Tupper seminar
Tuesday, April 13, noon
seminar speaker will be
Charlotte Jander, Uppsala
University, Sweden
Title to be announced
Bambi seminar
Please check GroupWise for
information on the next
Bambi.
Arrivals
Ruth Dickau, Temple
University, Apr 12-30, to
study the subsistence and
early agriculture in prehistoric
Panama: evidence from
starch and macro-remains, at
the CTPA, Ancon.
Irby Lovette and Jason
Mobley, Cornell University,
Apr 12-22, to study the levels
of genetic differentiation in
bird species in Bocas del
Toro.
Jason Weir, University of
British Columbia, Apr 12 -
May 10, to work with Irby
Lovette, at Bocas.
Briget Greiner and Eric
Warrant, University of Lund,
Sweden, Apr 14-22, to study
visual processing in nocturnal
bees and wasps, on BCI.
Thomas Cronin, University
of Maryland, Baltimore
County, Apr 14-18, to work
with Briget Greiner, on BCI.
Doekele Stavenga, University
of Groningen, The
Netherlands, Apr 14-22, to
work with Briget Greiner, on
BCI.
Ana Maria Llorens,
University of Florida, Apr 16
- Jul 10, to work with Kaoru
Kitajima, on BCI.
 STRI news
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panam?        www.stri.org     April 9, 2004
UK ambassador in Panama James Malcolm visited STRI on Wednesday, April 7, to donate the
book Arboles de Centroam?rica [Central American trees] to the STRI Library and meet with STRI
officials in order to strengthen the relationship between the British government and STRI. The
book, edited by Jesus Cordero and David Boshier was published by the Oxford Forestry Institute in
the United Kingdom and CATIE in Costa Rica. According to STRI?s Library director Vielka
Chang-Yau, this book is a comprehensive botanical manual and will prove to be an excellent 
research tool for students and professionals. The photo shows (from the left) Stanley Heckadon-
Moreno, Vielka Chang-Yau, director Ira Rubinoff, ambassador Malcolm and Georgina de Alba.
El embajador del Reino Unido en Panam? James Malcolm visit? STRI el mi?rcoles 7 de abril, para
donar el libro Arboles de Centroam?rica a la Biblioteca de STRI y reunirse con funcionarios de STRI
para fortalecer la relaci?n entre el gobierno brit?nico y este instituto. El libro, editado por Jes?s
Cordero y David Boshier, pue publicado por el Instituto Forestal Oxford en el Reino Unido y
CATIE en Costa Rica. De acuerdo a la directora de la Biblioteca, Vielka Chang-Yau, el libro es un
manual bot?nico completo y probar? ser una excelente herramienta de investigaci?n para
estudiantes y docentes. En la foto aparecen (desde la izquierda) Stanley Heckadon-Moreno, Vielka
Chang-Yau, el director Ira Rubinoff, el embajador Malcolm y Georgina de Alba.
Galeta online!
On Tuesday, April 6, work to install internet at STRI?s Marine Laboratories at Galeta Point was
completed. Stanley Heckadon Moreno, director of STRI?s Office of Communications and Public
Programs and the staff at Galeta thank Francisco Rivera, Fernando Bouche, Tania Quiel, Luis
Moreno and other members of OIT for this long awaited service that greatly improves the
communications at this field station for its employees and visiting scientists.
El martes 6 de abril se complet? el trabajo para instalar internet en el Laboratorio Marino de Galeta
de STRI. Stanley Heckadon Moreno, director de la Oficina de Comunicaciones y Programas
P?blicos y el personal de Galeta agradecen a Francisco Rivera, Fernando Bouche, Tania Quiel, Luis
Moreno y otros miembros de OIT por este esperado evento que mejora grandemente las 
condiciones de esta estaci?n de campo para su personal y cient?ficos visitantes.
Tropical forests and
global atmospheric
change
Scientists have shed new light on the impact
of global environmental changes on remote
tropical forests with studies that show that
the rates of growth and death of trees in
pristine forests across the Amazon have
accelerated substantially in recent decades.
