Do picky eaters shape plant communities?
May 14, 2012Sofia Gripenberg, a postdoctoral researcher from Finland’s University of Turku who is studying the importance of insect seed predation in tropical forests, checks containers with seeds at a greenhouse on Barro Colorado Island...
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Are vines threatening intact tropical forests?
May 08, 2012Lianas, woody vines that climb into the canopy, seem to be proliferating in many of the world’s tropical forests...
Is there an evolutionary point of no return?
May 01, 2012Snails develop in two ways. Some species spew tiny eggs into the water that hatch to become swimming larvae...
How many species are there in the world?
April 23, 2012Kirsten Miller brings a crossbow to the debate on global species numbers. The PhD from London’s Imperial College used a bow outfitted with a fishing-reel to string beetle traps through the jungle canopy on BCI...
Slightly cuckoo: why compete and cooperate at the same time?
April 16, 2012Casual observers can be forgiven for thinking that Greater Anis are a bit nutty. These cuckoos share nests, but a Crotophaga major who has not yet laid an egg may toss eggs laid by others...
High-Flyers Evade Detection
April 09, 2012How do we know that 74 bat species inhabit Panama´s Barro Colorado Island? Researchers identify bats by capturing their species-specific calls on digital sound recorders ...
Is looking tough worth it?
April 02, 2012When male damselflies, Megaloprepus caerulatus, contest mating sites - pools formed in the trunks of deadfall trees - they start with a bravado show...
Why are some female bees loners?
March 26, 2012Some female Megalopta genalis bees like the solitary life. They forage and raise broods alone in their narrow rotted stick nests...
Back from Submarine Expedition
March 19, 2012
They collected 97 samples including several species of echinoderms—sea urchins, basket stars, starfish and brittlestars...
How did camels arrive in Panama?
March 12, 2012Tiny camels once roamed what is now the Panama Canal area. Twenty million years later, Aldo Rincon, STRI intern and graduate student at the University of Florida, stumbled across their remains - literally...