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Environmental services

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Agua Salud helps inform smart
land management decisions
through science

Through the long-term study of different landscapes in the Panama Canal Watershed, and the environmental services they offer, the Agua Salud project aims to use its data to improve human welfare and ensure a more sustainable future throughout the tropics

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Colon

Ecosystem Services Forest Ecology Hydrology Reforestation and Silviculture Connections in nature: Plants, Animals, Microbes and Environments Agua Salud Environmental services sky-blue Jefferson Hall
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Color differences

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Mysteries of a golden beetle

Human sisters may look extremely different from one another. What does that have to do with gold, black and red beetles?

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Panama

Entomology Animal Behavior Chemical Ecology Molecular Genetics and Genomics Biodiversity Origins of Species and Societies Fortuna Gamboa Mysteries of a golden beetle sky-blue Owen McMillan Donald M. Windsor
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Three year fellowship

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Accepting applications for
prestigious three-year fellowship

More than thirty years after its inception, the Tupper Fellowship remains the most prestigious postdoctoral academic appointment offered by the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. We are currently seeking qualified candidates from around the world.

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Tupper Center

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The Arbovirus Carriers

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Tracking Aedes Mosquito
Invasions in Panama

Mosquitoes in the genus Aedes, which can carry dangerous viruses causing yellow fever, chikungunya and Zika, invaded the crossroads of the Americas multiple times, by land and by sea.

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Panamá

Disease Ecology Entomology Biodiversity Connections in nature: Plants, Animals, Microbes and Environments Naos Tracking Aedes Mosquito Invasions in Panama sky-blue Owen McMillan
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The Arbovirus
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Tracking Aedes Mosquito Invasions in Panama

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Coastal Development and Conservation

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Colon's growth encroaches
on Galeta buffer zone: report

A new analysis of growth trends around the Caribbean entrance to the Panama Canal shows that development is putting extreme pressure on coastal ecosystems of mangroves, seagrasses and coral reefs.

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Punta Galeta, Panama

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Profile: Harilaos Lessios

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Calibrating
evolution

Veteran Smithsonian evolutionary biologist Haris Lessios has made major contributions to the understanding of how new marine species arose following separation by the Isthmus of Panama.

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Naos Island, Panama

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Harilaos
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