Site: BCI
Country: Panama
Site PI: Dr. Steve Hubbell, Dr. Robin Foster, Rolando Pérez, Salomón Aguilar
Data Type:
Availabilty: Immediate
About Data: The 50-hectare permanent tree plot was established in 1980 in the tropical moist forest of Barro Colorado Island (BCI) in Gatun Lake in central Panama. Censuses have been carried out in 1981-1983, 1985, 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2010, and 2015. In each census, all free-standing woody stems at least 10 mm diameter at breast height were identified, tagged, and mapped. Over 350,000 individual trees have been censused over 35 years.
Since 1994, over 50 one-hectare plots and smaller have been established in the Panama Canal watershed and elsewhere
where trees over 10 cm dbh were censused.