Chapter 21 - The ecology of tropical wood. Supplement 2 - Images of 353 wood cores collected from 353 species at sites near Barro Colorado Island, Panama.

Scanned images of 353 wood cores. Supplement 1
(https://doi.org/10.25573/data.22806797) provides metadata including the Latin
binomial or species name associated with the file name of each image. Joe
Wright and colleagues collected the wood cores with 5-mm diameter increment
borers at sites within approximately 10 km of Barro Colorado Island in central
Panama. Each core was broken into segments approximately 5 cm long. Peter
Hietz and colleagues sanded and polished the outermost segment perpendicular
to the grain to produce cross sections or transverse planes. Larger xylem
vessels are visible (smaller vessels might be filled with dust). Growth ring
borders, and rays are also visible in many images.

The source reference follows: Hietz, P. 2024. The Ecology of Tropical Wood. In
_The First 100 Years of Research on Barro Colorado: Plant and Ecosystem
Science_ , ed. H. C. Muller-Landau and S. J. Wright: Smithsonian Institution
Scholarly Press, Washington, DC.