Into the Sendero
Tag Archives: Las Cruces
Some backlogged stream photos from Las Cruces
A few images from Rio Java at Las Cruces from 2013, including some photographs of partially buried litter bags from Mel’s project.
Cicindelid tiger beetle
Some basidiomycetes
NAPIRE mentor workshop 1
Some results of a night stroll at Las Cruces during the NAPIRE mentor workshop.
Páramo fern
Musa flowers
A non-native banana (Musa rosacea) found along and in stream beds at Las Cruces Biological Station.
Monitoring temperature and humidity along an elevation gradient
During NAPIRE 2013, a couple of mentors and the station director at Las Cruces Biological Station decided to set up iButtons to remotely monitor temperature and relative humidity at 100 m increments along an elevation gradient. The aim was to place an iButton from 1100 m to 1400 m at the reserve at Las Cruces, then include the forest at Las Alturas to monitor 1500 to 2100 m.
I helped to set out the sensing units at Las Cruces, and this past year, during NAPIRE 2015, I happened across one of them… I recognized the site when visiting Katie’s butterfly roosting experiment.
Predation risk of roosting Ithomiin butterflies
Adrea, a recent PhD graduate from UCLA, is mentoring three students in the NAPIRE program with projects on Ithomiin butterflies—a diverse group of clear-winged, neotropical butterflies that form breeding aggregations and tend to roost together. One of Adrea’s students, Katie, is investigating predation risk of roosting butterflies using models of two species that she’s constructed. Here, Katie checks her model butterflies for damage inflicted by predation attempts on the models.
Rio Gamboa
