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2013
May 07, 2013
From microbes to biomes - comparing and scaling soil carbon dynamics in forest ecosystems
Emma Sayer
Open University
April 30, 2013
Drought tolerance of tropical tree species; functional traits, tradeoffs and species distribution
Dr. Lars Markesteijn
Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK STRI
April 23, 2013
Marine Ecosystem Restoration using Artificial Branching Coral
Michael Haley
Ecoreefs
April 16, 2013
Putting Parasites into Ecosystems
Ryan Hechinger
UCSB
April 02, 2013
Short- and long-range tracking of African straw-coloured fruit bats (Eidolon helvum) - a migrating ecological keystone species
Dina Dechmann
Max Planck Institute of Ornithology
March 26, 2013
Learning from the Octopus: How Observations of Nature are Transforming Science and Society
Rafe Sagarin, Ph.D.
University of Arizona
March 15, 2013
Fellowship Symposium
Annual Fellowship Meeting
STRI
March 5, 2013
Interactions between bat flowers and flower bats in the Neotropics
Marco Tschapka
University of Ulm
FEBRUARY 26, 2013
The dynamics of optimal defense: how hosts cope in a wormy world
Andrea Graham
Princeton University
FEBRUARY 19, 2013
Plants that eat plants: Evolutionary and Functional Genomics of Parasitic Plants
Claude dePamphilis
Penn State University
FEBRUARY 5, 2013
Consequences of rapid mtDNA evolution on hybrid breakdown and speciation
Ron Burton
Scripps Institute of Oceanography
JANUARY 29, 2013
The developmental physiology of body size in insects
Fred Nijhout
Duke University
JANUARY 22, 2013
Fossils as tools for Marine Management
Catherine Lovelock
Professor, The School of Biological Science, The University of Queensland
JANUARY 15, 2013
Mangroves and climate change
Catherine Lovelock
Professor, The School of Biological Science, The University of Queensland
JANUARY 8, 2013
Long-term ecosystem development and terrestrial plant diversity

Etienne Laliberté
School of Plant Biology, The University of Western Australia
2012
DECEMBER 18, 2012
Cecropia growth pattern periodicity: could a Neotropical genus be a good biological clock to estimate the age of recently disturbed areas?

Paul-Camilo Zalamea
STRI Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Illinois
DECEMBER 11, 2012
Running from the heat: Can tropical trees shift their distributions to remain at equilibrium with climate?
Ken Feeley
Florida International University
NOVEMBER 27, 2012
Mid-Holocene human settlement of Pedro González Island, Pearl Island archipelago, Panama (6000-5600 ya). Relation to sea level change, and interactions with the island
Richard Cooke and Stewart Redwood
STRI and Consulting Geologist, Panama
NOVEMBER 20, 2012
The influence of local and regional environments on the assembly of tropical forest plant communities.
Edwin Lebrija
STRI, Panama
NOVEMBER 13, 2012
The stability of the fig-wasp mutualism: from observation to inference to experiment to genomics and back
Allen Herre
STRI
NOVEMBER 6, 2012
Evolution of dewlap colour-pattern variation in a Panamanian anole lizard
Jessica Stapley
STRI
OCTOBER 30, 2012
How old is the isthmus of Panama?
Tony Coates
STRI
OCTOBER 23, 2012
Is the Sponge Effect real? Observations from the STRIAgua Salud Project
Fred Ogden
Cline Distinguished Chair of Engineering,
Enviroment and Natural Resources
STRI, Senior Research Associate
University of Wyoming
October 16, 2012
Climatic Controls on carbon cycling in terrestrial ecosystems
Kristina Anderson-Teixera
Smithsonain
October 9, 2012
Is elevated CO2 a cause of increasing tropical lianas?
Dave Marvin
University of Michigan
October 2, 2012
The Intellectual History of STRI
Egbert Leigh
STRI
Septiembre 25, 2012
Disease and amphibian declines:
alternative hosts and possible solutions
Taegan McMahon
STRI and USF
Septiembre 18, 2012
Using natural abundance stable isotope ratios to
understand ecosystem nitrogen cycling in boreal
and tropical forests
Jordan Mayor
STRI and NSF International Postdoctoral Fellow
Septiembre 11, 2012
The evolutionary diversity and ecological
complexity of coral reefs
Nancy Knowlton
Smithsonian Institution
September 4, 2012
The use of Vibrations by Red-Eyed Treefrogs
for Communication and Antipredator Defense
Michael Caldwell
STRI
August 28, 2012
Does nutrient limitation mediate the responses of
tropical forest to climate change?
Lou Santiago
University of California at Riverside

