Dwindling Fisheries
Panama fish catch 40 percentlarger than reported
Junio 27, 2014
Panama’s haul of tuna, lobster, shellfish and sharks has been dramatically underreported for decades, according to a new study.
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Good News For The Biggest Fish
Central America protectswhale sharks
Julio 11, 2014
A binding regional accord protects the world’s largest fish in the New World tropics.
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
Learning from other species
Predators learn to identify prey from other predators
Marzo 21, 2018
It is much faster to learn to recognize a new prey item from a neighboring species, than to learn by trial and error.
What stops mass extinctions?
Lessons From Amphibian Die-off in Panama
Marzo 30, 2018
What slows or stops a disease epidemic if the pathogen is still present? It appears that wild frogs are becoming increasingly resistant to the chytrid fungal disease that has decimated amphibian populations around the world.
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.
Mystery Migration
Whale Shark Logs Longest-Recorded Migration
Abril 30, 2018
A whale shark named Anne swam all the way across the Pacific from Coiba National Park in Panama to the Marianas Trench.
A big fish story
Big fish produce disproportionately bigger eggs and more of them
Mayo 10, 2018
A new paper in Science shows that big female fish are disproportionately important to maintaining populations. The research suggests that protection of large, reproductive females is essential to sustaining viable fish stocks.
Ocean acidification and reefs
The glue that holds the coral reef together threatened by global change
Mayo 11, 2018
Rapid increases in ocean acidity puts crustose coralline algae in a growth predicament, research by a Smithsonian marine scientist shows.
