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.
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
Late to bed or early to rise, a forest rodent’s increases its chances of demise.
Researchers learned from some unusual sweat bee species on Barro Colorado Island, Panama, how the sophisticated division of labor in highly complex insect societies can arise from humble beginnings.
Eavesdropping behavior in the canopy may answer questions about how acoustic interplay among animals has developed over millions of years in the forest