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.
A disrupted mutualism sheds light on the dark web underneath the forest floor.
The tiny female fig wasp carries a huge burden but cutting corners may not be worth the risk.
In the Peruvian Amazon, a Smithsonian anthropologist learns that Yanesha people believe that certain personal objects become part of a person’s being.
A visit to a shaman’s garden prompts an unexpected warning about the tobacco plant spirit’s ability to do away with disrespectful visitors.
Some beetles have a rather inventive, if unsavory, way of fending off predators.
How will tropical forests respond to a warmer climate with higher atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations? By growing plants in geodesic domes, Smithsonian scientist Klaus Winter is seeking answers.
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.
At one of the oldest Maya sites, STRI staff archaeologist, Ashley Sharpe, discovered dog bones from the Guatemalan highlands deep within two pyramids.