When time and funding permit, each flower (each plant species) will have its own page, and its own PDF, and eventually its own PPT so that professors and students have plenty of material on Guatemala (and Honduras, etc) to study.
Heliconia adflexa, Coban, Guatemala, Hotel Monja Blanca, FLAAR, by Nicholas Hellmuth
This space is for flowers we have recently found and photographed.
Swampo location. Ecosystem at Reserva Aldea Buena Vista Tapon Creek, Livington. Photo by Dr Nicholas Hellmuth on April 26, 2021.
The “aguadas” consist of areas that store rainwater, and can vary from 236 m2 to several hectares. The aguadas usually appear in low densities, since they are dispersed in the landscape. Since the aguadas are formed by the accumulation of rainwater, they present a dynamic associated with the dry and rainy seasons, in which some aguadas can dry out completely during the dry season, while others remain throughout the rainy season. year. Due to the limited availability of surface water in the region, aguadas are one of the main sources of water to support wildlife during the dry season. More than 20 species of vertebrates have been documented visiting the aguadas, including endangered species of economic and cultural importance, including birds such as Aramides albiventris (gallinula), Crax rubra (pheasant), Meleagris ocellata (ocellated turkey), as well as mammalian species including Tapirus bairdii (tapir or tapir), Panthera onca (jaguar), Tayassu pecari (white-lipped wild boar), Puma concolor (Puma), Leopardus pardalis (Ocelot), among others (García, et al., 2017).
According to several references two of the mammalian species that have a high dependence on aguadas are T. bairdii and T. pecari, so that aguadas are vital for their survival
PDF, Articles, Books on Aguadas of Guatemala, Belize and Mexico, Aguadas of Guatemala
AKPINAR, E., DUNNING, N. P., LENTZ, D. and J. G. JONES
2012
Use of aguadas as water management sources in two southern Maya lowland sites. Ancient Mesoamerica, 23(1), 85-101.
Calakmul, México: Aguadas, bajos, precipitación y asentamiento en el Petén Campechano. En IX Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala, 1995 (editado por J.P. Laporte y H. Escobedo), pp.147- 173. Museo Nacional de Arqueología y Etnología, Guatemala.
GARCÍA, M. J., AGUILERA, A. L., GUZMÁN, G. D., RODRÍGUEZ, D. I. and V. R. GONZÁLEZ
2018
Dinámica temporal de la disponibilidad de agua y microclima en aguadas del biotopo protegido Dos Lagunas, Petén, Guatemala. Ciencia, Tecnología y Salud, Vol. 5, No. 2.
Locating Aguadas in Northern Guatemala Using Remote Sensing. Division of Graduate Studies of the University of Cincinnati. Department of Geography of the College of Arts & Sciences.
Aguadas: A Significant Aspect of the Southern Maya Lowlands Water Management Systems. University of Cincinnati. Department of Geography of the College of Arts and Sciences.
Ancient Maya Resource Management: Water, Households, and Community at Chan, Belize. 77th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology Memphis, Tennessee.
Annotated Checklist of Mammals of the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. I. Chiroptera. Occasional Papers of the Texas Tech University Museum No. 13, 30 pages.
RAMOS, J., GARCÍA, J., ORTIZ, S., GONZPALEZ, J. L. and R. ITURBE
2018
Water quality in aguadas within a protected karstic rain forest: The role of the vegetation-soil-water interactions. Ecological Engineering, Volume 121, pages 2-11.