ORGANIZATION FOR TROPICAL STUDIES

The 'Organization for Tropical Studies' is a network of ecological research stations in Costa Rica. OTS is run by a consortium of universities, based in North America where most of the 56 member institutions are found. They offer a variety of courses in Spanish and English for high school, university, and graduate students. Most of the coursework and research conducted at OTS stations focuses on tropical ecology, and the three research stations are located in distinct ecozones.
Along with Cocha Cashu Biological Station in Peru, and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute on Barro Colorado Island in Panama, the OTS research stations in general (and La Selva in particular) provide some of the most important and productive sites of original research on neotropical ecology.
OTS research stations:

★ La Selva Biological Station : lowland tropical rainforest

★ Palo Verde Biological Station : tropical dry forest

★ Las Cruces Biological Station : montane rainforest (including higher elevation cloud forest) and site of the Wilson Botanical Garden

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External links

★ official OTS website

★ La Selva Protected Zone at Costa Rica National Parks