Home Science
First “Virtual Gigante” is a success
February 03, 2022
After being taught annually for three decades, the Smithsonian Introductory Field Life Sciences Course was suspended due to the pandemic, but it made a digital comeback in 2021.
Search
Results
Disciplines
- (-) Remove Ecology filter Ecology
- (-) Remove Exploration filter Exploration
- Animal Behavior (105) Apply Animal Behavior filter
- Biodiversity (100) Apply Biodiversity filter
- Marine Biology (92) Apply Marine Biology filter
- Conservation Biology (64) Apply Conservation Biology filter
- Forest Ecology (52) Apply Forest Ecology filter
- Global Change (52) Apply Global Change filter
- Fisheries and Marine Conservation (50) Apply Fisheries and Marine Conservation filter
- Evolutionary Biology (44) Apply Evolutionary Biology filter
- Entomology (42) Apply Entomology filter
- Paleontology and Paleobiology (41) Apply Paleontology and Paleobiology filter
- Zoology (40) Apply Zoology filter
- Anthropology (36) Apply Anthropology filter
- Archaeology (36) Apply Archaeology filter
- Ecosystem Ecology (36) Apply Ecosystem Ecology filter
- Disease Ecology (33) Apply Disease Ecology filter
- Taxonomy (33) Apply Taxonomy filter
- Botany (26) Apply Botany filter
- Ecosystem Services (22) Apply Ecosystem Services filter
- Long-term monitoring (21) Apply Long-term monitoring filter
- Microbial Ecology (21) Apply Microbial Ecology filter
- Natural History (21) Apply Natural History filter
- Molecular Genetics and Genomics (20) Apply Molecular Genetics and Genomics filter
- Developmental Biology (19) Apply Developmental Biology filter
- Herpetology (17) Apply Herpetology filter
- Plant Physiology (17) Apply Plant Physiology filter
- Evolutionary Ecology (16) Apply Evolutionary Ecology filter
- Geology (15) Apply Geology filter
- Invasion Biology (14) Apply Invasion Biology filter
- Bioinformatics (12) Apply Bioinformatics filter
- Physical Monitoring (12) Apply Physical Monitoring filter
- Chemical Ecology (11) Apply Chemical Ecology filter
- Reforestation and Silviculture (11) Apply Reforestation and Silviculture filter
- Geography and Biogeography (10) Apply Geography and Biogeography filter
- Hydrology (8) Apply Hydrology filter
- Soil Science (8) Apply Soil Science filter
- Historical Ecology (7) Apply Historical Ecology filter
- Canopy Biology (6) Apply Canopy Biology filter
- Sociology (6) Apply Sociology filter
- Environmental Anthropology (3) Apply Environmental Anthropology filter
- Marine Policy (3) Apply Marine Policy filter
- Paleontology and Paleobiology (3) Apply Paleontology and Paleobiology filter
Displaying 30 of 49 results.
Eyes in the Sky
Drones help solve tropical tree mortality mysteries
February 09, 2022
Understanding when and where trees die in vast tropical forests is a challenging first step toward understanding carbon dynamics and climate change. Researchers explained variations in tree mortality over a five-year period by analyzing drone images of one of the most-studied tropical forests in the world, Barro Colorado Island in Panama.
Isolated gem
A bilingual book makes the unique biodiversity of Panama’s Escudo de Veraguas Island available to indigenous communities
March 10, 2022
Botanist Alicia Ibañez hopes the book, which presents new data on the tiny island’s endemic flora and fauna in both Spanish and Ngäbere, will increase awareness of the importance of preserving its biodiversity.
High seas
The first scientific expedition to Panama’s unexplored Cordillera de Coiba sets sail
April 26, 2022
Scientists, students and communicators from Panama, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador and Spain will spend twelve days on the high seas exploring the biodiversity of Panama’s Cordillera de Coiba seamounts.
Yellow submarine
An expedition to the depths of the ocean
June 07, 2022
Two weeks exploring the Cordillera de Coiba revealed clues about this unknown region.
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.
Paths of yesterday
History and archeology of the transisthmian roads of Panama
November 21, 2022
Explorations have revealed what remains of the roads and new data on their state of conservation, their route and its historical importance for Panama.
Education Development
Education for Sustainable Development: more of the same or the same but different?
February 28, 2023
What role do civil society institutions play in achieving SDG 4?
Farewell Seminar
Purpose and Chance in the Making of an Academic Career (Or, at least, in my academic career)
February 07, 2023
Personal happiness, that is success, don't measure it in terms of accumulation of goods, measure it in accumulation of satisfaction.
Scientist
Sean McMahon
My primary research focuses on the ecological mechanisms that structure forest communities and determine their fine- and large-scale spatial and temporal dynamics. This research spans topics as diverse as forest demography, functional traits, canopy structure and change over succession, spatial...
