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First electrophysical recording of sleep in a wild animal
... an international team of researchers working on the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute’s Barro Colorado Island in Panama. “We are fascinated that some species sleep far longer than others. If we ...Vine invasion? UWM ecologist looks at coexistence of trees and lianas
... diameter or larger on a 50 hectare plot on Barro Colorado Island – nearly 50,000 individuals have been tagged, mapped, measured and identified to species. The researchers will match ...Extinction most likely for rare trees in the Amazon rainforest
... up a unique experiment to monitor the growth, birth and death of more than 250,000 tropical trees on Panama's Barro Colorado Island. This large "forest dynamics plot" would generate ...Diversity of trees in Ecuador's Amazon rainforest defies simple explanation
... of biodiversity based on more than 20 years of data from the original long-term forest dynamics plot on Barro Colorado Island, which he co-founded in 1980. The methods that Hubbell ...New movement models tested at the Smithsonian in Panama
... several have been developed and tested in complex tropical forest at the Smithsonian's Barro Colorado Island research station in Panama. One of these is a new model for seed dispersal by wind, which ...Whispering bats are 100 times louder than previously thought
... 2008 at http://jeb.biologists.org. Travelling to the Smithsonian Research Institute's Barro Colorado Island in Panama, Surlykke decided to focus on two whispering members of the Phyllostomidae family ...Tropical forest seed banks: A blast from the past
... for germination) is short, lasting only for a few years at most. But in the tropical forests of Barro Colorado Island (BCI), Panama, Brown and Dalling found the seeds of some pioneer trees remain ...First jaguar photo taken at Smithsonian Research Station in Panama
Barro Colorado Island in Panama, home of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute's premier tropical biology field station, has been described as the best-studied piece of tropical real estate in ...New guide to tropical seedlings: Essential to climate change research
... first time in the new field guide, "Seedlings of Barro Colorado Island and the Neotropics," published in July 2009 by Cornell University Press. Author Nancy Garwood, professor of ...Global warming cycles threaten endangered primate species
... dry seasons for the years between 1960 and 1990 in Venezuela, Brazil, Barro Colorado Island, and Colombiaavailable. They obtained these data from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and from ...
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