Yearly Reports_San Lorenzo Crane

Yearly climate summaries for the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute's
Physical Monitoring Program Sherman/San Lorenzo (FTS) Canopy Access Crane
Station. Established in 1997, the San Lorenzo canopy crane (9.281031°,
-79.974518°) is located approximately 11 km South West from the city of Colon,
in the middle the Parque Natural San Lorenzo (formerly known as Fort Sherman)
and is surrounded by 300-year old, low-land tropical rainforest.

The crane stands in a 6-hectare plot where all 22,400 trees with a bole size
of 1 cm in dbh or greater have been identified, measured and mapped.
Structurally, the forest can be characterized as including 3,338 stems per
hectare (greater than 1 cm dbh) and a total basal area of almost 32 m2 per
hectare with the tallest trees being 45 m tall. The base of the crane is
approximately 175 mmsl