Conoce a la semilla mas grande del mundo! Meet the world’s largest seed! YouTube video by Eloisa Lasso

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Que felicidad poder haber contribuido algo en este trabajo que será premiado con la medalla Humbold-Caldas como la mejor publicación de biogeografía de Colombia y Ecuador !! Felicidades a Fabián y a los colegas, profes y amigos cómplices en este crimen 🥰

The Incomparable Prisoner: A Rare Endemic Treasure of Coiba YouTube video by Eloisa Lasso

Here talking a little bit about one of my projects in Coiba AIP! About one of the endemic species of Coiba! Desmotes incomparabilis. Check english subtitles youtu.be/Xy-8CEjcgVs?...

Happy to be part of this effort led by CrisRuedas and the caminos network, which has just been published today. In it we review what has been done on pollination research in the tropical Andes and propose new lines of research. Pollination onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Tropecé con este hongo gigante en mi caminata. Cuando la biodiversidad nos rodea, hay felicidad, sorpresas y fascinación. También eso nos da! Feliz día de la biodiversidad! 🌱 🍄‍🟫 🐆

¿Es mejor reproducirse con o sin pareja? El misterio detrás del sexo en la naturaleza ¿Alguna vez te has preguntado por qué existe el sexo? Puede sonar extraño, pero la razón por la que la mayoría de los organismos se reproducen sexualmente sigue siendo un misterio. Imagina un mundo do...

Mi artículo en la estrella de Panamá con una pregunta aparentemente irrelevantes 🤣 aquí tratando de explicar nuestra investigación de los clones que tomo casi 14 años de datos y trabajo y fue publicado en Functional ecology! www.laestrella.com.pa/vida-y-cultu...

BREAKING: Trump moves troops to Panama. No vote. No justification. No legality. Just raw aggression. What they are doing in Panama is a violation of international law — and a disgrace.

and it is mandatory to see waterfalls and walk rivers with crocodiles! Better companionship impossible, with the legendary best connoisseurs of the Coiba forest, Mali Mali and Alicia! Great trip and we found a nice population of Desmotes in bloom! More news soon about this beautiful and rare plant.

Expedition to Coiba in search of populations of one of the most charismatic and difficult to find endemic species of Coiba, Desmotes incomparabilis. To find it you have to get into the primary forest of western Coiba, dodge waves and cliffs, camp in the middle of the stars, the sea and the forest,

Studying blue carbon from the Coiba mangroves ! Very hard and challenging, but also full of sense of accomplishment! Walking over immense and spectacular caballero mangrove (R. racemosa) roots and collecting beautiful soil cores...very curious to see how much carbon they will have.

🎥 Share, comment, and help us spread the word about this research. Science becomes even more exciting when we share it together! 🌱✨ second part of the video

👥 Many hands helped with fieldwork and moving clones around. Huge thanks to everyone who contributed to this journey! 🥳 Check out the video for more details about this amazing scientific adventure: two part video

🙏 This project wouldn’t have been possible without support from:
@senacyt, @Uniandes, @STRI, and @coiba_AIP.
It began with a STRI Postdoctoral Fellowship and concluded 12 years later with a STRI Latin American Scholar Fellowship.

Evaluating the role of frequency‐dependent selection in controlling the expansion of clonal aggregations in the tropical forest's understorey: Insights from a decade‐long experiment Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

🧪 To test this, we created clonal and non-clonal populations in the field and tracked their fate over 12 years! It was a massive effort with fascinating results. Here’s what we found: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

🔍 One proposed mechanism is frequency-dependent selection. Common organisms (surrounded by clones) are more prone to diseases and herbivory, reducing their survival. This prevents one single clone from dominating and maintains genetic diversity.

💡 It’s thought that sexual reproduction generates genetic diversity, which helps populations adapt to environmental changes. But here’s another mystery: many clonal species are also genetically diverse. How is that possible?

🤔 Did you know that sex is… inexplicable? Sexual reproduction is costly and risky, yet most plants and animals do it. Why? The first organisms reproduced asexually, and they thrived. So what’s the advantage of sex?

Evaluating the role of frequency‐dependent selection in controlling the expansion of clonal aggregations in the tropical forest's understorey: Insights from a decade‐long experiment Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

🎉 Excited to finally share the results of a long and fun project! Our paper is out, and there’s an exciting video to go along with it. 👇 Keep reading to find out more about it! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Today, after 13 years of starting this experiment as a Fellow of STRI, of hard work creating clones and following their destiny over time we can proudly show this work of 12 years of data. All Latin female power 💪. @stri_panama @AcademicStri @SNI_Panama

Enjoying being a professor in the Tropical Ecology course at OTS, the same course I took many many years ago that changed my life. Doing fun and interesting projects with the students! Las Cruces and its botanical garden is a blast.

A study of páramo plant-pollinator interactions on the sky islands of Colombia: specialization, modularity, and species roles - Alpine Botany Plant-pollinator interactions are crucial for reproduction of both angiosperms and their pollinators, and consequently influence ecological and evolutionary dynamics of diverse ecosystems globally. Th...

We apologize the article is behind a paywall. In Latin America, we often face the challenge of not being able to afford the 1000s $ required for open access in every publication. This limits the visibility of crucial research and highlights the need for more equitable access to scientific knowledge.

The analysis revealed a modular and moderately specialized network, with key species like Bombus rubicundus, whose loss could destabilize the ecosystem. These findings highlight the richness and resilience of the páramo but also its vulnerability to the loss of crucial species.

This study, conducted by the fantastic and hardworking Laura Manrique as part of her master’s thesis in my lab, documented 90 pollinator morphospecies over a year of observation, including hummingbirds, bats, bees, flies, beetles, and butterflies.

We are proud to announce the publication of our article on 🌿 plant-pollinator networks 🌸🐝 in the Colombian páramo. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Trump has not yet been inaugurated and he has already threatened to invade us (Panama) and take away our canal. What a long 4 years

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Al fin logramos hacer el tercer censo de basura en las 3 playas de Coiba que venimos monitoreando como parte del proyecto “Ocean travelers” para ver qué tipo de basura es la más común, como cambia estacionalmente y qué organismos trae (epibiontes).También celebramos la independencia desde Coiba 🇵🇦

Hoy fue publicado el hermoso libro de los 100 años de investigación en BCI. La hermosa portada muestra la Ceiba gigante de BCI con una copa de 60m de ancho! Y en el, nuestra contribución con un capítulo sobre Piper. Se puede ver todo acá scholarlypress.si.edu/store/all/th...

More than half of all mangrove ecosystems at risk of collapse by 2050, first global assessment finds Gland, Switzerland, 22 May 2024 (IUCN) – More than half of the world’s mangrove ecosystems are at risk of collapse, according to the first global mangrove assessment for the International Union for Co...

Más de la mitad de los ecosistemas de manglares del mundo corren el riesgo de colapsar, según la primera evaluación mundial de los manglares para la Lista Roja de Ecosistemas de la Unión Internacional para la Conservación de la Naturaleza (UICN).
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Empezando este nuevo camino en el cielo azul (bluesky no nos decepciones).