Wetland view from the boardwalk in Palo Verde. The Hesperid herbivory on Thalia is evident in the background.
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Eichhornia flowers poking through
Lazaro Wetland
More stable isotope collection
Or rather, most photographs of a backpack and net hanging from something, while I collected for stable isotopes. Unfortunately, it is extremely difficult to photograph yourself doing field work.
A rainy, rainy season
Constructing a trail through the Thalia
| To collect some aquatic insects for stable isotopes and identification, Michelle (an IRES student at Palo Verde attempting to develop a water budget for the wetland) prepared to cut through a thick stand of Thalia. Coincidentally, Mahmood had asked a couple of staff members to cut a trail in the same area that very day. They left a two meter wide trail through the vegetation, which made our wade much easier but also much more boring. So, Michelle and I pretended to have chopped the trail – Here’s Michelle’s first, excited, use of a machete. |  |
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A few wetland landscapes
Sunset rainbow
A light rainbow reaches, but cannot penatrate the clouds over the Palo Verde wetland.
Flooded forest
The wetland has expanded into much of the low-land forest. It’s fascinating that these trees can survive completely saturated soils for half a year, and extreme dryness for the other half.
Wetland entrance
