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  • Anderson, S. D. 1982. Comparative population ecology of Peromyscus mexicanus in a Costa Rican wet forest. Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA.
  • Ashe, J. S., and R. M. Timm. 1987a. Predation by and activity patterns of 'parasitic' beetles of the genus Amblyopinus (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). Journal of Zoology (London) 212:429-437.
  • Ashe, J. S., and R. M. Timm. 1987b. Probable mutualistic association between staphylinid beetles (Amblyopinus) and their rodent hosts. Journal of Tropical Ecology 3:177-181.
  • Bakarr, M. J. 1990. Rodents as dispersers of VA mycorrhizal fungus (VAMF) spores: evidence from a Costa Rican highland forest. Pages 233-237 in B. Loiselle, editor. OTS 90-1 Tropical Biology: an ecological approach. Organization for Tropical Studies, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
  • Birkenholz, D. E., and W. O. Wirtz II. 1965. Laboratory observations of the vesper rat. Journal of Mammalogy 46:181-189.
  • Bronson, F. H., and P. D. Heideman. 1994. Seasonal regulation of reproduction in mammals. Pages 541-583 in E. Knobil and J. D. Neill, editors. The physiology of reproduction. 2nd ed. Raven Press, Ltd., New York, New York, USA.
  • Carleton, M. D. 1980. Phylogenetic relationships in neotomine-peromyscine rodents (Muroidea) and a reappraisal of the dichotomy within New World Cricetinae. Miscellaneous Publications Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan 157:1-146.
  • Carleton, M. D., E. T. Hooper, and J. Honacki. 1975. Karyotypes and accessory reproductive glands in the rodent genus Scotinomys. Journal of Mammalogy 56:916-921.
  • Carleton, M. D., and G. G. Musser. 1995. Systematic studies of oryzomyine rodents (Muridae: Sigmodontinae): definition and distribution of Oligoryzomys vegetus (Bangs, 1902). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 108:338-369.
  • Choate, J. R. 1970. Systematics and zoogeography of Middle American shrews of the genus Cryptotis. University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History 19:195-317.
  • Dinerstein, E. 1983. Reproductive ecology of fruit bats and seasonality of fruit production in a Costa Rican cloud forest. Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.
  • _____. 1985. First records of Lasiurus castaneus and Antrozous dubiaquercus from Costa Rica. Journal of Mammalogy 66:411-412.
  • _____. 1986. Reproductive ecology of fruit bats and seasonality of fruit production in a Costa Rican cloud forest. Biotropica 18:307-318.
  • Fishkind, A. S., and R. W. Sussman. 1987. Preliminary survey of the primates of the Zona Protectora and La Selva Biological Station, northeast Costa Rica. Primate Conservation 8:63-66.
  • Gardner, A. L. 1973. The systematics of the genus Didelphis (Marsupialia: Didelphidae) in North and Middle America. Special Publications, The Museum, Texas Tech University, 4:1-8.
  • Genoways, H. H., and J. K. Jones, Jr. 1972. Variation and ecology in a local population of the vesper mouse (Nyctomys sumichrasti). Occasional Papers, The Museum, Texas Tech University 3:1-22.
  • Hafner, M. S., and D. J. Hafner. 1987. Geographic distribution of two Costa Rican species of Orthogeomys, with comments on dorsal pelage markings in the Geomyidae. The Southwestern Naturalist 32:5-11.
  • Hayes, M., R. LaVal, C. Langtimm, and F. Reid. 1989. The mammals of Monteverde (Mamíferos de Monteverde): an annotated check list of the mammals of Monteverde. Tropical Science Center, Monteverde, Costa Rica.
  • Heideman, P. D., and F. H. Bronson. 1992. A pseudoseasonal reproductive strategy in a tropical rodent, Peromyscus nudipes. Journal of Reproductive Fertility 95:57-67.
  • Heideman, P. D., and F. H. Bronson. 1993. Potential and realized reproduction in a tropical population of Peromyscus (Rodentia). Journal of Mammalogy 74:261-269.
  • Holdridge, L. R. 1967. Life zone ecology. Tropical Science Center, San José, Costa Rica.
  • Hill, R. W., and E. T. Hooper. 1971. Temperature regulation in mice of the genus Scotinomys. Journal of Mammalogy 52:806-816.
