Complete data from the Barro Colorado 50-ha plot: 423617 trees, 35 years

The 50-ha plot at Barro Colorado Island was initially demarcated and fully
censused in 1982, and has been fully censused 7 times since, every 5 years
from 1985 through 2015 (Hubbell and Foster 1983, Hubbell et al. 1990,
Condit et al. 2012, Condit et al. 2017). Every measurement of every stem
over 8 censuses is included in this archive. Most users will need only the
8 R Analytical Tables in the format tree, which come here zipped
together into a single archive (bci.tree.zip), plus the single R Species
Table. Additional tables cover all individuals stems, additional
measurements at mulitple positions on some stems, and the full database in
original MySQL format. This is the 2019 version of the database, frozen as
of 30 May 2019, replacing the 2012 Smithsonian archive
(http://dx.doi.org/10.5479/data.bci.20130603). There are unauthorized
versions of the BCI database available elsewhere. This is the only version
approved by the lead investigators (Condit and Hubbell). PIs Condit and
Hubbell would like to be informed of papers resulting from the BCI plot
data. Depending on our level of interest and how much a paper depends on
the BCI plot, co-authorship might be requested. Please cite this archive
as 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.   https://doi.org/10.15146/5xcp-0d46.
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trees in a neotropical forest and implications for conservation. Pp. 25-41
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Condit, R., and Foster, R. B. 1990. Presence and absence of density
dependence in a Neotropical tree community. Philosophical Transactions of
the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences Pages 269–281.
pdf http://conditdatacenter.org/pdfs/HubbellConditFoster.PhilTrans1990.pdf
Condit, R., 1998. Tropical Forest Census Plots: Methods and Results from
Barro Colorado Island, Panama and a Comparison with Other Plots.
Springer-Verlag, Berlin. pdf Condit_1998_CensusPlotsmethodsBook.pdf.
Harms, K., Condit, R., Hubbell, S., and Foster, R. 2001. Habitat
associations of trees and shrubs in a 50-ha Neotropical forest plot.
Journal of Ecology 89:947–959. pdf
http://conditdatacenter.org/pdfs/Condit_harmsetal.jecol.2001.pdf Condit,
R., Chisholm, R. A., and Hubbell, S. P. 2012. Thirty years of forest
census at Barro Colorado and the importance of immigration in maintaining
diversity. PLoS ONE 7:e49826. pdf
http://conditdatacenter.org/pdfs/ConditChisholmHubbell2012.pdf Condit, R.,
Lao, S., Singh, A., Esufali, S., and Dolins, S. 2014. Data and database
standards for permanent forest plots in a global network. Forest Ecology
and Management, 316: 21-31. pdf
http://conditdatacenter.org/pdfs/ConditEtAl_FORECO2014.pdf Cushman, K.,
Muller-Landau, H. C., Condit, R. S., and Hubbell, S. P. 2014. Improving
estimates of biomass change in buttressed trees using tree taper models.
Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 5:573–582. pdf
http://conditdatacenter.org/pdfs/CushmanConditEtAl_2014_MEE.pdf Condit,
R., Pérez, R., Aguilar, S., Lao, S., and Hubbell, S. P. 2017. Demographic
trends and climate over 35 years in the Barro Colorado 50 ha plot. Forest
Ecosystems 4:1–13. pdf
http://conditdatacenter.org/pdfs/Condit_et_al-2017-Forest_Ecosystems.pdf
Condit R., Perez, R., Aguilar, S., Lao, S., Foster, R., Hubbell, S.P.
2019. BCI 50-ha plot taxonomy, 2019 version. DataONE Dash, Dataset,
https://doi.org/10.15146/R3FH61.