TY - JOUR T1 - Tapping The Wealth In Jungle Treetops JF - Arboriculture & Urban Forestry (AUF) JO - JOA SP - 75 LP - 77 DO - 10.48044/jauf.1986.017 VL - 12 IS - 3 AU - Donald R. Perry Y1 - 1986/03/01 UR - http://auf.isa-arbor.com/content/12/3/75.abstract N2 - A third generation system of access to the tops of jungle trees is scheduled for construction in early 1986 within a pre-montane wet forest of Costa Rica’s Caribbean slope. Known as the Automated Web for Canopy Exploration, the system will be a radio controlled “chair lift” suspended above a shallow valley by a sophisticated network of stainless steel cables. A researcher will be able to travel throughout ten acres of forest—from ground level to above the treetops. vival on the planet. They contain an unexplored universe of biochemicals. Researching these aerial reserves would prove useful to such fields as medicine, pharmacology, agriculture, and pest control. ER -