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Semi-detailed soil survey of Barro Colorado Island, Panama I. Baillie*, H. Elsenbeer, F. Barthold2, R. Grimm2, R. Stallard  CONTENTS Summary i Acknowledgements iii Abbreviations and acronyms iv 1 Introduction 1 1.1 Barro Colorado Island 1 1.2 Soil-related ecological research on BCI 1 1.3 Aims of BCI soil survey 2 2 BCI survey area 3 2.1 Location and access 3 2.2 Climate 3 2.3 Geology and soil parent materials 3 2.4 Topography 7 2.5 Drainage and hydrology 8 2.6 Land surface age 8 2.7 Biota 9 3 Previous soil data for BCI 9