STRI NEWSLETTER
2 Janaury 15th. 1988
SEMINARS - ANCON CONEERENCE ~
The noon seminar on January 19 will be given CHAI from the University at Austin. His subject:
Tuesday.
by PENG of Texas Relationships Between Visual Characteristics of Butterflies and Responses of a Specialized Insectivorous Bird.
ABSTRACT: This represents one of the first studies of a predator of adult butterflies - jacamars. The results demonstrate extremely sophisticated discrimination and rapid learning of not only color pattern. but also flight behavior.
of the butterflies by jacamars.
That afternoon at 4:00 p.m .•
EGBERT LEIGH will give the thi£d talk of his minicourse on coevolu- tion between male secondary sexual characters and female choice.
NEXT WEEK
The noon seminar on Tuesday.
January 26. will be given by JACK SITES from Brigham Young Universi- ty. His title:
Chromosome Change and Specia- tion: Where is the Connection?
ARRI¥AlS ! DE£ARIURES
Arrived last week. DANIEL BRAZEAU.
to work with Howard Lasker on predators and defenses of gorgo- nian corals. He will be in San Blas until August.
January 16 - Arriving. ROBERT MIHALIK. from the University of Iowa. to work on the Forest Dyna- mics' Project. He will be on BCI until July 15.
January 17 - Arriving. PRISCILLA TERRY. Disaster Preparedness Coor- dinator from the SI Office of Risk Management. She will be at STRI for one week to assist in develop- ing an emergency plan to deal with disasters.
January 18 - Arriving. PENG CHAI.
Senior Scholar from the University of Texas. to consult with Neal Smith on butterfly predation by birds. He will be in Gamboa until January 26.
January 18 - Arriving. DAVID LEES.
Senior Scholar from the London Butterfly House. to consult with Neal Smith on evolution in butter- flies. He will be in Gamboa until January 27.
January 18 - Departing. JORGE VENTOCILLA. for San Jose. Costa Rica. for two years to participate in a masters program in wildlife management. (Programa de Manej 0
de Vida Silvestre. Escuela de Ciencias Ambientales. Universidad Nacional de Heredia. Apartado 1350. Costa Rica).
January 22 - Arriving. JACK SITES.
~enior Scholar from Brigham Young Vniversity. to study chromosome
~hange and speciation. He will be on BCI until January 31.
HOLlOU REMINDER Monday.
Luther holiday.
JaQya£~ ~. is Martin King Day and a STRI
~ £UBlICAIIONS ~ ~ SIAEE$
EEllOWS ! RESEARCH ASSOCIAIES Castro. G. y J.P. Myers.
Ecologla y conservaci6n playero blanco. Boletin de 52: 47-61.
1987.
del Lima Roubik. D.W. and J.D. Ackerman.
1987. Long-term ecology of euglossine orchid-bees (Apidae : Euglossinil in Panama. Oecologia (Berlin) 73: 321-333 .
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Aida Velasquez. January 18-31 ERQM ~ lIBRAR¥
Sylvia Churgin will be on leave January 14-22.
Aguirre will be acting librarian during this time.
~ ~ ~ EMERGENCIA
annual Angel chief
Atenci6n. guardias de seguridad y dem!s personal. si occurren emer- gencias de luz. agua. vehlculos.
robos. etc. despu~s de horas de oficina llamar enseguida a los siguientes n~meros:
RAMON ELY. 52-2233 (beeper 586).
dejar mensaje con la opera dora LEO VAN VALKENHOEF. 33-0486 BARBARA CUSATTI. 21-8493 ANNOUNCEMEtn
This month's fellows dinner will be on Friday. January 22.
Call for professional papers for the 2nd Annual Conference of the SOCiety for Conservation Biology.
to be held in conjunction with the Annual AIBS Meeting.
UniverSity of California. Davis August 16-19. 1988
(oead11ne February 15)
LIBRARY NEWS New books:
ANNUAL REVIEW OF ECOLOGY AND SYSTEMATICS. V.18, 1987
BIOLOGY OF TREES NATIVE TO TROPICAL FLQRIDA(P.B. Tomlinson,1980) QK484.F6T65X STRI
CONTINENTS ADRIFT AND CONTINENTS AGROUND: READINGS FROM SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN( J. Tizo Wilson, 1976 )QE511. 5. C65 1976x STRI
FIELD GUIDE OF WHALES AND DOLPHINS(W.F.J. Morzer Bruyns,1971) QL737. C4M69 1971 STRI .
