How a Tropical Country can DNA Barcode Itself

Costa Rica, a very enthusiastic node in BIOSCAN, has decided instead to go for depth for a place, for its million-plus species of Eukaryota in an area the size of a tiny American state or a fraction of a Canadian province. There are more eukaryote species within 50 km of our field home in the Area Administrativa of Área de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG) in northwestern Costa Rica1,2,3 than in all of Europe. Costa Rica’s newly started ten-year goal is called BioAlfa, as derived from BioAlfabetizada and BioAlfabetización (a.k.a. BioLiterate in another familiar language).

• Publication year

  2019

• Venue

  iBOL Barcode Bulletin

• Publication date

  2019-10-02

• Fields of study

  Biology, Geography, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.21083/ibol.v9i1.5526
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar

• No claims are published for this paper.

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