Research Catalog

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.

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Additional Authors

• Nadkarni, Nalini.
• Wheelwright, Nathaniel T.

Description

xxiii, 573 pages : illustrations, maps; 29 cm

Subjects

• Cloud forest ecology > Costa Rica > Reserva del Bosque Nuboso de Monteverde
• Cloud forest ecology > Costa Rica > Reserva Biológica Bosque Nuboso Monteverde
• Nature conservation > Costa Rica > Reserva del Bosque Nuboso de Monteverde
• Natural history > Costa Rica > Reserva del Bosque Nuboso de Monteverde
• Nature conservation > Costa Rica > Reserva Biológica Bosque Nuboso Monteverde
• Natural history > Costa Rica > Reserva Biológica Bosque Nuboso Monteverde

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