Animals reforest
Animals are key to restoring the world’s forests
Diciembre 02, 2022
Animals will help restore tropical forests if people locate reforestation projects near existing forest reserves and control hunting.
Animals will help restore tropical forests if people locate reforestation projects near existing forest reserves and control hunting.
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN)’s Marine Mammal Protected Areas Task force invites groups of marine biologists to propose Important Marine Mammal Areas. The new IMMA along the Ecuadorian coast proposed by STRI’s Hector Guzman and colleagues will lead to a cascade of scientific activities designed to protect not only marine mammals, but their entire habitat.
After 14 thousand years of living in confinement and without the threat of predators, the white-faced capuchin monkeys on the Coiba National Park islands have begun to exhibit behaviors that have not been recorded in the mainland populations. For example, they are highly terrestrial and have learned to use stones as tools. Listen to doctoral student in animal behavior and former STRI fellow, Claudio Monteza, tell us this story.
Satellite tracking technology reveals the massive ranges of breeding areas of humpback whales in the Pacific Ocean.
My research interests have evolved from a strict focus on the ecology of coral reefs to paleontological investigations of the evolution of Caribbean marine ecosystems in response to environmental change and finally towards elucidating the causes and consequences of past and ongoing human...
Each plant produces a particular type of pollen, which means that it has unique characteristics that can be used to identify the species to which it belongs.
Animals in captivity may have trouble breeding, so to keep amphibian species from dying out, researchers are discovering new ways to help them reproduce.
A generous grant to support international partnerships and training will enable GEO-TREES to offer the free, online data needed to verify the amount of carbon stored in complex forests worldwide, in real time.
A literature review revealed that odor-producing glands and tissues in bats may play a prominent role in mating behavior
Females may also be prone to predation as they move toward a mating call