August 21, 2012
Elisabeth Kalko Memorial Symposium

August 14, 2012
The Soils of Central Panama and the Sponge Effect:
What to Expect from Reforestation
Helmut Elsenbeer
University of Potsdam

August 7, 2012
Stability and Instability in the figwasp mutualism
Allen Herre
STRI

July 31, 2012
A genomic view of speciation in butterflies
Chris Jiggins
University of Cambridge and STRI Research Associate

July 24, 2012
The missing stink:
Evidence for chemical mediation of community structure
Rob Raguso
STRI

July 17, 2012
The Intellectual History of BCI
Egbert Leigh
STRI

July 10, 2012
Species-specific responses to soil nutrients and
rainfall across a community of tropical trees
Richard Condit
STRI

July 3, 2012
Sleeping in a Society: Bees, brains, and the question of sleep
in the context of a colony
Barrett Klein
Department of Biology, University of Wisconsin –La Crosse

June 26, 2012
Determining how altered structure of a habitat-forming
engineer affects ecosystem function
Virginia G. W. Schutte

June 19, 2012
Molecular genetics, behavioral, and evolution of alternative
reproductive tactics in a live bearing fish
Michael J. Ryan
University of Texas
STRI

June 12, 2012
Tropical Canopy Insects Link Leaf Damage
in Fossil and Living Forests
Monica Carvahlo
PhD student, Cornell

June 5, 2012
Iridescent color signals in animals:
interactions among production, perception, and functions
Ronald Rutowski
Arizona State University

May 29, 2012
The Venezuelan Neogene and its relevance to address
macroevolutionary patterns in the neotropics
Marcelo Sanchez
University of Zurich

May 22, 2012
The ions of life--why sodium and potassium
matter in tropical forest ecology
Mike Kaspari
University of Oklahoma

May 16, 2012
Foro de Mosquitos Transgénicos

May 15, 2012
Genetic Pest Management: Past, Present and Future
Fred Gould
North Carolina State University
May 8, 2012
Improving global ecosystem models with data
Jeremy Lichstein
University of Florida
April 24, 2012
The STRI Bird Collection: A collections-based approach
to exploring synergies between causes and consequences
of Panamanian bird diversity
Part 1 | Part 2
Matthew Miller
STRI
April 17, 2012
Palms as Models to Understand Tropical Forest Evolution
Through Time and Space
Christine Bacon
STRI
April 10, 2012
The City as an Ordinary Ecosystem? The importance of spatial and environmental variables to structure urban biodiversity
Thomas Satler
University of Ulm and STRI
April 3, 2012
Re-making Lives Abroad: Lifestyle Migration and Socioenvironmental
Change in Bocas del Toro

Ana Spalding
Independent Researcher
March 27, 2012
Strategies of Natal Dispersal, Survival and Selection on Breeding in Tropical Birds

Corey Tarwater
University of California, Berkeley
STRI
March 20, 2012
Miniaturization and nervous systems; limits and consequences
(smaller = dumber?)

William Eberhard
STRI
March 13, 2012
The ecology and evolution of communal nesting in the Greater Ani,
a Neotropical cuckoo that breeds in non-kin groups
Christina P. Riehl
Postdoctoral fellow, STRI
March 6, 2012
Deconstructing the Serengeti Foodweb:
How does a large Tropical Ecosystem Respond to Perturbations?

