Costa Rican Forests (Area de Conservacion de Guanacaste)
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Costa Rican Forests (Area de Conservacion de Guanacaste)
The ACG (www.acguanacaste.ac.cr 
/), is a 163,000 hectare national park in northwestern Costa Rica, extending from 6 km out in the Pacific up to 2000 m at the top Volcan Rincon de la Vieja and down into the Atlantic lowland rain forest is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The ACG is home to more than 325,000 species of plants and animals (2.6% of the world's biodiversity) and has grown dramatically from a 10K acre national park (formalised in 1971) to a global example of tropical biodiversity conservation, dependent upon, and inserted within, the development and economy of the local people. If you are interested in more information on the ACG, please visit the Guanacaste Dry Forest Fund website (www.gdfcf.org /). At the bottom of that page you'll find a button to donate to the ACG. "Every penny donated to GDFCF goes to forest purchase to expand ACG" - a very worthwhile investment!
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 - using the GigaPan to document habitat in high resolution.
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04-Dec-12 10.89894 -85.46716 731 Cacao750 Drove up alone from Quebrada Grande. Rain and black clouds on volcano so no Cima today. Traps out at 8:30. Capuchins at GigaPan. 2 mp3 sound files while collecting numbers. Med Adrian while he was on his way to look for flowering plants. RG3-M S/N10238807 started at M...
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06-Dec-12 10.88878 -85.47594 610 Cacao600 A long morning in Libera having the Jimmy's 4WD problems sorted out - 500$ later :( I was back to Cacao to Gongora at 600m. Bright, calm and loads of ants. Set up the last RG3-M at 12:30 local. 42x21 GigaPan at same location as in February. Many stout Pachycondyla here....
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05-Dec-12 10.93285 -85.45748 1482 Cacao1500 |Drove up this morning and worked with Harry and Manuel to get the rain-meter software installed on their computer - and test the downloading at a couple of stations - it went really well and all is working! 121205 - Cacao and Orosi in the cloud After getting the RG3-M so...
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03-Dec-12 10.93032 -85.4616 1304 Cacao1300 Drove the Jimmy up from Quebrada Grande with Dunia and walked up to 1300m. No rain or mist on the way up. Downloaded Arenales and Sendero Circular RG3-M's. Set up RG3-M at 1300m S/N 10238803. GigaPan setup behind stations 1-3 - Sift3/4 was at this site (with videos). ...
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02-Dec-12 10.928 -85.46601 1186 Cacao1200 A relatively dry and windy day at 1200m on Cacao. I drove up with Manuel and saw a herd of pecaries crossing the road near Rancho Harold. There was no rain or cloud misting on the walk up or the set up. A column of Eciton was near the barrel so I moved it slightly up hil...
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01-Dec-12 10.92311 -85.46518 1032 Cacao1000 Some spitting clouds on the way to Quebrada Grande (a turtle on the road in Santa Rosa), Drove up to Cacao alone after meeting Manuel at his house. Mostly cloud mist and tree drop all day. Traps out before 9am. Ground is very torn up (pecaries? Worms?)42x22 GigaPan be...
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29-Nov-12 10.81283 -85.34799 1400 Rincon1462 An incredible day at the top of Rincon's forest. (Although the GigaPan is horrendous - there was so much rain and humidity from the clouds that the lense completely fogged over. No break in the weather to re-shoot - rats! There wasn't any rain in Santa Rosa or at Pa...
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28-Nov-12 10.79279 -85.34901 1065 Rincon1100 A VERY rainy day throughout the sampling period (walk up and Santa Rosa too). Traps out at 9am. GigaPan started at 11 in a brief break and then continued through the return of the rain. Gnaptogenys and Aphaenogaster were the most prominent ants here. Have a look at...
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121127 - Costa Rica, Area de Conservacion (ACG), Volcan Rincon de la Vieja - 1,300m 27-Nov-12 10.80379 -85.346531 1273 Rincon1300 There was much wind and rain throughout the day. Walked up from 7:40 - 9:00 and had the traps out and tarp up by 9:30. Christian mentioned that this trail was closed due to rece...
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120217 - Costa Rica, Area de Conservacion (ACG), Rincon de la Vieja, 1,400 m The rise from Pailas to the end of the forest is very gradual and it was a long hike up from 7:40-9:10. The traps are out from 9:30-2:30. There were many of the shiny black Pheidole here - and a pretty cool Geometridae caterpillar. It ne...
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