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This Island Has Been A Science Experiment for 100 Years
The Brief
- Scientists on Panama's Barro Colorado Island are investigating why giant tropical trees are dying.
- The description links the answer to lightning and to a remarkable tree species.
- It frames the forest as one of the world's most important and describes a hidden battle for survival within it.
Why watch · It follows a long-running field research question about how a major tropical forest is changing.
- Barro Colorado Island
- tropical trees
- lightning
- forest ecology
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