Reforestation: how to measure success?
January 30, 2012Michiel Van Breugel, STRI post-doctoral fellow, says that the Agua Salud Project’s 700 hectares of forest in the Panama Canal watershed are unmatched anywhere in the tropics...
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A Deep Marine Connection
January 23, 2012STRI fellow Carlos De Gracia, funded by Panama’s SENACYT, catches deep-sea and open ocean fish in unusual places: in fossil-bearing outcrops in the Caribbean tidal zone...
Hybrids Happen
January 16, 2012In Panama’s western wetlands birdwatchers are forgiven if they can’t match a jacana with the guidebook illustration...
Pick a Pool
January 10, 2012So many sea snails crawl the rocky outcroppings on Panama’s Naos Island that negotiating the terrain takes deft footwork...
Can Social Animals Change Sex?
December 19, 2011Some snapping shrimp live in colonies, like bees...
Do stingless bees communicate inside their nests?
December 12, 2011Meg Eckles’ study on Barro Colorado Island is the first test of the idea that stingless bees “give directions” about where to find food to other bees INSIDE their nests...
Chemical warfare inside leaves
December 05, 2011A vast diversity of fungi called endophytes live inside plant leaves without causing signs of disease...
Pastureland pollutes
November 29, 2011Carbon dioxide, one of the culprits in the global warming story, is a product of burning fossil fuels such as gas and coal...
What is the genetic and molecular basis of tree leaf-endophyte symbioses?
September 19, 2011Fungal endophytes are found in all plants surveyed and they produce few, if any, noticeable symptoms in their healthy host...
Increased tropical forest growth could release carbon from the soil
August 22, 2011Tropical forests play an essential role in regulating the global carbon balance...