Barro Colorado Island 50 ha Plot

Barro Colorado Island (BCI) has been the focus of intensive research on lowland tropical moist forest since 1923, and its flora is better known than any site of comparable size throughout the world. The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and Princeton University established the first Forest Dynamics Plot at BCI in 1980, as part of its comprehensive program of research in tropical forest biology, which includes plant physiology, canopy biology, and animal ecology. BCI Plot Data, Tables of Abundance, Plot Species and Soil Maps are some of the data that has been collected at this site.巴罗科罗拉多岛（Barro Colorado Island, BCI）自1923年起，便成为低地湿润热带森林领域系统性深入研究的核心对象，其植物区系的研究详尽程度位居全球同面积研究站点之首。1980年，史密森尼热带研究所与普林斯顿大学在该岛设立了首个森林动态样地（Forest Dynamics Plot），作为其热带森林生物学综合研究计划的组成部分，该计划涵盖植物生理学、冠层生物学及动物生态学等研究方向。该站点已收集的数据集包含BCI样地数据集、物种丰度统计表、样地物种名录与土壤地图等内容。