Drink Coffee, Eat Chocolate, Save Birds!
The Smithsonian Bird Friendly coffee and cocoa certification program just opened its new Latin American office at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in Panama, making it easier for regional coffee and chocolate industries to join the global movement to produce sustainable coffee and chocolate.
Escaping or resisting disease: the dilemma of a tropical tree
How does a tree escape or resist disease?
A turtle time capsule: DNA found in ancient shell
Paleontologists discover possible DNA remains in fossil turtle that lived 6 million years ago in Panama, where continents collide
First global assessment of the sustainability of coral reef fisheries
An innovative mathematical analysis of global coral reef fisheries offers hope for sustainable management of multispecies and artisanal fishing, especially in the global South.
Together but not mixed up: Fungi, ants and birds
Avoiding predators at all costs.
STRI special events, August 2023
Bird Friendly Coffee, Book Fair 2023, Congratulations to David Roubik, Golden Frog Festival 2023, Plankton Workshop and more.
Like repels like: Social distancing may explain coexistence of biodiverse tree species in tropical forests
STRI staff scientist Joe Wright and colleagues present results in Science indicating that diversity among adult tropical trees can be maintained if spatial repulsion among individuals of the same species is greater than spatial repulsion among individuals of different species.
A new underwater photo studio yields pixel-scale fish color pattern data
The first winner of the D. Ross Robertson Postdoctoral Fellowship for Field Studies on Neotropical Reef Fishes, Floriane Coulmance, tests a new, underwater camera system to study the connection between hamlet color patterns and genetics in fish from four countries around the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico.
Tropical forests may be approaching a critical high-temperature threshold, but there is still time to act
A new study in Nature combining satellite thermal- and in situ warming data found that a percentage of tropical leaves are already reaching the temperatures at which they can no longer function.
Barro Colorado Island, 100 years of science and discoveries
Five Panamanian scientists share a glance at the experience of working in the tropical biologist’s dream, Barro Colorado Island.
