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Central America

Small vertebrate consumption by capuchin monkeys (Sapajus libidinosus): Insights into the human predatory pattern

Susana Carvalho, Noemi Spagnoletti, João d’Oliveira Coelho, Megan Beardmore-Herd, Olívia Mendonça-Furtado, Michele Verderane, Joana Prieto, Dominique I. Cavallaro, Patrícia Izar, Elisabetta Visalberghi

published 26 Aug 2026

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Double burden of malnutrition among non-pregnant women of reproductive age: Results from the National Health Survey of Panama (ENSPA) 2019

Roger Montenegro Mendoza, Flavia Fontes, José Renán De León, Beatriz Gómez, Abdiel Bonilla, Fanny Franco, Bernardo González, Reina Roa, Hedley Quintana, Ilais Moreno Velásquez

published 24 Aug 2026

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Burden of catastrophic costs, income inequalities and associated factors in Guatemala: First national tuberculosis costs survey, 2023

Hibeb Alejandra Silvestre Tuch, Maritza Samayoa-Peláez, Belkys Asuncion Marcelino Martinez, Ernesto Montoro, Pedro Avedillo, Barbara Reis-Santos

published 17 Aug 2026

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Lutjanus synagris (Linnaeus 1758) age-based life history using a multi-model inference approach for growth in the southern Gulf of Mexico

Isabel Cervantes-Camacho, Ximena Renán, Gabriela Galindo-Cortes, Teresa Colás-Marrufo, Virginia Noh-Quiñones, Thierry Brulé

published 21 Jul 2026

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Vulnerability assessment to tropical cyclones in the North Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua (1988–2022)

Lismaryin Muñoz-Requene, Pedro Sánchez-Zamora, Rosa Gallardo-Cobos

published 22 Jun 2026

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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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