Nouragues: Dynamics and Plant-Animal Interactions in a Neotropical RainforestF. Bongers Springer Science & Business Media, 2001 M11 30 - 421 páginas Nouragues is a tropical forest research station in French Guiana. It was established in 1986 for research on natural mechanisms of forest regeneration. Since then a lot of research has been done on this and related topics. This book provides an overview of the main research results, and focuses on plant communities, vertebrate communities and evolutionary ecology, frugivory and seed dispersal, and forest dynamics and recruitment. The appendices give (annoted) checklists of plants, birds, mammals, herpetofauna and fishes found in the same area. |
Contenido
The field station | 1 |
Michel Grimaldi and Bernard Riéra | 9 |
Frans Bongers Peter J van der Meer and Marc Théry | 19 |
PLANT COMMUNITIES | 30 |
The low forest Nouragues Inselberg | 47 |
Plant communities on a granitic outcrop | 65 |
Palaeoclimates and their consequences on forest composition | 79 |
VERTEBRATE COMMUNITIES AND EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY | 88 |
Frugivory and seed dispersal by Kinkajous | 217 |
Frugivory and seed dispersal by terrestrial mammals | 227 |
Vegetarian species in the bird community with an emphasis | 233 |
FOREST DYNAMICS AND RECRUITMENT | 242 |
The dispersal and recruitment of Cyclanthaceae and Philodendron | 251 |
Postdispersal seed removal in four frugivoredispersed tree species | 265 |
Scatterhoarding and tree regeneration | 275 |
Effects of tree height and light availability on plant traits at different | 289 |
Comparative positional behaviour of five primates | 103 |
The bat community | 115 |
The marsupial community | 121 |
an overview of species composition and guild | 129 |
Habitat selection ambient light and colour patterns in some lekdisplaying | 161 |
Distribution and life histories of amphibians and reptiles | 167 |
Fishes of the Arataye river and their spacetime organization | 185 |
FRUGIVORY AND SEED DISPERSAL | 190 |
Frugivory and seed dispersal by bats | 207 |
Bernard Riéra Patrick Blanc Denis Larpin and Corinne Sarthou | 301 |
Practical guide to the palms | 343 |
Mammals of the Nouragues and Lower Arataye areas | 351 |
Bird species from Nouragues inselberg to Arataye River | 357 |
Amphibian and reptile species at the Nouragues Nature Reserve | 371 |
Fishes of the Arataye river | 381 |
REFERENCES | 385 |
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Nouragues: Dynamics and Plant-Animal Interactions in a Neotropical Rainforest F. Bongers,P. Charles-Dominique,P.-M. Forget,Marc Théry Sin vista previa disponible - 2010 |
Términos y frases comunes
abundant acouchies Alouatta amphibians animals apella Araceae Arataye river Artibeus Ateles Aubl bats behaviour Bongers Burseraceae caches canopy gaps capuchin characteristics Charles-Dominique Clusia minor Cyclanthaceae defecated density diet distribution Dynamics and plant-animal Ecology Endler Epiphytic Epiphytic herb families feeding flocks floristic foraging French Guiana frugivores fruit germination guianensis Guyane habitats high forest howler monkeys huberi insectivores inselberg Jullien Julliot kinkajous Larpin Lecythidaceae Liana light low forest lucentifolium Medium tree Myristicaceae neotropical neotropical rainforest Nonpasserines Nouragues Nouragues area Nouragues station number of species Passerines patches Petit Saut Philodendron Phyllostomidae Pitcairnia plant species plots Poncy predators primate rainforest rates rock savanna rodents Sabatier Saguinus sampling Sapotaceae Sarthou savanna scatterhoarding seed dispersal seedlings soil species richness surinamensis Table Tall tree Terrestrial herb Théry Thiollay total number transect tree species Treelet tropical forest types understorey unpublished data vegetation vertebrates Virola Vouacapoua americana