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Central America

Space use of juvenile green turtles along the North Pacific coast of Costa Rica

Fanqi Wu, Veronica Valverde-Cantillo, Chelsea Durr, Mario Espinoza, Maike Heidemeyer, Christopher G. Lowe, James R. Spotila, Frank V. Paladino

published 20 Apr 2026

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Examining women’s choice between home and institutional births: Insights from the Salud Mesoamérica Initiative (SMI)

Lucía Bartolomeu, Natalia Basualdo, Federico Rolón, Adolfo Rubinstein, Camila Volij, Matt Simon, Brittany Hagedorn, Diego Ríos-Zertuche, Santiago Esteban, Adrián Santoro

published 25 Mar 2026

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Impact of commodity terms-of-trade shocks at disaggregate level

Rebeca Jiménez-Rodríguez, Amalia Morales-Zumaquero

published 17 Mar 2026

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Normative Data for Learning and Memory Test (TAMV-I) in Latin American and Spanish Children: An item response theory and linear mixed models approach

Eliana María Fuentes Mendoza, Laiene Olabarrieta-Landa, Alberto Rodríguez-Lorenzana, Guido Mascialino, Esperanza Vergara-Moragues, Carlos José de los Reyes-Aragón, Natalia Albaladejo-Blázquez, Natalia Cadavid-Ruiz, María José Irias Escher, Juan Carlos Arango-Lasprilla, Erick Orozco-Acosta, Diego Rivera

published 18 Feb 2026

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Household factors influencing cockroach infestations and helminth parasites: Insights from a rural community in Guatemala

Wendy C. Hernández-Mazariegos, Felipe I. Torres, Manuel Rodríguez, Christian M. Ibáñez, Luis E. Escobar, Federico J. Villatoro

published 09 Jan 2026

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Prevalence, etiology, and transmission of fibropapillomatosis in Olive Ridley turtles at a mass-nesting colony in the Mexican Pacific

Elizabeth Labastida-Estrada, Karina Marisol Lugo-Trejo, Valentina Islas-Villanueva, Francisco Benítez-Villalobos, Federico Alberto Abreu-Grobois, Alejandro Oceguera-Figueroa

published 07 Jan 2026

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Mixed-methods evaluation and behavior change interventions to improve hand hygiene resources and practices among healthcare workers in polyclinics and health centers in Belize, 2023

Anh N. Ly, Kelsey McDavid, Christina Craig, Rosalva Blanco, Vickie Romero, Melissa Diaz-Musa, Francis Morey, Russell Manzanero, Gerhaldine Morazan, Makenzie Towery, Anna Impellitteri, Matthew Lozier, Kristy O. Murray

published 02 Dec 2025

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Integrating remote datasets to identify precontact architecture and settlement patterns along the Wampu River system, Eastern Honduras

Anna S. Cohen, Juan Carlos Fernandez-Diaz, Elizabeth Groat, Quinn Eury

published 12 Nov 2025

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Isotopic evidence of increased societal diversification in Pre-Columbian Panama

Ashley E. Sharpe, Nicole E. Smith-Guzmán, Claudia Patricia Díaz Pérez, Luis Alberto Sánchez Herrera, Diana Carvajal-Contreras, Jason Curtis, Jonathan D. Cybulski, Benoit Desjardins, Ilean Isaza-Aizpurúa, George Kamenov, Yajaira Núñez-Cortés

published 06 Nov 2025

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A Bayesian spatio-temporal model of variation in homicide rates for El Salvador

Carlos Carcach

published 24 Sep 2025

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Relative age effect at Concacaf championships: Influence of sex, age, nationality, playing position, and playing status

Matthew Andrew, Sam Barraclough, James H. Dugdale, Matthew J. Reeves, Andrew O. Triggs, Adam L. Kelly

published 09 Jun 2025

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Monitoring sodium content in packaged foods sold in the Americas and compliance with the updated regional sodium reduction targets

Yahan Yang, Nadia Flexner, Maria Victoria Tiscornia, Leila Guarnieri, Adriana Blanco-Metzler, Hilda Núñez-Rivas, Marlene Roselló-Araya, Paola Arévalo-Rodríguez, Maria Fernanda Kroker-Lobos, Francisco Diez-Canseco, Mayra Meza-Hernández, Kiomi Yabiku-Soto, Lorena Saavedra-Garcia, Lorena Allemandi, Leo Nederveen, Mary R. L’Abbé

published 03 Apr 2025

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Inter-nesting area use, migratory routes, and foraging grounds for hawksbill turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata) in the Western Caribbean

Stephen G. Dunbar, Daniel R. Evans, Lindsey R. Eggers, Quintin D. Bergman, Luis G. Fonseca, Frank V. Paladino, Lidia Salinas, Chelsea E. Durr

published 12 Mar 2025

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