The scientists also demonstrate that the
tropical forests globally have warmed by half
a degree in the last 20 years and warn that this
is expected to increase by a further three to
eight degrees by the end of the century, with
dangerous implications for the forests,
climate change and human welfare. The
papers are published in a themed issue,
?Tropical Forests and Global Atmospheric Change?, of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal
Society of London (March), compiled and edited by Oliver Phillips and Yadvinder Malhi. The issue
includes five articles by STRI researchers Susan and Bill Laurance, Richard Condit, Salomon
Aguilar, Andres Hernandez, Suzanne Lao, Rolando Perez, and more. The STRI articles are available
from calderom@si.edu
Investigadores han arrojado nuevas luces sobre el impacto de los cambios ambientales globales en
bosques tropicales remotos con estudios que demuestran que las tasas de crecimiento y muerte de
?rboles en bosques v?rgenes del Amazonas han aumentado substancialmente durante las ?ltimas
d?cadas. Estos cient?ficos tambi?n demostraron que los bosques tropicales se han calentado de
forma global en medio grado en los ?ltimos 20 a?os y se espera que se caliente entre tres y ocho
grados m?s para finales de siglo. Los art?culos fueron publicados en el n?mero de marzo de
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London ?Bosques tropicales y el cambio ambiental
atmosf?rico?, compilado y editado por Oliver Phillips and Yadvinder Malhi. El n?mero incluye
cinco art?culos por los investigadores de STRI Bill y Susan Laurance, Richard Condit, Salom?n
Aguilar, Andr?s Hern?ndez, Suzanne Lao, Rolando P?rez y m?s. Los art?culos pueden obtenerse de
calderom@si.edu
Bocas inaugurates public program
On Friday, April 2, STRI?s Bocas del
Toro Marine Station opened the exhibit
Coral Reefs: Caribbean Connections, during
the inauguration of its public program.
The event was attended by local
authorities, representatives from non-
government organizations and the private
sector in Bocas del Toro. Scientist in
charge Rachel Collin and STRI?s scientific
coordinator at Bocas Gabriel J?come
welcomed the visitors and highlighted all
public programs carried out by STRI in
Panama, on BCI, Culebra, Galeta, and
now in Bocas del Toro, western Panama.
The Station will open to the public on
Fridays from 3-5pm.
Trees and lianas at a tropical forest in Barro
Colorado Island, Panama//Arboles y lianas en el
bosque tropical de la Isla de Barro Colorado en
Panam?.
Departures
S. Joseph Wright, Apr 9-11 to
Miami, to attend meeting to
organize a neotropical national
ecology observatory network.
Eldredge Bermingham Apr
12-15, to Washington DC, to
attend the SI Molecular
Evolution fellowship review.
John Christy, Apr 15-19, to
Ithaca, to attend an NSF
sponsored workshop at
Cornell University.
Condolences
To Gabriel J?come and his
family, for the loss of his
father, Thomas Humberto
J?come, on March 27 in
Panama.
New publications
Baker, Timothy R., Phillips,
Oliver L., Malhi, Yadvinder,
Almeida, Samuel, Arroyo,
Luzmila, Di Fiore, Anthony,
Erwin, Terry L., Higuchi,
Niro, Killeen, Timotly J.,
Laurance, Susan G., Laurance,
William F., Lewis, Simon L.,
Monteagudo, Abel, Neill,
David A., Nunez Vargas,
Percy, Pitman, Nigel C.A.,
Silva, Natalino A., and
Vasquez Martinez, Rodolfo.
2004. "Increasing biomass in
Amazonian forest plots."
Philosophical Transactions of the
Royal Society of London 359:
353?365.
Bay, L.K., Choat, J. Howard,
van Herwerden, L., and
Robertson, D. Ross. 2004.
"High genetic diversities and
complex genetic structure in
an Indo-Pacific tropical reef
fish (Chlorurus sordidus):
evidence of an unstable
evolutionary past?" Marine
Biology 144(4): 757?767.
El viernes 2 de abril, la Estaci?n Marina de STRI en Bocas del
Toro abri? al p?blico la exhibici?n: Arrecifes Coralinos: Unidos por
el Caribe, durante la inauguraci?n de su programa p?blico. El
evento fue presenciado por autoridades locales, representantes
de organizaciones no-gubernamentales y el sector privado en
Bocas del Toro. La cient?fica a cargo de la Estaci?n el
coordinador cient?fico de STRI en Bocas, Gabriel J?come,
dieron la bienvenida a los visitantes enfatizando en todos los
programas p?blicos que lleva a cabo STRI en Panam?, en BCI,
Galeta, Culebra y ahora en Bocas del Toro, al oeste de Panam?.
La Estaci?n abrir? al p?blico todos los viernes de 3-5pm.
Training opportunity at UC,
Santa Cruz
The Center for Tropical Research in Ecology, Agriculture, and
Development (CenTREAD) offers two fellowships for
one-quarter (3 months) post-graduate residence at the
University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) during the
2004-2005 academic year. Graduate students, recent university
graduates and environmental professionals from tropical and
subtropical nations who have not received degrees from and are
not enrolled in US universities are eligible to apply. Fellows will
participate in graduate courses related to their interests, attend
seminars, and work with UCSC research groups to develop
collaborations with CenTREAD affiliates. CenTREAD fosters
interdisciplinary research and training to understand tropical
environmental issues and develop ecologically-based,
economically viable, culturally respectful, nonexploitative
solutions that serve as a foundation for future generations. More
information at http://centread.ucsc.edu. Fellows will be
granted round-trip transportation, tuition, and a $1000 per
month living stipend. To apply, please send a CV, a personal
statement describing educational and research experience, future
goals, and reasons for interest in participating in the program,
and a confidential letter of recommendation from someone
familiar with your academic performance or research.
