| December 13, 2011 |
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Overachieving larvae? Ontogenetic evidence and performance consequences of reacquisition of planktotrophy in the the gastropod family Calyptraeidae
Katie McDonald
STRI
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| December 6, 2011 |
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3,000 km of Fossil Mammals from Chile
Darin Croft
Case Western Reserve University
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| November 29, 2011 |
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Nature without balance: non-equilibrium
meta-communities and meta-ecosystems
Frederic Guichard
McGill University |
| November 22, 2011 |
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Targeting the genes that matter - the genetics of adaptation
in Heliconius butterflies
Owen McMIllan
STRI
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| November 15, 2011 |
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Phosphorous in wetland soils:
Dynamic sources and cycling of a critical nutrient
Alex Cheesman
STRI |
| November 8, 2011 |
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The basic science of biodiversity modeling
Ryan Chisholm
STRI |
| November 1, 2011 |
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Functional traits and ecological strategiesof plants in tropical forests
Kaoru Kitajima
UIniversity of Florida |
| October 26, 2011 |
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Conversaciones en el Smithsonian
Ciclo de Conferencias Centenario
Plantas, stress y cambio climático
Por el Dr. Klaus Winter
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| October 25, 2011 |
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Middle Miocene closure of the Panama Isthmus
Camilo Montes
STRI |
| October 18, 2011 |
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Bridging the gap between genotypes and phenotypes in reptiles
Jessica Stapley
STRI |
| October 13, 2011 |
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Sitio Conte. La alquimia en la fundición de joyería
Profesor Raul Ybarra
M.Sc/Orfebre
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| October 11, 2011 |
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Fungal Diversity in the Western Ghats:
Bearings on diversity estimations and fungal lifestyles
Trichur Suryanarayanan
Vivekananda Institute of Tropical Mycology |
| October 4, 2011 |
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Plant-soil feedbacks and the maintenance
of diversity in a tropical forest
Scott Mangan
Department of Biological Sciences
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee |
| September 28, 2011 |
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Conversaciones en el Smithsonian
Ciclo de Conferencias Centenario
Variación del clima en la Isla de Barro Colorado
y sus efectos en el bosque
Por la Dra. Helene Muller-Landau |
| September 27, 2011 |
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Analyzing tree spatial pattern:
when localized competition and dispersal promote coexistence
Matteo Detto
STRI |
| September 20, 2011 |
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Seagrass Foraminifera of Florida Bay,
Proxy for Seagrass Abundance Through Time
Laurel Collins
Florida International University |
| September 16, 2011 |
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PCP PIRE: All Hands Meeting (Part 1) |
| PCP PIRE: All Hands Meeting (Part 2) |
| September 13, 2011 |
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The Role of Polyploidy in Angiosperm Diversification
Pam Soltis
University of Florida |
| September 6, 2011 |
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Coral Adaptability, Resilience and Resistance to anthropogenic Impacts
in Biodiverse Caribbean Reef Ecosystems, case study of Bocas del Toro
(CARIBE Project)
Janina Seeman
PhD Student
Museum of Natural History, Berlin
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| August 30, 2011 |
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Understanding the effects of body size and environmental
temperature on community dynamics
Samraat Pawar
UCLA |
| August 24, 2011 |
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Conversaciones en el Smithsonian
Ciclo de Conferencias Centenario
Megalodón y otros tiburones ancestrales de Panamá
Catalina Pimiento |
| August 23, 2011 |
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Fungal endophytes, pathogens, and immune responses
in the chocolate tree Theobroma cacao
Luis Mejia
STRI
|
| August 22, 2011 |
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Taller:
REDD+ en Panamá:
DONDE ESTAMOS Y HACIA DONDE VAMOS (1ra Parte) |
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Taller:
REDD+ en Panamá:
DONDE ESTAMOS Y HACIA DONDE VAMOS (2da Parte)
|
| August 16, 2011 |
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The evolutionary ecology of domestication in caimito
(Chrysophyllum cainito)
Ingrid Parker
UC Santa Cruz |
| August 11, 2011 |
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Placing the Archaeology of Isla Colon, Bocas del Toro, Panama in a Broader Isthmian Perspective
Thomas Wake
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| August 10, 2011 |
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Land Use in Pre-1492 Amazonia
José Iriarte |
| August 9, 2011 |
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Slash-burn-and-churn: Landscape History and Crop Husbandry
in Pre-Columbian Amazonia
Manuel Arroyo-Kalin
|
| August 8, 2011 |
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NEO ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM 2011
Neotropical Environment Option
STRI-McGill University (Part 1) |
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NEO ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM 2011
Neotropical Environment Option
STRI-McGill University (Part 2) |
| August 2, 2011 |
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Population Biology of Rare and Endangered Species
Markus Fischer
University of Bern |
| July 27, 2011 |
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Conversaciones en el Smithsonian
Ciclo de Conferencias Centenario
Panamá y sus Océanos de contraste:
de la Investigación Marina a la Conservación
Dr. Juan Mate |
| July 19, 2011 |
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Peter Molnar
Head, Evolutionary Biology Unit
Beijing Genomics Institute |
| July 12, 2011 |
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Managing ecological thresholds in coupled
environmental-human systems
Eli Fenichel
Arizona State University |
| July 5, 2011 |
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Anuran courtship: what can a fixed signal
tell us about multimodal communication?
Ryan Taylor
Salisbury University |
| June 28, 2011 |
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To be loved or to be heard in a noisy world
Wouter Halfwerk
STRI |
| June 21, 2011 |
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Conversaciones en el Smithsonian
Ciclo de Conferencias Centenario
Paleontología en Panamá
Dr. Carlos Jaramillo
STRI |
| June 20, 2011 |
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A frog of a different color:Why are the poison frogs of
Bocas del Toro so amazingly diverse?
