User profiles for G. Barrantes

Gilbert Barrantes

- Verified email at ucr.ac.cr - Cited by 1872

Elena Gabriela Barrantes

- Verified email at ucr.ac.cr - Cited by 976

Gustavo Barrantes

- Verified email at una.cr - Cited by 403

Effect of urbanization on the avifauna in a tropical metropolitan area

E Biamonte, L Sandoval, E Chacón, G Barrantes - Landscape Ecology, 2011 - Springer
… Some non-forest dependent species are apparently specialized to particular successional
vegetation stages (Barrantes and Sandoval, unpublished data), and if such areas disappear …

Environmental rugosity, body size and access to food: a test of the size‐grain hypothesis in tropical litter ants

AG Farji‐Brener, G Barrantes, A Ruggiero - Oikos, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
In terrestrial walking organisms, long legs help to decrease the cost of running, allowing
animals to step over environmental interstices rather than walking through them. However, long …

[HTML][HTML] Conceptual and statistical problems associated with the use of diversity indices in ecology

G Barrantes, L Sandoval - Revista de biología tropical, 2009 - scielo.sa.cr
Diversity indices, particularly the Shannon-Wiener index, have extensively been used in
analyzing patterns of diversity at different geographic and ecological scales. These indices have …

α-Bungarotoxin binding sites in rat hippocampal and cortical cultures: initial characterisation, colocalisation with α7 subunits and up-regulation by chronic nicotine …

GE Barrantes, AT Rogers, J Lindstrom, S Wonnacott - Brain research, 1995 - Elsevier
… and Banker, G. Rat hippocampal neurons in lowdensity culture. In Banker, … and Polz-Tejera,
G., Nicotinic receptors of the central and autonomic nervous system. In Essman, WB …

Urban noise influences vocalization structure in the House Wren Troglodytes aedon

P Redondo, G Barrantes, L Sandoval - Ibis, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Urban habitats are noisy and constrain acoustic communication in birds. We analysed the
effect of anthropogenic noise on the vocalization characteristics of H ouse W rens T roglodytes …

Multi-hazard model for developing countries

G Barrantes - Natural hazards, 2018 - Springer
Disaster risk assessment related to natural events has generally been carried out separately
by specialists in each area of earth sciences, which has two negative consequences: Firstly, …

Randomized instruction set emulation to disrupt binary code injection attacks

EG Barrantes, DH Ackley, S Forrest, TS Palmer… - Proceedings of the 10th …, 2003 - dl.acm.org
Binary code injection into an executing program is a common form of attack. Most current
defenses against this form of attack use a 'guard all doors' strategy, trying to block the avenues …

Human waste used as nesting material affects nest cooling in the clay-colored thrush

J Corrales-Moya, G Barrantes, E Chacón-Madrigal… - Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
… The total mass of artificial materials/nest mass varied between 0.1 g and 17.5 g (mean =
2.3 g), and the percentage of the mass of artificial materials to the total nest mass varied …

Vestiges of an orb-weaving ancestor? The “biogenetic law” and ontogenetic changes in the webs and building behavior of the black widow spider Latrodectus …

WG Eberhard, G Barrantes… - Ethology Ecology & …, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
Young juveniles of L. geometricus fit the strong trend for “ontogeny to repeat phylogeny”
previously documented in other web-building spiders; younger spiders were less likely to build …

Relationship between species richness of excavator birds and cavity–adopters in seven tropical forests in Costa Rica

L Sandoval, G Barrantes - The Wilson Journal of Ornithology, 2009 - BioOne
… erythrocephalus, Conner and Adkisson 1977), a few tropical woodpeckers apparently have
selectivity for dead substrates for excavating their cavities (Sandoval and Barrantes 2006). Se…