50 años de la Revista de Biología Tropical: contribución al desarrollo de la Geo-Paleontología / 50 years of the Revista de Biologia Tropical: its contribution to the development of the Geo-Paleontology

RESUMO

The geosciences contribution along the 50 years of the Revista de BiologÝa Tropical had been scarcity and episodic. Until now there are 2374 papers but only 21 (0.88) have some relation with geological sciences. It's possible to recognize two periods with geological contributions, one between 1963 and 1978. It's appropriate to underline the importance of the biologist L. D. Gómez with his contributions about Costa Rican Paleobotanic in this period. The other period includes from 1988 to the present, and it's typified by an increase of biologist and geologist participation in different topics regarding with geosciences. Foreign and national researches are in the same ratio and belong from several countries like Costa Rica, MÚxico and Dominican Republic. The subjects are concerning mainly about fossil taxonomy (Paleontology 81), only 19 are related with geological topics. Such distribution could be explained because the affinity between the fossil studies and the biological sciences.