Bats fall for
the Decoy Effect
How does having a third choice (a decoy) change the way fruit-eating bats choose what to eat?
Panama
Animal Behavior Zoology Biodiversity Taxonomy Origins of Species and Societies Gamboa
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Rachel PageIrrational
choices
Biologists discover that more intense predation in the tropics can limit marine invasions
What makes a successful invasion? What keeps invaders out? Are some geographic locations more vulnerable to invasion than others?
Invasion Biology Fisheries and Marine Conservation Geography and Biogeography Marine Biology Taxonomy Zoology Sustaining a Biodiverse Planet Naos
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Mark TorchinInvasion
dynamics
Panamanian botanist
Mireya Correa retires from STRI
After more than half a century devoted to her scientific and teaching work, Professor Mireya Correa leaves behind an extensive legacy in Panamanian botany
Panama City
Botany Taxonomy Plant Physiology Biodiversity Earl S. Tupper
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A conversation about changing the future through better land management in the tropics
How can science help to restore deforested land, reduce the risk of flooding and combat climate change? Find out in a virtual chat with Jefferson Hall, director of STRI’s Agua Salud Project, Katherine Sinacore, post-doctoral fellow and Edwin Garcia, master’s degree student, moderated by STRI Interim Director, Oris Sanjur and Associate Director for Communications Linette Dutari.
Biodiversity Bioinformatics Conservation Biology Ecosystem Ecology Ecosystem Services Forest Ecology Global Change Long-term monitoring Reforestation and Silviculture Sustaining a Biodiverse Planet Agua Salud
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Jefferson HallAgua
Salud
How the Chicxulub Impactor gave rise to modern rainforests
About 66 million years ago, a huge asteroid crashed into what is now the Yucatan, plunging the Earth into darkness. The impact transformed tropical rainforests, giving rise to the reign of flowers.
Paleontology and Paleobiology Geology Botany Biodiversity Taxonomy Evolutionary Ecology Life in Deep Time CTPA
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Carlos Jaramillo
Strianassa lerayi Anker, new shrimp species from Panama’s Coiba National Park
Last year’s expedition, part of the project to compare microbiomes of animals in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, resulted in the discovery of several new animal genera and a species of mud shrimp named for STRI and post-doctoral fellow, Matt Leray.
Coibita
Connections in nature: Plants, Animals, Microbes and Environments Sustaining a Biodiverse Planet
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Monkey party?
White-faced capuchin monkeys come down from the trees on Panama’s Coiba island
Panama
Animal Behavior Zoology Anthropology
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Agua Salud receives award, Smithsonian Secretary’s Distinguished Research Fellowship given to STRI fellow, Adalberto Gomez named Expert of the Year by BioMuseo, and more…
Agua Salud receives award, Smithsonian Secretary’s Distinguished Research Fellowship given to STRI fellow, Adalberto Gomez named Expert of the Year by BioMuseo, US Embassy Chargé d’Affaires visits STRI, Q?Rioso and Q?Bus updates, Summer Camp at Culebra and Paleobiology Symposium in Bologna.
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Butterflies take different paths
to arrive at the same color pattern
Unrelated butterflies may have the same wing patterns. These patterns warn off predators and help suitors find the right mate. But if wing patterns in each species evolved the same way, knocking out an important gene should have the same effect in both. Carolina Concha and her team discovered that knocking out the WntA gene results in different effects in co-mimics, so the two species evolved the same pattern via different pathways.
Gamboa, Panama
Cover photo by Christian Ziegler
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Owen McMillanIs evolution
predictable?
What makes a good
(primate) leader?
Does a good leader have a better mental map of food in the forest? or is she simply driven by hunger?
Barro Colorado Island
Text by Beth King
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