Profile: Donald Winsdor
What is merdigery?
September 28, 2012
Some beetles have a rather inventive, if unsavory, way of fending off predators.
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Tracking nutrient blasts
How do natural and human-discharged nutrient pulses impact tropical marine ecosystems?
March 14, 2018
Nutrient upwelling season in the Bay of Panama and water quality tests from 20 previously unmonitored rivers provide a Panamanian researcher with clues about how nutrient addition impacts coastal ecosystems.
United by film
Bitterly divided communities brought together by film festivals, workshops
June 18, 2018
The Guna, Emberá and cattle-ranching communities of eastern Panama share the same threatened landscape but have been divided for generations over territorial disputes. A series of filmmaking workshops and film festivals have brought some members of the community together in ways not previously considered possible.
Interesting Chemistry
Innovation by ice cream bean relatives explains biodiversity
March 14, 2019
The back and forth relationship between insects and their food plants may drive tropical biodiversity evolution according to work on Barro Colorado Island’s 50 hectare plot.
Pheromone talk
The queen gets to keep her daughter
May 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 and breathless
Learning to live without oxygen
September 05, 2019
In Bocas del Toro’s Caribbean waters in Panama, a STRI postdoctoral fellow asks how marine life responds to low oxygen levels and higher temperatures in the ocean
Exploring the unwanted
The positive side of fouling communities
September 26, 2019
Encrusting organisms may be disliked by most people, but they’re helping explore marine conservation and biodiversity concerns
Bat Hormones
Male bats with high testosterone levels have large forearm crusts when females are fertile
December 17, 2020
Male Fringe-Lipped bats smear a sticky, odorous substance on their forearms. When this was discovered, researchers guessed that it might play a role in mating. Post-doctoral fellow Mariana Muñoz-Romo has confirmed that the presence and size of the forearm "crust" is, indeed correlated with other reproductive traits.
Profile: Charlotte Jandér
How do fig trees punish cheaters?
January 24, 2014
The tiny female fig wasp carries a huge burden but cutting corners may not be worth the risk.
An underground nutrient market
Hacking the wood wide web
January 10, 2014
A disrupted mutualism sheds light on the dark web underneath the forest floor.
