On a routine collecting trip on Barro Colorado Island in Panama, entomologist Aaron Pomerantz and his colleagues picked up a ...

A volcanic eruption triggered a sediment flow that preserved a mangrove forest around what is now Barro Colorado Island, providing a better glimpse of the vegetation that existed in a highly changing ...

To celebrate a century of scientific research in the Barro Colorado Nature Monument, a series of volumes will provide a record of the major contributions to plant and ecosystem science, animal science ...

Barro Colorado, a man-made island in the middle of the Panama Canal, is home to a research-rich outpost of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, a living, breathing, jungle-forest research ...

The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) proudly presents A Magic Web: The Tropical Forest of Barro Colorado, published by Oxford University Press. Palms walk, transparent wings flash, teeth ...

Researchers have captured the first-ever photo of a jaguar on Barro Colorado Island, a key tropical forest research site in Panama, reports the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI). The ...

The physical setting. Geology, climate, and hydrology of Barro Colorado Island / William E. Dietrich, Donald M. Windsor, and Thomas Dunne ; Variation in rainfall on Barro Colorado Island / A. Stanley ...

The fifth Howler Monkey census at the Smithsonian's Barro Colorado Island research station in Panama revealed that monkey numbers have not changed significantly since the first census 33 years ago.

Click to open image viewer. View of Barro Colorado Island in Gatun Lake, in the Panama Canal Zone. The image shows a submerged forest surrounding the island. Barro Colorado Island had been a ...

On a humid night on Barro Colorado Island in Panama, a research team collecting insects beneath a lamp spotted something that ...