Andy Dobson
Princeton University
Februrary 14, 2012
Genomic Tools Leave the Lab

Cassey Dunn
Brown University
Februrary 7, 2012
Genomic evidence for promiscuous exchange of adaptations
among Heliconius butterfly species

Kanchon Dasmahapatra
University College, London
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Janurary 31, 2012
Scales of bacterial diversity in soil: from rhizosphere to region

Alan Richardson
CSIRO Plant Industry
Canberra, Australia
Janurary 24, 2012
The emergence of an alternative phenotype following
competitive release in spotted antbirds

Janeen Touchton
The Max Planck Institute for Ornithology
Population Studies Linking Traits and Communities
Hans de Kroon
Radboud University Nijmegen
Janurary 10, 2012
Functional traits determine tradeoffs and
niches in a tropical tree community

Frank Sterck
Wageningen University
Janurary 3, 2012
Detecting and projecting forest biomass change from plot data

Helene Muller-Landau
STRI

2011
December 13, 2011
Overachieving larvae? Ontogenetic evidence and performance consequences
of reacquisition of planktotrophy in the the gastropod family Calyptraeidae

Katie McDonald
STRI
December 6, 2011
3,000 km of Fossil Mammals from Chile

Darin Croft
Case Western Reserve University
November 29, 2011
Nature without balance: non-equilibrium
meta-communities and meta-ecosystems

Frederic Guichard
McGill University
November 22, 2011
Targeting the genes that matter - the genetics of adaptation
in Heliconius butterflies

Owen McMIllan
STRI
November 15, 2011
Phosphorous in wetland soils:
Dynamic sources and cycling of a critical nutrient

Alex Cheesman
STRI
November 8, 2011
The basic science of biodiversity modeling

Ryan Chisholm
STRI
November 1, 2011
Functional traits and ecological strategiesof plants in tropical forests

Kaoru Kitajima
UIniversity of Florida
October 26, 2011
Conversaciones en el Smithsonian
Ciclo de Conferencias Centenario
Plantas, stress y cambio climático

Por el Dr. Klaus Winter
October 25, 2011
Middle Miocene closure of the Panama Isthmus

Camilo Montes
STRI
October 18, 2011
Bridging the gap between genotypes and phenotypes in reptiles

Jessica Stapley
STRI
October 13, 2011
Sitio Conte. La alquimia en la fundición de joyería

Profesor Raul Ybarra
M.Sc/Orfebre
October 11, 2011
Fungal Diversity in the Western Ghats:
Bearings on diversity estimations and fungal lifestyles

Trichur Suryanarayanan
Vivekananda Institute of Tropical Mycology
October 4, 2011
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
Conversaciones en el Smithsonian
Ciclo de Conferencias Centenario
Variación del clima en la Isla de Barro Colorado
y sus efectos en el bosque

Dra. Helene Muller-Landau
September 27, 2011
Analyzing tree spatial pattern:
when localized competition and dispersal promote coexistence

Matteo Detto
STRI
September 20, 2011
Seagrass Foraminifera of Florida Bay,
Proxy for Seagrass Abundance Through Time

Laurel Collins
Florida International University
September 16, 2011
PCP PIRE: All Hands Meeting (Part 1)
Introductions, Welcome and Keynote (Moderator: Carlos Jaramillo)
Eldredge Bermingham: Director, STRI
Doug Jones: Director, Florida Museum of Natural History | Welcome Speech
Ruben Berrocal: Secretario Nacional de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación - SENACYT
NSF (Jessica Robin)
Keynote: Tony Coates, The History of the Panama Paleontology Program (PPP); why the whole is bigger than the sum of the parts."
PCP Research (Moderator: Jon Bloch)
Camilo Montes : Geological context of the Panama Canal
David Farris: Extension during formation of the Panamanian Isthmus
David Foster: Panama Canal Project Geochronology and Isotope Geochemistry Investigations: Student Experiences in Advanced Instrument Laboratories
Jon Bloch: Miocene vertebrates from Panama
Gary Morgan: Microvertebrates from Panama: Big discoveries from tiny fossils
Austin Hendy: Biodiversity and paleoecology of marine biotas in the Gatun Formation: New approaches and old problems
Oris Rodriguez: Miocene woods from the Panama Canal: taxonomy, paleoecology and paleoclimatology

