Research Catalog

Title

Tropical forest diversity and dynamism : findings from a large-scale plot network / edited by Elizabeth C. Losos and Egbert G. Leigh, Jr.

Publication

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2004], ©2004.

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Additional Authors

• Losos, Elizabeth Claire.
• Leigh, Egbert Giles.

Description

xiii, 645 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Subjects

• Forest ecology > Tropics
• Biodiversity > Tropics
• Forest dynamics > Tropics

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Pt. 1. Introduction -- 1. The growth of a tree plot network / Elizabeth C. Losos and Egbert G. Leigh, Jr. -- 2. Two decades of research on the BCI forest dynamics plot where we have been and where we are going / Stephen P. Hubbell -- Pt. 2. The whole is greater than the sum of the plots -- Introduction / Elizabeth C. Losos -- 3. The dance of the continents / Egbert G. Leigh, Jr. -- 4. How wet are the wet tropics? / Egbert G. Leigh, Jr. -- 5. Soils in the tropics / Peter S. Ashton -- 6. The structure of tropical forests / Elizabeth C. Losos / CTFS Working Group -- 7. Species-area relationships and diversity measures in the forest dynamics plots / Richard Condit, Egbert G. Leigh, Jr. and Suzanne Loo de Lao / CTFS Working Group -- 8. Floristics and vegetation of the forest dynamics plots / Peter S. Ashton / CTFS Working Group -- Pt. 3. Habitat specialization and species rarity in forest dynamics plots -- Introduction / Elizabeth C. Losos -- 9. Tree species diversity and distribution in a forest plot at Yasuni National Park, Amazonian Ecuador / Renato Valencia, Richard Condit, Katya Romoleroux, Robin B. Foster, Gorky Villa Munoz, Elizabeth C. Losos, Henrik Balslev, Jens-Christian Svenning and Else Magard -- 10. Community ecology in an everwet forest in Sri Lanka / C. V. S. Gunatilleke, I. A. U. N. Gunatilleke, A. U. K. Ethugala, N. S. Weerasekara, Shameema Esufali, Peter S. Ashton, P. Mark S. Ashton and D. S. A. Wijesundara -- 11. Structure, history, and rarity in a seasonal evergreen forest in Western Thailand / Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin, Patrick J. Baker, James V. LaFrankie and Peter S. Ashton -- 12. Stand structure and species diversity in the Ituri forest dynamics plots : a comparison of monodominant and mixed forest stands / Jean-Remy Makana, Terese B. Hart, David E. Hibbs and Richard Condit -- Pt. 4. Local variation in canopy disturbance and soil structure -- Introduction / Richard Condit -- 13. Disturbance and canopy structure in two tropical forests / Nicholas Brokaw, Shawn Fraver, Jason S. Grear, Jill Thompson, Jess K. Zimmerman, Robert B. Waide, Edwin M. Everham III, Stephen P. Hubbell and Robin B. Foster -- 14. Linking canopy gaps, topographic position, and edaphic variation in a tropical rainforest : implications for species diversity / Peter A. Palmiotto, Kristina A. Vogt, P. Mark S. Ashton, Peter S. Ashton, Daniel J. Vogt, James V. LaFrankie, Hardy Semui and Hua Seng Lee -- 15. Local variation of canopy structure in relation to soils and topography and the implications for species diversity in a rainforest of peninsular Malaysia / Toshinori Okuda, Naoki Adachi, Mariko Suzuki, Nor Azman Hussein, N. Manokaran, Leng Guan Saw, Amir Husni Mohd Shariff and Peter S. Ashton -- Pt. 5. The diversity of tropical trees : background -- Introduction / Egbert G. Leigh, Jr. -- 16. The neutral theory of forest ecology / Egbert G. Leigh, Jr., Richard Condit and Suzanne Loo de Lao -- 17. Using forest dynamics plots for studies of tree breeding structure : examples from Barro Colorado Island / Elizabeth A. Stacy and James L. Hamrick -- 18. Ecological correlates of tree species persistence in tropical forest fragments / Sean C. Thomas -- Pt. 6. The diversity of tropical trees : the role of pest pressure -- Introduction / Egbert G. Leigh, Jr. -- 19. An approach for assessing species-specific