Camille Delavaux
My Journey to Barro Colorado Island (Part 3 of 3)
July 27, 2022
STRI from Myth to Reality: Working on Barro Colorado Island as Part of a Community.
STRI from Myth to Reality: Working on Barro Colorado Island as Part of a Community.
Visiting scientist Camille Delavaux and intern, Omayra Meléndez, celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the ForestGEO 50-hectare plot, a unique forest ecology research tool, and the people who make it possible.
From sonic tomographies to global biodiversity negotiations, this journey through research, resilience, and connection reveals how even the smallest organisms can shape entire ecosystems and inspire lasting change.
The most intensively studied
tropical forest in the world
A global center
for tropical science
A disrupted mutualism sheds light on the dark web underneath the forest floor.
As bacterial infections become more resistant to antibiotics, the toxins on the skin of frogs presents huge opportunity for new drug discovery.
A five-year, $2-million grant will help test the hypothesis that rare trees are more susceptible to pathogens than common trees on Barro Colorado Island.
Individual tree species, not forest communities, respond to changes in phosphorus levels.