Vol. 5 No. 2 Jul-Dic (2015)
Five years ago, as part of the celebration of the international year of Biodiversity, a group of researchers of the Universidad Tecnológica del Chocó, with the support of the Vicerrectoría de Investigaciones, and the Netherlands Organisation for International Cooperation in Higher Education (NUFFIC), created the international journal Biodiversidad Neotropical. Up to date, we have published 80 scientific research articles by 217 authors from 12 countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela). This is evidence of the good reception that the journal has and evidence of the advance in our goal of being an effective mean of dissemination of scientific knowledge on biodiversity and environmental sciences in the Neotropical region.
In this number, we inform our audience about significant advances in our format by introducing the journal in HTML, with all our content available on line, with no need of downloading the papers. We also couple another requirement for the process of positioning the journal by including Biodiversidad Neotropical in the system of abstracts Sires.
We keep consistent, in terms of number of contributions and for this number we have 10 contributions on a variety of subjects, including an ictiological valuation of the Coast Corridor of Yucatán, Mexico; the first record of bats predated by Leopardus pardalis on eastern Ecuador; the evaluation of the physical and nutritional properties of fruits of Acrocomia aculeata and activity patterns of populations of Eira barbara in Costa Rica and Colombia. In addition to Colombia include a report on the first nesting records of marine turtles at the upper Guajira; the first Chocoan record of a snake, genus Amastridium Cope; as well as the first Chocoan record of Miroculis Edmunds. We also have a study on bats associated with a restoration area at the upper Sinú River; and a report on population density and structure of groups of Alouatta seniculus at the buffer zone of the damp URRÁ I, Tierralta, Córdoba.
Finally, following the goal of publishing a species list of a Neotropical group in each number, we present the annotated check-list of Chocoan mammalian specimens deposited at the main scientific collections in the United States.
Alex Mauricio Jiménez-Ortega
Editor
In this number, we inform our audience about significant advances in our format by introducing the journal in HTML, with all our content available on line, with no need of downloading the papers. We also couple another requirement for the process of positioning the journal by including Biodiversidad Neotropical in the system of abstracts Sires.
We keep consistent, in terms of number of contributions and for this number we have 10 contributions on a variety of subjects, including an ictiological valuation of the Coast Corridor of Yucatán, Mexico; the first record of bats predated by Leopardus pardalis on eastern Ecuador; the evaluation of the physical and nutritional properties of fruits of Acrocomia aculeata and activity patterns of populations of Eira barbara in Costa Rica and Colombia. In addition to Colombia include a report on the first nesting records of marine turtles at the upper Guajira; the first Chocoan record of a snake, genus Amastridium Cope; as well as the first Chocoan record of Miroculis Edmunds. We also have a study on bats associated with a restoration area at the upper Sinú River; and a report on population density and structure of groups of Alouatta seniculus at the buffer zone of the damp URRÁ I, Tierralta, Córdoba.
Finally, following the goal of publishing a species list of a Neotropical group in each number, we present the annotated check-list of Chocoan mammalian specimens deposited at the main scientific collections in the United States.
Alex Mauricio Jiménez-Ortega
Editor
Published:
2015-07-25
