STRI News - Nov 6, 2015

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PUBLIC PROGRAMS / PROGRAMAS PÚBLICOS
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
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NOV 6, 2015
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