Adding pieces to the puzzle:
First geological survey of Panama's Kuna Yala coast
October 06, 2008
STRI's research vessel, Urraca, has just returned from the first-ever geological survey of Kuna Yala, Panama's autonomous indigenous territory. The survey began at the Caribbean mouth of the Panama Canal and extended to the Colombian border....
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Tropical orchids: enjoying the Panamanian nightlife
September 15, 2008Many tropical orchid species perform a unique type of photosynthesis called Crassulacean Acid Metabolism (CAM), whereby CO2 is taken up during the night rather than during the day as in most plants...
Tropical forests in a changing environment
September 08, 2008Tropical forests are important to everyone because moisture that evaporates from tropical forests sustain global precipitation...
Hanging in Bocas
September 01, 2008Bats play a pivotal role in ecosystems worldwide, especially in the tropics....
Do changes change in different habitats of the same plot?
August 25, 2008Renato Valencia, from PUCE, and the principal investigator of the Yasuni FDP plot, recently arrived in Panama as the first recipient of STRI's Latin American Senior Scholar award...
Bocas’ paradise poses more than one challenge for scientists and engineers
August 18, 2008The communities and ecosystems of the islands of Bocas del Toro Archipelago depend on each other and the water around them...
Pumas and people on BCI: purrr-fect together
August 11, 2008When Greg and I started putting cameras in the forest of BCI in 1994 we knew we were opening a window in the lives of animals that we rarely observed by walking the trails...
Mangrove forests: white, black or red alert?
August 05, 2008Mangroves are natural filters. They keep sediment and pollutants from neighboring areas trapping them in their webs of roots....
MSN sponsored workshop on Bocas
July 28, 2008Thirteen students from Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, France, Germany and the US participated in a 12-day workshop on Tropical Field Phycology sponsored by the Smithsonian Marine Science Network...
Nitrogen partitioning in montage forest at the Fortuna Reserve
July 21, 2008Nitrogen is an essential element for plants, but plant-available nitrogen is in short supply in the extensive tropical montane forests of Panama...