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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 Will open in a new tab or window/), 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 Will open in a new tab or window/). 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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  1. ACG, Costa Rica, Rincon de la Vieja - 1400m - Jan 16 2008

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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 120208 - Costa Rica, Area de Conservacion (ACG), Volcan Cacao, Cima del Volcan, 1200m Drove up in the Jimmy again. The road was very slipper in sections - almost didn’t make it up steep section after Malaise trap above Gongorra. Traps out at 9:30. 21x43 GigaPan on ridge above sites 1 and 2. Small black Pheidole ...

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  6. 120215 - Costa Rica, Area de Conservacion (ACG), Estacion Pitilla, Volcan Orosilito, 960 m Today was my first time to Estacion Pitilla. I drove up to Santa Cecilia and then when to the station with Calixto, Freddy and Manuel. It was about a 40 min drive from Santa Cecilia to the station and SC was 30-40minr from S...

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  7. 120214 - Costa Rica, Area de Conservacion (ACG), Rincon de la Vieja, 1,300 m A dry walk up from 7:45-9am and then rain off and on for the morning. Traps out at 9:25. Many French tourists. Collection was dominated by Gnaptogenys and small yellow Pheidole. Spider monkeys around in large tree canopy. Gigapan taken ...

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  8. 120212 - Costa Rica, Area de Conservacion (ACG), Volcan Rincon de la Vieja, 1100m A dry drive up to Puesto Pailas. (The road is paved to Canon tours as of December 2011). No rain, but many many blackflies on the way up. Walked up from 7:40-8:30. Traps out at 9am. Saw tapir trackes, fresh at 1000m and heard tole...

  9. 11125 - Costa Rica, Area de Conservacion (ACG), Volcan Rincon de la Vieja, 938 m HANDHELD while arranging for replacement robotic unit! Cool breezy and clear at 938m. Photographed Orosi and Cacao and collected Eciton on the road. Walked up from 7:45-8:30 and traps down by 9am. Aphaenogaster is the dominant ant h...

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