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Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies: Recent submissions
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The Florida bonneted bat, Eumops floridanus (Chiroptera: Molossidae): Distribution, morphometrics, systematics, and ecology
(Journal of Mammalogy, 2004-10)A review and reappraisal of bats of the genus Eumops (Chiroptera: Molossidae) reveals that considerable geographic variation is present in the bonneted bat, E. glaucinus; it is a complex consisting of >1 species. Bonneted ... -
Bats of the West Indian island of Dominica: Natural history, areography, and trophic structure
(The Museum of Texas Tech University, 2001-02)Because the islands in the Caribbean long have interested students of mammals and zoogeography, considerable information has been published concerning the biology of the Antillean mammalian fauna in the past three decades ... -
The xenarthrans of Nicaragua
(Mastozoología Neotropical, 2003-03)The mammalian fauna of Nicaragua includes seven species in the order Xenarthra, including the brown-throated three-toed sloth (Bradypus variegatus) in the family Bradypodidae, Hoffmann's two-toed sloth (Choloepus hoffmanni) ... -
Speciation within bonneted bats (genus Eumops): The complexity of morphological, mitochondrial, and nuclear datasets in systematics
(Journal of Mammalogy, 2008-10)We phylogenetically analyze cytochrome-b gene sequences and Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphisms (AFLPs) from populations of the karyotypically variable Wagner’s bonneted bat, Eumops glaucinus, and the Florida bonneted ... -
Orb-weaving spider, Argiope savignyi (Araneidae), predation on the proboscis bat Rhynchonycteris naso (Emballonuridae)
(Caribbean Journal of Science, 2007-12)We report an observation of an orb-weaving spider (Argiope savignyi; Araneidae) capturing and feeding on a proboscis bat (Rhynchonycteris naso; Emballonuridae) at the La Selva Biological Station in the Caribbean lowlands ... -
Redescription of the enigmatic long-tailed rat Sigmodontomys aphrastus (Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae) with comments on taxonomy and natural history
(Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 2007-08)Sigmodontomys aphrastus, the long-tailed rat, is an exceedingly rare rodent species from montane regions of Central and South America of which very little is known ecologically or systematically. It has been variously ... -
The bat fauna of Costa Rica’s Reserva Natural Absoluta Cabo Blanco and its implications for bat conservation.
(University of California Publications in Zoology, 2007-06)Reserva Natural Absoluta Cabo Blanco, located at the southern tip of northwestern Costa Rica’s Nicoya Peninsula, was established in 1963 and is the country’s oldest nationally protected reserve. Because the climate of the ... -
The wild mammals of Wisconsin, book review
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Geographic variation in size and coloration in the Turdus poliocephalus complex: A first review of species limits
(Natural History Museum, The University of Kansas, 2007-09-12)Among the most dramatically variable of bird species under the traditional polytypic ‘biological' species concept is Turdus poliocephalus Latham 1801, which is distributed across parts of Southeast Asia and Oceania. This ... -
Enterprising Women and Village Banking in Urban Paraguay: Current impacts and future implications for social change
(University of Kansas, 2008-07-29)This thesis examines Fundación Paraguaya's Comité de Mujeres Emprendedoras (village banking) program and analyzes its potential as a tool for poverty alleviation, female empowerment and social change in Paraguay. The data ... -
Sustainable Development in Costa Rica: A Moral Geography
(University of Kansas, 2008-07-28)Sustainable development has been uncritically adopted in Costa Rica and elsewhere as a desirable ideal informing development practice. Nevertheless, critical voices outside the development establishment have questioned the ... -
The Path to the Table: Cooking in Postwar American Suburbs
(University of Kansas, 2008-08-08)This work examines the foods eaten by postwar (1946 to 1965) American suburbanites to see how those foods were affected by larger trends in society. The work is divided into chapters which look the effects of, respectively, ... -
FORMALIZATION OF HOUSING IN SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA: A community pathway to legal incorporation
(University of Kansas, 2008-07-31)This work explores urban informal housing and development strategies with a process centered purpose in the urban core of San José, Costa Rica. It seeks to explain how communities obtain change in formal housing status and ... -
Empathizing with France and Pakistan on Agricultural Subsidy Issues in the Doha Round
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Ecohydrology of the Central Plains: An Open-Source Approach
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Personal Jurisdiction in Federal Question Cases
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Issue Preclusion and Foreign Country Judgments: Whose Law
(Iowa Law Review, 1984) -
Preclusion in a Federal System
(Cornell Law Review, 1984) -
Intersystem Issue Preclusion and the Restatement (Second) of Judgments
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Expropriation Procedures in Central America
(International Lawyer, 1974)