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Costa Rican Ecosystems

Maarten Kappelle

Abstract

The first book to deal in an integrated manner the full range of terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecosystems that occur in Costa Rica, Costa Rican Ecosystems provides an overview of Costa Rica’s main ecosystems by compiling information about their physical settings, biogeography, species diversity, and much more. Rather than follow a technical or clinical approach with a hierarchical categorization of ecosystems, Costa Rica’s dense ecology is explored in a “journey-wise” sequence that provides familiarity and understanding of the country’s full, varied range of intergrading seascapes and la ... More

Keywords: Costa Rica, ecology, biogeography, biodiversity, ecosystem, conservation, research

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2016 Print ISBN-13: 9780226121505
Published to Chicago Scholarship Online: September 2016 DOI:10.7208/chicago/9780226121642.001.0001

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Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Maarten Kappelle, editor
United Nations Environment Programme

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Front Matter

Title Pages

In Memory of Dr. Luis Diego Gómez Pignataro (1944–2009)

Contributors

Foreword

Presentation

Preface

Part I Introduction

Chapter 1 Costa Rica’s Ecosystems: Setting the Stage

Maarten Kappelle1

Part II The Physical Environment

Chapter 2 Climate of Costa Rica

Wilberth Herrera1

Chapter 3 Geology, Tectonics, and Geomorphology of Costa Rica: A Natural History Approach

Guillermo E. Alvarado1,* and Guaria Cárdenes2,3

Chapter 4 Soils of Costa Rica: An Agroecological Approach

Alfredo Alvarado1,* and Rafael Mata1

Part III The Pacific Ocean and Isla del Coco

Chapter 5 The Pacific Coastal and Marine Ecosystems

Jorge Cortés1

Chapter 6 The Gulf of Nicoya Estuarine Ecosystem

José A. Vargas1

Chapter 7 Isla del Coco: Coastal and Marine Ecosystems

Jorge Cortés1

Chapter 8 Isla del Coco: Terrestrial Ecosystems

Michel Montoya1

Part IV The Northern Pacific Dry Lowlands

Chapter 9 The Northern Pacific Lowland Seasonal Dry Forests of Guanacaste and the Nicoya Peninsula

Quírico Jiménez M.,1 Eduardo Carrillo J.,2 and Maarten Kappelle3,4,*

Chapter 10 Biodiversity Conservation History and Future in Costa Rica: The Case of Área de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG)

Daniel H. Janzen1,* and Winnie Hallwachs1

Part V The Central and Southern Pacific Seasonally Moist Lowlands and Central Valley

Chapter 11 The Central Pacific Seasonal Forests of Puntarenas and the Central Valley

Quírico Jiménez M.1,* and Eduardo Carrillo J.2

Chapter 12 The Southern Pacific Lowland Evergreen Moist Forest of the Osa Region

Lawrence E. Gilbert1,*, Catherine A. Christen2, Mariana Altrichter3, John T. Longino4, Peter M. Sherman3, Rob Plowes1, Monica B. Swartz1, Kirk O. Winemiller5, Jennifer A. Weghorst6, Andres Vega7, Pamela Phillips8, Christopher Vaughan9, and Maarten Kappelle10,11

Part VI The Moist and Clouded Highlands

Chapter 13 The Montane Cloud Forests of the Volcanic Cordilleras

Robert O. Lawton1,*, Marcy F. Lawton2, R. Michael Lawton3, and James D. Daniels4

Chapter 14 The Montane Cloud Forests of the Cordillera de Talamanca

Maarten Kappelle1

Chapter 15 The Páramo Ecosystem of Costa Rica’s Highlands

Maarten Kappelle1,2,* and Sally P. Horn2

Part VII The Wet Caribbean Lowlands

Chapter 16 The Caribbean Lowland Evergreen Moist and Wet Forests

Deedra McClearn1,*, J. Pablo Arroyo-Mora2, Enrique Castro3, Ronald C. Coleman4, Javier F. Espeleta5, Carlos García-Robledo6, Alex Gilman3, José González3, Armond T. Joyce7, Erin Kuprewicz8, John T. Longino9, Nicole L. Michel10, Carlos Manuel Rodríguez11, Andrea Romero12, Carlomagno Soto3, Orlando Vargas3, Amanda Wendt13, Steven Whitfield14, Robert M. Timm15

Part VIII The Caribbean Sea and Shore

Chapter 17 The Caribbean Coastal and Marine Ecosystems

Jorge Cortés1

Part IX The Rivers, Lakes, and Wetlands

Chapter 18 Rivers of Costa Rica

Catherine M. Pringle1,*, Elizabeth P. Anderson2, Marcelo Ardón3, Rebecca J. Bixby4, Scott Connelly1, John H. Duff5, Alan P. Jackman6, Pia Paaby7, Alonso Ramírez8, Gaston E. Small9, Marcia N. Snyder1, Carissa N. Ganong1 and Frank J. Triska5

Chapter 19 Lakes of Costa Rica

Sally P. Horn1,* and Kurt A. Haberyan2

Chapter 20 Bogs, Marshes, and Swamps of Costa Rica

Jorge A. Jiménez1

Part X Conclusion

Chapter 21 Costa Rican Ecosystems: A Brief Summary

Maarten Kappelle1,2

End Matter

Acronyms

Subject Index

Systematic Index of Common Names

Systematic Index of Scientific Names