STRI's traditional course on introductory biology takes new path into the sea
August 09, 2010The 16 participants had the opportunity to visit STRI facilities at the Caribbean entrance to the Panama Canal and experience its reefs and surrounding mangrove forests....
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Silent competition
August 02, 2010In a recent publication in Acta Biologica Colombiana, "Ecological impact on native bees by the invasive Africanized honey bee", Roubik presents his results from 17 years of long-term studies of honey bees and their impact on other bees in Ame...
The five drivers that will determine the future
July 12, 2010Five anthropogenic drivers — land use change, wood extraction, hunting, atmospheric change, climate change — will largely determine the future of tropical forests...
Functional biodiversity of photosynthesis in tropical orchids
July 05, 2010Orchids are the largest family of flowering plants with over 20,000 species worldwide, from which about 75% are epiphytes...
Madang, Papua New Guinea
June 28, 2010The project involves a permanent 50-ha forest monitoring plot in the Wanang area of northern PNG...
First radio tracking of tropical orchid bees
June 21, 2010Orchid bees zip through increasingly scarce patches of tropical forest pollinating rare flowers...
Planting trees to celebrate World Environment Day 2010
June 14, 2010Even if mega companies, governments, and international institutions cannot get it together, we need to remember that global action in addressing environmental problems starts with us...
New species: Already on death row?
June 07, 2010Trying to stay ahead of a deadly disease that has wiped out more than 100 species, scientists at STRI continue to discover new frog species in Panama...
Seventeen years of camera-trapping
April 26, 2010Camera-traps are exceptionally valuable to document elusive species...
Advancing archaeology in the Pearl Islands...
April 19, 2010Yahaira Núñez embarked on a different kind of project for her bachelor's thesis...