Resilience is the capacity of a social/ecological system to absorb or withstand perturbations such that the system remains within the same regime, essentially maintaining its structure and functions. In a world increasingly threatened by climate change, unsustainable resource use and...
Explorations have revealed what remains of the roads and new data on their state of conservation, their route and its historical importance for Panama.
Barro Colorado Island Research Station in Panama celebrates upcoming 100th birthday with an exhibition at the US National Museum of Natural History.
Although palaeoecological studies are increasing in South American tropics, very few records encompass deeper scales in time (most of the records are not older than 40 kyr BP), which is a constrain to understand the long history of the ecosystems in the region. Long-term datasets are very useful...
Animals will help restore tropical forests if people locate reforestation projects near existing forest reserves and control hunting.
