Podcasts about barro colorado island

This episode deals with the somewhat overlooked impact on 'deep nature' by the world economy and global trade, it uses a global bottleneck and strategic hotspot: the Panama Canal region. While focusing on a re-interpretation and shifted emphasize of the results by Bellis et al (2018; sea anemones, abundance, diversity and genetics) it also takes further evidence from Karr (1990; birds), Basset et al. (2015; butterflies) and Huettmann (2015) for the Panama Canal region and beyond (Jackson et a;. 2001) as a convenient and subsidized conduit for world trade through international cargo ships connecting virtually all major ports in the world across oceans. This bottleneck now receives increasing pressures due to world-wide economic growth. The science elaboration presented here is not really 'rocket science', but infers a robust evidence for a major issue and effect on earth re. how we live, and towards betterment! References used in this podcast (order of mentioning) Bellis, E. S., Edlund, R. B., Berrios, H. K., Lessios, H. A., & Denver, D. R. (2018). Molecular signatures of host specificity linked to habitat specialization in Exaiptasia sea anemones. Ecology and evolution, 8(11), 5413-5426. Karr, J. R. (1990). Avian survival rates and the extinction process on Barro Colorado Island, Panama. Conservation Biology, 4: 391-397. Basset Y., H. Barrios, S. Segar, R. B. Srygley, A. Aiello, A. D. Warren, F. Delgado et al. (2015) "The butterflies of Barro Colorado Island, Panama: local extinction since the 1930s." PLoS One 10, no. 8: e0136623. Huettmann F (ed.) (2015) Central American Biodiversity: Conservation, Ecology, and a Sustainable Future. Springer New York, 805 pages. ISBN 978-1-4939-2207-9 (25 chapters authored and co-authored out of 32 + data appendix in dSPACE) Jackson, J. BC, M X. Kirby, W. H. Berger, K. A. Bjorndal, L. W. Botsford, B. J. Bourque, R. H. Bradbury et al. (2001) "Historical overfishing and the recent collapse of coastal ecosystems." science 293, no. 5530: 629-637. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/falk-huettmann/support

Anthropologist and spider monkey expert Dr. Christina Campbell joins the gang this week to get an update on Jesse's kidney stones and talk about her field of expertise, including research on Barro Colorado Island, the snubbing of Darwin contemporary Alfred Russel Wallace, Jesse trying to adopt a wallaby, Chris Burke’s Eating Is Fun/Eating Is Serious, Dr. Campbell's book on spider monkeys, the torture tape experiment, wombats and wallabies, barrel of monkeys vs. barrel of apes, chimps catching bushbabies with spears, the relative intelligence of Koko vs. Kanzi, the 1980s orangutan movie Link, spider monkey trivia, why you shouldn't use sign language in front of primates, why you shouldn't tickle a slow loris, spider monkey sexual rendezvous and the drunken monkey hypothesis.

We take a walking tour of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute on Barro Colorado Island in Panama, with the STRI's Beth King and Harilaos Lessios. Plus, we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news. Web Sites related to this episode include www.stri.org

This spring the ecogeeks crew have been doing research and filming the plants and animals on Barro Colorado Island. We wanted to share this place with you and explain why it is so unique.

This is a brief announcement to let you know that we have not stopped podcasting, but have only been in the process of moving our operations to the Republic of Panama. A great deal of research is conducted each year from Barro Colorado Island, a rainforest research station run by the Smithsonian Tropical Research institute. It is from this island and the surrounding forests that we will be podcasting from over the next 6 months. Please stay tuned as we prepare to release new episodes every week or two about interesting science concepts from the Ecogeeks new tropical home.