  • Hooper, E. T. 1968. Habitats and food of amphibious mice of the genus Rheomys. Journal of Mammalogy 49:550-553.
  • _____. 1972. A synopsis of the rodent genus Scotinomys. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan 665:1-32.
  • _____. 1975. Orbital region and size of eye in species of Scotinomys (Rodentia). Journal of Mammalogy 56:667-671.
  • Hooper, E. T., and M. D. Carleton. 1976. Reproduction, growth and development in two contiguously allopatric rodent species, genus Scotinomys. Miscellaneous Publications Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan 151:1-52.
  • Huckaby, D. G. 1980. Species limits in the Peromyscus mexicanus group (Mammalia: Rodentia: Muroidea). Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 326:1-24.
  • Janos, D. P. 1983. Vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Pages 340-345 in D. H. Janzen, editor. Costa Rican natural history. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
  • Janzen, D. H. 1982. Wild plant acceptability to a captive Costa Rican Baird's tapir. Brenesia 19/20:99-128.
  • _____. editor. 1983a. Costa Rican natural history. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
  • _____. 1983b. Tapirus bairdii. Pages 496-497 in D. H. Janzen, editor. Costa Rican natural history. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
  • Johnson, C. N. 1996. Interactions between mammals and ectomycorrhizal fungi. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 11(12):503-507.
  • Langtimm, C. A. 1992. Specialization for vertical habitats within a cloud forest community of mice. Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
  • LaVal, R. K. 1973. A revision of the neotropical bats of the genus Myotis. Natural History Museum, Los Angeles County, Science Bulletin 15:1-54.
  • _____. 1977. Notes on some Costa Rican bats. Brenesia 10/11:77-83.
  • LaVal, R. K., and H. S. Fitch. 1977. Structure, movements and reproduction in three Costa Rican bat communities. Occasional Papers, Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas 69:1-28.
  • Lawton, M. F., and R. O. Lawton. 1980. Nest-site selection in the Brown Jay. Auk 97:631-633.
  • Lumer, C. 1980. Rodent pollination of Blakea (Melastomataceae) in a Costa Rican cloud forest. Brittonia 32:512-517.
  • _____. 1983. Blakea (San Miguel). Pages 194-195 in D. H. Janzen, editor. Costa Rican natural history. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
  • Lumer, C., and R. D. Schoer. 1986. Pollination of Blakea austin-smithii and B. penduliflora (Melastomataceae) by small rodents in Costa Rica. Biotropica 18:363-364.
  • Marshall, L. G., S. D. Webb, J. J. Sepkoski, and D. M. Raup. 1982. Mammalian evolution and the Great American Interchange. Science 215:1351-1357.
  • McPherson, A. B. 1985. A biogeographical analysis of factors influencing the distribution of Costa Rican rodents. Brenesia 23:97-273.
  • _____. 1986. The biogeography of Costa Rican rodents: an ecological, geological, and evolutionary approach. Brenesia 25/26:229-244.
  • Metz, E. 1990. Song communication in the mouse, Scotinomys teguina. Pages 256-258 in B. Loiselle and G. Mora, editors. OTS 90-1 Tropical Biology: an ecological approach. Organization for Tropical Studies, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
  • Monge-Nájera, J., and B. Morera Brenes. 1987. Why is the coyote (Canis latrans) expanding its range? A critique of the deforestation hypothesis. Revista de Biología Tropical 35:169-171.
  • Reid, F. A. 1997. A field guide to the mammals of Central America and Southeast Mexico. Oxford University Press, New York, USA.
  • Reid, F. A., and C. A. Langtimm. 1993. Distributional and natural history notes for selected mammals from Costa Rica. The Southwestern Naturalist 38:299-302.
  • Rogers, D. S. 1989. Evolutionary implications of the chromosomal variation among spiny pocket mice, genus Heteromys (Order Rodentia). The Southwestern Naturalist 34:85-100.
  • _____. 1990. Genic evolution, historical biogeography, and systematic relationships among spiny pocket mice (subfamily Heteromyidae). Journal of Mammalogy 71:668-685.
  • Sargent, S. 1995. Seed fate in a tropical mistletoe: the importance of host twig size. Functional Ecology 9:197-204.
