The Biodiversity of Costa Rica: An ecological guide

A veritable hand book for visitors to the New World tropics: the title refers only to "Costa Rica, but this is misleading because the nature that it describes will be found by tourists everywhere throughout Latin America. Its size and paper quality allow use in the field, to comfortable read, for example, before going to bed after a birdwatching day in the forest, or to check the real meaning of something you see in a walk by a beach. In contrast with other books, this is both scientifically serious and a pleasure to read, is written by biologist who have spent decades, not a few mo nths in the tropics, and deals with the species and phenomena that visitors are likely to see.

Costa Rican biologist Zaidett Barrientos was born in 1966. She's done work in tropical agricultural development for the Interamerican Institute of Agricultural Sciences, and served as science liaison for the Guanacaste, Costa Rica Preservation Area. Most of her work focuses on taxonomy and ecology of Central American mollusks. Presently she works as a mollusk specialist at the Costa Rican Biodiversity Institute. Julin Monge-Njera, born in 1960, is a Costa Rican ecologist and educator. He's authored 10 books and numerous scientific articles published in European and U. S. evolutionist magazines, such as those of the London's Linneus Society and the National Museum of Natural History in Paris. He's acted as science consultant for the BBC and the National Geographic Society. He works as science editor for the University of Costa Rica's Tropical Biology Review.