Panama je zem\u00ed mimo\u0159\u00e1dn\u00e9 biologick\u00e9 rozmanitosti. Jej\u00ed tropick\u00e9 de\u0161tn\u00e9 pralesy a kor\u00e1lov\u00e9 \u00fatesy host\u00ed ohromuj\u00edc\u00ed po\u010det druh\u016f. Ve skute\u010dnosti mohou pouh\u00e9 dva akry panamsk\u00e9ho de\u0161tn\u00e9ho pralesa obsahovat tolik druh\u016f strom\u016f jako cel\u00e9 \u00fazem\u00ed Spojen\u00fdch st\u00e1t\u016f americk\u00fdch. Tato neuv\u011b\u0159iteln\u00e1 biodiverzita \u010din\u00ed Panamu kl\u00ed\u010dov\u00fdm m\u00edstem pro v\u011bdeck\u00fd v\u00fdzkum \u017eivota na Zemi.<\/p>\n\n
Smithsoni\u00e1nsk\u00fd institut pro tropick\u00fd v\u00fdzkum (STRI) je p\u0159edn\u00ed sv\u011btov\u00e9 za\u0159\u00edzen\u00ed pro v\u00fdzkum tropick\u00e9ho prost\u0159ed\u00ed. S deseti lokalitami na panamsk\u00e9 \u0161\u00edji, person\u00e1lem p\u0159es 300 zam\u011bstnanc\u016f a stovkami hostuj\u00edc\u00edch v\u011bdc\u016f ka\u017ed\u00fd rok je STRI na \u0161pi\u010dce v\u011bdeck\u00e9ho objevov\u00e1n\u00ed v tropech.<\/p>\n\n
V\u011bdci z STRI v\u00fdznamn\u011b p\u0159isp\u011bli k na\u0161emu pochopen\u00ed glob\u00e1ln\u00ed zm\u011bny klimatu. Jejich v\u00fdzkum kapacity de\u0161tn\u00fdch prales\u016f ukl\u00e1dat oxid uhli\u010dit\u00fd byl z\u00e1sadn\u00ed pro sou\u010dasnou debatu o zm\u00edrn\u011bn\u00ed klimatick\u00e9 zm\u011bny.<\/p>\n\n
Jedine\u010dn\u00e1 geologick\u00e1 historie Panamy sehr\u00e1la hlavn\u00ed roli v jej\u00ed biodiverzit\u011b. Pevniny, kter\u00e9 jsou nyn\u00ed Severn\u00ed a Ji\u017en\u00ed Amerika, byly po miliony let odd\u011bleny, co\u017e umo\u017enilo evoluci odli\u0161n\u00fdch druh\u016f na ka\u017ed\u00e9m kontinentu. Kdy\u017e se Isthmus Panamy zvedl z oce\u00e1n\u016f, vytvo\u0159il pozemn\u00ed most mezi kontinenty, kter\u00fd umo\u017enil druh\u016fm p\u0159ech\u00e1zet a vz\u00e1jemn\u011b interagovat.<\/p>\n\n
Atlantsk\u00e9 a Tichomo\u0159sk\u00e9 pob\u0159e\u017e\u00ed Panamy jsou radik\u00e1ln\u011b odli\u0161n\u00e1 mo\u0159sk\u00e1 prost\u0159ed\u00ed, p\u0159esto\u017ee je od sebe odd\u011bluje pouze tenk\u00fd p\u00e1s \u0161\u00edje. Tato jedine\u010dn\u00e1 situace umo\u017e\u0148uje v\u00fdzkumn\u00edk\u016fm STRI studovat evoluci mo\u0159sk\u00fdch organism\u016f v izolaci a kl\u00e1st fundament\u00e1ln\u00ed ot\u00e1zky o tom, jak se druhy rozch\u00e1zej\u00ed a p\u0159izp\u016fsobuj\u00ed.<\/p>\n\n
Lesn\u00ed koruna, rozs\u00e1hl\u00fd otev\u0159en\u00fd laborato\u0159 na vrcholc\u00edch strom\u016f, je jednou z nejm\u00e9n\u011b prozkouman\u00fdch hranic na Zemi. V\u011bdci z STRI byli pr\u016fkopn\u00edky v pou\u017e\u00edv\u00e1n\u00ed stavebn\u00edch je\u0159\u00e1b\u016f pro p\u0159\u00edstup ke korun\u00e1m, co\u017e vedlo k objevu \u010detn\u00fdch nov\u00fdch druh\u016f a pozn\u00e1n\u00ed interakc\u00ed mezi biosf\u00e9rou a atmosf\u00e9rou.<\/p>\n\n
V\u011bdci z STRI neust\u00e1le posouvaj\u00ed hranice pozn\u00e1n\u00ed, zkoumaj\u00edc\u00ed slo\u017eit\u00e9 interakce mezi organismy a jejich prost\u0159ed\u00edm. Jejich v\u00fdzkum nejen\u017ee prosp\u00edv\u00e1 na\u0161emu porozum\u011bn\u00ed p\u0159\u00edrodn\u00edmu sv\u011btu, ale m\u00e1 tak\u00e9 praktick\u00e9 aplikace pro ochranu p\u0159\u00edrody a udr\u017eitelnost.<\/p>\n\n
V\u011bdeck\u00fd v\u00fdzkum prov\u00e1d\u011bn\u00fd v Panam\u011b m\u00e1 dalekos\u00e1hl\u00e9 p\u0159\u00ednosy pro lidstvo. Pom\u00e1h\u00e1 n\u00e1m porozum\u011bt slo\u017eit\u00fdm mechanism\u016fm \u017eivota na Zemi, \u0159e\u0161it glob\u00e1ln\u00ed v\u00fdzvy jako je zm\u011bna klimatu a vyv\u00edjet nov\u00e9 technologie a l\u00e9ky. Snaha o pozn\u00e1n\u00ed v Panam\u011b nad\u00e1le p\u0159itahuje v\u011bdce z cel\u00e9ho sv\u011bta a poh\u00e1n\u00ed pokrok ve prosp\u011bch v\u0161ech.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Panama: V\u011bdeck\u00fd r\u00e1j pro studium \u017eivota na Zemi Biodiverzitn\u00ed hotspot Panama je zem\u00ed mimo\u0159\u00e1dn\u00e9 biologick\u00e9 rozmanitosti. Jej\u00ed tropick\u00e9 de\u0161tn\u00e9 pralesy a kor\u00e1lov\u00e9 \u00fatesy host\u00ed ohromuj\u00edc\u00ed po\u010det druh\u016f. Ve skute\u010dnosti mohou…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25345,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6565],"tags":[395,136,361,6563,397,6564,2049,34],"class_list":["post-3433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ecology-and-biodiversity","tag-biodiversity","tag-evolution","tag-marine-biology","tag-panama","tag-rainforests","tag-smithsonian-tropical-research-institute","tag-scientific-research","tag-climate-change"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3433"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25346,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3433\/revisions\/25346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}