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Explore this summary of research that has been authored and co-authored by the Climate Corridors team.
This list reflects only a handful of the core science databases from the Climate Corridors science team. For inquiries related to datasets and potential collaborations, please contact us at info@climatecorridors.org.
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Authors: Hilary Brumberg, Samuel Furey, Marie G. Bouffard, Maria José Mata Quiros, Hikari Murayama, Soroush Neyestani, Emily Pauline, Andrew Whitworth, Marguerite Madden
Description: This study explores the relationship between forest management initiatives—specifically [Protected Areas] PAs, the 1996 Forest Law, and [Payment for Ecosystem Services] PES—and forest cover and landscape metrics in the Osa Conservation Area (ACOSA) …
Authors: Christopher Beirne, Mark Thomas, Arianna Basto, Eleanor Flatt, Giancarlo Inga Diaz, Diego Rolim Chulla, Flor Perez Mullisaca, Rosio Vega Quispe, Caleb Jonatan Quispe Quispe, Adrian Forsyth, Andrew Whitworth
Description: Understanding how diverse assemblages of scavengers can coexist on shared ecological resources is a fundamental challenge in community ecology. However, current approaches typically focus on behaviour at carcass provisioning sites, missing how important differences in movement behaviour and foraging strategies can facilitate sympatric species coexistence. Such information is particularly important for vultures …
Authors: Pablo Aycart, Elena Chaboteaux, Nathan Duerr, Gustavo Arias-Álvarez, Sandra Bejar-Hermoza, Raider Castro, Alejandro Lopera , Adrian Forsyth
Description: The functional space of an ecological community is not evenly filled by its species. Instead, it is usually divided into areas of high species density, where species with common combinations of functional traits are grouped into species rich clusters, while lower density areas…
Authors: Isaac Beber, Bárbara Sellés-Ríos, Andrew Whitworth
Description: Global sea turtle populations are in decline and so a global network of sea turtle nesting conservation programs have been established worldwide with the goal to protect vulnerable nesting mothers, and their clutches of eggs. Yet researchers have recently estimated that sea turtle nesting habitat is likely to suffer as a result of climate change and associated sea level rise. This study examines nest monitoring data from Costa Rica’s Osa Peninsula with the …
Authors: Elena Chaboteaux, Alejandro Lopera Toro, Claudia Maribel Vega, Adrian Forsyth
Description: This study represents the first evidence of mercury contamination in the family Scarabaeidae, with a close focus on Coprophanaeus lancifer, the largest copro-necrophagous beetle in South America. This work shows the repartition of total mercury (THg) in the insect body and lays the groundwork for additional future studies….
Authors: Patrick B. Newcombe, Adrian Forsyth, Hilary Brumberg, Andrew Whitworth
Description: As biodiversity declines and climate change causes shifts in species distribution, the knowledge of species’ ecological needs is vital to conserve biodiversity. On Costa Rica’s Osa Peninsula and its adjacent forests, a rich mosaic of ecosystems hosting numerous threatened and endemic species, conservationists lack clarity on the basic habitat requirements of the endemic Black-cheeked Ant-Tanager (Habia atrimaxillaris) …
