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.
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Yves Basset
My colleagues and I are interested to understand the main factors that affect the maintenance of local arthropod biodiversity in tropical rainforests. Our research program has several components. We have studied insect-plant interactions, the host-specificity of...
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.
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.
Tracking nutrient blasts
How do natural and human-discharged nutrient pulses impact tropical marine ecosystems?
Marzo 14, 2018
Nutrient upwelling season in the Bay of Panama and water quality tests from 20 previously unmonitored rivers provide a Panamanian researcher with clues about how nutrient addition impacts coastal ecosystems.
The Rariphotic
Smithsonian Researchers Name New Ocean Zone
Marzo 20, 2018
New ocean zone is home to many new species of reef fish
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.
A tropical science legacy
Ira Rubinoff, Emeritus Director, retires from STRI
Abril 27, 2018
After more than 50 years at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, director emeritus Ira Rubinoff has announced his retirement. He will travel to Vienna with his wife, Anabella, who was recently designated Panama’s ambassador to Austria.
