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SEMINARS
WHAT’S HAPPENING AT STRI?
NOV 6, 2015
VISIT US / VISÍTENOS
Barro Colorado / Isla Barro Colorado
Contact / Contacto: 212-8951
Bocas del Toro Research Station /
Estación de Investigación de Bocas del Toro
Contact / Contacto: 212-8594
Galeta Point Marine Laboratory /
Laboratorio Marino de Punta Galeta
Contact / Contacto: 212-8191
Punta Culebra Nature Center /
Centro Natural de Punta Culebra
Contact / Contacto: 212-8793
Full story: www.stri.si.edu
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How much did
indigenous peoples
alter the Amazon forest?
NO TUPPER SEMINAR
Panamanian Holiday
TUPPER PUBLIC TALK
Wed., Nov. 11, 6pm
Félix Rodríguez
STRI
Tupper Auditorium
La malacología o estudios de
moluscos, en 100 años del Canal
BAMBI SEMINAR
Thur., Nov. 12, 7:15pm
Sue Simmons
Certified Specialist of Wine -
Association of Wine Educators
in Washington, DC.
Barro Colorado Island
The Judgment of BCI
FIELD COURSES and SPECIAL EVENTS
Curso Introducción a las Ciencias Biológicas
de campo (Curso de Gigante) 2015
October 30 – November 13
Galeta Station, Gamboa, Tupper and Barro Colorado Island
Contact person: Adriana Bilgray
Recent research on
pre-Columbian land-use
by indigenous people in
Amazonia shows that vast
areas were hardly
affected by human activity.
Investigaciones recientes
sobre el uso de la tierra
por los pueblos pre-co-
lombinos en la Amazonia,
demuestran que vastas
áreas fueron levemente
afectadas por la actividad
humana.

ARRIVALS

DEPARTURES
NOV 6, 2015
Laura Jurgens
Temple University
Biological invasions and interactions
between hosts and their parasites in
Panama
Naos Marine Lab
Patricia Brandt
Princeton University
Ecosystem Dynamics in Natural and
Planted Forests in Agua Salud
Tupper
Federico Davis
To Colón
To measure transect on secondary
forest
Juan Maté
To Santiago de Veraguas
To attend meetings for the ECOTUR
project
Jorge Guerrel and Rigoberto Diaz

To Donoso, Colón
To collect 4 target species of
amphibians for our ex-situ
conservation program
Matthew Larsen
To Mexico
To participate as keynote lecturer at
the Second International Conference
on Hydro-meteorological Risks and
Climate Change
Jacob Slusser
To Cali, Colombia
To present at the 1st Regional
Ecological Restoration Symposium of
the Colombian Network for Ecological
Restoration (REDCRE), and attending
meetings with colleagues
GET IN TOUCH!
WE’D LOVE TO KNOW
WHAT YOU THINK:
¡CONTÁCTANOS! NOS
ENCANTARÍA SABER SU OPINION:

Baird, E., Fernandez, D. C., Wcislo,
W. T. and Warrant, E. J. 2015. Flight
control and landing precision in the
nocturnal bee Megalopta is robust
to large changes in light intensity.
Frontiers in Physiology, 6 doi:10.3389/
phys.2015.00305
Chak, S. T. C., Rubenstein, D. R.
and Duffy, J. E. 2015. Social Control
of Reproduction and Breeding
Monopolization in the Eusocial
Snapping Shrimp Synalpheus
elizabethae. The American Naturalist,
186(5): 660-668. doi:10.1086/683132
Dandois, J. P., Olano, M. and Ellis,
E. C. 2015. Optimal Altitude,
Overlap, and Weather Conditions
for Computer Vision UAV Estimates
of Forest Structure. Remote Sensing,
7(10): 13895-13920. doi:10.3390/
rs71013895

Hart, M. K. 2015. Phenotypic plasticity
in sex allocation and body size leads
to trade-offs between male function
and growth in a simultaneously
hermaphroditic fish. Evolutionary
Ecology, : 1-18. doi:10.1007/s10682-
015-9804-5
Lopez A., O. R. and Flores, R.. 2015.
Algunas plantas exóticas introducidas
en Panamá: Origenes, usos y ecologia
Panama: Instituto Smithsonian de
Investigaciones Tropicales. 96 pages.
Tymen, B., Rejou-Mechain, M.,
Dalling, J. W., Fauset, S., Feldpausch,
T. R., Norden, N., Phillips, O. L.,
Turner, B. L., Viers, J. and Chave, J.
2015. Evidence for arrested succession
in a liana-infested Amazonian forest.
Journal of Ecology, doi:10.1111/1365-
2745.12504


Valdespino, I. A. 2015. Selaginella
boomii (Selaginellaceae –
Lycopodiophyta): A new and widely
distributed spikemoss from South
America. Brittonia, doi:10.1007/
s12228-015-9398-9
Villarreal, J. C., Crandall-Stotler, B.,
Hart, M. L., Long, D. G. and Forrest,
L. L. 2015. Divergence times and
the evolution of morphological
complexity in an early land
plant lineage (Marchantiopsida)
with a slow molecular rate. New
Phytologist,doi:10.1111/nph.13716
Shih, H., Ng, P.K. L. and Christy,
J. H. 2015. Uca (Petruca), a new
subgenus for the rock fiddler crab Uca
panamensis (Stimpson, 1859) from
Central America, with comments
on some species of the American
broad-fronted subgenera. Zootaxa,
4034(3): 471-494.doi:10.11646/
zootaxa.4034.3.3
Wang, X., Wiegand, T., Kraft, N. Jared
B., Swenson, N. Garrick, D., Stuart
J., Hao, Z., Howe, R. W., Lin, Y., Ma,
K., Mi, X., Su, S., Sun, I. F. and Wolf,
A. T. 2015. Stochastic dilution effects
weaken deterministic effects of niche-
based processes in species rich forests.
Ecology, doi:10.1890/14-2357.1
PUBLICATIONS
NOV 6, 2015