PCP PIRE: All Hands Meeting (Part 2)
Education and Outreach (Moderator: Bruce MacFadden)
Bruce MacFadden: Education and Outreach Overview
Keynote: George Angehr-BioMuseo, The Panama BioMuseo: A Unique Synthesis of Science and Art
Andy Kilmer: Paleontology in the Panama Canal -- 5 minutes video
Luz Helena Oviedo: E-Newsletter: Keeping you up-to-date
Claudia Grant: Made from Scratch: the story of the PCP PIRE website
Jorge Pino: Engaging students on science and perspectives for the MCN
Catalina Pimiento: Training the Next Generation of Paleontologists from Panama. (Session Ends)

September 13, 2011
The Role of Polyploidy in Angiosperm Diversification

Pam Soltis
University of Florida
September 6, 2011
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
August 30, 2011
Understanding the effects of body size and environmental
temperature on community dynamics

Samraat Pawar
UCLA
August 24, 2011
Conversaciones en el Smithsonian
Ciclo de Conferencias Centenario
Megalodón y otros tiburones ancestrales de Panamá

Catalina Pimiento
August 23, 2011
Fungal endophytes, pathogens, and immune responses
in the chocolate tree Theobroma cacao

Luis Mejia
STRI
August 22, 2011
Taller:
REDD+ en Panamá:
DONDE ESTAMOS Y HACIA DONDE VAMOS (1ra Parte)
Taller:
REDD+ en Panamá:
DONDE ESTAMOS Y HACIA DONDE VAMOS (2da Parte)
August 16, 2011
The evolutionary ecology of domestication in caimito
(Chrysophyllum cainito)

Ingrid Parker
UC Santa Cruz
August 11, 2011
Placing the Archaeology of Isla Colon, Bocas del Toro,
Panama in a Broader Isthmian Perspective

Thomas Wake
August 10, 2011
Land Use in Pre-1492 Amazonia

José Iriarte
August 9, 2011
Slash-burn-and-churn: Landscape History and Crop Husbandry
in Pre-Columbian Amazonia

Manuel Arroyo-Kalin
August 8, 2011
NEO ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM 2011
Neotropical Environment Option
STRI-McGill University (Part 1)
NEO ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM 2011
Neotropical Environment Option
STRI-McGill University (Part 2)
August 2, 2011
Population Biology of Rare and Endangered Species

Markus Fischer
University of Bern
July 27, 2011
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
The Gradual Closing of the Indonesian
Seaway, the demise of a permanent El Niño-like
Pacific sea-surface temperature distribution, and
the onset of Northern Hemisphere Ice Ages

Peter Molnar
Head, Evolutionary Biology Unit
Beijing Genomics Institute
July 12, 2011
Managing ecological thresholds in coupled
environmental-human systems

Eli Fenichel
Arizona State University
July 5, 2011
Anuran courtship: what can a fixed signal
tell us about multimodal communication?

Ryan Taylor
Salisbury University


June 28, 2011
To be loved or to be heard in a noisy world

Wouter Halfwerk
STRI


June 21, 2011
Conversaciones en el Smithsonian
Ciclo de Conferencias Centenario
Paleontología en Panamá

Dr. Carlos Jaramillo
STRI


June 20, 2011
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
New Insights into Coral-Microbe Interactions:
the Good, the Bad, the Totally Weird

Kim Ritchie


June 17, 2011
Think globally, act experimentally: How experimental ecology
can inform the conservation of coastal ecosystem

Andrew Altieri

June 16, 2011
Systems Biology Approaches to Coral Reef Science

Monica Medina

June 16, 2011
Herbivores and nutrients as drivers of community
structure on coral reefs: from fishes to microbes

Deron Burkepile

June 15, 2011
Marine ecological and evolutionary processes in the tropics

Oscar Puebla
STRI
June 14, 2011
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
Across site comparison of pest pressure along
the rainfall gradient in the Isthmus of Panama

Tania Brenes
STRI


May 31, 2011
Resilience of tropical forests to global warming:
insights from phylogeography

Chris Dick
University of Michigan


May 25, 2011
Conversaciones en el Smithsonian
Ciclo de Conferencias Centenario
Agricultura, Plagas y Arrieras

Dr. Hermonógenes Fernández-Marín
May 24, 2011
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
One mechanism fits all? Cuticular hydrocarbons
is fertility signals in eusocial insects

Juergen Liebig
School of Life Sciences
Arizona State


May 10, 2011
Deception in visual and chemical
communication in crustaceans

John Christy
STRI


May 3, 2011
The History of neotropics in a nutshell: 140 Ma of Evolution

Carlos Jaramillo
STRI


April 27, 2011
Conversaciones en el Smithsonian
Ciclo de Conferencias Centenario
El surgimiento del Istmo de Panamá ha cambiado al mundo

Dr. Anthony Coates


April 26, 2011
An urchin that does not obey the rules:
Phylogeography and bindin evolution of Arbacia

Harilaos Lessios
STRI


April 19, 2011
Vital Enemies: Slavery, Predation, and the
Amerindian Political Economy of Life

Fernando Santos Granero
STRI


April 12, 2011
The sensory ecology of bats and their insect prey

Hannah ter Hofstede
NSERC Research Fellow
Cambridge University


April 5, 2011
Timing of the release of larvae by brachyuran crabs:
patterns, adaptive significance and control

John Christy
STRI


March 29, 2011
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
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


March 22, 2011
Population genetic inferences of demographic history
and local adaptation in Poplar

Peter Tiffin
University of Minnesota
March 15, 2011
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
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
Evolutionary origin and maintenance of
sociality in the small carpenter bees

Sandra Rehan
Department of Biological Sciences
Brock University, Canada


February 23, 2011
Conversaciones en el Smithsonian
Ciclo de Conferencias Centenario
Historia de las Colecciones Botánicas en Panamá

Prof. Mireya Correa


February 22, 2011
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
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
The Rise and Fall of the Carboniferous Coal Forests

