Research Catalog

Title

Tropical rain-forest : the Leeds Symposium / edited by A.C. Chadwick and S.L. Sutton.

Publication

Leeds, U.K. : Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, 1984.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Chadwick, A. C.
• Sutton, Stephen L., 1938-
• British Ecological Society.
• Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society.
• Leeds Symposium on Tropical Rain Forest Ecology and Resource Management (1982 : University of Leeds)

Description

xvi, 335 pages : illustrations; 26 cm.

Series Statement

Special publication of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society

Uniform Title

Special publication of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society

Subject

• Rain forest ecology > Congresses
• Rain forests > Management > Congresses
• Rain forest ecology
• Rain forests > Management
• Kongress
• Tropischer Regenwald
• Kongreß

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Leeds (1982)

Note

• Companion volume to: Tropical rain forest, ecology and management.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and indexes.

Contents

• Application of system analysis and modelling as tools in tropical forest ecosystems research / E.F Brunig (12 p.). -- Strata in tropical rain-forest at Taī (Ivory Coast) / Daniel Y Alexandre (10 p.). -- Forest vegetation of Silent Valley, India / J.S Singh (28 p.). -- Present status of the mangrove forest ecosystem of Segara Anakan, Cilcap, Java / Sukristijono Sukaradjo (18 p.). -- Importance of streams in tropical rain-forest systems / David Dudgeon (12 p.). -- Tropical forest litterfall : II. The data set / John Proctor (34 p.). -- Ecophysiology and habitat preference in Trinidadian epiphytic bromeliads / H Griffiths (6 p.).
• Vertical distribution of arthropods on trees in black water inundation forests (Central Amazonia, Brazil) / Joachim Adis (6 p.). -- Termitarium cohabitation in Amazonia / Alan E Mill (10 p.). -- Seed bettles (Bruchidae) of Parkia (Leguminosae : Mimosoideae) in Brazil : strategies of attack / M.J.G Hopkins (8 p.). -- Nest tree selectivity and density of stingless bee colonies in a Panamanian forest / Leslie K Johnson (8 p.). -- Exudate-eating and tree-gouging by marmosets (Callitrichidae, Primates) / Anthony B Rylands (14 p.). -- Fruit bat niche dynamics : their role in maintaining tropical forest diversity / Frank J Bonaccorso (18 p.).
• Co-evolution between psyllids (Homoptera : Psylloidea) and rain-forest tress : the first 120 million years / I.D Hodkinson (8 p.). -- Extinction as a creative force : the butterflies of the rain-forest / John R.G Turner (10 p.). -- Vegetation research and the "bulldozer" herbivores of tropical Africa / Adriaan Kortlandt (24 p.). -- Protected areas monitoring by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources / J Harrison (6 p.). -- Moths as indicator organisms for categorizing rain-forest and monitoring changes and regeneration processes / J.D Holloway (8 p.). -- Heterogeneity in early tropical rain-forest regeneration after cutting and burning : ARBOCEL, French Guiana / H. de Foresta (12 p.). -- Land clearing behaviour in small farmer settlement schemes in the Brazilian Amazon and its relation to human carrying capacity / Philip M Fearnside (18 p.). -- Agrisylviculture from the standpoint of the management and conservation of forest resources / François Grison (6 p.). -- Decline of soil fertility and the collapse of shifting cultivation systems under intensification / B.R Trenbath (14 p.).

ISBN

• 0950192139
• 9780950192130

LCCN

85166465

OCLC

• ocm13005807
• 13005807
• SCSB-9623905

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library