Application materials can be sent electronically to STRI research
associate Gregory Gilbert at  ggilbert@ucsc.edu
NEO symposium
Ten students from STRI-McGill University Neotropical
Environmental Option program will present the results of their
research in an open symposium on Friday, April 16 at the
Tupper Center, from 8:30am to 12:30pm. Talks include studies
on land use, soil arthropods, management of national parks, the
expansion of the Panama Canal, plant-insect interactions,
evolution of Hypoplectrus, testing for incipient speciation, and
visual selection on male guppy coloration.
Diez estudiantes del Programa de STRI-McGill ?Opci?n
Ambiental Neotropical (NEO) presentar?n el resultado de sus
investigaciones en un simposio abierto al p?blico el viernes, 16
de abril en el Centro Tupper, de 8:30am - 12:30pm. Los estudios
incluen uso de tierras, artr?podos de suelo, administraci?n de
parques nacionales, la expansi?n del Canal de Panam?,
interacciones entre insectos y plantas, la evoluci?n de
Hypoplectrus, pruebas de especiaci?n incipiente y selecci?n visual
sobre coloraci?n de olominas machos.
More publications
Mueller, Ulrich G., Poulin,
Jessica, and Adams, Rachelle
M. 2004. "Symbiont choice in
a fungus-growing ant (Attini,
Formicidae)." Behavioural
Ecology and Sociobiology 15(2):
357-364.
Phillips, O.L., Baker, Timothy
R., Arroyo, Luzmila, Higuchi,
N., Killeen, T.J., Laurance,
William F., Lewis, S.L., Lloyd,
J., Malhi, Y., Monteagudo, A.,
Neil, D.A., Nunez Vargas,
Percy, Silva, J.N.M., Terborgh,
J., Vasquez Martinez, Rodolfo,
Alexiades, M., Almeida, S.,
Brown, S., Chave, Jerome,
Cominskey, J.A., Czimczik,
C.I., Di Fiore, A., Erwin, T. L.,
Kuebler, C., Laurance, Susan
G., Nascimento, Henrique
E.M., Olivier, J., Palacios, W.,
S., Patino., Pitman, N.C.A.,
Quesada, C.A., Saldias, M.,
Torres Lezama, A., and
Venceti, B. 2004. "Pattern and
process in Amazon tree
turnover, 1976?2001."
Philosophical Transactions of the
Royal Society of London 359: 381-
407.
Sumner, Seirian, Aanen, D.K.,
Delabie, J.H.C., and
Boomsma, Jacobus J. 2004.
"The evolution of social
parasitism in Acromyrmex
leaf-cutting ants: a test of
Emery?s rule." Insectes Sociaux
51(1): 37-42.
Van Tassell, James L., and
Baldwin, Carole C. 2004. "A
review of the gobiid genus
Akko (Teleostei: Gobiidae)
with description of a new
species." Zootaxa 462: 1-15.
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More publications
Chave, Jerome, Condit,
Richard, Aguilar, Salomon,
Hernandez, Andres, Lao,
Suzanne, and Perez, Rolando.
2004. "Error propagation and
scaling for tropical forest
biomass estimates One
contribution of 17 to a Theme
Issue 'Tropical forests and
global atmospheric change'."
Philosophical Transactions of the
Royal Society of London
359(1443): 409-420.
Franz, Nico M. 2004.
"Analysing the history of the
derelomine flower
weevil?Carludovica association
(Coleoptera: Curculionidae;
Cyclanthaceae)." Biological
Journal of the Linnean Society
81(4): 483-517.
Kawakita, Atsushi, Sota, Teiji,
Ito, Masao, Ascher, John S.,
Tanaka, Hiroyuki, Kato,
Makoto, and Roubik, David
W. 2004. "Phylogeny,
historical biogeography, and
character evolution in bumble
bees (Bombus: Apidae) based
on simultaneous analysis of
three nuclear gene sequences."
Molecular Phylogenetics and
Evolution 31: 799?804.
Laurance, William F. 2004.
"Forest?climate interactions in
fragmented tropical
landscapes." Philosophical
Transactions of the Royal Society of
London 359: 345?352.
Lewis, S.L., Phillips, O.L.,
Baker, T.R., Lloyd, J., Malhi,
Y., Almeida, S., Higuchi, N.,
Laurance, William F., Neill, D.
A., Silva, J.N.M., Terborgh,
John, Lezama, A. Torres,
Vasquez Martinez, R., Brown,
S., Chave, J. Kuebler, C.,
Nunez Vargas, P., and Vinceti,
B. 2004. "Concerted changes
in tropical forest structure and
dynamics: evidence from 50
South American long-term
plots." Philosophical Transactions
of the Royal Society of London 359:
421?436.