Press Releases
- Amphibian Rescue Expedition Discovers Chytrid Fungus on Rescued Frogs in Panama
- Catching a Killer One Spore at a Time
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- The First Neotropical Rainforest Was Home of the Titanoboa
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- 2009 Legacy Awards Recognize Panamanian Achievement at the Smithsonian Institution
- “Panamanian Passages” Exhibit Showcases Panama’s History
- Killer Bees May Increase Food Supplies for Native Bees
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- China’s New Climate Center Welcomes Citizen Scientists
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- Panama Butterfly Migrations Linked to El Niño, Climate Change
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- Eminent Ecologist Award Presented to Stephen P. Hubbell
- Sex in the Caribbean: Environmental Change Drives Evolutionary Change--Eventually
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- “Panama at the Smithsonian” Program Series Highlights Relationship
between the Smithsonian and the Republic of Panama
- Putting Smithsonian Science to Work:
A New Plan for Panama’s Coiba National Park and World Heritage Site
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- New Guide to Tropical Seedlings: Essential to Climate Change Research
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- Andes Mountains Are Older Than Previously Believed
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- Fossil Teeth of Browsing Horse Found in Panama Canal Earthworks
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- First Jaguar Photo Taken at Smithsonian Research Station in Panama
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- Temporary Infidelity may contribute to the Stability of Ancient Relationships
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- Smithsonian Scientists Receive Coveted BBVA Ecology and Conservation Award
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- Genital Stimulation Opens Door for Cryptic Female Choice in Tsetse Flies
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- Live-in Domestics: Mites as Maids in Tropical Rainforest Sweat Bee Nests
- Descoberta em uma floresta fossilizada a maior serpente do mundo
- World’s Largest Snake Discovered in Fossilized Rainforest
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- Extinction Most Likely for Rare Trees in the Amazon Rainforest
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- A Recipe for Saving the World’s Oceans from an Extinction Crisis
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- Smithsonian Works with Embera Community to Offset Carbon Emissions
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Photo by Marcos Guerra, STRI: Bonarge Pacheco, Jeremía Casarí, Eldredge Bermingham
- The Drivers of Tropical Deforestation Are Changing, Say Scientists
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- Eldredge Bermingham Is Named Director of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
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- Insect Warning Colors Aid Cancer and Tropical Disease Drug Discovery
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- Smithsonian Coral Biodiversity Survey of Panama’s Pearl Islands
- Smithsonian Inaugurates Landscape Study of Tropical Forest Ecosystem Services
- Smithsonian Scientist Receives 2008 Medal for Excellence in Tropical Botany
- Smithsonian Researchers Show Major Role of Bats in Plant Protection
- Turtle Nesting Threatened by Logging Practices in Gabon, Smithsonian Warns
- Smithsonian Scientists Highlight Environmental Impacts of Biofuels
- First Electrophysical Recording of Sleep in a Wild Animal Reveals Captive Sloths Sleep More
- Smithsonian Launches Bocas del Toro Database for Biodiversity Day
- Smithsonian to Host Pollen Specialists at Annual Meeting in Panama: American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists Sept. 8-12
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- Smithsonian Scientists Show Differing Patterns of Rainforest Biodiversity
-Study Has Implications for Species Conservation-
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- Large Caterpillar
(Credit: Milan Janda)
A youngster holds a Hercules moth caterpillar-one of 500 species of caterpillars, ambrosia beetles and fruit flies studied by Smithsonian scientists in Papua New Guinea.
- Internship Program - Alexandra Kniewasser
- Satellite Survey Links Tropical Park Fires with Poverty and Corruption
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- Smithsonian Scientists Connect Climate Change, Origins of Agriculture in Mexico
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- Scientists Discover Five New Species of Sea Slugs from the Tropical Eastern Pacific
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- Eldredge Bermingham is Named Acting Director of the
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
- Sea Snails break the Law. Scientists at the Smithsonian discover the re- evolution of a useful skill
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- Drought Limits Tropical Plant Distributions, Scientists at the Smithsonian Report
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- Scientists Report New Take on Sexual Signaling
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- Smithsonian Study Concludes Caribbean Extinctions Occurred 2 Million Years After Apparent Cause
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- Smithsonian Scientists Discover New Marine Species in Eastern Pacific
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- Smithsonian Receives $8 million HSBC Grant; Funding Will Expand Climate Change Research on Forests
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- Smithsonian Scientists Report Ancient Chili Pepper History; Americans Cultivated and Traded Chili Peppers 6,000 Years Ago
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- The Panama Canal and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
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- The Party Doesn't Start Until the Hosts Arrive: Parasite Invasions Depend on Host Invasions
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- Kunming Declaration (21 July, 2006) - The Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation calls for conservation, research in tropical Asia
- Direct link established between tropical tree - and insect diversity
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- The Occult Life of Things
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- Smithsonian Coordinates Management Planning for Panama's Coiba National Park and World Heritage
Site Developing new models for scientifically-informed conservation of tropical forest and coral reef habitats
- Better models of tropical forest dynamics are urgently needed to improve global change predictions.
In hopes of modeling growth, mortality and size distributions of tropical trees, Helene Muller-Landau, University of Minnesota and colleagues from the Smithsonian's Center for Tropical Forest Science (CTFS) tested predictions based on the theory of metabolic ecology with data collected from tropical forests worldwide. The results- no good fit and improved alternative models-- are published in two articles in Blackwell's Ecology Letters.
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- A new Smithsonian guide to the highly biodiverse marine environment of Panama's Bocas del Toro Province
- Tropical pollen biodiversity tracks global warming over millions of years
- Butterfly speciation event
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- Chimps, gorillas and humans harvest honey- and stingless bee nests in Ugandan reserve
- First Amazon-Andean crop plant transfer and corn processing in Peru 3600-4000 years ago
- Liquid Jungle Lab environs--home to five new species First floral and faunal inventory of Panama’s Bahia Honda region
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- A new Smithsonian guide to the highly biodiverse marine environment of Panama's Bocas del Toro Province - 12/26/2005
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- An (Ecological) Origin of Species for Tropical Reef Fish - 4/6/2005
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- Oldest evidence for processing of wild cereals: starch grains from barley, wheat, on Paleolithic grinding stone. - 8/20/2004
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- The Panama Canal as a natural biological invasion experiment. - 8/19/2004
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- New highways drive accelerating deforestation in Amazonia - 5/21/2004
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- Undisturbed Amazonian forests are changing, say scientists - 3/10/2004
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- Researchers discover new family of Atlantic corals in groundbreaking study - 2/25/2004
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- New, non-radioactive screen for antimalarial compounds - 2/16/2004
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- The scoop on poop: Insect feces, dead leaves may provide clues to health of world - 2/5/2004
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- Armies of fighting fungi protect chocolate trees - 12/23/2003
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