Neotropical pollen productivity and environmental change

STRI pollen traps
Co-author Enrique Moreno sets out aerial pollen traps on a canopy crane in Panama.

Derek’s paper – Variability within the 10-Year Pollen Rain of a Seasonal Neotropical Forest and Its Implications for Paleoenvironmental and Phenological Research – based on his MS research –  is now out in virtual print in PLoS ONE (Jan 8, 2013). Co-authored with STRI collaborator, J. Enrique Moreno, this works captures the year-to-year variation in the pollen output of one site in Barro Colorado Island (BCI). This analysis uses 10 years of the two decades of aerial pollen samples Enrique has collect from two Panamanian forests: BCI and Parque National San Lorenzo.

The paper was featured in the STRI Newsletter.

Congratulations, Derek and Enrique!