Mammals of the 

 La Selva-Braulio Carrillo 

 Complex, Costa Rica 



by 



Robert M. Timm 



Museum of Natural History 

 Department of Systematics and Ecology 

 University of Kansas 

 Lawrence, Kansas 66045 



Don E. Wilson 

 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 

 National Ecology Research Center 

 Museum of Natural History 

 Washington, DC 20560 



Barbara L. Clauson 

 Museum of Natural History 

 University of Kansas 

 Lawrence, Kansas 66045 



Richard K. LaVal 

 Apartado 10165 

 San Jose, Costa Rica 



Christopher S. Vaughan 

 Programa Regional en Manejo de Vida Silvestre para 

 Mesoamerica y el Caribe 

 Universidad Nacional 

 Heredia, Costa Rica 



ABSTRACT: Costa Rica's La Selva-Braulio Carrillo complex encompasses a 60-km 

 protected corridor of Caribbean rain and cloud forest extending from 30 m at the La Selva 

 Biological Station to 2,906 m at the top of Volcan Barva. The 52,000-ha complex covers 

 four life zones and two transitional zones, including tropical wet forest, tropical wet forest 

 cool-transition, tropical premontane wet-transition rain forest, tropical premontane rain forest, 

 lower montane rain forest, and montane rain forest. Located in the northeastern part of the 

 country, the area is representative of Central American Caribbean slope forests that extend 



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