stri.si.edu/sites/strinews
MAR 6, 2015
WHAT’S HAPPENING AT STRI?
FIELD COURSES
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
SEMINARS
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.
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.
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
REEF SHUTDOWN
Full story: www.stri.si.edu issuu.com/strinewspanama
Mystery Moth Identified
The brown patches of mangroves observed by local resi- dents 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 observa- tions, photos, two dead caterpillars and the moth that emerged from a pupa this week, STRI staff scientist, An- nette Aiello (top right) identified the culprit as Automeris tridens Herrich-Schäffer, 1855 (Saturniidae: Hemileu- cinae). “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, obser- vado 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
Yves Basset
To Bangkok, Thailand
To visit Khao Chong Insect laboratory Jacob Slusser and Saskia Santamaria To Pedasi, Los Santos
Visit ELTI’s Azuero research/training sites and provide Leadership Program follow-up 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.
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
Raúl Ríos
To Isla Colón, Bocas Del Toro For the mangrove census Stanley Heckadon To Miami Florida
To participate in the Nicaragua Canal Workshop
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
Carlos Jaramillo To Santa Clara, Cuba For field work 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
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 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
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
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.