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 
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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 - using the GigaPan to document habitat in high resolution.
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ACG, Costa Rica, Orosi - Jan 24 2010 - Maritza 1100m 10.9758, -85.48181, 1100m Very still on the ridge. Little wind. Clear and sunny and dry all day. GigaPan at Site 3. Not many large ambulatory ponerines visible all day (one in Active Search). Searched between 1100 and 1200m. Loads of bamboo between 1000 and ...
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ACG, Costa Rica, Orosi - Jan 22 2010 - Maritza 900m 10.97218, -85.48618, 886m Very steep trail (much up and town and old markings to get up here). Spider monkeys were around all day. GigaPan was taken at highest sampling site facing out (downhill). Pitfall traps didn't appear to collect much here at all. L...
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Sampling site from volcan Rincon de la Vieja - above Pialas research station. Hand-held single row gigapan.
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ACG, Costa Rica, Orosi - Jan 25 2010 - Maritza 700m 10.96886, -85.48613, 700m "Cathedral" creek, dry intersection on 2 finger creeks @700 m on trail to cima after the 1st steep downhill. Clear, dry drya day. Many Pachycondyla apicalis and Aphaenogaster around. New type of Odontomachus. 2 types of fro...
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ACG, Costa Rica, Cacao - 1400m - Jan 26 2008 10.93276, -85.45864, 1480m Very windy day. Cloud cover in morning; but burned off by lunch. Seemed more bamboo along last stretch of trail than last year. Wet soil, many isopods. Many dacetines this year. Two large GigaPans shot looking uphill (www.gigapan
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ACG, Costa Rica, Rincón de la Vieja - Jan 19 2010 - Albergue de Oscar 1100m 10.84383, -85.32741, 1100m A relatively flat area between 2 steep creek/rivers. Very gravelly, gray sandy soil. Not old forest as there was an ash slide here in 1995 (www.geo.mtu.edu/volcanoes/central_america/costa_rica/rdlv/upd
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Taken on August 28, 2008 in the cloudforest on Volcan Cacao, Guanacaste province, Costa Rica. www.acguanacaste.ac.cr
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I started this shot in very wet conditions that actually stopped the GigaPan robot and prevented what was set out as a 360. But with tons of moisture in the air and a not particularly w...-
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Above the trees on Rincon de la Vieja volcano - above Pialas research station. Hand-held single row gigapan.
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- 101126 - Area de Conservacion de Guanacaste (ACG), Costa Rica, Volcan Cacao, Estacion Cacao 1300m by Alex Smith
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101126 - Area de Conservacion de Guanacaste (ACG), Costa Rica, Volcan Cacao, Estacion Cacao 1300m I saw a small "mano a piedra" (jumping viper) with Manuel on hiking up through Arenales. Cloudy with intermittent sunny periods and rained once. The GigaPan was stopped once due to condensation - but successfully resta...
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Jan 15 2010 - Rincón de la Vieja - Pailas 1000 10.78867, -85.34927, 1000m A dry, windy, sunny day. This panorama was taken in the middle of that day's transect. The site is about 45 min walk from the Pailas station in the Rincon de la Vieja National Park. Many small Myrmicinae in leaf litter sifting. Couple o...
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