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Gallery: Costa Rican Forests (Nov & Dec 2011)

Costa Rican Forests (Nov & Dec 2011)

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I am a molecular ecologist, based at the University of Guelph in Ontario Canada, and interested in tracking how ACG ant communities change here with elevation, temperature and time. I have been following this across three volcanoes in Guanacaste Province (Cacao, Rincon de la Vieja and Orosi) since 2008. My hope and intent is to continue this monitoring for the long term. As part of this monitoring I take GigaPan panoramas of each sampled habitat.

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  1. 111202 - Costa Rica, Area de Conservacion de Guanacaste (ACG), Volcan Orosi, 700m It's always something on Volcan Orosi. This morning I left Santa Rosa at 7 and got to the Maritza station on Volcan Orosi by 8 - the three river crossings all went ok and no getting taking the wrong turn like last year (let's not even ...

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  2. 111130 - Costa Rica, Area de Conservacion de Guanacaste (ACG), Volcan Cacao, 1,200m The volcanoes looked slightly more cloudy this morning on the drive in but no rain through the day - just a lot of wind (the canopy is moving all day quite a lot). Quad bikes up from QG with Harry R (8km). Hike up and traps out at ...

  3. 111201 - Costa Rica, Area de Conservacion de Guanacaste (ACG), Volcan Cacao, 600m Cacao 600 Caps of clouds over the volcanoes at the start of the day. Drove up to Quebrada Grande and picked up Manuel and then continued in the Jimmy to Gongorra. Hiked over the river to the Malaise site. Traps were in ...

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  4. Hiked up from 8-9:25. Set up the Malaise trap at around 975 m. All traps and bait out between 9:45 and 10am. I've made an error not curating the robot enough during this shoot I think - the GigaPan robot is done 1/2 through this intended 360 - this leads to several days of handhelds before I can borrow a replacement. ...

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  5. 11128 - Costa Rica, Area de Conservacion de Guanacaste (ACG), Volcan Cacao, 1,300m handheld Cacao 1300 10.93068 -85.46181 1321 A dry day - not quite warm, but much less rain than any other day so far this trip. Quad bikes up from Quebrada Grande to the crater with Manuel and Dunia. Saw puma tracks (photo) just ...

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  6. 111203 - Costa Rica, Area de Conservacion (ACG), Volcan Orosi 1,200m Up early this morning to start long hiking to 1,200 m at Orosi from the Maritza station is at 600m. After three hours of hiking I reached the sample site. Not quite cloud forest, but as far as I can hike while ensuring that I can sample for a suf...

  7. Junquilal 40 The volcanoes were under cloud in the morning - but other than a couple of mistings, there was no rain while sampling. A calm, cloudy day - but beautiful. The traps were in the ground from 8:30-1:45. While there was a notable absence of any Pachycondyla, there was no shortage of several kinds of Phe...

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  8. 111129 - Cacao Cima A windy clear and cool day. Never rained. Site dominated by isopods, beetles and spiders. Most common ant was the slender Pachycondyla. Quad bikes up from Quebrada Grande between 7:20 - 8:10. Walked up until 9:25. Traps out at 9:45. 22x42 GigaPan at same site as in February. Videos of Bra...

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  9. 111127 - Cacao - Arenales At 1,100m on Volcan Cacao these army ants found one bait station. Other ants weren't perturbed and kept returning for more. youtu.be/yxBbv4PMWJg Will open in a new tab or window At 1,100m on Volcan Cacao tiny Solenopsis and Wasmannia were at a bait station. I had seen them further downhill earlier in the year ...

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  10. 111126 - 1,100m Rincon de la Vieja I'm having some moisture issues with my beta unit and so I tried a hand-held GigaPan at today's sampling site. Not perfect, but better than nothing! Small Myrmicinae colony uncovered under a small patch of moss on a log along the trail. Rincon 1100 youtu.be/hy1Z8OsI-Yo Will open in a new tab or window ...

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