Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Senior staff scientist Klaus Winter gave a talk to the general public as part of the Centennial Celebrations of Smithsonian Science in Panama
Senior staff scientist Klaus Winter gave a talk to the general public as part of the Centennial Celebrations of Smithsonian Science in Panama. The presentation, which was the 10th of the Centennial Cycle Conferences, was given on Wednesday, October 26, at the Tupper Center Auditorium.
The talk, "Plants, stress and climate change" focused on the different functional responses of tropical plants to short-term and long-term changes in the environment. Winter demonstrated that on sunny days, tropical forest outer canopy leaves show photosynthetic features known from desert plants. He also explained why some legume trees could be winners in a world of rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations.
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