  • Simpson, G. G. 1945. Notes on Pleistocene and recent tapirs. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 86:37-81.
  • Starrett, A., and R. S. Casebeer. 1968. Records of bats from Costa Rica. Contributions in Science, Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History 148:1-21.
  • Steiner, K. E. 1981. Nectarivory and potential pollination by a neotropical marsupial. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 68:505-513.
  • Steppan, S. J. 1995. Revision of the tribe Phyllotini (Rodentia: Sigmodontinae), with a phylogenetic hypothesis for the Sigmodontinae. Fieldiana: Zoology (New Series) 80:1-112.
  • Stiles, F. G. 1988. Altitudinal movements of birds on the Caribbean slope of Costa Rica: implications for conservation. Pages 243-258 in F. Almeda and C. M. Pringle, editors. Tropical rainforests: diversity and conservation. California Academy of Sciences and American Association for the Advancement of Science, San Francisco, California, USA.
  • Stoner, K. E. 1993. Habitat preferences, foraging patterns, intestinal parasitic infections, and diseases in mantled howler monkeys, Alouatta palliata, in a northeastern Costa Rican rainforest. Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA.
  • Svihla, R. D. 1930. Notes of the golden harvest mouse. Journal of Mammalogy 11:53-54.
  • Timm, R. M. 1987. Tent construction by bats of the genera Artibeus and Uroderma. Pages 187-212 in B. D. Patterson and R. M. Timm, editors. Studies in neotropical mammalogy: essays in honor of Philip Hershkovitz. Fieldiana: Zoology (New Series) 39:1-506.
  • _____. 1994. The mammal fauna. Pages 229-237 and 394-398 in L. A. McDade, K. S. Bawa, H. A. Hespenheide, and G. S. Hartshorn, editors. La Selva: ecology and natural history of a neotropical rain forest. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
  • Timm, R. M., and J. S. Ashe. 1988. The mystery of the gracious hosts. Natural History 9/88:6-10.
  • Timm, R. M., and B. L. Clauson. 1990. A roof over their feet: tent-making bats of the New World tropics turn leaves into living quarters. Natural History 3/90:54-59.
  • Timm, R. M., and R. K. LaVal. 1998. A field key to the bats of Costa Rica. Occasional Publication Series, University of Kansas, Center of Latin American Studies, Lawrence, Kansas, USA.
  • Timm, R. M., D. E. Wilson, B. L. Clauson, R. K. LaVal, and C. S. Vaughan. 1989. Mammals of the La Selva-Braulio Carrillo complex, Costa Rica. North American Fauna 75:1-162.
  • Uyehara, J. C. 1990. Acoustic survey of the two-note tooter (Reithrodontomys gracilis) at Veracruz. Pages 297-301 in B. Loiselle and G. Mora, editors. OTS 90-1 Tropical Biology: an ecological approach. Organization for Tropical Studies, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
  • Vaughan, C. 1983. Coyote range expansion in Costa Rica and Panama. Brenesia 21:27-32.
  • Vaughan, C., and M. A. Rodríguez, editors. 1994. Ecología y manejo del venado cola blanca en México y Costa Rica. Serie Conservación Biológíca y Desarrollo Sostenible, Programa Regional en Manejo de Vida Silvestre, Universidad Nacional, No. 2. 1-455.
  • Voss, R. S. 1988. Systematics and ecology of ichthyomyine rodents (Muroidea): patterns of morphological evolution in a small adaptive radiation. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 188:259-493.
  • Wheelwright, N. T. 1983. Fruits and the ecology of Resplendent Quetzals. Auk 100:286-301.
  • Wilson, D. E. 1983. Checklist of mammals. Pages 443-447 in D. H. Janzen, editor. Costa Rican natural history. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
  • Woodman, N. 1992. Biogeographical and evolutionary relationships among Central American small-eared shrews of the genus Cryptotis (Mammalia: Insectivora: Soricidae). Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA.
  • Wozencraft, W. C. 1993. Order Carnivora. Pages 279-348 in D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder, editors. Mammal species of the world: a taxonomic and geographic reference. 2nd ed. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C., USA.
  • Young, B. E. 1996. An experimental analysis of small clutch size in tropical House Wrens. Ecology 77:472-488.
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