Four neotropical rainforests - Gentry, Alwyn H.; Guzman-Teare, Myra; Karr, James R.; Duellman, William Edward, 1930- (New Haven : Yale University Press, 1990)
Part I The Sites. La Selva Biological Station: A Blueprint for Stimulating Tropical Research / David B. Clark. Barro Colorado Island and Tropical Biology / Egbert Giles Leigh, JR., and S. Joseph Wright. An Overview of Research at Cocha Cashu Biological Station / John Terborgh. Central Amazonian Forests and the Minimum Critical Size of Ecosystems Project / Thomas E. Lovejoy and Richard O. Bierregaard, Jr. PART II Floristics. The Distribution of Diversity among Families, Genera, and Habit Types in the La Selva Flora / Barry Hammel. The Floristic Composition of the Barro Colorado Island Forest / Robin B. Foster and Stephen P. Hubbell. The Floristic Composition of the Rio Manu Floodplain Forest / Robin B. Foster. The Floristic Composition of the Forests of Central Amazonian Brazil / Ghillean T. Prance. Floristic Similarities and Differences between Southern Central America and Upper and Central Amazonia / Alwyn H. Gentry. PART III Birds. Birds of La Selva Biological Station: Habitat Use, Trophic Composition, and Migrants / John G. Blake, F. Gary Stiles, and Bette A. Loiselle.. The Avifauna of Barro Colorado Island and the Pipeline Road, Panama / James R. Karr. Bird Communities of the Cocha Cashu Biological Station in Amazonian Peru / Scott K. Robinson and John Terborgh. Species Composition and Trophic Organization of the Understory Bird Community in a Central Amazonian Terra Firme Forest / Richard O. Bierregaard, Jr. Birds of Four Neotropical Forests / James R. Karr, Scott Robinson. John G. Blake, and Richard O. Bierregaard, Jr. PART IV Mammals. Mammals of La Selva, Costa Rica / Don E. Wilson. / Don E. Wilson. Neotropical Mammal Densities: How Unusual Is the Community on Barro Colorado Island, Panama? / William E. Glanz. Ecological Structure of the Nonflying Mammal Community at Cocha Cashu Biological Station, Manu National Park, Peru / Charles H. Janson PART V Reptiles and Amphibians. The Herpetofauna of La Selva, Costa Rica / Craig Guyer. The Herpetofauna of Barro Colorado Island, Panama: An Ecological Summary / A. Stanley Rand and Charles W. Myers. A Preliminary Overview of the Herpetofauna of Cocha Cashu, Manu National Park, Peru / Lily B. Rodríguez and John E. Frogs, Snakes, and Lizards of the INPA-WWF Reserves near Manaus, Brazil / Barbara L. Zimmerman and Miguel T. Rodrígues. Herpetofaunas in Neotropical Rainforests: Comparative Composition, History, and Resource Use / William E. Duellman PART VI Forest Dynamics. Forest Dynamics at La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica, 1969-1985 / Diana Lieberman, Gary S. Hartshorn, Milton Lieberman, and Rodolfo Peralta. Structure, Dynamics, and Equilibrium Status of Old-Growth Forest on Barro Colorado Island / Stephen P. Hubbell and Robin B. Foster. Composition and Dynamics of the Cocha Cashu "Mature" Floodplain Forest / Alwyn H. Gentry and John Terborgh. Long-Term Change in the Successional Forest Community of the Rio Manu Floodplain / Robin B. Foster. Tree Mortality and Recruitment over a Five-Year Period in Undisturbed Upland Rainforest of the Central Amazon / Judy M. Rankin-De-Merona, Roger W .Hutchings H., and Thomas E. Lovejoy. An Overview of Neotropical Forest Dynamics / Gary S. Hartshorn.
"Proceedings of a symposium, organized as part of the Association for Tropical Biology program at the 1987 meeting of the American Institute of Biological Sciences ... co-sponsored by the Organization for Tropical Studies [and held] at Ohio State University in Columbus on 10-12 August 1987"--Contraportada.
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Keywords: ECOLOGIA DE SELVA LLUVIOSA -- CONGRESOS, CONFERENCIAS, ETC; ANIMALES DE SELVA LLUVIOSA -- CONGRESOS, CONFERENCIAS, ETC; PLANTAS DE SELVA LLUVIOSA -- CONGRESOS, CONFERENCIAS, ETC; BOSQUES TROPICALES -- CONGRESOS, CONFERENCIAS, ETC; FAUNA FORESTAL -- CONGRESOS, CONFERENCIAS, ETC; ECOLOGIA FORESTAL -- CONGRESOS, CONFERENCIAS, ETC