A generously illustrated overview of the nature and ecology of Barro Colorado Island, home to the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. With chapters on plants, herbivorory and predatation, animals and the ecology of tropical forests. The book concludes with a chapter on conservation. With hundreds of color photographs. Barro Colorado, created with the Panama Canal, may be the most intensively studied piece of tropical forest on Earth. Leigh, a biologist at STRI, is also the author of Tropical Forest Ecology,  (CAM100, $40.00)