Paradox explained
Fast growth despite phosphorus limitation
Marzo 07, 2018
Individual tree species, not forest communities, respond to changes in phosphorus levels.
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Unique strategies
Each tropical tree species gets the nutrients it needs
Agosto 06, 2018
Biodiversity is the key to successful reforestation and climate-change mitigation because each tree species has its own way of getting the nutrients it needs to survive.
Not Resilient
Old Species Learn New Tricks…Very Slowly
Agosto 23, 2018
Perhaps old species, like some older people, gradually lose their ability to deal with changes in their environment. Aaron O’Dea and colleagues show that when the Caribbean was cut off from the Pacific by the rise of the Panama land bridge, evolutionarily old species took longer to expand into new habitats than evolutionarily younger species did.
STRILights
Learning from Tropical Nature in 2018
Diciembre 20, 2018
Join us to celebrate a few of the discoveries made in 2018.
Women in Science
Panamanian students, scientists in the making
Febrero 13, 2019
For these four women, the Smithsonian Institute’s internship program represented an opportunity to explore their research questions in the field
Pheromone talk
The queen gets to keep her daughter
Mayo 23, 2019
Why did some bee species become social, while the majority have remained solitary? On Barro Colorado Island, a bee that adopts both strategies interchangeably, may unlock the evolutionary origins of sociality in insects
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
Feedback
Microbes in warm soils released more carbon than those in cooler soils
Octubre 08, 2019
Warming tropical soils could cause a 9 % increase in atmospheric CO2 this Century.
Asymmetrical exchange
Unequal migration across the land-bridge millions of years ago
Octubre 06, 2020
The disproportionate extinction of South American mammals when the Americas collided is still evident today
Deceiving plumage
Female Hummingbirds look like males to avoid harassment
Agosto 31, 2021
Colorful female Jacobins in the wild may feed more frequently and for longer periods than their drab counterparts
