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Strangler figs: Silent assassins, diversity engines, rainforest timekeepers

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Strangler figs: Silent assassins, diversity engines, rainforest timekeepers

  (Borrowing from a J&B whisky commercial from the 1990s…) Tradition says: “A tree must begin its life from the forest floor”. Tradition says:  “A tree shall form a relatively cylindrical trunk”. Tradition...

miniOct 20 aerobotany, AMA, Amazon, amazon wired, botany, Conservation, ecology, Peru No Comments

The Boom and Bust Rainforest

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The Boom and Bust Rainforest

  With gusting winds and a sharp plunge in temperature, the first friaje of 2017 arrived earlier this week in Puerto Maldonado, signaling the official transition from wet to dry weather in Tambopata and across the Madre de Dios basin. Rainforest...

miniOct 08 AMA, Amazon, amazon wired, amazoncam, botany, Cebus apella, Conservation, ecology, Peru, Seed Dispersal, tropical biology, wildlife No Comments

The Amazon is Wired: Citizen Science is plugged in and chugging along at Rainforest Expeditions

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The Amazon is Wired: Citizen Science is plugged in and chugging along at Rainforest Expeditions

  What a difference a year makes! In February last year, a group of us got together at Refugio Amazonas to envision and create a pioneering collaboration between science and ecotourism, that blended field research with cutting-edge technology...

miniOct 05 aerobotany, AMA, Amazon, amazoncam, instructor, Peru, research, tambopata, varun swamy, wired No Comments