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	      Nitrogen partitioning in montage forest at the Fortuna Reserve	   ]]></title>
       
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       Nitrogen is an essential element for plants, but plant-available nitrogen is in short supply in the extensive tropical montane forests of Panama       ]]></description>
	   
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	     Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400	    ]]></pubDate>
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	      ‘World of the Jaguar’ inaugurated at Summit	   ]]></title>
       
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       Almost never seen in the wild, Panama’s largest predator is featured at Summit’s new “World of the Jaguar”, inaugurated on Saturday, July 12       ]]></description>
	   
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	     Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400	    ]]></pubDate>
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	      One third of reef-building corals face extinction	   ]]></title>
       
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       A third of reef-building corals around the world are threatened with extinction, according to the first-ever comprehensive global assessment to determine their conservation status.       ]]></description>
	   
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	     Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400	    ]]></pubDate>
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	      Bermingham to lead “best tropical research center of the world”	   ]]></title>
       
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       In a wide SI announcement SI acting secretary for Science Charles Alcock announced that Eldredge “Biff” Bermingham, 55, is the new director of STRI       ]]></description>
	   
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	     Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400	    ]]></pubDate>
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	      Tupper residents: abundant, conspicuous and nameless!	   ]]></title>
       
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       This colorful grasshopper —so abundant now on the Tupper grounds— is under study by Jeremy Niven of the Neurobiology Labs led by Bill Wcislo       ]]></description>
	   
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	     Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400	    ]]></pubDate>
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	      Harvard Arnold Arboretum renews STRI partnership to support CTFS/SIGEO	   ]]></title>
       
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       The new agreement calls for expansion of the Arboretum support for the CTFS-Asia chapter and relocation of the Asia program headquarters to Harvard University Herbaria       ]]></description>
	   
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	     Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400	    ]]></pubDate>
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	      New STRI book: In the world and about the world: Amerindian modes of knowledge	   ]]></title>
       
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       The volume compiles 13 chapters written by former Ph.D. candidates whose dissertations Overing advised       ]]></description>
	   
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	     Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400	    ]]></pubDate>
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	      “Bright bugs discover new drugs.” Capson to AAAS	   ]]></title>
       
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       Insects with vivid colors to warn off predators could be telling drug companies that their bodies have chemical compounds active against cancer cell lines and tropical parasitic diseases       ]]></description>
	   
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	     Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400	    ]]></pubDate>
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	      Chain reaction may result in eco-suicide in Las Perlas	   ]]></title>
       
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       The Las Perlas Marine Special Management Zone is the most recent addition to a major regional marine conservation corridor extending from Costa Rica to Ecuador       ]]></description>
	   
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	     Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400	    ]]></pubDate>
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	      Anna Lisa Porras leaves Fundaci&amp;oacute;n Smithsonian	   ]]></title>
       
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       Anna Lisa Porras, who was appointed executive director for Fundaci&amp;oacute;n Smithsonian de Panam&amp;aacute; on September, 2000, resigned from her position in May this year       ]]></description>
	   
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	     Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400	    ]]></pubDate>
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