Vol. 69 No. S2 (2021): Volume 69 – Supplement 2 – October 2021: Scientific Research in the North Pacific of Costa Rica and South Pacific of Nicaragua

Volume 69 – Supplement 2 – October 2021: Scientific Research in the North Pacific of Costa Rica and South Pacific of Nicaragua

Esta es la publicación de un suplemento en la Revista de Biología Tropical sobre “Investigaciones Científicas en el Pacífico Norte de Costa Rica y Pacífico Sur de Nicaragua”. Con énfasis en Bahía Salinas y Golfo de Santa Elena y en el Golfo de Papagayo. Este suplemento contiene trabajos que incluyen estudios temas terrestres y marino-costeros, así como temas de manejo y otros aspectos socioeconómicos relevantes. Estas contribuciones serán de gran apoyo para el desarrollo de la investigación y la conservación de esa región de Costa Rica y sur de Nicaragua.

Sergio Aguilar Mora

I–XV

First pages - Table of contents - Presentation - Dedication

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Carlos Murillo-Zamora

S1–S14

Management of maritime boundaries: the case of Costa Rica and Nicaragua in the Pacific. [In Spanish with English abstract]

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Luis Hurtado de Mendoza, Guillermo E. Alvarado

S15–S28

Notes on natural and cultural factors in the pre-Hispanic sociopolitical development of the northwest of Guanacaste, Costa Rica

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Gerardo Emigdio Palacios-Martínez, Ileana Núñez-Zamora

S29–S35

Possibilities of social promotion for the coastal inhabitants of Playas del Coco, Guanacaste, Costa Rica, using Sustainable Marine Tourism

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Juan-Pablo Solano, Ana-Teresita Aguilar, María-del-Pilar Madrigal, Wendy Pérez, Carlos-Alonso Vargas, María-Marta Chavarría, Percy Denyer

S36–S59

Geological background and structure of the northwestern coastline of Costa Rica

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Hugo-G. Hidalgo, Eric-J. Alfaro, Paula-M. Pérez-Briceño

S60–S73

Projected Climate Changes of CMIP5 models in La Cruz, Guanacaste, Costa Rica

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Sergio Cambronero-Solano, Alexandre Tisseaux-Navarro, José-Mauro Vargas-Hernández, Juan-P. Salazar-Ceciliano, Rosario Benavides-Morera, Isabel Quesada-Ávila, Carlos Brenes-Rodríguez

S74–S93

Hydrographic variability in the Gulf of Papagayo, Costa Rica during 2017-2019

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Andrés Escoto-Murillo, Eric-J. Alfaro

S94–S104

Analysis of warm and cool events in the Gulf of Papagayo through diving data: A Citizen Science approach

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Alejandro Rodríguez, Eric-J. Alfaro, Jorge Cortés

S105–S126

Spatial and temporal dynamics of the hydrology at Salinas Bay, Costa Rica, Eastern Tropical Pacific

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Eric-J. Alfaro, Jorge Cortés

S127–S141

Forcing of cool and warm subsurface water events in Bahía Salinas, Costa Rica

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Álvaro Morales-Ramírez, Ivana Till Pons, Eric J. Alfaro, Marco Corrales-Ugalde, Carolina Sheridan-Rodríguez

S142–S159

Mesozooplankton responses to oceanographic conditions across different scales in Salinas Bay, Northern Pacific coast of Costa Rica during 2011-2013

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Cindy Fernández-García, Carolina Salas-Moya, Sebastián Mena, Juan Carlos Azofeifa-Solano, Juan José Alvarado

S160–S179

Subtidal habitats diversity of Santa Elena Peninsula and Murciélago Islands, North Pacific, Costa Rica

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Alvin Suárez, Rafael Riosmena-Rodríguez, Jorge Cortés

S180–S193

Checklist of invertebrates and conspicuous fishes in rocky reefs and Sargassum beds in the North Pacific of Costa Rica

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Mauricio Méndez-Venegas, Carlos Jiménez, Giovanni Bassey-Fallas, Jorge Cortés

S194–S207

Condition of the Playa Blanca coral reef, Punta Gorda, one of the most extensive reefs on the Pacific of Costa Rica

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Wendolyn Matamoros-Calderón, Minor Lara, Odalisca Breedy

S208–S218

Black coral forests in the Guanacaste Conservation Area, Costa Rica: species and distribution

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José-Leonardo Chacón-Monge, Arturo Angulo, Jorge Cortés

S219–S233

New hosts and morphological data for the Star pearlfish Carapus mourlani (Ophidiiformes: Carapidae) from collections made in the North Pacific coast of Costa Rica

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Kaylen González-Sánchez, Bryan Flores-Alvarado, Paula Montiel-Barrantes, Gonzalo Gómez-Arce, Juan-José Alvarado

S234–S245

Ascidian diversity of Costa Rica, including new records for the North Pacific

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Andrés López-Garro, Ilena Zanella

S246–S255

Residency of bull sharks, Carcharhinus leucas (Carcharhiniformes: Carcharhinidae), at San Pedrillo Islet in Islas Murciélago, North Pacific of Costa Rica

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Nathalie Porsiel, Sebastián Hernández, Damien Cordier, Maike Heidemeyer

S256–S266

The devil is coming: Feeding behavior of juvenile Munk’s devil rays (Mobula munkiana) in very shallow waters of Punta Descartes, Costa Rica

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Diego Fallas-Madrigal, Alejandra Castelo-Corona, Diego Mejías, Steve Stephens-Cárdenas, Jennyfer Astorga-Arias, José-L. Molina-Quirós, Sebastián Hernández

S267–S276

Diversity of white spot patterns in the eagle ray Aetobatus laticeps (Myliobatiformes: Aetobatidae) in the north Pacific coast of Costa Rica

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Arturo Angulo, Francisco Martínez-Servín, Eloísa Torres-Hernández, Omar Domínguez-Domínguez, Jorge Cortés

S277–S296

Ichthyofauna of the rocky intertidal zone of the Guanacaste Conservation Area, North Pacific of Costa Rica; diversity and ecological and biogeographic aspects

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Joëlle De-Weerdt, Carla Patulny, Phillip Clapham

S297–S303

The yellow-bellied sea snake, Hydrophis platurus (Squamata: Elapidae), off the Southwestern Pacific coast of Nicaragua, Central America

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Damián Martínez-Fernández

S304–S312

Cetacean diurnal behavior in the Guanacaste Conservation Area, Costa Rica

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