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Tropical forest canopies : ecology and management : proceedings of the ESF Conference, Oxford University, 12-16 December 1998

Title
Tropical forest canopies : ecology and management : proceedings of the ESF Conference, Oxford University, 12-16 December 1998 / K.E. Linesmair [and others].
Publication
Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, ©2001.

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Additional Authors
  • Linsenmair, K. E. (Karl-Eduard)
  • European Science Foundation Conference on Tropical Forest Canopies (1998 : Oxford University)
Description
370 pages : illustrations; 27 cm.
Series Statement
Forestry sciences ; v. 69
Uniform Title
Forestry sciences ; v. 69.
Subject
  • Forest canopy ecology > Tropics > Congresses
  • Forest management > Tropics > Congresses
  • Forest canopies > Tropics > Congresses
  • Forest ecology > Tropics > Congresses
  • Forest canopies
  • Forest canopy ecology
  • Forest management
  • Kronendach
  • Kronenschicht
  • Naturschutz
  • Tropischer Wald
  • Ökologie
  • Ökosystem
  • canopée > forêt > zone tropicale > congrès
  • canopée > zone tropicale > congrès
  • forêt > gestion > zone tropicale > congrès
  • Tropics
Genre/Form
Conference papers and proceedings.
Note
  • Proceedings of the European Science Foundation Conference on Tropical Forest Canopies, held Dec. 8th, 2000.
Contents
Foreword / K.E. Linsenmair -- Introduction -- Canopy science: time to shape up / A. Mitchell -- Alice grows up: canopy science in transition from Wonderland to Reality / S.L. Sutton -- Forest canopy rescarsh: sampling problems, and some solutions / M.G. Barker and M.A. Pinard -- Plants in the forest canopy: some reflections on current research and future direction / M.D. Lowman -- Epiphytes and their contribution to canopy diversity / J. Nieder, J. Prosperi and G. Michaloud -- Plant size: an ignored parameter in epiphyte ecophysiology? / G. Schmidt, S. Stuntz and G. Zotz -- Pollination and phenology of flowers in the canopy of two contrasting rain forest types in Amazonia, Colombia / A. van Dulmen -- Invertebrates in the canopy of tropical rain forests: how much do we really know? / Y. Basset -- Arboreal tropical forest vertebrates: current knowledge and research trends / R. Kays and A. Allison -- Vertical stratification of figs and fig-eaters in a Bornean lowland rain forest: how is the canopy different? / M. Shanahan and S.G. Compton -- Understorey versus canopy: patterns of vertical stratification and diversity among Lepidoptera in a Bornean rain forest / C.H. Schulze, K.F. Linsenmair and K. Fiedler -- The influence of anthropogenic disturbances on the structure of arboreal arthropod communities / A. Floren and K.E. Linsenmair -- Seasonal changes in the canopy arthropod fauna in Rinorea beniensis in Budongo Forest, Uganda / T. Wagner -- Arthropods in tropical oaks: differences in their spatial distributions within tree crowns / U. Simon and K.E. Linsenmair -- Behaviour and ecology of birds in tropical rain forest canopies / H. Winkler and M. Preleuthner -- Canopy processes: implications for transpiration, interception and splash induced erosion, ultimately for forest management and water resources / I.R. Calder -- Modelling rainfall and canopy controls on net-precipitation beneath selectively-logged tropical forest / N.A. Chappell, K. Bidin and W. Tych -- Micrometeorological conditions and canopy energy exchanges of a neotropical rain forest (Surumoni-Crane Project, Venezuela) / J. Szarzynski and D. Anhuf -- The influence of epiphyte cover on branch temperature in a tropical tree / M. Freiberg -- Forest light and its influence on habitat selection / M. Thery -- Methods to assess tropical rain forest canopy structure: an overview / F. Bongers -- The architecture in a Bornean lowland rain forest: intraspecific and interspecific patterns / F.J. Sterck, F. Bongers and D.M. Newbery -- Canopy surface topography in a French Guiana forest and the folded forest theory / P. Birnbaum -- Crown typology and the identification of rain forest trees on large-scale aerial photographs / V. Trichon -- The management implications of canopy research / N.E. Stork -- Neotropical bats in the canopy: diversity, community structure, and implications for conservation / E.K.V. Kalko and C.O. Handley, Jr. -- Reproductive ecology of tropical forest trees in logged and fragmented habitats in Thailand and Costa Rica / J. Ghazoul and M. McLeish -- Edge effects and tropical forest canopy invertebrates / A. Foggo, C.M.P. Ozanne and M.R. Speight / [and others] -- Enhancement of forest canopy research, education, and conservation in the new millennium / N.M. Nadkarni.
ISBN
  • 079237049X
  • 9780792370499
LCCN
2001038220
OCLC
  • ocm47100754
  • 47100754
  • SCSB-14355993
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library