Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xv, 564 pages)
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digital, PDF file(s)
ISBN:
9780511541971
Series Statement:
Ecological reviews
Content:
Tropical ecosystems house a significant proportion of global biodiversity. To understand how these ecosystems function we need to appreciate not only what plants, animals and microbes they contain, but also how they interact with each other. This volume, first published in 2005, synthesises the state of knowledge in this area, with chapters providing reviews or case studies drawn from research conducted in both Old and New World tropics and including biotic interactions among taxa at all trophic levels. In most chapters plants (typically trees) are the starting point, but, taken together, the chapters consider interactions of plants with other plants, with micro-organisms and with animals, and the inter-relationships of human-induced disturbance with interactions among species. An underlying theme of the volume is the attempt to understand the maintenance of high diversity in tropical regions, which remains one of the most significant unexplained observations in ecological studies
Content:
Plant-plant interactions in tropical forests / John J. Ewel and Ankila J. Hiremath -- Resource capture and use by tropical forest tree seedlings and their consequences for competition / Lourens Poorter -- Role of life-history trade-offs in the equalization and differentiation of tropical tree species / James W. Dalling and David F.R.P. Burslem -- Neighbourhood effects on sapling growth and survival in a neotropical forest and the ecological-equivalence hypothesis / Maria Uriarte, Stephen P. Hubbell, Robert John, Richard Condit and Charles D. Canham -- Ecological drift in niche-structured communities: neutral pattern does not imply neutral process / Drew W. Purves and Stephen W. Pacala -- Dimensions of plant disease in tropical forests / Gregory S. Gilbert -- Mycorrhizas and ecosystem processes in tropical rain forest: implications for diversity / Ian J. Alexander and S.S. Lee -- An overview of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal composition, distribution and host effects from a tropical moist forest / Edward Allen Herre, Damond Kyllo, Scott Mangan, Rebecca Husband, Luis C. Mejia and Ahn-Heum Eom -- Tropical plants as chimera: some implications of foliar endophytic fungi for the study of host-plant defence, physiology and genetics / Edward Allen Herre, Sunshine A. Van Bael, Zuleyka Maynard, Nancy Robbins, Joseph Bischoff, Anne E. Arnold, Enith Rojas, Louis C. Mejia, Roberto A. Cordero, Catherine Woodward and Damond A. Kyllo -- Implications of plant spatial distribution for pollination and seed production / Jaboury Ghazoul -- Seed dispersal of woody plants in tropical forests: concepts, examples and future directions / Helene C. Muller-Landau and Britta Denise Hardesty -- The role of trophic interactions in community initiation, maintenance and degradation / José Manuel Vieira Fragoso -- Impacts of herbivores on tropical plant diversity / Robert J. Marquis -- Have the impacts of insect herbivores on the growth of tropical tree seedlings been underestimated? / Fergus P. Massey, Malcolm C. Press and Sue E. Hartley -- Multi-trophic interactions and biodiversity: beetles, ants, caterpillars and plants / Deborah K. Letourneau and Lee A. Dyer -- The trophic structure of tropical ant-plant-herbivore interactions: community consequences and coevolutionary dynamics / Doyle McKey, Laurence Gaume, Carine Brouat, Bruno di Giusto, Laurence Pascal, Gabriel Debout, Ambroise Dalecky and Martin Heil -- Multitrophic interactions in a neotropical savanna: ant-hemipteran systems, associated insect herbivores and a host plant / Paulo S. Oliveira and Kleber Del-Claro -- The alteration of biotic interactions in fragmented tropical forests / William F. Laurance -- Effects of natural enemies on tropical woody-plant invasions / Saara J. DeWalt -- New mix of alien and native species coexists in Puerto Rico's landscapes / Ariel E. Lugo and Thomas J. Brandeis -- The dynamics of a tropical dry forest in India: climate, fire, elephants and the evolution of life-history strategies / R. Sukumar, H.S. Suresh, H.S. Dattaraja, S. Srinidhi and C. Nath -- Changes in plant communities associated with timber management in natural forests in the moist tropics / Michelle A. Pinard
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521847070
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521609852
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9780521847070
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511541971
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