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Four neotropical rainforests
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
©1990.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I. The sites
- 1. La Selva Biological Station: a blueprint for stimulating tropical research / David B. Clark
- 2. Barro Colorado Island and tropical biology / Egbert Giles Leigh, Jr., and S. Joseph Wright
- 3. An overview of research at Cocha Cashu Biological Station / John Terborgh
- 4. Central Amazonian forests and the minimum critical size of ecosystems project / Thomas E. Lovejoy and Richard O. Bierregaard, Jr.
- Part II. Floristics
- 5. The distribution and diversity among families, genera, and habit types in the La Selva flora / Barry Hammel
- 6. The floristic composition of the Barro Colorado Island forest / Robin B. Foster and Stephen P. Hubbell
- 7. The floristic composition of the Rio Manu floodplain forest / Robin B. Foster
- 8. The floristic composition of the forests of central Amazonian Brazil / Ghillean T. Prance
- 9. Floristic similarities and differences between southern Central American and upper and central Amazonia / Alwyn H. Gentry
- Part III. Birds
- 10. Birds of La Selva Biological Station: habitat use, trophic composition, and migrants / John G. Blake, F. Gary Stiles, and Bette A. Loiselle
- 11. The avifauna of Barro Colorado Island and the Pipeline Road, Panama / James R. Karr
- 12. Bird communities of the Cocha Cashu Biological Station in Amazonian Peru / Scott K. Robinson and John Terborgh
- 13. Species composition and trophic organization of the understory bird community in a central Amazonian terra firme forest / Richard O. Bierrebaard, Jr.
- 14. Birds of four neotropical forests / James R. Karr, Scott Robinson, John G. Blake, and Richard O. Bierregaard, Jr.
- Part IV. Mammals
- 15. Mammals of La Selva, Costa Rica / Don E. Wilson
- 16. Neotropical mammal densities: how unusual is the community on Barro Colorado Island, Panama? / William E. Glanz
- 17. Ecological structure of the nonflying mammal community at Cocha Cashu Biological Station, Manu National Park, Peru / Charles H. Janson and Louise H. Emmons
- 18. Estimation of mammalian densities in continuous forest north of Manaus / Jay R. Malcolm
- 19. Neotropical mammal communities / John F. Eisenberg
- Part V. Reptiles and amphibians
- 20. The herpetofauna of La Selva, Costa Rica / Craig Guyer
- 21. The herpetofauna of Barro Colorado Island, Panama: an ecological summary / A. Stanley Rand and Charles W. Myers
- 22. A preliminary overview of the herpetofauna of Cocha Cashu, Manu National Park, Peru / Lily B. Rodriguez and John E. Cadle
- 23. Frogs, snakes, and lizards of the INPA-WWF reserves near Manaus, Brazil / Barbara L. Zimmerman and Miguel T. Rodrigues
- 24. Herpetofauna in neotropical rainforests: comparative composition, history, and resource use / William E. Duellman
- Part VI. Forest dynamics
- 25. Forest dynamics at La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica, 1969-1985 / Diana Lieberman, Gary S. Hartshorn, Milton Lieberman, and Rodolfo Peralta
- 26. Structure, dynamics, and equilibrium status of old-growth forest on Barro Colorado Island / Stephen P. Hubbell and Robin B. Foster
- 27. Composition and dynamics of the Cocha Cashu "mature" floodplain forest / Alwyn H. Gentry and John Terborgh
- 28. Long-term change in the successional forest community of the Rio Manu floodplain / Robin B. Foster
- 29. 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
- 30. An overview of neotropical forest dynamics / Gary S. Hartshorn.