Profile: Rachel Collin
Is there an evolutionary point of no return?
Abril 27, 2012
A Chilean sea snail appears to have tried two forms of development and decided to turn back before it was too late.
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Profile: Stephen Hubbell
Do pests keep rare tree species from becoming common?
Julio 15, 2012
A five-year, $2-million grant will help test the hypothesis that rare trees are more susceptible to pathogens than common trees on Barro Colorado Island.
Profile: Kristin Saltonstall
Fire fuels invasive grass
Octubre 19, 2012
Panama’s infamous canal grass rises from the ashes of fire much faster than trees, complicating reforestation efforts.
Tropical Dome Project
Solar domes simulate extreme futureclimate scenarios
Junio 14, 2017
How will tropical forests respond to a warmer climate with higher atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations? By growing plants in geodesic domes, Smithsonian scientist Klaus Winter is seeking answers.
Seedlings and tropical biodiversity
Whose shadow is safer?
Septiembre 27, 2017
A novel research project takes aim at the ageless question of what influences tropical seedling survival.
Adjusting to climate change
Tropical dark respiration data tweak climate model
Septiembre 27, 2017
What do warmer nights mean for the release of carbon dioxide by tropical forests?
Window to the past
How long has Central America been so biologically diverse?
Septiembre 28, 2017
20-million-year-old fossil seeds shed light on origins of plant biodiversity in Panama.
Declining reefs
What were Caribbean coral reefs like before humans?
Septiembre 29, 2017
Fossil reefs from around the Caribbean show how biologically rich these ecosystems once were — and provide goalposts for conservationists hoping to restore them.
The Arbovirus Carriers
Tracking Aedes Mosquito Invasions in Panama
Abril 09, 2018
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.
Flowers from Darkness
“Tropical forests are the result of an accident of history.” - Carlos Jaramillo.
Abril 23, 2018
About 66 million years ago, a radical change on the Earth filled tropical forests with flowers. A new catalog of fossil pollen grains may hold an explanation.
