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90 minutes of Aroids with Tom Croat

Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't

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The Effects of the Dry Season on the Environment

In Panama, the dry season is from January to mid-December. You can tell the day the dry season starts. The rains caused beetles, fungi, and everything else to start growing in great abundance. And all this leaf litter that had accumulated during the dry season, maybe a foot of leaf litter with piled up leaves because it was a deciduous for us. It's just a massive food source and it gets eaten.

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