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Weighing costs and benefits of motivating landowners to reforest the Panama Canal Watershed
January 18, 2019
How far should we go when paying for natural services? Economic sciences can help us calculate the exact amount
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Environmental services
Agua Salud helps inform smart land management decisions through science
February 20, 2019
Through the long-term study of different landscapes in the Panama Canal Watershed, and the environmental services they offer, the Agua Salud project aims to use its data to improve human welfare and ensure a more sustainable future throughout the tropics
Habitat symbiosis
Punta Galeta, where sea and earth coexist
April 15, 2019
The Smithsonian’s first marine lab on Panama’s Caribbean coast invites visitors and researchers to experience the diversity of marine ecosystems within a protected space.
Trapped in time
Unearthing the prehistoric plant species of Panama
July 04, 2019
Little is known about the early flora of the isthmus. The first Panamanian paleobotanist aims to change this
Extraordinary ecosystem
Darien’s unusually high carbon stocks and tree diversity
July 30, 2019
Through a participatory forest-carbon monitoring project, scientists and indigenous technicians found that, even in disturbed areas, Darien forests maintained the same tree species richness and a disproportionately high capacity to sequester carbon
Tackling intruders
Invaders are lunch for local marine species
September 10, 2019
Native predators could contribute to controlling the abundance and expansion of invasive species
Attachment issues
What’s lurking under the forest?
September 23, 2019
As part of her doctoral work, Heather Stewart is exploring what factors influence the marine sessile community growing on mangrove roots and what is driving the coral invasion of Bocas del Toro mangrove forests, a unique phenomenon
Feedback
Microbes in warm soils released more carbon than those in cooler soils
October 08, 2019
Warming tropical soils could cause a 9 % increase in atmospheric CO2 this Century.
Fluctuations
Constant change drives local ecosystems
November 27, 2019
A MarineGEO project with sites in Panama aims to understand the influence of coastal biology on the highly variable oceanic pH levels of near-shore ecosystems
Pioneers
The universe of fungi that inhabit plants
December 12, 2019
How do microorganisms influence seed survival in the forest?
