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Educational Publications
Children’s Manual: The Cola Chata in My Community by César Otero Ortuño
The Bats of Volcán Masaya, Nicaragua: A Brief Guide
Posters
“Changing Attitudes and Behaviors for Conservation of Migratory Birds in Nicaragua” by Julie Martínez
“Importance of the bats of Nicaragua”
“Let’s cherish our native bees!” by Richard Joyce
Field Guides
“Guide to the Fauna of Tisey – Estanzuela”
Guide to waterfowl of Lake Apanas
Guide to the fauna of Somoto Canyon National Monument
Guide to the birds of the Paso del Istmo Biological Corridor, Rivas, Nicaragua (field guide)
Guide to the birds of the Paso del Istmo Biological Corridor, Rivas, Nicaragua (booklet)
Field guide of the Psittacidae of the Paso del Istmo Biological Corridor, Rivas, Nicaragua
Guide to sea turtles in the Paso del Istmo Biological Corridor
Reports and Programs
Clean beaches: Treasures of Nicaragua (Spanish)
Bats of the Cañon de Somoto, Nicaragua
Bats of the Cañon de Somoto (Spanish)
Identification of Important Sites and Areas for the Conservation of Bats in Nicaragua (Spanish)
Paso Pacífico: The Smiling Oyster Cooperative, 2014 (Spanish | English)
Report 2: Mortality of Howler Monkeys in the Department of Rivas (Spanish)
Scientific Research Publications
Paso Pacífico is proud to contribute to world-class research. Our team has written or assisted over 100 peer-reviewed publications. Below is a partial list.
2000
Variation in coping with El Niño droughts in Northern Costa Rica by Sarah Otterstrom
2006
Isle of Fire: The Political Ecology of Landscape Burning in Madagascar (book review) by Sarah Otterstrom
Responses to fire in selected tropical dry forest trees by Sarah M. Otterstrom, Mark W. Schwartz, and Ileana Velázquez-Rocha
Resource availability and habitat use by mantled howling monkeys in a Nicaraguan coffee plantation: can agroforests serve as core habitat for a forest mammal? by K. Williams-Guillén, C. McCann, J. C. Martínez Sánchez , & F. Koontz
2007
New avian sight records for Nicaragua, with notes on abundance, distribution and habitat use by Jeffrey K. McCrary, Wayne J. Arendt, Salvadora Morales, Joseph T. Arengi, and Lorenzo J. López
2008
SRTM-DEM and Landsat ETM+ data for mapping tropical dry forest cover and biodiversity assessment in Nicaragua by Sesnie et al.
2009
Engaging local communities in sea turtle conservation: Strategies from Nicaragua by Richard Smith and Sarah Otterstrom
2010
Environmental conservation in Nicaragua: Strategies to incorporate women and girls by Ashley McCormack
2011
The first earthworm collections from Nicaragua with description of two new species (Oligochaeta) by Sherlock et al.
2012
Diversity of birds in agricultural landscapes in the the northern region of Nicaragua (Spanish) by Wayne J. Arendt, Marvin Tórrez, & Sergio Vílchez
2013
Communities of birds and diurnal lepidoptera and the relationships between them in cloud and coffee forest of Finca Santa Maura, Jinotega (Spanish) by Marvin Tórrez, Wayne Arendt, and Jean Michel Maes
Community composition of Nicaragua’s Pacific Slope forest birds, emphasizing forest quality-dependent species (Spanish) by Marvin Tórrez, Wayne J. Arendt, and Marlon Sotelo
First record of arctic tern Sterna paradisaea for Nicaragua by Wayne J. Arendt and Marvin A. Tórrez
Pilot assessment of mercury exposure in selected biota from the lowlands of Nicaragua by Oksana P. Lane, Wayne J. Arendt, Marvin A. Tórrez, and Juan Cruz Gámez Castellón
Primate populations in fragmented tropical dry forest landscapes in southwestern Nicaragua by Williams-Guillén et al.
2014
Practical approaches for assessing local land use change and conservation priorities in the tropics by Cassandra J. Rivas
Market-based incentives for the conservation of ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes: Examples from coffee cultivation in Latin America by K. Williams-Guillén and S. Otterstrom
Taxonomic indicators of habitat change in the cloud forests of Nicaragua (Spanish) by Marvin A. Tórrez, Wayne J. Arendt, Marlon Sotelo, and Adolfo López, S. J.
2015
Predation by Epidendrium billeeanum on Tubastrea coccinea: use of the denuded skeleton for laying eggs by J. C. Rodríguez-Villalobos, A. Ayala-Bocos, and L. Hernandez
Current status and monitoring of the reef areas in the Pacific of Nicaragua (Spanish) by Arturo Ayala Bocos
2016
Inventory of birds and mammals for a proposal of ecotourism tours (Spanish/French) by Murielle Vergniol
Exploring possibilities for reforestation in southwestern Nicaragua: The social and ecological dimensions of living fence rows by Elizabeth Dorgay, Rachel Muelle, and Andrew Klooster
Influences of scale on bat habitat relationships in a forested landscape in Nicaragua by Chambers et al.
2017
Economic incentives, perceptions and compliance with marine turtle egg harvesting regulation in Nicaragua by Róger Madrigal-Ballesteroa and Diana Jurado
2018
Rookery contributions, movements and conservation needs of hawksbill turtles at foraging grounds in the eastern Pacific Ocean by Gaos et al.
Behavior of the black-handed spider monkey (Ateles geoffroyi) in Nicaragua’s highly fragmented tropical dry forest (Spanish) by Kimberly Williams-Guillén and Stephanie Spehar
2020
Using GPS-enabled decoy turtle eggs to track illegal trade by Pheasey et al.
Bats use live fences to move between tropical dry forest remnants by Martínez-Fonseca et al.
2021
Diversidad de Murciélagos y uso de hábitat en el Parque Nacional Volcán Masaya, en el Pacífico de Nicaragua by Medina-Fiteria et al.