A High-Resolution Image of the Tropical Rain Forest Canopy on Barro Colorado Island, Panama (IMAGE)

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

A High-Resolution Image of the Tropical Rain Forest Canopy on Barro Colorado Island, Panama

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A high-resolution image of the tropical rain forest canopy on Barro Colorado Island, Panama, from a low-altitude drone shows flowering trees of Handroanthus guayacan in yellow and Jacaranda copaia in blue. Fruit-bearing Cavanillesia plantanifolia have a pink hue.

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Image courtesy of Jonathan Dandois and Helene Muller-Landau (Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama).

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