Foundations of tropical forest biology : classic papers with commentaries
These papers are organized into sections on related topics, each introduced with a discussion of their role in subsequent research. Topics include: perspectives on the origins of tropical diversity, plant-animal interactions, patterns of species diversity, and conservation biology.
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xv, 862 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780226102245, 9780226102252, 0226102246, 0226102254
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A. von Humboldt and A. Bonpland, excerpts from Personal narrative of travels to the equinoctial regions of the new continent, during the years 1799-1804 (1814-21)
H.W. Bates, excerpt from The naturalist on the River Amazons (1864)
T. Belt, excerpt from The naturalist in Nicaragua (1874)
A.R. Wallace, excerpt from Natural selection and tropical nature (1895)
A.F.W. Schimper, excerpt from Plant-geography upon a physiological basis ([1898] 1903)
The Pleistocene changes of vegetation and climate in tropical South America (1974) / T. van der Hammen
Speciation in Amazonian forest birds (1969) / J. Haffer
P.H. Raven and D.I. Axelrod, excerpts from Angiosperm biogeography and past continental movements (1974)
F.G. Stehli and S.D. Webb, A kaleidoscope of plates, faunal and floral dispersals, and sea level changes (1985) ; excerpts from chapter 1 of The great American biotic interchange
Evolution in the tropics (1950) / T. Dobzhansky
Latitudinal variations in organic diversity (1960) / A.G. Fischer
The structure of the tropical rain forest and speciation in the humid tropics (1966) / A.A. Fedorov
Latitudinal gradients in species diversity : a review of concepts (1966) / E.R. Pianka
Why mountain passes are higher in the tropics (1967) / D.H. Janzen
Patterns of communities in the tropics (1969) / R.H. MacArthur
Diversity in tropical rain forests and coral reefs (1978) / J.H. Connell
Herbivores and the number of tree species in tropical forests (1970) / D.H. Janzen
Effects of leaf age and plant life history patterns on herbivory (1980) / P.D. Coley
L. van der Pijl, excerpt from Principles of dispersal in higher plants (1972)
Ecology, flowering phenology, and hummingbird pollination of some Costa Rican Heliconia species (1975) / F.G. Stiles
H.W. Bates, excerpt from Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon Valley. Lepidoptera: Heliconidae (1862)
T. Belt, excerpt from The naturalist in Nicaragua (1874)
On the pollination ecology of Ficus sycomorus in East Africa (1968) / J. Galil and D. Eisikowitch
Biologically active compounds in orchid fragrances (1969) / C.H. Dodson [and others]
Evolutionary aspects of fruit-eating by birds (1971) / D.W. Snow
Patchy distributions of ant species in New Guinea rain forests (1958) / E.O. Wilson
A.J. Haddow, P.S. Corbet and J.D. Gillett, [excerpts from] Entomological studies from a high tower in Mpanga Forest, Uganda (1961)
Tropical forests : their richness in Coleoptera and other arthropod species (1982) / T.L. Erwin
J.L. Harrison, excerpts from The distribution of feeding habits among animals in a tropical rain forest (1962)
Evolution of primate societies (1966) / J.H. Crook and J.S. Gartlan
M.P.L. Fogden, excerpt from The seasonality and population dynamics of equatorial forest birds in Sarawak (1972)
M.L. Crump, excerpts from Reproductive strategies in a tropical anuran community (1974)
Bird species diversity on an Andean elevational gradient (1977) / J. Terborgh
A. Gautier-Hion, excerpts from Food niches and coexistence in sympatric primates in Gabon (1978)
Regeneration patterns in the closed forest of Ivory Coast (1938) / A. Aubréville
P.W. Richards, excerpt from Composition of primary rain forest (2) (1952)
An estimate of the number of species of trees in an Amazonian forest community (1953) / J.M. Pires, T. Dobzhansky and G.A. Black
P.S. Ashton, excerpts from Ecological studies in the mixed dipterocarp forests of Brunei State (1964)
W.J. Eggeling, excerpt from Observations on the ecology of the Budongo rain forest, Uganda (1947)
Rejuvenation as a factor for judging the status of vegetation types : the biological nomad theory (1958) / C.G.G.J. van Steenis
Distribution of tropical American rain forest species in the light of successional processes (1965) / G. Budowski
Regeneration and pattern in the subtropical rain forest (1972) / L.J. Webb, J.G. Tracey and W.T. Williams
T.C. Whitmore, excerpts from Change with time and the role of cyclones in tropical rain forest on Kolombangara, Solomon Islands (1974)
P.H. Nye and D.J. Greenland, excerpt from The soil under shifting cultivation (1960)
On biomass and trophic structure of the central Amazonian rain forest ecosystem (1973) / E.J. Fittkau and H. Klinge
Community architecture and organic matter dynamics in tropical lowland rain forests of Southeast Asia with special reference to Pasoh Forest, West Malaysia (1978) / T. Kira
Tropical rain forest : a nonrenewable resource (1972) / A. Gómez-Pompa, C. Vázquez-Yanes and S. Guevara
Distributional ecology of New Guinea birds (1973) / J.M. Diamond
Populations and local extinctions of birds on Barro Colorado Island, Panama (1974) / E.O. Willis
Effects of selective logging on the behavioral ecology of West Malaysian primates (1986) / A.D. Johns
Are we on the verge of a mass extinction in tropical rain forests? (1986) / D. Simberloff
Problems of shifting cultivation and economic development in northern Thailand (1978) / P. Kunstadter and E.C. Chapman
Daemonorhops (1935) / I.H. Burkill
Development of a silvicultural system for the conversion of natural inland lowland evergreen rain forest of Malaya (1959) / J. Wyatt-Smith
A second look at the economics of natural management systems in tropical mixed forests (1987) / A.J. Leslie
Forest industries for socio-economic development (1979) / J.C. Westoby
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