March 05, 2015 - Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

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MAR 6, 2015
An exposed coral reef in Panama.
Exposures during La Niña events, such as
this one in 2010, kill the corals en masse.
Frequent La Niña -like events helped drive
a long-term collapse of reef ecosystems
across the Pacific, which began around
4000 years ago and lasted 2500 years.
Photo: Lauren Toth.
Arrecife de coral expuesto, Panamá.
Exposiciones como esta del 2010 durante
el fenómeno de La Niña mató a los corales
en masa. Eventos frecuentes parecidos a
La Niña ayudaron a impulsar un colapso a
largo plazo de los ecosistemas de arrecifes
en el Pacífico, que inició cerca de unos
4,000 años y duró 2,500 años.
REEF SHUTDOWN
Full story: www.stri.si.edu
issuu.com/strinewspanama
SEMINARS
WHAT’S HAPPENING AT STRI?
BEHAVIOR DISCUSSION GROUP
MEETING
Tues., Mar. 10, 2pm
Ian Traniello
University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
Tupper Large Meeting Room
Connecting neural activity and brain-gene
expression.
FIELD COURSES
TUPPER SEMINAR
Tues., Mar. 10,, 4pm
Nathan I. Morehouse
University of Pittsburgh
Tupper Auditorium
Colors, choices and conflict: Evolutionary
insights from the reproductive biology of
butterflies
BAMBI SEMINAR
Thu., Mar. 12, 7:15 pm
Nathan I. Morehouse
University of Pittsburgh
Barro Colorado Island
In the Eyes of a Tiger: Color Vision and
Color Signaling in Jumping Spiders
Princeton University - Semester in the field
Contact person: Lolly O’Brien
Feb 3 - Apr 30
MarineGEO Workshop
Contact person: Rachel Collin
Mar 1 - Mar 13
Yale University – Introduction to Tropical Field Ecology
Contact person: Liza Comita
Mar 7 - Mar 22
Texas A&M – GEOS Course
Contact person: Aaron O’Dea
Mar 13 - Mar 21
Harvard University
Contact person: Gonzalo Giribert
Mar 14 - Mar 22
Mystery Moth Identified
The brown patches of mangroves observed by local residents on islands around Dolphin Bay in Panama’s Bocas
Del Toro Province were caused by feeding caterpillars
(see STRINews story, Feb.13). Based on field observations, photos, two dead caterpillars and the moth that
emerged from a pupa this week, STRI staff scientist, Annette Aiello (top right) identified the culprit as Automeris
tridens Herrich-Schäffer, 1855 (Saturniidae: Hemileucinae). “Take a look at the caterpillar in the center of
the photo you guys sent me on 30 January (top left). You
can see white spots on a dark field between the prolegs.
Automeris io caterpillars don’t have that, but those of A.
tridens and A. jucunda do.” This species is also common
in neighboring Costa Rica.
Identificada la
polilla misteriosa
El oscurecimiento de los manglares en las islas alrededor
de Dolphin Bay en Bocas Del Toro de Panamá, observado por los residentes locales, fue causado por
orugas que se alimentaban de las hojas (leer historia en el
STRINews del 13 de febrero). Gracias a las observaciones
de campo, unas fotos, dos orugas muertas y una polilla
que esta semana emergió de su pupa, la científica del
Smithsonian, Annette Aiello (arriba, der.) identificó al
culpable como Automeris tridens Herrich-Schäffer, 1855
(Saturniidae: Hemileucinae). “De un vistazo a la oruga
en el centro de la foto que me enviaron el 30 de enero
(arriba, izq.). Puede ver manchas blancas sobre un campo
oscuro entre las patas falsas. Las orugas de Automeris io
no tienen eso, pero las de. A. tridens y de A. jucunda sí.
“Esta especie también es común en la vecina Costa Rica.
ARRIVALS
DEPARTURES
Amanda Rugenski
Arizona State University
Ecological Stoichiometry in Neotropical
Stream Food Webs: Consequences of
Changing Biodiversity on Ecosystem
Function
Gamboa and Tupper
Paola Rachello-Dolmen
Texas A&M University
Tropical Marine Historical Ecology
Naos Marine Lab, Bocas del Toro and
Tupper
Ethan Grossman, Ragain Baker, Paola
Rachello-Dolmen, Amelie Berger, Katie
Fuchs, Hailey Grote, Sarah Thomas, Lindsay
Lyda, Frances Elizabeth Ramey and Sarah
Hampton
Texas A&M University
Field Course - Texas A&M Environmental
Geosciences
Naos Marine Lab, Fortuna, Bocas del Toro
and Tupper
Yves Basset
To Bangkok, Thailand
To visit Khao Chong Insect laboratory
Raúl Ríos
To Isla Colón, Bocas Del Toro
For the mangrove census
Jacob Slusser and Saskia Santamaria
To Pedasi, Los Santos
Visit ELTI’s Azuero research/training sites
and provide Leadership Program follow-up
Stanley Heckadon
To Miami Florida
To participate in the Nicaragua Canal
Workshop
Ben Turner
To Cairns and Canberra, Australia, and to
Christchurch, New Zealand
To present a seminar at James Cook
University and to visit a collaborator at
CSIRO Canberra then to New Zealand for
a writing workshop at Lincoln University.
David Roubik
To San José, Costa Rica
To represent Smithsonian at the Board
Meeting of Organization for Tropical
Studies, to visit InBio and the University of
Costa Rica
Helene Muller
To Cambridge and Silwood Park, UK
To attend the workshop “Bridging the gap
between theoretical community ecology
and conservation” at Imperial College
London
Carlos Jaramillo
To Santa Clara, Cuba
For field work
PUBLICATIONS
Cardoso-Martínez, F., de,
la Rosa, D., A. R., Darias, J.,
D’Croz, L., Cerella, C., Diederich,
M. and Cueto, M. 2015.
Oximoaspergillimide, a Fungal
Derivative from a Marine Isolate
of Aspergillus sp. European Journal
of Organic Chemistry, doi:10.1002/
ejoc.201403668
Hammer, T. J. and Van Bael,
S. A. 2015. An endophyte-rich
diet increases ant predation on
a specialist herbivorous insect.
Ecological Entomology, doi:10.1111/
een.12186
Kerr, K. A., Cornejo, A., Guichard,
F., Crespi A., Augusto C. and Collin,
R. 2015. Planktonic predation risk:
effects of diel state, season and prey
life history stage. Journal of Plankton
Research, doi:10.1093/plankt/fbv006
Xia, S., Chen, J., Schaefer, D. and
Detto, M. 2015. Scale-dependent
soil macronutrient heterogeneity
reveals effects of litterfall in tropical
rainforest. Plant Soil, doi:10.1007/
s11104-015-2402-z
Miller, M. J., Angehr, G. R., Ridgely,
R. S., Lopez C., Oscar G., Arauz, J.,
Campos C., E. and Buitrago-Rosas,
D. 2015. Annotated checklist of
the birds (Aves) of Cerro Hoya
National Park, Azuero Peninsula,
Panama. Check List, 11(2):
1585doi:10.15560/11.2.1585
Breedy, O. and Cortes, J. 2014.
Gorgonias (Octocorallia:
Gorgoniidae) de las aguas someras
del Pacifico Norte de Costa Rica.
Revista De Biología Tropical, 62:
43-62.
Puniamoorthy, N. 2014.
Behavioural barriers to
reproduction may evolve faster
than sexual morphology among
populations of a dung fly (Sepsidae).
Animal Behaviour, 98: 139-148.