Insects, Plants and Challenges Ahead
One of the great pleasures that I had as a Ph.D. student at Harvard was the opportunity to travel across Latin America, and particularly throughout my home country, Brazil. The thousands of…
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Theme: Science and the Environment
Capturing Bats to Find Fungi on Flies
It was the fourth night of fieldwork in the Chucantí Nature Reserve cloud forests in the Darién Province. The expedition at Chucantí was part of a three-month collecting trip in Panama, funded by the David Rockefeller Center of Latin American Studies, the Smithsonian…
Read MoreLinking Lizards
When most of us hear the word “island,” we picture a tropical paradise with palm trees, sunshine, and white sand beaches. When I hear the word “island,” however, I think of Anolis lizards, or anoles. Anoles are a diverse group of arboreal lizards found in the Caribbean, Central and…
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Botanical Studies in Nicaragua
The mountainous areas of northern Nicaragua finally felt safe enough to roam around after more than forty years of war. What we—two biologists—found was a treasure of unknown and rich plant diversity and beauty where the plants had not been seriously explored for decades…
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Dragon Mart Cancún
The anti-Chinese rhetoric was unmistak-able: “[The Chinese] are a dirty people…They come and they bring their whole family…They occupy the area and it ends up being an invasion because
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