Research Catalog

Title

Tropical rainforests : past, present & future / edited by Eldredge Bermingham, Christopher W. Dick, and Craig Moritz.

Publication

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2005.

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Additional Authors

• Bermingham, Eldredge.
• Dick, Christopher W.
• Moritz, Craig.

Description

vii, 745 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color); 24 cm

Subjects

• Rain forest ecology > Congresses
• Rain forests > Congresses
• Rain forest conservation > Congresses

Note

• Edited and updated papers from a symposium held in Cairns, Australia, April 1998.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [611]-713) and index.

Contents

1. From the past to the future : evolution, ecology, and conservation of tropical rainforests / Craig Moritz, Christopher W. Dick and Eldredge Bermingham -- 2. Overview : the history and ecology of tropical rainforest communities / Eldredge Bermingham and Christopher W. Dick -- 3. Phylogenetic perspectives on patterns of regional and local species richness / Robert E. Ricklefs -- 4. Large-scale diversity and species-area relationships in tropical tree communities under the neutral theory / Stephen P. Hubbell -- 5. Palynological richness and the tropical rainforest / John R. Flenley -- 6. The Pleistocene vector of neotropical diversity / Paul Colinvaux -- 7. The history of Amazonian mammals : mechanisms and timing of diversification / James L. Patton and Maria Nazareth F. da Silva -- 8. Biogeography and diversification of African forest faunas : implications for conservation / Jon Fjeldsa, Michelle K. Bayes, Michael W. Bruford and Michael S. Roy -- 9. Evaluating the divergence-with-gene-flow model in natural populations : the importance of ecotones in rainforest speciation / Thomas B. Smith, Robert K. Wayne, Derek Girman and Michael W. Bruford -- 10. Geologic, evolutionary, and ecological bases of the diversification of neotropical butterflies : implications for conservation / Keith S. Brown, Jr. -- 11. Dynamic landscape models for tropical rainforests / Brendan Mackey and Wengui Su -- 12. Understanding and conserving tropical diversity : perspectives from Barro Colorado Island / Egbert Giles Leigh, Jr. and Ira Rubinoff -- 13. Landscape heterogeneity and species diversity in amazonia / Kalle Ruokolainen, Hanna Tuomisto and Risto Kalliola -- 14. Spatial changes in tree composition of high-diversity forests : how much is predictable? / Richard Condit, Salomon Aguilar, Andres Hernandez, Rolando Perez, Suzanne Lao and Christopher R. Pyke -- 15. The El Nino southern oscillation influences tree performance in tropical rainforests / S. Joseph Wright -- 16. Overview : rainforest history and dynamics in the Australian wet tropics / Craig Moritz -- 17. The origin and evolution of Australia's eastern highlands / Jonathan Nott -- 18. The origins and tertiary history of Australian "tropical" rainforests / David R. Greenwood and David C. Christophel -- 19. Patterns and causes of vegetation change in the Australian wet tropics region over the last 10 million years / A. Peter Kershaw, Patrick T. Moss and Russell Wild -- 20. Effects of quaternary climate change on rainforest diversity : insights from spatial analyses of species and genes in Australia's wet tropics / Christopher J. Schneider and Stephen E. Williams -- 21. Mosaic macroevolution in Australian wet tropics arthropods : community assemblage by taxon pulses / Patrice Bouchard, Daniel R. Brooks and David K. Yeates -- 22. Biodiversity of the freshwater invertebrates of the wet tropics region of Northeastern Australia : patterns and possible determinants / Richard G. Pearson -- 23. Dynamics of seedling recruitment in an Australian tropical rainforest / Joseph H. Connell, Igor Debski, Catherine A. Gehring, Lloyd P. Goldwasser, Peter T. Green, Kyle E. Harms, Peter Juniper and Tad C. Theimer -- 24. The theory and practice of planning for long-term conservation of biodiversity in the wet tropics rainforests of Australia / Nigel E. Stork -- 25. Overview : processes, people, and prospects for tropical rainforests / Craig Moritz, Christopher W. Dick and Eldredge Bermingham -- 26. Evolutionary approaches to the conservation of tropical rainforest vertebrates / Craig Moritz and Keith R. McDonald -- 27. Parks, people, and policies : conflicting agendas for forests in Southeast Asia / Kathy MacKinnon -- 28. The future of the Amazon / William F. Laurance, Scott Bergen, Mark A. Cochrane, Philip M. Fearnside, Patricia Delamonica, Sammya Agra D'Angelo, Christopher Barber and Tito Fernandes.

ISBN

• 0226044661 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0226044688 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2004019348

OCLC

• 56324196
• ocm56324196
• SCSB-5212384

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries