Data Request: Raising funds to continue censuses of the BCI 50 ha plot is easier if usefulness can be demonstrated. For this reason, we ask that users submit the data request form, which creates a record in our user database. The prospective investigator should resubmit the form for each substantially different project.
Non-transferability: So that we can vouch for the accuracy of the data, and so we get a record of every use, we ask that the prospective investigator not share the BCI data with other parties not included on the Request for Data Access Proposal.
Citation: Condit R., Perez, R., Aguilar, S., Lao, S., Foster, R., Hubbell, S.P. 2019. Complete data from the Barro
Colorado 50-ha plot: 423617 trees, 35 years, 2019 version.
Condit, R. 1998. Tropical Forest Census Plots. Springer-Verlag and R. G. Landes Company, Berlin, Germany, and Georgetown, Texas.
Hubbell, S.P., R.B. Foster, S.T. O'Brien, K.E. Harms, R. Condit, B. Wechsler, S.J. Wright, and S. Loo de Lao. 1999. Light gap disturbances, recruitment limitation, and tree diversity in a neotropical forest. Science 283: 554-557.
Condit R., Perez, R., Aguilar, S., Lao, S., Foster, R., Hubbell, S.P. 2019. BCI 50-ha plot taxonomy, 2019
version.
Copies of articles: Copies of articles should be sent to the BCI PIs prior to submission. Unless otherwise agreed, the PIs will not be involved as collaborators. Once published, any manuscript making use of the BCI data should be sent to the PIs. Upon publication, a PDF copy of (or a link to) the article should also be sent to forestgeo@si.edu.
Acknowledgements: Publications should also include an acknowledgement of the support of the Forest Global Earth Observatory (ForestGEO) of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and the primary granting agencies that have supported the BCI plot:
"The BCI forest dynamics research project was made possible by National Science Foundation grants to Stephen P. Hubbell: DEB-0640386, DEB-0425651,
DEB-0346488, DEB-0129874, DEB-00753102, DEB-9909347, DEB-9615226, DEB-9615226, DEB-9405933, DEB-9221033, DEB-9100058, DEB-8906869, DEB-8605042, DEB-8206992, DEB-7922197, support from the Forest Global Earth Observatory (ForestGEO), the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the Small World Institute Fund, and numerous private individuals, and through the hard work
of over 100 people from 10 countries over the past three decades. The plot project is part the Forest Global Earth Observatory (ForestGEO), a global network of large-scale demographic tree plots."