FIRST RESOURCE: WILD SPECIES IN THE NORTH AMERICAN ECONOMY(C.
Prescott-Allen and R. Prescott-Allen,1986)QH705.P74 1986x STRI AL FUTURO DESDE LA EXPERIENCIA: LOS PUEBLOS INDIGENAS Y EL MANEJO DEL
MEDIO AMBIENTE(L.A. Brownrigg,1986) F2230.1A3B87 S 1986 STRI GUIDE TO BITING AND STINGING INSECTS AND OTHER ARTHROPODS(C.S. Papp
and L.A. Swan,1983) 2nd edition. QL434.45.P218 1983 STRI
HEAT SHOCK RESPONSE OF EUKARYOTIC CELLS(L. Nover, 1984)QP552.H43H43STRl HINDLIMB MYOLOGY AND EVOLUTION OF THE OLD WORLD SUBOSCINE PASSERINE
BIRDS(ACANTHISITTIDAE , PITTIDAE,PHILEPITTIDAE,EURYLAIMIDAE) (R.J. Raikow and Carnegie Musuem of Natural HistorY,1987) Ornithological Monographs; no.41 QL696.P2R15 1987 STRI
HISTORY OF THE EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE(M.I. Budyko,A.B. Ronov, and A.L.
Yanshin, 1987) QC861.2.B8313 1987X STRI
MAMMALS IN HAWAII: A SYNOPSIS AND NOTATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY(P. Quentin Tomich,1986) 2nd edition QL719.H3T65 1986 STRI
MAJOR TOPICS IN PRIMATE AND HUMAN EVOLUTION(B. Wood,L. Martin and P.
Andrews, editors,1986) GN281.M335 1986X STRI
NATURAL HISTORY OF NAUTILIS(P.D. Ward,1987)QL430.3.N4W37 1987X STRI NATURAL HISTORY READER IN ANIMAL BEHAVIOR(H. Topoff, editor,1987)
QL751.6.N38 1987X STRI
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NATURALISTA JOSE DE ANCHIETA(Antonio Alberto Banha de Andrade,1985) QH31.A53A55 1985 STRIPLANT COMMUNITY ECOLOGY: PAPERS IN HONOR OF ROBERT H. WHITTAKER(R.K.
Peet, editor,1985)QK911.P565 1985X STRI
PROBLEMS OF EVOLUTION(M. Ridley,1985)QH366.2.R526 1985X STRI
PRUDENT PRACTICES FOR DISPOSAL OF CHEMICALS FROM LABORATORIES(Committe, on Hazardours Substances ... ,1983)QD51.P77 1983X STRI
REGRESSION DIAGNOSTICS: IDENTIFYING INFLUENTIAL DATA AND SOURCES OF COLLINEARITY(D.A. Belsey,E.Kuh, and R.E. Welsch,1968)
QA278.2.B44X STRI
SCIENCE OF ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR(P.L.Broadhurst,1963)QL785.B69STRI SNAIL HOSTS OF SCHISTOSOMIASIS AND OTHER SNAIL-TRANSMITTED
DISEASES IN TROPICAL AMERICA(E.A. Malek,1985)RC182.S24M24 STRI SUCKING LICE OF NORTH AMERICA: AN ILLUSTRATED MANUAL FOR IDENTIFICATIOJ
(K. Chung Kim,1986) QL570.2.A1K56 STRI
TROPICAL RAIN FORESTS AND THE WORLD ATMOSPHERE(G.T. Prance, editor,1981 SD390.5.P73 STRI
VERTEBRATE FLIGHT: A BILIOGRAPHY TO 1985 (J.M.V. Rayner.1985) qZ7996.V4R26 STRI
WIZARD OF THE UPPER AMAZON: THE STORY OF MANUEL CORDOVA-RIOS(F. Bruce Lamb,1974) 3rd ed. F3430.1.A5C796 STRI
WORK WE.E.K
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