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MAY 15, 2015 Based on this skull specimen, researchers from STRI, the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, California State University and Iowa State University decided they had discovered a new species of extinct sperm whale.
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A new fossil whale species from Panama: Nanokogia isthmia
Basados en el cráneo de este espécimen, los investigadores del Smithsonian en Panamá, el Museo de Historia Natural del Condado de Los Ángeles, la Universidad Estatal de California y la Universidad Estatal de Iowa decidieron que habían descubierto una nueva especie de cachalote extinto.
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SEMINARS TUPPER SEMINAR Tue, May 19, 4pm Lars Hedin Princeton University Tupper Auditorium Functional biodiversity, nitrogen fixation, and the tropical carbon sink BAMBI SEMINAR Thu, May 21, 7:15pm Michael Kaspari Oklahoma University Barro Colorado Island Diversity of thermal tactics among the ants of BCI: why a community focus matters in an era of global change
WHAT’S HAPPENING AT STRI? FIELD COURSES and SPECIAL EVENTS Field Course - University of Copenhagen - Tropical Behavioral Ecology and Evolution Contact person: Rachelle Adams May 3 – 28 Biodiversity Day Bocas Del Toro Marine Station Contact person: Marlon Smith May 22 Field Course - Colorado State University - CloudNet: NSF Research Coordination Network Meeting on Tropical Montane Cloud Forests Contact person: James Dalling June 1 - 10 Bayano Film Festival Contact person: Jorge Ventocilla June 2– 6
FIELD COURSE
University of Copenhagen professor and STRI research associate Jacobus “Koos” Boomsma (R) is again in Panama to instruct the latest Tropical Behavioural Ecology and Evolution field course for Ph.D. and M.Sc. students. Co-instructors include Rachelle Adams (L) and Jonathan Shik (center). El profesor de la Universidad de Copenhaguen e investigador asociado del Smithsonian en Panamá Jacobus “Koos” Boomsma (der.) está nuevamente en Panamá para instruir en el curso de campo Ecología Tropical del Comportamiento y Evolución para estudiantes de doctorado y maestría. Los co-instructores son Rachelle Adams (izq.) y Jonathan Shik (centro).
WORKSHOP
STRI’s Roberto Ibáñez (left) hosted the Panamanian Golden Frog Population Modeling workshop this week at STRI. Roberto Ibáñez del Smithsonian en Panamá (izq.) fue anfitrión esta semana del taller Panamanian Golden Frog Population Modeling.
DEPARTURES
ARRIVALS Iliana Quintero Universidad de Panamá Biosystematics of Sordariomycetes fungi associated with diseases of forest trees in Panama –Continuation Gamboa and Naos Marine Lab Stephen Yanoviak University of Louisville Ecology and Behavior of Arboreal Arthropods Barro Colorado Island Michael Kaspari University of Oklahoma Experimental Macro-ecology the kinetics of biodiversity in soil microbes and invertebrates Barro Colorado Island
Adriana Corrales University of Illinois UrbanaChampaign The influence of long-term nitrogen fertilization on the above ground primary productivity of a Neotropical montane forest Fortuna Line Vej Ugelvig Copenhagen University Lukas Schrader University of Regensburg Evolutionary ecology of fungus growing ants Gamboa
Lucy Ryan Bryn Mawr College Molecular Evolution of Sea Urchins Naos Marine Lab
Aaron O’Dea To Curacao To attend the Association of Marine Laboratories of the Caribbean 37th Scientific Conference
Rachel Collin To Bocas Del Toro To collect sponges for GGI grant.
Oris Sanjur, Corina Guardia and Xenia Saavedra To Washington, DC For meetings with OFEO, OPMB, Mr. Al Horvath, Under Secretary John Kress and OSP training. Matthew Larsen Montreal, Canada To attend the NEO/NESS symposium in McGill University
Nelly Florez To Gainesville Florida For a Global Plants Initiative (GPI) Steering Committee Meeting Mark Torchin To La Paz, Mexico To coordinate experiments with colleagues at UABCS
Owen McMillan and Adriana Bilgray To Montreal, Canada To attend the official kick-off for the NSERC-CREATE BESS (Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services, and Sustainability) program
David Foster University of Florida PCP PIRE: Paleontology of the Canal of Panama Panama
Héctor Gúzman To Changuinola, Bocas Del Toro To tag manatees and leatherback turtles
PUBLICATIONS Bacon, C. D., Silvestro, D., Jaramillo, C., Smith, B. T., Chakrabarty, P. and Antonelli, A. 2015. Biological evidence supports an early and complex emergence of the Isthmus of Panama. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112(19): 6110-6115. doi:10.1073/pnas.1423853112 Crayn, D. M., Winter, K., Schulte, K. and Smith, J. A. 2015. Photosynthetic pathways in Bromeliaceae: phylogenetic and ecological significance of CAM and C3 based on carbon isotope ratios for 1893 species. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society,doi:10.1111/boj.12275 Fauset, S., Johnson, M. O., Gloor, M., Baker, T. R., Monteagudo A. M., Brienen, R. J. W., Feldpausch, T. R., Lopez-Gonzalez, G., Malhi, Y., Ter Steege, H., Pitman, N. C. A., Baraloto, C., Engel, J., Pétronelli,
P., Andrade, A., Camargo, J. L. C., Laurance, S. G. W., Laurance, W. F., Chave, J., A., Vargas E., Núñez P., Terborgh, J. W., Ruokolainen, K., Silveira, M., G., Aymard C., et al. 2015. Hyperdominance in Amazonian forest carbon cycling. Nature Communications, 6 doi:10.1038/ ncomms7857 Garzon-Lopez, C., BallesterosMejia, L., Ordonez, A., Bohlman, S. A., Olff, H. and Jansen, P.A. 2015. Indirect interactions among tropical tree species through shared rodent seed predators: a novel mechanism of tree species coexistence. Ecology Letters,doi:10.1111/ele.12452 Heer, K., Helbig-Bonitz, M., Fernandes, R. G., Mello, M. A. R. and Kalko, E. K. V. 2015. Effects of land use on bat diversity in a complex plantation-forest landscape
in northeastern Brazil. Journal of Mammalogy, doi:10.1093/jmammal/ gyv068 Lohbeck, M., Lebrija-Trejos, E., Martínez-Ramos, M., Meave, J. A., Poorter, L. and Bongers, F. 2015. Functional trait strategies of trees in dry and wet tropical forests are similar but differ in their consequences for succession. PLOS ONE, 10(4) doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0123741 Somers, B., Asner, G. P., Martin, R. E., Anderson, C. B., Knapp, D. E., Wright, S. J. and Kerchove, V.D.. 2015. Mesoscale assessment of changes in tropical tree species richness across a bioclimatic gradient in Panama using airborne imaging spectroscopy. Remote Sensing of Environment, doi:10.1016/j.rse.2015.04.016
Velez-Juarbe, J., Wood, A. R., De Gracia, C. and Hendy, A. J. W. 2015. Evolutionary Patterns among Living and Fossil Kogiid Sperm Whales: Evidence from the Neogene of Central America. PLOS ONE, 10(4) doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0123909
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