Cori Richards-Zawacki
Tulane University |
| June 17, 2011 |
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New Insights into Coral-Microbe Interactions:
the Good, the Bad, the Totally Weird
Kim Ritchie |
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Think globally, act experimentally: How experimental ecology
can inform the conservation of coastal ecosystem
Andrew Altieri |
| June 16, 2011 |
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Systems Biology Approaches to Coral Reef Science
Monica Medina
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Herbivores and nutrients as drivers of community
structure
on coral reefs: from fishes to microbes
Deron Burkepile |
| June 15, 2011 |
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Marine ecological and evolutionary processes in the tropics
Oscar Puebla
STRI |
| June 14, 2011 |
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Maize on the Southern Frontier:
The Timing and Evidence for Corn Agriculture in
Southwestern South America and their Implications
Andrew Ugan
STRI
|
| June 7, 2011 |
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Across site comparison of pest pressure along
the rainfall gradient in the Isthmus of Panama
Tania Brenes
STRI
|
| May 31, 2011 |
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Resilience of tropical forests to global warming:
insights from phylogeography
Chris Dick
University of Michigan |
| May 25, 2011 |
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Conversaciones en el Smithsonian
Ciclo de Conferencias Centenario
Agricultura, Plagas y Arrieras
Dr. Hermonógenes Fernández-Marín
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| May 24, 2011 |
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The feces of leaf-cutting ants: an unexpected window for understanding
coevolution with fungus-garden symbionts
Koos Boomsma
Centre for Social Evolution
Department of Biology
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
|
| May 17, 2011 |
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One mechanism fits all? Cuticular hydrocarbons
is fertility signals in eusocial insects
Juergen Liebig
School of Life Sciences
Arizona State |
| May 10, 2011 |
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Deception in visual and chemical
communication in crustaceans
John Christy
STRI |
| May 3, 2011 |
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The History of neotropics in a nutshell: 140 Ma of Evolution
Carlos Jaramillo
STRI |
| April 27, 2011 |
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Conversaciones en el Smithsonian
Ciclo de Conferencias Centenario
El surgimiento del Istmo de Panamá ha cambiado al mundo
Dr. Anthony Coates
|
| April 26, 2011 |
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An urchin that does not obey the rules:
Phylogeography and bindin evolution of Arbacia
Harilaos Lessios
STRI
|
| April 19, 2011 |
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Vital Enemies: Slavery, Predation, and the
Amerindian Political Economy of Life
Fernando Santos Granero
STRI
|
| April 12, 2011 |
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The sensory ecology of bats and their insect prey
Hannah ter Hofstede
NSERC Research Fellow
Cambridge University |
| April 5, 2011 |
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Timing of the release of larvae by brachyuran crabs:
patterns, adaptive significance and control
John Christy
STRI |
| March 29, 2011 |
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Can compensation maintain ecosystem function in the face of species
extinctions? A case study of vertebrate pollinators in New Zealand
David Errol Pattemore
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Princeton University
|
| March 23, 2011 |
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Conversaciones en el Smithsonian
Ciclo de Conferencias Centenario
Los Genes, las avispas y las brujas
Reflexiones sobre la ciencia y el progreso humano
Mary Jane West-Eberhard
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| March 22, 2011 |
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Population genetic inferences of demographic history
and local adaptation in Poplar
Peter Tiffin
University of Minnesota
|
| March 15, 2011 |
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Miocene mammals from Panama:
Tropical refugium or cradle of biodiversity?
Bruce McFadden
Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology
Florida Museum of Natural History
University of Florida
|
| March 9, 2011 |
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A fishy business: Parasite life cycle complexity and
environmental change as drivers of disease
Beth Okamura
Department of Zoology
Natural History Museum
United Kingdom |
| March 1, 2011 |
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Evolutionary origin and maintenance of
sociality in the small carpenter bees
Sandra Rehan
Department of Biological Sciences
Brock University, Canada |
| February 23, 2011 |
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Conversaciones en el Smithsonian
Ciclo de Conferencias Centenario
Historia de las Colecciones Botánicas en Panamá
Prof. Mireya Correa |
| February 22, 2011 |
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The influence of land use and climate change on forest biomass
and composition in Massachusetts, USA
Jonathan Thompson
Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
|
| February 15, 2011 |
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Integrative Evolutionary Ecology: biomechanics and encounter
rates in Ecology and Evolution
Jordi Moya-Laraño
Tenure Scientist
Department of Functional and Evolutionary Ecology
Estación Experimental de Zonas Áridas, CSIC
Almería, Spain
|
| February 8, 2011 |
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The Rise and Fall of the Carboniferous Coal Forests
Howard Falcon-Lang
Professor Royal Holloway
London |
| February 1, 2011 |
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Diverse mechanisms for concentration of scarce food by ciliated larvae and their diverse and ancient evolutionary origins
Richard Strathmann
University of Washington
Friday Harbor Laboratories |
| January 26, 2011 |
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Conversaciones en el Smithsonian
Ciclo de Conferencias Centenario
Estudio Biológico de la Zona del Canal, 1910-1912:
Cien años de amistad entre Panamá y el Instituto Smithsonian
Dr. Fernando Santos-Granero |
| January 25, 2011 |
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Tropical Land-Use Change and the Carbon Cycle:
Patterns and Processes at Regional and Global Scales
Jennifer S. Powers
University of Minnesota |
