Paradox explained
Fast growth despite phosphorus limitation
March 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
August 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.
Women in Science
Panamanian students, scientists in the making
February 13, 2019
For these four women, the Smithsonian Institute’s internship program represented an opportunity to explore their research questions in the field
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.
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
Invasion
Jaguars could prevent a not-so-great American Biotic Exchange
January 15, 2020
Urban and agricultural development and deforestation along the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor might be generating a new passageway for invasive species adapted to human disturbance.
Dodging
Olive ridley turtles avoid unfavorable conditions
January 30, 2020
The nomadic nature of these marine turtles allows them to adapt to dynamic environmental factors, but presents a conservation challenge that STRI researchers hope to resolve
