Fiddling With Climate Change
How could climate changeaffect fiddler crab reproduction?
Mayo 30, 2014
A new study raises questions about how a common beach creature will sustain its populations if temperature swings become greater in the future.
A new study raises questions about how a common beach creature will sustain its populations if temperature swings become greater in the future.
Aboard a research vessel in the Gulf of Panama, a Smithsonian research fellow explores the hidden biodiversity of the tropical ocean.
Panama’s haul of tuna, lobster, shellfish and sharks has been dramatically underreported for decades, according to a new study.
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.
A binding regional accord protects the world’s largest fish in the New World tropics.
To save frogs from an extinction-causing fungus, Smithsonian scientists needed to innovate captive feeding and breeding techniques.
A Smithsonian research heads into the remote mountains of a Panamanian national park to catalogue the tiniest of plant species.
The director of Panama’s herbaria invite visiting researchers to use these valuable resources of Panama’s astounding plant biodiversity.
Short-lived tropical forests only sustain about half of the tree biodiversity of mature forests, according to a new study in the Panama Canal Watershed.
A five-million-year-old urchin ancestor gave rise to two common lineages of sea urchins found today on either side of the Isthmus of Panama, according to new research by a Smithsonian scientist.