Vol. 5 No. 1 Ene-Jun (2015)

We celebrate another year of Biodiversidad Neotropical and this celebration is accompanied by new advances in coupling our porpoises of strengthening the journal as an effective mean of scientific dissemination of our knowledge on the Neotropical biota. In order to be consistent with the journal content and structure, we keep the sections: Botany, Zoology, Ecology, and Conservation and Management, that will be maintained in future numbers.

Additionally, we achieved our goal to match the international calendar of scientific journals, by producing our first number (January-June), at the beginning of the semester, not at the end it happened before.

As it is our tradition, we present a varied content that we hope will be enjoyed by our readers. This time, we include an evaluation of global climate models, produced by CMIP5 for northwestern South America. We have in our content a study on syndromes of diasporas dispersal in shrubs and tree species of three vegetation covers at the Natural Park Quininí in Colombia. Also from Colombia, we present the diet of a population of the frog Oophaga histrionica, from a dry enclave from the Valle del Cauca. In this number, we present the herpetofauna of the campus of the University of Magdalena in Santa Marta, Colombian Caribbean. Herpetological studies in this number continue with a research on the selection of calling sites in the Neotropical frog Hypsiboas crepitans. Mammalogy is also represented in this number by a study of population density of giant anteaters in the Colombian Orinoquia at Pore, Casanare. The review of the application of Andean bear Conservation Program in Colombia; and from Costa Rica, we bring a study on the selection of leaves of Carludovica palmata as refugees for the tent making bat Dermanura watsoni at the Estación Biológica Piro, Península de Osa. In terms of biotechnology, we present the development of an in vitro propagation method for Musa acuminata (bocadillo plantain), based on in vitro culture of apical meristems.

In this number, we honored Yasiris Salas Tovar, a Chocoan young and passionate limnologist, who unfortunately passed away on October 2014. She left her foot print on the construction of this journal by publishing in our second number of the first volume her research on the perophyton and macroinvertebrate communities of the Pacurita River at the Colombian Chocó. We invite our readers to look at the in memorian we prepared for Yasiris in this number.

Alex Mauricio Jiménez-Ortega

 Editor