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Tropical rain forests : an ecological and biogeographical comparison / Richard T. Corlett and Richard B. Primack.
LIBRA QH86 .P75 2011
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Corlett, Richard.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rain forests.
- Rain forest ecology.
- Physical Description:
- x, 326 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Chichester, West Sussex ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell, [2011]
- Contents:
- 1 Many Tropical Rain Forests 1
- What are tropical rain forests? 3
- Where are the tropical rain forests? 4
- Rain forest environments 9
- Rain forest histories 18
- Origins of the similarities and differences among rain forests 25
- Many rain forests 29
- Conclusions 31
- 2 Plants: Building Blocks of the Rain Forest 32
- Plant distributions 33
- Rain forest structure 36
- How many plant species? 37
- Widespread plant families 40
- Neotropical rain forests 53
- Asian rain forests 58
- Rain forests in New Guinea and Australia 65
- African rain forests 66
- Madagascan rain forests 71
- Conclusions and future research directions 72
- 3 Primate Communities: A Key to Understanding Biogeography and Ecology 76
- What are primates? 76
- Old World versus New World primates 80
- Primate diets 84
- Primate communities 88
- Primates as seed dispersal agents 98
- Conclusions and future research directions 100
- 4 Carnivores and Plant-eaters 102
- Carnivores 102
- Herbivores of the forest floor 120
- Conclusions and future research directions 135
- 5 Birds: Linkages in the Rain Forest Community 138
- Biogeography 139
- Little, brown, insect-eating birds 144
- Forest frugivores 148
- Fruit size and body size 161
- Flower visitors 162
- Ground-dwellers 167
- Woodpeckers 172
- Birds of prey 173
- Scavengers 176
- Night birds 176
- Migration 179
- Comparison of bird communities across continents 180
- Conclusions and future research directions 182
- 6 Fruit Bats and Gliding Animals in the Forest Canopy 184
- Fruit- and nectar-feeding bats 184
- Flying behavior 190
- Foraging behavior 192
- Bats as pollinators and seed dispersal agents 192
- Gliding vertebrates 194
- Conclusions and future research directions 200
- 7 Insects: Diverse, Abundant, and Ecologically Important 203
- Butterflies 204
- Ants 212
- Termites 224
- Conclusions and future research directions 236
- 8 Island Rain Forests 239
- Pacific islands 240
- Evolution on islands 242
- Indian Ocean islands 248
- Atlantic islands 250
- Caribbean islands 251
- Natural disasters 251
- Human impacts 252
- Conclusions and future research directions 255
- 9 The Future of Tropical Rain Forests 257
- Different forests, different threats 257
- The major threats 264
- The forces behind the threats 275
- Global climate change 279
- Saving the many rain forests 282
- Conclusions and future research directions 293.
- Notes:
- Rev. ed. of : Tropical rain forests : an ecological and biogeographical comparison / Richard Primack & Richard Corlett. c2005.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781444332544
- 1444332546
- 9781444332551
- 1444332554
- OCLC:
- 665064366
- Publisher Number:
- 99943001663
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