Joseph Donlan, Short-Term Fellow, Northern Arizona Univer- 

 sity. "The Observanon of Flotsam and Colonized Marine In- 

 vertebrates in the Tropical Pacific," with Harilaos Lessios 

 from April 4, 1997 to June 24, 1997. 



Jessica R. Eberhard, Postdoctoral Fellowship, Princeton 

 University. "Phylogeny and Biogeography of the Amazona 

 ocbrocepbala (Psittacidae) Species Complex," with Eldredge 

 Bermingham from August I, 1997 to July 31, 1998. 



Birgit Ehmer, Short-Term Fellow, Universitat Wurzburg. 

 "Visual and Olfactory Orientation in the Tropical Ant 

 Pamponera clavata." with William Wcislo from May 8, 1997 

 to August 8, 1997. 



Tugrul Giray, Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Illinois. 

 "Orgins of Endocrine Regulation of Eusocial Behavior in 

 Communal Orchid Bees (Apidae: Euglossim)," with Mary- 

 Jane West-Eberhard from November I, 1996 to October 31, 

 1997. 



Kyle Harms, Visiting Scientist, Princeton University. "Ex- 

 ploration of Possible Causes of the Ubiquitous Increase in 

 Plant Species Richness Observed with Increasing Rainfall 

 in Tropical Forests," with W. Joseph Wright and Georgina 

 de Alba from March I, 1997 to February 28, 1999. 



Michaela Hau, Visiting Scientist, University of Washington, 

 Seattle. "Seasonal Reproduction in Neotropical Birds," 

 with A. Stanley Rand from September 15, 1997 to Decem- 

 ber 15, 1999. 



Iris Hendricks, Short-Term Fellow, Universiry of Groningen. 

 "Patterns of Larval Supply of Coral Reef Fiches in the Per- 

 las Islands, Pacific Panama," with D. Ross Robertson from 

 September 8, 1997 to December 9, 1997. 



Michael Jennions, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Oxford. 

 "Why Does the Timing of Mate Desertion Vary in the 

 Cichlid Fish Aequickns coeruleopunaatus," with William Eber- 

 hard and John Christy from August I, 1997 to July 31, 2000. 



Qinhua Jiang, Visiting Scientist, Peking University. 



"Paleoecological Setting for the Origin of Rice in South 

 China," with Dolores Piperno and Georgina de Alba from 

 January I, 1997 to December 31, 1997. 



Ralf Kersanach, Visiting Scientist, The Natural History 

 Museum, London. "Recognizing Coral Species: A 

 Molecular adn Reproductive Approach," with Nancy 

 Knowlton from June 1, 1997 to May 31, 1998. 



Kaoru Kitajima, Visiting Scientist, University of Missoun- 

 St. Louis. "Comparative Ecology of Tree Canopies in a 

 Tropical Dry Forest Near Panama," with S. Joseph Wright 

 from February 1, 1997 to June 30, 1997. 



Wiebe H.F.C. Kooistra, Visiting Scientist, Alfred-Wegener-In- 

 stitut fur Polar-und Meeresforschung. "Molecular Analyses 

 of Algae," with Llewellya Hillis from October 27, 1996 to 

 October 26, 1999. 



Peter B. Marko, Postdoctoral Fellowship, Universiry of 

 California, Davis. "Phylogenetic Analysis of Faunal Turn- 

 over in Tropical American Arcid Bivalves," with Jeremy 

 Jackson and Nancy Knowlton from September 1, 1997 to 

 October 31, 1999. 



David Marsh, Graduate Fellowship, University of California, 

 Davis. "Effects of Breeding Pond Density on Oviposition, 

 Calling Site Selection, and Male Congregation in the Tun- 

 gara Frog, Pbysalaemus pustulosus." with A. Stanley Rand 

 from May 15, 1997 to July 24, 1997. 



Juan Mate, Predoctoral Fellowship, University of Miami. 

 "The Systematics of the genus Pocillopora (Lamarck) in 

 the Eastern Pacific (Panama)," with Nancy Knowlton 

 and Hector Guzman from December 27, 1996 to 

 January 31, 1998. 



Helene C. Muller-Landau, Predoctoral Fellowship, Princeton 

 University. "Interspecific Differences in Mortality Rates, 

 Light Transmittivities, and Light-Specific Sapling Growth 

 Rates of Tropical Trees: Towards a Resource-Based Model 

 of Tropical Forest Dynamics," with Richard Condit from 

 September I, 1997 to August 31, 1999. 



Peter Nelson, Short-Term Fellow, Norrhern Arizona Univer- 

 sity. "The Behavior and Ecology of Near Shore Flotsam- 

 Associated Fishes in the Eastern Pacific Ocean," with Ross 

 Robertson from June 15, 1997 to September 14, 1997. 



Andrew Roberts, Visiting Scientist, University of Newcastle. 

 "Manipulation of the Phases of CAM in Clusia uvitana," 

 with Klaus Winter from October 14, 1996 to January 15, 

 1997- 



Michael Rosenberg, Short-Term Fellow, State University of 

 New York at Stony Brook. "The Study of Combat and 

 Morphology in Fiddler Crabs," with John Christy from 

 September 15, 1997 to December 15, 1997. 



Bertrand Schatz, Short-Term Fellow, Laboratoire d'Ethologie 

 et de Psychologye Animale. "Field Study of Predatory 

 Strategy in the Ant Ectatomma ruidurn." with William Wcisco 

 and Georgina de Alba from January 15, 1997 to April 15, 



1997- 



David DeWayne Shoemaker, Postdoctoral Fellowship, Univer- 

 sity of Georgia. "Dynamics of Wolbachia in Fig Wasp Com- 

 munities," with E. Allen Herre from September 1, 1997 to 

 May 31, 2000. 



Miles Silman, Visiting Scientist with funding from Mellon 

 Foundation, Duke University. "Tropical Forest Dynamics 

 Across a Rainfall Gradient," with S. Joseph Wright and 

 Julie Denslow from September I, 1997 to August 31, 1999. 



J. Andrew C. Smith, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Senior 

 Fellow, University of Oxford. "The Evolutionary Origins of 

 Epiphytism and Crassulacean Acid Metabolism within the 

 Neotropical Family Bromeliaceae," with Klaus Winter 

 from April 1, 1997 to March 31, 1999. 



Wesley William Toller, Visiting Scientist, University of 

 Southern California. "Molecular Genetic Investigation of 

 the Symbiotic Association of Montastrea with Unicellular 

 Dinofiagellates," with Nancy Knowlton from January 15, 

 1997 to January 14, 1999. 



Mark Travassos, Short-Term Fellow, Harvard Universiry. 

 "Interspecific Accoustic Communication in a Butterfly-Ant 

 Mutualism," with Donald Windsor from September 15, 

 1997 to December 15, 1997. 



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