Browsing by Subject "Costa Rica"
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(2022-07-25)Biodiversity decline is occurring at an unprecedented rate, with land-use change as a leading driver. Biodiversity loss reduces ecosystem functioning, which also negatively affects human societies whose livelihoods are ...
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(2012-10-19)Environmental education has been a prominent approach to achieve sustainable development and counteract the megatrend of environmental degradation. In Costa Rica, environmental education has been adopted as an essential ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-04-12)Dam construction has increased exponentially over the past century, primarily in temperate environments. While the impacts of dams in temperate regions have been well-documented, a parallel level of research on dam impacts ...
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This project, explores whether large numbers of women in the legislature are associated with the representation of interests of diverse groups within the group “women.” To begin to answer this question, I examine laws ...
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(2011-04-27)Working with the Costa Rica Multilingual Foundation, the Costa Rican Ministry of Education, Costa Rica USA Foundation of Cooperation, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the researchers are completing a randomized ...
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(2011-04-27)Working with the Costa Rica Multilingual Foundation, the Costa Rican Ministry of Education, Costa Rica USA Foundation of Cooperation, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the researchers are completing a randomized ...
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(2009-05-15)The study of species diversity patterns and their causes remains a central theme of ecology. Work conducted over the last few decades has shown that both historical and ecological factors are important in determining species ...
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(2014-04-24)Costa Rican tropical premontane rainforests are among the world's most valuable ecosystems in terms of diversity of animals, plants, and natural resources. These environments are dependent on water resources which fluctuate ...
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(Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1997)
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(2017-05-10)Spatial and temporal variation in wet canopy conditions following precipitation events can influence processes such as transpiration and photosynthesis, which can be further enhanced as upper canopy leaves dry more rapidly. ...
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(2014-10-01)Few studies have been conducted related to mammalian diversity in the transitional montane cloud forest region of Costa Rica. It is critical that the void in available data be filled in order to support future research ...
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(2015-07-15)As human population, food consumption, and the demand for forest products continue to rise, the pressures of land use change on biodiversity are projected to intensify. In tropical regions, countryside habitats and ...
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(Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities, 28(1), 7-15., 2003)
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(New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2000)
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(Wiley, 2018-07)Costa Rica has the strongest public education system in Central America. The 1869 constitution mandated a free, obligatory, and state-supported educational system making Costa Rica one of the first countries in the world ...
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(2012-07-16)In the Central Valley of Costa Rica in the Department of Heredia, I investigated the soil chemical properties and microbial communities under four native shade tree species in a coffee agroforestry system. In the second ...
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(TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2002)
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(2018-08-30)Data collected in the tropical rainforest canopy at the Texas A&M Soltis Center as part of the Department of Energy funded project "Improving Land-Surface Modeling of Evapotranspiration Processes in Tropical Forests"
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(2018-08-30)Data collected in the tropical rainforest canopy at the Texas A&M Soltis Center as part of the Department of Energy funded project "Improving Land-Surface Modeling of Evapotranspiration Processes in Tropical Forests"
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(2018-08-30)Data collected in the tropical rainforest canopy at the Texas A&M Soltis Center as part of the Department of Energy funded project "Improving Land-Surface Modeling of Evapotranspiration Processes in Tropical Forests"