scholarly journals From incipient island arc to doubly‐vergent orogen: A review of geodynamic models and sedimentary basin‐fills of southern Central America

Island Arc ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (5) ◽  
pp. e12255 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Brandes ◽  
Jutta Winsemann
Keyword(s):  
Central America ◽  
Sedimentary Basin ◽  
Island Arc ◽  
Southern Central ◽  
Geodynamic Models

scholarly journals First record of Clay-colored Sparrow (Spizella pallida Swainson, 1832) (Aves: Emberizidae) in Costa Rica

Check List ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 1592
Author(s):  
Steven Aguilar ◽  
Julio E. Sánchez ◽  
Daniel Martínez
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
Central America ◽  
First Record ◽  
Adult Bird ◽  
Southern Central ◽  
Wintering Range

We present the first record of the Clay-colored Sparrow (Spizella pallida) in Costa Rica. An adult bird was recorded ca. 900 Km south of its common wintering range. This represents the first record of the species for the country and for southern Central America.

scholarly journals THE LOWER SILURIAN TERRIGENOUS DEPOSITS OF THE LAOELING-GRODEKOVO TERRANE (SOUTH PRIMORYE): MATERIAL COMPOSITION AND FORMATION SETTINGS

2021 ◽  
pp. 25-44
Author(s):  
A.I. Malinovsky ◽  
◽  
V.V. Golozubov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sedimentary Basin ◽  
Volcanic Rocks ◽  
Source Area ◽  
Island Arc ◽  
Material Composition ◽  
Recycling Rate ◽  
Composition Analysis ◽  
Rock Composition ◽  
South Primorye ◽  
Genetic Interpretation

This paper studies the original results of the material composition analysis of the Early Silurian terrigenous deposits of the Kordonka formation of the Paleozoic – Early Mesozoic Laoeling-Grodekovo terrane of the South Primorye. The research is aimed at reconstructing paleogeodynamic setting of the deposition of sediments of the formation, and determining the type and mother rock composition of the feed sources based on the complex genetic interpretation of the material composition of rocks. It was established that mineralogically and geochemically formation of the rocks correspond to the typical graywackes and represent petrogenic or “first cycle” rocks formed mainly through the source rock failure. They are characterized by a low maturity, low lithodynamic recycling rate of mother rocks and their rapid burial. The interpretation of the results of the complex study of the material composition of the rocks was carried out on the basis of its comparison with the compositions of ancient rocks and modern sediments formed in the well-known geodynamic settings. The obtained data indicate that deposits of the Kordonka formation accumulated in a sedimentary basin connected with an oceanic island arc. Being built by basic and intermediate volcanic rocks as well as by igneous and sedimentary rocks that constituted its base, this island arc was the source area that supplied clastic material to the aforementioned sedimentary basin.

The invasive speciesCylindrodesmus hirsutusPocock (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Haplodesmidae) spreads to the northern Caribbean, with a compilation of published localities

2018 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 299-302
Author(s):  
Ernesto Recuero
Keyword(s):  
Central America ◽  
First Record ◽  
Quintana Roo ◽  
Commercial Activity ◽  
Tropical Regions ◽  
New Mexican ◽  
Cozumel Island ◽  
Southern Central ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Mexican Species

AbstractMillipede diversity in tropical regions, and in Mexico in particular, is still mostly unknown. A modest but recurrent source of new Mexican species is the colonization of exotic species, due to human activity. The invasive speciesCylindrodesmus hirsutusPocock, 1889 has spread from its area of origin in Indonesia or Melanesia and become a virtually pantropical species. Although long known from South and Central America, reports from the Caribbean are sparse and limited to some eastern islands and southern Central America. On 9 March 2016, two adult specimens were found on Cozumel Island, Quintana Roo, in an area of medium semideciduous tropical forest. This paper comprises the first record of this species from Mexico and the northern Caribbean. Given the intense commercial activity in the region, the presence of more populations both in Cozumel Island and in the mainland coast is highly probable.

Acacia glauca (wild dividivi).

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nick Pasiecznik
Keyword(s):  
Central America ◽  
Leucaena Leucocephala ◽  
West Indian ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Tropical America ◽  
Southern Central ◽  
Shrubby Species

Abstract A shrubby species (to 5 m tall) from tropical America, where it is common in parts of southern Central America and on many West Indian Islands, in particular on Curacao and Barbados. Since its introduction in the 1920s, it has become naturalized in the Philippines and Indonesia. Its habit is similar to shrubby forms of Leucaena leucocephala (the two species are sometimes confused, but the twigs of A. glauca are more reddish and its pods shorter and more rounded).

Lectotypification of Warszewiczia pulcherrima (Rubiaceae) with notes on Józef Warszewicz’s plant collection preserved at KRA herbarium from his trips to Central and South America

Phytotaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 442 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-51
Author(s):  
MARCIN NOBIS ◽  
TOMASZ GŁUSZAK ◽  
ALICJA ZEMANEK ◽  
BOGDAN ZEMANEK
Keyword(s):  
South America ◽  
Central America ◽  
Plant Collection ◽  
Southern Central ◽  
Northern South America

Warszewiczia Klotzsch (1853: 497) is a Neotropical genus of the tribe Condamineeae (Rova et al. 2002, Duncan 2007, Bremer & Eriksson 2009, Kainulainen et al. 2010, Delprete 2019), family Rubiaceae. The genus comprises seven well-distinguished species (Pantoja 1994, Tropicos 1995+) distributed in southern Central America and northern South America (Pantoja 1994, Lorence 1999, Kainulainen et al. 2010, Baksh-Comeau et al. 2016).

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