Jungle Island

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Megan Raby
Keyword(s):  
Tropical Forest ◽  
Nature Reserve ◽  
Barro Colorado Island ◽  
Panama Canal ◽  
Complex Dynamic ◽  
New Techniques ◽  
Canal Zone ◽  
Panama Canal Zone ◽  
Scientific Labor ◽  
Prolonged Observation

Tropical stations drew hundreds of U.S. biologists, few of whom would have attempted a rigorous tropical expedition on their own. In the 1920s through 1940s, Barro Colorado Island (BCI) in particular became a model tropical forest. Chapter 3 demonstrates how the station’s location on an island nature reserve within the Panama Canal Zone enabled unprecedented control over space and scientific labor. BCI was transformed into a scientific site by the removal of Panamanian settlers and through descriptions of the site as undisturbed and representative of tropical nature. It was maintained for science by the labor of Panamanian workers and through the development of a host of new techniques and technologies for the prolonged observation of tropical life. There, biologists were able to develop practices to monitor and census living tropical organisms as part of a complex, dynamic ecological community. BCI became increasingly accessible and observable—but only in certain ways and only to certain classes of people.

The Mallophagan Family Menoponidae. Part III

Parasitology ◽  
1928 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-227 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. F. Ferris
Keyword(s):  
Original Description ◽  
Barro Colorado Island ◽  
Panama Canal ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Canal Zone ◽  
Panama Canal Zone ◽  
The University

Material examined. A male and a female from Ramphastos brevicarinatus, Barro Colorado Island, Panama Canal Zone, collected by Mr J. Van Tyne of the University of Michigan, through whose kindness I have been enabled to examine them. The species was originally described from “probably Ramphastos tocard” (which is R. brevicarinatus) from Colombia. My material agrees with the original description and is probably correctly identified, although, as will be further considered, another species of the same genus occurs upon toucans.

scholarly journals A Description of Pocobletus Coroniger Simon (Araneae, Linyphiidae)

1969 ◽  
Vol 76 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-57
Author(s):  
Arthur M. Chickering
Keyword(s):  
New Genus ◽  
Barro Colorado Island ◽  
Panama Canal ◽  
Adequate Description ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
Canal Zone ◽  
Panama Canal Zone ◽  
The Status ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Interesting Species

More than thirty years ago I began finding this species in my coIlections from localities in the Panama Canal Zone. For many years they were regarded as representatives of a new genus. During a period of work in the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris in 958 Dr. H. W. Levi made sketches of the type specimens of Pocobletus coroniger Simon and later identified my specimens from Panama. In I894 Simon gave a brief definition of the genus Pocobletus and in a footnote he gave a very brief description of both sexes of Pocobletus coroniger and included the species in his general treatment of the Argiopidae. No figures were given with the description. Because of the uncertainties regarding the status of the species it now seems worth while to prepare a series of figures together with what I hope will be regarded as an adequate description of both sexes of this interesting species. As a basis for this description I have selected a male from Summit, Panama Canal Zone, August, I950 and a female from Barro Colorado Island, Canal Zone, February, I958. Other specimens from localities in the Canal Zone have also been used to supplement data derived from these two specimens.

A Canal Treaty out of the Dark Ages

Worldview ◽  
1976 ◽  
Vol 19 (10) ◽  
pp. 4-8
Author(s):  
Martha Bennett Stiles
Keyword(s):  
Strong Support ◽  
Panama Canal ◽  
Ford Administration ◽  
Canal Zone ◽  
Dark Ages ◽  
Panama Canal Zone ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The U.S

Seventy-three years ago the U.S. connived in the secession of the Republic of Panama from Colombia in return for the privilege of building a canal across the Panamanian Isthmus "on a strip of land leased in perpetuity." Within this 533-square-mile zone the U.S. was to exercise, forever, all those rights that it "would possess and exercise if it were the sovereign of the territory..." Today the significance of that "if" is much debated.Although Ronald Reagan's campaign position—that the Panama Canal Zone is as much a part of the U.S. as is Alaska—has been deplored by the Ford Administration, it maintains strong support in the Senate.

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