Facility
Barro Colorado
The most intensively studied
tropical forest in the world
The most intensively studied
tropical forest in the world
Meet the 76 species of bats that occupy this small island!
The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute will celebrate 100 years of tropical forest research at Barro Colorado Island Field Station in Panama with exhibits and events.
A volcanic eruption 22 million years ago triggered a sediment flow that preserved a mangrove forest around what is now Barro Colorado Island, providing a better glimpse of the vegetation that existed in a highly changing area.
Does a good leader have a better mental map of food in the forest? or is she simply driven by hunger?
A collaborative effort at Barro Colorado island described the daily rhythm of a rare half male-half female bee
What do playing the banjo and recording katydids have in common? We join Sharon Martinson on Barro Colorado Island to find out.
White-faced capuchin monkeys come down from the trees on Panama’s Coiba island
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
Late to bed or early to rise, a forest rodent’s increases its chances of demise.