Howard Falcon-Lang
Professor Royal Holloway
London
February 1, 2011
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
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
2010
November 9, 2010
Plant-soil feedbacks mediated by soil biota:
tests and implications
Scott Mangan
Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
STRI
November 2, 2010
Character Displacement of anti-herbivore
Defense in a World without Specialists
Brian Sedio
STRI Fellow
October 26, 2010
The Power of Piercing, Pounding Shrimp
Sheila Patek
Professor
University of Massachussets
October 19, 2010
The energetic cost of electric signaling
in weakly electric fish
Rudiger Krahe
McGill Universit
October 12, 2010
The Mesoamerican Code
Roberto Bruno
Video Coming Soon
October 5, 2010
Population, breeding status, and taxonomic
investigation of three threatened birds in Coiba
National Park
George Angehr
STRI, Principal Investigator
September 21, 2010
Speciation, gene flow, and pairing dynamics
Oscar Puebla
Postdoctoral Fellow
STRI
September 14, 2010
Modelling insect dynamics in complex lanscapes of the tropical Andes
Olivier Dangles
French Institute for Research and Development
Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador
September 7, 2010
Predatory corporations, failing Governance and the Fate of forests in New Guinea
William Laurance
Distinguished Professor and Australian Laureate Fellow
School of Marine and Tropical Biology
James Cook University
August 31, 2010
Niche and neutral models predict asymptotically equivalent species abundance
distributions in high-diversity ecological communities
Ryan Chisholm
STRI Postdoc
August 24, 2010
Terrestrial ecosystems during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum: disruption associated with a major perturbation of the carbon cycle and climate
Scott Wing
August 17, 2010
Bat Diversity, Dynamics and Disease: A Synopsis of (almost)
Twenty Years of Research on and around BCI
Elisabeth Kalko
STRI Staff Scientist, Panama
Institute of Experimental Ecology
University of Ulm, Germany
August 3, 2010
Sexual cooperation, conflict, and the evolution of chemical signals:
the case of Heliconius butterflies
Catalina Estrada
STRI Postdoc
Integrative Biology
University of Texas, Austin
July 20, 2010
Habitat isolation is the primary reproductive
Grace Chen
Department of Plant Biology
Ecology, Evolutionary Biology and Behavior Program
Michigan State University
July 13, 2010
Frogs, frog-biting midges and trypanosomes:
A three level perspective on signal evolution
Ximena Bernal
Department of Biological Science
Texas Tech University
July 6, 2010
Plasticity, Selection, and Reproductive Mode:
What can a Treefrog Teach us about Evolution of Terrestrial Reproduction?
Justin Touchon
Postdoctoral Fellow
Boston University
June 29, 2010
Patterns and correlates of commonness and rarity among
the Western Ghats trees
Priya Davidar
Dean, School of Life Sciences
Pondicherry University
June 22, 2010
The Agua Salud Project, Climate, Land Use and the Canal
Robert Stallard
STRI
June 15, 2010
Selection and the Rapid Evolution of Morphological Diversity among
Strawberry Dart Frogs from the Bocas del Toro Archipelago
Cori Richards-Zawacki
Tulane University
June 8, 2010
Carbon balance and long-term elevated atmospheric CO2 in a
Chesapeake Bay wetland and Florida Scrub Oak forest
Bert Drake
Visiting Scholar
Senior Research Plant Physiologist
SERC
June 2, 2010
Braquiópodos de Panamá y Colombia:
550 millones de años de historia
Alexis Rojas-Briceño
Centro de Paleoecología y Arqueología Tropical/STRI
June 1, 2010
Hot Beaches and Sex: Sea turtles and climate change
Roldán Valverde
Southeastern Louisiana University
May 25, 2010
Science and Policy Consideration for Caribbean Ocean Governance
John C. Ogden
Department of Integrative Biology
University of South Florida
May 18, 2010
A new look at Darwin’s Lost World:
The Ichnology of the Precambrian-Cambrian transition
Luis Buatois
University of Saskatchewan
May 11, 2010
On the causes and consequences of region-wide changes in the dynamics
and disturbance regimes within the eastern deciduous forest of the U.S
Walter Carson
University of Pittsburg
May 5, 2010
Escarabajos en la madera descompuesta: un universo por descubrir
Licdo. Alfredo Lanuza
Biólogo Ambiental / STRI
May 4, 2010
The Tolerance-Fecundity Tradeoff and the Maintenance of Diversity in Seed Size
Helene Muller-Landau
STRI
Apr 27, 2010
Evolution of the Panamanian Volcanic Arc(s)
Rory McFadden
STRI Postdoctoral Fellow
Apr 20, 2010
The Future of Tropical Forests
Joe Wright
STRI
Apr 13, 2010
100 Years of the Smithsonian in Panama
Pamela M. Henson
Director, Institutional History Division
Smithsonian Institution Archives
Apr 6, 2010
Why Biology needs to go Wild
Martin Wikelski
Princeton University
Mar 30, 2010
The monkey and the fig: A soctratic dialogue on evolutionary themes
Stuart Altmann
Professor Princeton University
March 23, 2010
Mar 23, 2010
Phylogeny of the genus Cupuladria (Bryozoa: Cheilostomata)
in the Neogene of tropical America
Amalia Herrera
STRI
March 16, 2010
Mar 16, 2010
The Emerging Multitrophic Diversity Maintenance Theory
Peter Chesson
Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of Arizona
March 9, 2010
Mar 9, 2010
Can the lemurs save Madagascar?
Alison Jolly
Visiting Scholar
University of Sussex
Feb 23, 2010
Consequences of being tall: height-related trends in tree growth
and hydraulic architecture
Frederick Meinzer
Research Ecologist
Forest Service Lead Scientist
USDA Forest Service