Image 09 COSTA RICA: THE NICOYA GULF An enlargement of LANDSAT TM Scene 16/53 FQ Dated 25/03/1992

Puntarenas area

In this part of the world, most natural ecosystems have been converted to crop lands and others. The only natural ecosystems which seem to have been protected are coastal. However, it is obvious that some of them have been converted to shrimp ponds.

Prepared by Ms. Marie Aizpuru, and provided by Prof. François Blasco,Laboratoire d'Ecologie Terestre(LET), Toulouse, France, for ISME Credit: Laboratoire d' Ecologie Terestre (LET)