December 2011

Volume 36 Issue 12

/Editorial/

Alejandro J. Pieters and Margarita Lampo

SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH, BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY AND SOCIETY

874
 /Articles/

Ernesto Medina

FORTY YEARS OF THE ECOLOGY CENTER OF THE VENEZUELAN INSTITUTE FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH IN PERPECTIVE (in Spanish)

876

Virginia Sanz, Mailén Riveros, Mylene Gutiérrez and Rafael Moncada

VEGETATION AND LAND USE IN NUEVA ESPARTA STATE, VENEZUELA: AN ANLYSIS FROM LANDCAPE ECOLOGY (in Spanish)

881

Beatriz López, María Beatriz Barreto and Jesús Eloy Conde

CHARACTERIZATION OF MANGROVES FROM SEMI-ARID ZONES IN NORTHWESTERN VENEZUELA (in Spanish)

888

Ascanio D. Rincón

NEW REMAINS OF Mixotoxodon larensis Van Frank 1957 (Mammalia: Notoungulata) FROM MENE DE INCIARTE TAR PIT, NORTH-WESTERN VENEZUELA (in English)

894

José V. Montoya, María Mercedes Castillo and Luzmila Sánchez

THE IMPORTANCE OF PERIODIC FLOODS FOR THE FUNCTIONING AND CONSERVATION OF LARGE TROPICAL FLOODPLAIN RIVERS: STUDIES FROM THE ORINOCO BASIN (in Spanish)

900

Carlos Carmona-Suárez

PRESENT STATUS OF Cardisoma guanhumi Latreille, 1828 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Gecarcinidae) POPULATIONS IN VENEZUELA (in English)

908

Jafet M. Nassar, Adriana E. García-Rivas and José A. González-Carcacía

PATTERNS OF GENETIC DIVERSITY IN TREE SPECIES OF FRAGMENTED DRY FORESTS IN VENEZUELA (in Spanish)

914

Edlin Guerra-Castro, Juan J. Cruz-Motta and Jesús E. Conde

QUANTITATIVE ANALISYS OF FOULING DIVERSITY ASSOCIATED WITH ROOTS OF Rhizophora mangle L. IN LA RESTINGA LAGOON NATIONAL PARK (in Spanish)

923

Laurie Fajardo, Gisela Cuenca, Pauline Arrindell, Ramón Capote and Zamira Hasmy

USE OF ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZAL FUNGI IN ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION (in Spanish)

931

Ileana Herrera, Noemí Chacón, Saúl Flores, Diana Benzo, José Martínez, Belkis García and José I. Hernández-Rosas

THE EXOTIC PLANT Kalanchoe daigremontiana INCREASES SOIL CARBON RESERVOIR AND FLUXES (in Spanish)

937

Alejandro J. Pieters, Eduardo Graterol, Edicta Reyes, Rosa Álvarez and Álex González

FIFTY YEARS OF GENETIC IMPROVEMENT OF RICE IN VENEZUELA: WHAT HAS BEEN ACHIEVED? (in Spanish)

943

Margarita Lampo, Dinora A. Sánchez, Francisco Nava-González, Carmen Zulay García and Aldemar Acevedo

THE DISAPPEARANCE OF HARLEQUIN FROGS (Atelopus) IN VENEZUELA: INTRODUCTION AND PROPAGATION OF THE CHITTRID FUNGUS Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (in Spanish)

949

Wlodzimierz Jedrzejewski, María Abarca, Ángel Viloria, Hugo Cerda, Daniel Lew, Howard Takiff, Édgar Abadía, Pablo Velozo and Krzysztof Schmidt

JAGUAR CONSERVATION IN VENEZUELA AGAINST THE BACKDROP OF CURRENT KNOWLEDGE ON ITS BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION (in English)

954