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  • Chapter 18 - An expanded survey of seed germination for Barro Colorado Island. Supplement 3 - BCI Germination Survey Annotated Examples.
Title: Chapter 18 - An expanded survey of seed germination for Barro Colorado Island. Supplement 3 - BCI Germination Survey Annotated Examples.
Four annotated examples that explain how to interpret records in the full data set for the seed germination survey conducted at Barro Colorado Island, Panama. Supplement 1 describes methods and provides variable definitions. Supplement 1 can be found here: https://doi.org/10.25573/data.22801958.v1The source reference follows: Garwood, N. C. 2024. Chapter 18 - An Expanded Survey of Seed Germination for Barro Colorado Island. 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.  more » « less
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1754668 1754632
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10518835
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Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
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Community ecology (excl. invasive species ecology) Population ecology Terrestrial ecology Plant biology not elsewhere classified
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