May 15, 2015 - Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

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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.
4 cm
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.
Full story: www.stri.si.edu
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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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