carlos Alfonso Álvarez González, Cristian Tovilla Hernández, Alberto J. Sánchez

1251–1228

Microorganisms effect with probiotic potential in water quality and growth of the shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei (Decapoda: Penaeidae) in intensive culture

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Marco A. Romero, Estrella Villamizar, Nora Malaver

1229–1241

Community structure of sponges (Porifera) in three reefs at Morrocoy National Park, Venezuela and its correspondence with some environmental variables

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TERRESTRIAL INVERTEBRATES

Gilberto Avalos, María Esther Bar, Elena Beatriz Oscherov, Alda González

1243–1260

Spider diversity in cultures of Citrus sinensis (Rutaceae) in Corrientes province, Argentina

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Cristina Sainz Borgo, Bernardo Leal, Aivlé Cabrera, José V. Hernández

1261–1273

Mandibular and postpharyngeal gland secretions of Acromyrmex landolti (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) as chemical cues for nestmate recognition

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Daniela Yepes Gaurisas, Juan David Sánchez Rodríguez, Cátia Antunes de Mello Patiu, Marta Wolff Echeverri

1275–1287

Synanthropy of Sarcophagidae (Diptera) in La Pintada, Antioquia-Colombia

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AQUATIC VERTEBRATES

Juan P. Ramírez Herrejón, Lissette S. Castañeda Sam, Rodrigo Moncayo Estrada, Javier Caraveo Patiño, Eduardo F. Balart

1289–1300

Trophic ecology of the exotic Lerma livebearer Poeciliopsis infans (Cyprinodontiformes: Poeciliidae) in the Lago de Pátzcuaro, Central Mexico

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Andrés Arellano Torres, Daniel Hernández Montaño, Carlos Meléndez Galicia

1301–1312

A comparative analysis of three length based methods for estimating growth of the tilapia Oreochromis aureus (Perciformes: Cichlidae) in a tropical lake of Mexico

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Rigoberto Beltrán Alvarez, Jesús Sánchez Palacios, Juan Pedro Ramírez Lozano, Adolfo Armando Ortega Salas

1313–1325

Micropterus salmoides (Pisces: Centrarchidae) reproduction in the Gustavo Díaz Ordaz reservoir, Sinaloa, México

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Natalia P.A. Bezerra, Cezar A.F. Fernandes, Fernanda V. Albuquerque, Vanessa Pedrosa, Fábio Hazin, Paulo Travassos

1327–1339

Reproduction of Blackfin tuna Thunnus atlanticus (Perciformes: Scombridae) in Saint Peter and Saint Paul Archipelago, Equatorial Atlantic, Brazil

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Elizabeth Cuevas, Juan Pérez Carlos, Iván Méndez

1341–1349

Effect of environmental factors and fishing effort allocation on catch of the Spotted Eagle Ray Aetobatus narinari (Rajiformes: Myliobatidae) in Southern Gulf of Mexico

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Vineet Kumar Dubey, Uttam Kumar Sarkar, Ajay Pandey, Wazir Singh Lakra

1351–1363

Fish communities and trophic metrics as measures of ecological degradation: a case study in the tributaries of the river Ganga basin, India

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César Román Valencia, Raquel I. Ruiz C., Donald C. Taphorn, Néstor J. Mancera Rodriguez, Carlos A. García Alzate

1365–1387

Three new species of Hemibrycon (Characiformes: Characidae) from the Magdalena River Basin, Colombia

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TERRESTRIAL VERTEBRATES

Clarisa Bionda, Rafael Lajmanovich, Nancy Salas, Adolfo Martino, Ismael di Tada

1389–1400

Population demography in Rhinella arenarum (Anura: Bufonidae) and Physalaemus biligonigerus (Anura: Leiuperidae) in agroecosystems in the province of Córdoba, Argentina

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Fernando L. Sicuro, Gilson E. Iack Ximenes, Henrique Wogel, Marcos Bilate

1401–1413

Vocal patterns of adult females and juveniles Caiman yacare (Crocodilia: Alligatoridae) in Brazilian Pantanal wetland

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BOTANY

Aleikar Vásquez Suárez, Miguel Guevara, Mayelys González, Roraysi Cortez, Bertha Arredondo Vega

1003–1013

Growth and biochemical composition of Thalassiosira pseudonana (Thalassiosirales: Thalassiosiraceae) cultivated in semicontinuous system at different culture media and irradiances

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Brigitte Gavio, Viviana P. Reyes Gómez, Michael J. Wynne

1015–1023

Crouania pumila sp. nov. (Callithamniaceae: Rhodophyta), a new species of marine red algae from the Seaflower International Biosphere Reserve, Caribbean Colombia

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Lizandro Adal Beltrán Gutiérrez, Gina Mariela Valencia Ramos

1025–1037

Anatomic characterization of growth-rings in 80 potential tree species for dendrocronological studies in the Central forest, Perú

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María Esther Díaz Martínez, Alejandro Alarcón, Ronald Ferrera-Cerrato, Juan José Almaraz Suarez, Oscar García-Barradas

1039–1052

Casuarina equisetifolia (Casuarinaceae) growth in soil with diesel and application of biostimulation and bioaugmentation

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Ana Sílvia Franco Pinheiro Moreira, José Pires de Lemos Filho, Rosy Mary dos Santos Isaias

1053–1065

Structural adaptations of two sympatric epiphytic orchids (Orchidaceae) to a cloudy forest environment in rocky outcrops of Southeast Brazil

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Edgar Javier Rincón Baron, Gerardo Andrés Torres, Cristina Hilda Rolleri

1067–1081

Sporogenesis and spores of Equisetum bogotense (Equisetaceae) from mountain areas of Colombia

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Sanghamitra Samantaray, Ashok Kumar Bishoyi, Satyabrata Maiti

1083–1094

Plant regeneration from callus cultures of Vitex trifolia (Lamiales: Lamiaceae): a potential medicinal plant

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Laura Yesenia Solís Ramos, Laura Miranda Carballo, Marta Valdez Melara

1095–1107

Establishment of cell suspension cultures of two Costa Rican Jatropha species (Euphorbiaceae)

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Rodolfo Omar Varela, Patricia Liliana Albornoz

1109–1118

Morpho-anatomy, imbibition, viability and germination of the seed of Anadenanthera colubrina var. cebil (Fabaceae)

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Aurelia Vite, María T. Pulido, Juan C. Flores Vázquez

1119–1131

State strategy for Cycad (Zamiaceae) conservation: A proposal for the State of Hidalgo, Mexico

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Róger Moya, Michael C. Wiemann, Carlos Olivares

1133–1156

Identification of endangered or threatened Costa Rican tree species by wood anatomy and fluorescence activity

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