Four neotropical rainforests
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| Lenguaje: | English |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
©1990
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.