Birds by Day, Bats by Night:
Long-Term Census of Bats
and Birds in Panama

Research teams studying bats and birds gather in Panama’s Soberanía National Park to celebrate the launch of a long-term census of bats designed to complement the bird census which will celebrate its 50th anniversary next year.

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Economic Complexities of Forest Restoration: What’s in it for landowners?

A steady income stream incentivizes tropical landowners to reforest.

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by Katherine Sinacore

Reforestation and Silviculture Forest Ecology Conservation Biology Ecosystem Services Biodiversity Global Change Sustaining a Biodiverse Planet Agua Salud light-green Jefferson Hall

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The argument for GEO-TREES, a standard measure of forest carbon

Joshua Tewksbury, director of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, explains how the development of a global standard measure of forest carbon will jumpstart the carbon economy.

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by Joshua Tewksbury

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Escaping or resisting disease:
the dilemma of a tropical tree

How does a tree escape or resist disease?

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Community Reforestation:
Action-Based Participatory Science

Implementing reforestation projects to encourage forest protection and recovery.

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STRI special events,
April 2023

STRI at Festi Harpía 2023, Butterfly exhibit opening, March for science, Earth Day Celebrations and more.

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Modern pollen as a tool for paleoecological research (talk in Spanish)

Each plant produces a particular type of pollen, which means that it has unique characteristics that can be used to identify the species to which it belongs.

Bioinformatics Botany Evolutionary Ecology Microbial Ecology Paleontology and Paleobiology CTPA light-green Carlos Jaramillo

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Drones help solve tropical
tree mortality mysteries

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.

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Biodiversity loss despite
a century of protection

The Barro Colorado bird community has lost about a quarter of its species over time

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Text by Leila Nilipour

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Tiny plants in a
big changing world

The smallest and possibly most ancient terrestrial plants, bryophytes are an important part of our environment, but in the tropics, there is still much to learn about them.

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Botany Sustaining a Biodiverse Planet Earl S. Tupper light-green Noris Salazar

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