BioBlitz Report
We “blitzed” two sites in Panama. At the first site we made a checklist of plants, insects, and birds. At the second we counted trees and shrubs and made a grid map of the plants. I’ll look at the similarities and differences in plants at the two sites and then I’ll present the data that are unique to each site.
I like to start a report like this with a sense of where we are. Here’s a Google Earth snapshot of Panama with the two sites nearly overlapping. If you can barely make this out, click on the image for a larger view.
Once it’s clear that we’re in Panama, the second most important piece of information is that we’re on the side of a mountain, Volcan Baru.
The dark green and brown area in the upper left portion of the image is Volcan Barú. Site 1 (BioBlitz Panama 1) is a wooded area at an elevation of 1128 meters, and Site 2 (BioBlitz Panama 2) is an abandoned pasture, now mowed, at an elevation of 737 meters.
