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    Barro Colorado Island is located in the man-made Gatun Lake in the middle of the Panama Canal. The island was formed when the waters of the Chagres River...
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    STRI grew out of a small field station established in 1923 on Barro Colorado Island in the Panama Canal Zone to become one of the world's leading tropical...
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  • on Barro Colorado Island. He is a US citizen, but has resided at the Smithsonian in Panama for nearly 50 years. Along with studies on Barro Colorado Island...
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    getting isolated by water (e.g., Barro Colorado Island). There are several reasons for the construction of these islands, which include residential, industrial...
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  • Panama Barro Colorado Island, Panama, an island in the Panama Canal Barro, Ceará, Brazil, a municipality Barro Alto, Bahia, Brazil, a municipality Barro Alto...
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    recorded in the tropics. In 2014, the ocelot population density in Barro Colorado Island was estimated to be 1.59–1.74/km2 (4.1–4.5/sq mi), greater than...
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    is not restricted to only dominant individuals. In one study at Barro Colorado Island, all males in the group were observed mating at least once over...
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  • Founding Director of the Canal Zone Biological Area (CZBA), located on Barro Colorado Island, Panama. He served as Resident Manager from 1923 to 1956. He died...
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  • 1924 in the fungus gardens of the attine Sericomyrmex amabilis of Barro Colorado Island. Workers are 3 to 3.5 mm long, with small, feebly convex eyes, that...
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    Gatun Lake covers about 470 km2 (180 sq mi). The largest island in the lake is Barro Colorado Island, which was established for scientific study when the...
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  • on Barro Colorado Island, Panama". Ecological Monographs. 44 (2): 153–169. doi:10.2307/1942309. JSTOR 1942309. Itescu, Yuval (July 2019). "Are island-like...
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    will not occur for the next three to five years. When studied on Barro Colorado Island in Panama, they were observed to flower in 1970, 1974, 1978, 1983...
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    tarantula that is native to Panama. To date, only specimens from Barro Colorado Island have been studied. Like other tarantulas, it is relatively large...
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    "The impact of lianas on 10 years of tree growth and mortality on Barro Colorado Island, Panama". Journal of Ecology. 98 (4): 879–887. Bibcode:2010JEcol...
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    and South America, in that environment sloths are successful. On Barro Colorado Island in Panama, sloths have been estimated to constitute 70% of the biomass...
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    Americas Atlantic forests of Brazil Central and eastern Panama: with Barro Colorado Island especially well studied In Africa Coastal West Africa: Guinean seasonal...
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    reintroduced captive-bred subadult harpy eagles (Harpia harpiya) on Barro Colorado Island, Panama" (PDF). Ornitologia Neotropical. 13. Archived from the original...
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    back to the nest by foragers. Two studies in Costa Rica and on Barro Colorado Island (BCI) found about four bullet ant nests per hectare of forest. On...
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  • by William Trowbridge Merrifield Forbes in 1939. It is found on Barro Colorado Island in the middle of the Panama Canal. Note: The Global Lepidoptera...
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    show some degree of territorial defense. Population densities on Barro Colorado Island in Panama range between 3.6 and 5.7 monkeys per square kilometer...
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    travel on the ground to move to a new tree. A study of sloths on Barro Colorado Island indicated that the Hoffmann's two-toed sloths there were almost...
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    They eat a number of kinds of fruit but focus mostly on figs; at Barro Colorado Island, Panama, figs make up more than 78% of the fruits eaten. Bats will...
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    (PDF). Retrieved 2021-09-21. Croat, Thomas B. (1978). Flora of Barro Colorado Island. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press. p. 589. Croat, Flora loc...
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    their sensitive noses to the ground, in forest leaf litter. On Barro Colorado Island, Panama, where they have been studied in greatest detail, they supplement...
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    moved to its current location Year Barro Colorado Island was declared a biological reserve Year Barro Colorado Island became affiliated with the Smithsonian...
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    Tropical Research Institute. Tropical Forest Ecology: A View from Barro Colorado Island. Oxford University Press. 1999. pg. 17-18. Storr, K. A. Robbing...
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    of America 64:184. Rau,Phil, 1933. The Jungle Bees and Wasps of Barro Colorado Island: with notes on other insects, Chapter VIII: The Behavior of the...
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    wingspan of all odonates. Size varies geographically; Megaloprepus on Barro Colorado Island in Panama are smaller than those at La Selva Biological Station...
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    plant species can be observed undisturbed in their natural habitat. Barro Colorado Island, which was reserved for scientific study when the lake was formed...
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    Agriculture. Retrieved 21 January 2018. Thomas B. Croat, Flora of Barro Colorado Island, p. 393 Bernard, C. (1856). "Analyse physiologique des propriétés...
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