PNAS: Big, but few vs. many, but small
March 08, 2010Helene Muller-Landau has developed a new theory explaining why some plant species produce a small number of large seeds while others produce a large number of small seeds...
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Third African FDP underway
March 01, 2010Studies by the Smithsonian over the last decade have shown the Gamba Complex area, which includes the Rabi plot, to be extremely biodiverse...
Key to the mangroves in Galeta
February 15, 2010On Tuesday February 9, a group of Princeton students led Yves Bassett visited Galeta Point Marine Laboratory, becoming acquainted with the ongoing research on coastal and marine habitats...
Assessing how forests change is no easy task
February 08, 2010Forest ecologists know that the trees they study will most likely outlive them...
Fine-tuned manipulation
February 01, 2010The effects of the larva are apparently due to chemical products that it introduces into the spider...
Never too young to do research at Galeta
December 14, 2009The award went to a proposal by Colegio Even-Ezer, a local high school, to survey the mushrooms in the mangroves and wet forests at Galeta Point....
40 years of observation render understanding of change
November 30, 2009Important insights can be gained from protracted observations of how and why aspects of agrarian systems change in different ways and rates...
HSBC launches 2009 Climate Confidence Monitor
November 23, 2009The Climate Confidence Monitor addresses the most important topics of concern today...
What happens with the carbon?
November 16, 2009Deforestation of tropical ecosystems, driven by the demand for timber and arable land, leads to carbon being lost to the atmosphere and ecosystems becoming carbon sources...
Good luck-Bad luck: The boredom filter
September 28, 2009Everyone knows that frogs are in trouble and that some species have already disappeared, but a recent analysis of Central American frog surveys shows that the situation is worse than had previously been thought...