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Learning from Tropical Nature in 2018
Diciembre 20, 2018
Join us to celebrate a few of the discoveries made in 2018.
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Displaying 20 of 44 results.
Hitch-hiking barnacles
Deep time tracking devices
Abril 02, 2019
Long-distance migrations are common for large whales, but when in their evolutionary past did they begin to migrate and why? Fossil whale barnacles may have the answers
Hot Protection
Pathogens may have facilitated the evolution of warm-blooded animals
Junio 11, 2019
Fever may be less effective at repelling infections in cold-blooded creatures
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
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.
Sick and shunned?
Even fake illness affects relationships among vampire bats
Marzo 12, 2020
How do social interactions change in the face of illness? As humans face potential global pandemics we look to nature for examples. Close observation of another highly social animal, the vampire bat, sheds light on how interactions change—or do not change—as individuals become sick.
Picky eater
Invasive lionfish may be a selective predator
Julio 30, 2020
By evaluating the diet choices of this species in a semi-natural environment, scientists could improve predictions of how it might affect newly invaded communities
Biodiversity is better
Biodiversity may limit invasions: Lessons from lizards on Panama Canal Islands
Agosto 10, 2020
Lizards transplanted from the mainland to small islands in Lake Gatun, Panama, took their parasitic mites with them. What happened next provides great experimental evidence for the enemy release hypothesis.
Canal grass
Smithsonian scientist clears up Panamanian urban legend
Noviembre 30, 2020
How did canal grass arrive in Panama? STRI staff scientist Kristin Saltonstall compared the DNA of sugar cane relatives from around the world to find out.
Invasion dynamics
Biologists discover that more intense predation in the tropics can limit marine invasions
Junio 23, 2021
What makes a successful invasion? What keeps invaders out? Are some geographic locations more vulnerable to invasion than others?
