Research Catalog
Monteverde : ecology and conservation of a tropical cloud forest
- Title
- Monteverde : ecology and conservation of a tropical cloud forest / edited by Nalini M. Nadkarni, Nathaniel T. Wheelwright.
- Publication
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
Items in the Library & Off-site
Filter by
1 Item
Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
---|---|---|---|---|
Text | Request in advance | QH108.C6 M65 2000 | Off-site |
Holdings
Details
- Additional Authors
- Description
- xxiii, 573 pages : illustrations, maps; 29 cm
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Foreword / Gary S. Hartshorn -- Foreword / Luis Diego Gomez P. -- A Manera de Introduccion / Luis Diego Gomez P. -- 1. Introduction / Nalini M. Nadkarni and Nathaniel T. Wheelwright -- 2. The Physical Environment / Kenneth L. Clarke, Robert O. Lawton and Paul R. Butler -- 3. Plants and Vegetation / William A. Haber -- 4. Insects and Spiders / Paul Hanson -- 5. Amphibians and Reptiles / J. Alan Pounds -- 6. Birds / Bruce E. Young and David B. McDonald -- 7. Mammals / Robert M. Timm and Richard K. LaVal -- 8. Plant-Animal Interactions / K. Greg Murray, Sharon Kinsman and Judith L. Bronstein -- 9. Ecosystem Ecology and Forest Dynamics / Nalini M. Nadkarni, Robert O. Lawton and Kenneth L. Clark / [et al.] -- 10. Conservation in the Monteverde Zone: Contributions of Conservation Organizations / Leslie J. Burlingame -- 11. Agriculture in Monteverde: Moving Toward Sustainability / Katherine Griffith, Daniel Peck and Joseph Stuckey --
- 12. Conservation Biology / Nathaniel T. Wheelwright -- App. 1. Vascular Plants of Monteverde / William A. Haber -- App. 2. Number of Species with Different Plant Growth Forms / William A. Haber -- App. 3. Orchids of Monteverde / John T. Atwood -- App. 4. Bromeliads of Monteverde / Harry E. Luther -- App. 5. Host Plants of Selected Cercopoidea from Monteverde / Daniel C. Peck -- App. 6. Preliminary List of Psylloidea Known from Costa Rican Cloud Forests (1200-2000 m) / David Hollis -- App. 7. Eusocial Wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae Polistinae and Sphecidae) Collected from Monteverde / Sean O'Donnell -- App. 8. Amphibians and Reptiles of Monteverde / J. Alan Pounds and M. P. Fogden -- App. 9. Birds of the Monteverde Area / M. P. Fogden -- App. 10. Mammals of Monteverde / Robert M. Timm and Richard K. LaVal.
- ISBN
- 019509560X (alk. paper)
- 0195133102 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 98026919
- OCLC
- ocm39290761
- SCSB-3863124
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries