Ancient corals
A time machine that explores the ocean’s past
Mayo 15, 2019
By diving into the past lives of coral reefs, a historical ecologist may protect our present-day reefs from human impacts
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A fishy past
The marine fossil explorer
Junio 13, 2019
The Panamanian scientist Carlos De Gracia discovered the largest known marlin fossil, helped improve the classification of these ancient species and now seeks to understand how the fish of millions of years ago reacted to changes in the ocean similar to those we are experiencing today
Sky islands
Flickering sky islands generate Andean biodiversity
Junio 19, 2019
Giving rise to the richest alpine flora in the world, interconnections between islands of Andean paramo vegetation flicker off and on as global temperatures rise and fall during the last million years
Leaf detective
Searching for clues among fossilized leaves
Junio 20, 2019
Analyzing the fossil vegetation from millions of years ago, Mónica Carvalho seeks to understand the environmental conditions that led to the evolution of Neotropical forests as we know them today.
Trapped in time
Unearthing the prehistoric plant species of Panama
Julio 04, 2019
Little is known about the early flora of the isthmus. The first Panamanian paleobotanist aims to change this
Tackling intruders
Invaders are lunch for local marine species
Septiembre 10, 2019
Native predators could contribute to controlling the abundance and expansion of invasive species
Attachment issues
What’s lurking under the forest?
Septiembre 23, 2019
As part of her doctoral work, Heather Stewart is exploring what factors influence the marine sessile community growing on mangrove roots and what is driving the coral invasion of Bocas del Toro mangrove forests, a unique phenomenon
Feedback
Microbes in warm soils released more carbon than those in cooler soils
Octubre 08, 2019
Warming tropical soils could cause a 9 % increase in atmospheric CO2 this Century.
Fluctuations
Constant change drives local ecosystems
Noviembre 27, 2019
A MarineGEO project with sites in Panama aims to understand the influence of coastal biology on the highly variable oceanic pH levels of near-shore ecosystems
Invasion
Jaguars could prevent a not-so-great American Biotic Exchange
Enero 15, 2020
Urban and agricultural development and deforestation along the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor might be generating a new passageway for invasive species adapted to human disturbance.
