Lakes in Costa Rica

SP Horn, G Umaña-Villalobos, KA Haberyan - Landscapes and Landforms …, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Lakes occur throughout Costa Rica, in a variety of geomorphic settings. Nearly
every possible mode of lake formation has occurred, involving processes related to …

Compound-specific stable carbon and hydrogen isotope analyses of late-Holocene vegetation and precipitation change at Laguna Los Mangos, Costa Rica

EA Yanuskiewicz, CS Lane, SP Horn… - Quaternary …, 2022 - Elsevier
New compound-specific isotope analyses of a sediment core from Laguna Los Mangos in
southern Pacific Costa Rica improves understanding of late-Holocene precipitation change …

Stable hydrogen isotope evidence of late-Holocene precipitation variability on the Caribbean slope of the Cordillera Central, Costa Rica

PYY Kho, CS Lane, SP Horn, JC Rodgers III… - Quaternary …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract In Central America and the Caribbean, periods of increased aridity that correspond
to the Terminal Classic Drought (TCD; 1200–850 cal yr BP) and the Little Ice Age (LIA; 500 …

Holocene hydroclimate in highland Costa Rica: new evidence from hydrogen and carbon isotopes in n‐alkanes of terrestrial leaf waxes in a 10 000‐year sediment …

MT Kerr, SP Horn, CS Lane - Journal of Quaternary Science, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
We conducted compound‐specific stable hydrogen (δD) and carbon (δ13C) isotope
analysis on n‐alkanes from terrestrial leaf waxes preserved in a 10 000‐year sediment …

Response of diatom communities to climate and human disturbance: a 4200-year record from Costa Rica

M Bitting, EN Johanson, KA Haberyan… - The …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
This study integrates diatom analysis with existing records of pollen, charcoal, elemental
composition, and stable light isotopes to expand upon the 4200-year history of human …

Fire history across the little ice age in southern Pacific Costa Rica

EN Johanson, SP Horn, CS Lane, M Sánchez… - Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
We present two high-resolution records of Late Holocene (Meghalayan) fire history from
lakes in the lowlands of southern Pacific Costa Rica and compare them with evidence of pre …

Post-Conquest vegetation and fire dynamics at Laguna Carse, Costa Rica: A pollen and microscopic charcoal record

T Friedel, EN Johanson, SP Horn - Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 2024 - Springer
The study of lake sediment-derived proxy records from southern Costa Rica has shown that
changes in vegetation and fire activity over the late Holocene are linked to population …

Stable isotope analysis of vegetation history and land use change at Laguna Santa Elena in southern Pacific Costa Rica

MT Kerr, SP Horn, CS Lane - Vegetation history and archaeobotany, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Laguna Santa Elena (8.9290° N, 82.9257° W, 1055 m asl) is a small lake in the
Diquís archaeological sub-region of southern Pacific Costa Rica. Previous analyses of …

Los manteños de Bola de Oro y su resiliencia al cambio climático: reconstrucción cronológica de modificaciones agrícolas a través de modelado de edad-profundidad …

A Garzón-Oechsle, E Johanson… - STRATA …, 2023 - revistas.patrimoniocultural.gob.ec
Un paisaje modificado de terrazas de cultivo y albarradas en la cordillera Chongón-
Colonche en el sur de Manabí indica un cambio en las prácticas agrícolas manteñas (ca …

A 3600-year record of drought in southern Pacific Costa Rica

ZP Taylor, CS Lane, SP Horn - Quaternary Research, 2020 - cambridge.org
We analyzed the δ2H composition of n-alkanes isolated from Laguna Zoncho, a small lake
in southern Pacific Costa Rica, to reconstruct paleohydrology. Using a core that spans the …