density-dependence and habitat effects in recruitment of a tropical rainforest tree / Akira Itoh, Naoki Rokujo, Mamoru Kanzaki, Takuo Yamakura, James V. LaFrankie, Peter S. Ashton and Hua Seng Lee -- 20. Seed dispersal and density-dependent seed and seedling survival in Trichilia tuberculata and Miconia argentea / Helene C. Muller-Landau, James W. Dalling, Kyle E. Harms, S. Joseph Wright, Richard Condit, Stephen P. Hubbell and Robin B. Foster -- 21. Distance- and density-related effects in a tropical dry deciduous forest tree community at Mudumalai, Southern India / Robert John and Raman Sukumar -- 22. Comparable nonrandom forces act to maintain diversity in both a new world and an old world rainforest plot / Christopher Wills, Richard Condit, Stephen P. Hubbell, Robin B. Foster and N. Manokaran -- 23. Long-term tree survival in a neotropical forest : the influence of local biotic neighborhood / Jorge A. Ahumada, Stephen P. Hubbell, Richard Condit and Robin B. Foster -- Pt. 7. Forest dynamics plots -- Introduction / Elizabeth C. Losos and Suzanne Loo de Lao -- 24. Barro Colorado Island forest dynamics plot, Panama / Egbert G. Leigh, Jr., Suzanne Loo de Lao, Richard Condit, Stephen P. Hubbell, Robin B. Foster and Rolando Perez -- 25. Bukit Timah forest dynamics plot, Singapore / Shawn K. Y. Lum, Sing Kong Lee and James V. LaFrankie -- 26. Doi Inthanon forest dynamics plot, Thailand / Mamoru Kanzaki, Masatoshi Hara, Takuo Yamakura, Tatsuhiro Ohkubo, Minoru N. Tamura, Kriangsak Sri-ngernyuang, Pongsak Sahunalu, Sakhan Teejuntuk and Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin -- 27. Huai Kha Khaeng forest dynamics plot, Thailand / Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin, Patrick J. Baker, James V. LaFrankie and Peter S. Ashton -- 28. Ituri forest dynamics plots, Democratic Republic of Congo / Jean-Remy Makana, Terese B. Hart, Innocent Liengola, Corneille Ewango, John A. Hart and Richard Condit -- 29. Korup forest dynamics plot, Cameroon / George B. Chuyong, Richard Condit, David Kenfack, Elizabeth C. Losos, Sainge Nsanyi Moses, Nicholas C. Songwe and Duncan W. Thomas -- 30. La Planada forest dynamics plot, Colombia / Martha Isabel Vallejo, Cristian Samper, Humberto Mendoza and Joel Tupac Otero -- 31. Lambir forest dynamics plot, Sarawak, Malaysia / Hua Seng Lee, Sylvester Tan, Stuart J. Davies, James V. LaFrankie, Peter S. Ashton, Takuo Yamakura, Akira Itoh, Tatsuhiro Ohkubo and Rhett Harrison -- 32. Cuquillo forest dynamics plot, Puerto Rico, United States / Jill Thompson, Nicholas Brokaw, Jess K. Zimmerman, Robert B. Waide, Edwin M. Everham III and Douglas A. Schaefer -- 33. Mudumalai forest dynamics plot, India / Raman Sukumar, Hebbalalu Sathyanarayana Suresh, Handanakere Shivaramiah Dattaraja, Robert John and Niranjan V. Joshi -- 34. Nanjenshan forest dynamics plot, Taiwan / I-Fang Sun and Chang-Fu Hsieh -- 35. Palanan forest dynamics plot, Philippines / Leonardo L. Co, Daniel A. Lagunzad, James V. LaFrankie, Nestor A. Bartolome, Jeanmaire E. Molina, Sandar L. Yap, Hubert G. Garcia, John P. Bautista, Edmundo C. Gumpal, Robert R. Arano and Stuart J. Davies -- 36. Pasoh forest dynamics plot, Peninsular Malaysia / N. Manokaran, Quah Eng Seng, Peter S. Ashton, James V. LaFrankie, Nur Supardi Mohd. Noor, Wan Mohd Shukri Wan Ahmad and Toshinori Okuda -- 37. Sinharaja forest dynamics plot, Sri Lanka / C. V. S. Gunatilleke, I. A. U. N. Gunatilleke, Peter S. Ashton, A. U. K. Ethugala, N. S. Weerasekera and Shameema Esufali -- 38. Yasuni forest dynamics plot, Ecuador / Renato Valencia, Richard Condit, Robin B. Foster, Katya Romoleroux, Gorky Villa Munoz, Jens-Christian Svenning, Else Magard, Margot Bass, Elizabeth C. Losos and Henrik Balslev.

ISBN

• 0226493458 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0226493466 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2004006904

OCLC

• ocm54817581
• SCSB-5093555

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries