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Experts Study Climate Change in Panama

PANAMA - The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STR) based in Panama will receive experts to evaluate the effects of climate change in forests, informed organizers yesterday.

The meeting scheduled for March 1 to 5 will serve as scenario to discuss the first results of a world research program that has the support of HSBC Climate Partnership.

The project coordinated with the STRI and Earthwatch Institute combine a collection of figures in a network of 34 research plots to quantify the dynamics of carbon in tropical and temperate zone forests.

After launching HSBC Climate Partnership in 2007 the Smithsonian has set up new research plots in the United States and Great Britain.

It also began experiments in 700 hectares in the Panama Canal Basin to analyze environmental services "such as supply of water stored in carbon and maintenance of biodiversity" that supply tropical forests.

Directors of the Center of Forest Sciences recalled that responding to the climate change requires enormous databases with measurements and observations throughout the world.

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