Monteverde : ecology and conservation of a tropical cloud forest / edited by Nalini M. Nadkarni, Nathaniel T. Wheelwright.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nadkarni, Nalini.

Wheelwright, Nathaniel T.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Natural history--Costa Rica--Reserva del Bosque Nuboso de Monteverde.

Natural history.

Cloud forest ecology--Costa Rica--Reserva del Bosque Nuboso de Monteverde.

Cloud forest ecology.

Nature conservation--Costa Rica--Reserva del Bosque Nuboso de Monteverde.

Nature conservation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (598 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.

Summary:

The Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve has captured the attention of biologists, conservationists and ecologists and has been the setting for extensive investigation over the past 30 years. This provides information on this ecosystem and the biota.

Contents:

Cover; Foreword; Foreword; A Manera de Introducción; Contents; Contributors; 1. Introduction; 1.1 Historical Overview; 1.2 The Boundaries; Monteverde Beginnings; Scope of Past Work; Literature Cited; 2. The Physical Environment; 2.1 Climate and Weather of Monteverde; 2.2 Geology and Geologic History of Monteverde; 2.3 Modern Geography of the Cordillera de Tilarán; 2.4 Paleoecology of the Cordillera de Tilarán; 2.5 Soils of Monteverde; 2.6 Hydrology of Monteverde; Microclimate Variability; Epiphytic Histosols; Literature Cited; 3. Plants and Vegetation; 3.1 Distribution and Diversity

3.2 Seasonality3.3 Population Biology; 3.4 Biogeography; 3.5 Conservation; Trees on Trees; Why Strangler Figs Don't Strangle Strangler Figs; Mucuna urens, a Tropical Liana; Epiphytes; Bromeliads; Orchids; Evolution in Cloud Forest Psychotria Section Notopleura via Growth Form Diversification; Bryophytes; Plants Growing on Living Leaves; Mistletoes and Where They Grow; An Exceptional Mistletoe, Gaiadendron punctatum; Gut Fungi of Invertebrates; Breeding Systems of Monteverde Inga; Sex Ratios and the Distribution of Male and Female Trees

Clonal Reproduction through Plant Fragments in Poikilacanthus macranthusFerns; Description of Permanent Forest Plots in Monteverde; Literature Cited; 4. Insects and Spiders; 4.1 Aquatic Insects; 4.2 Orthoptera: Katydids, Crickets, and Grasshoppers; 4.3 Hemiptera: Heteroptera and Homoptera; 4.4 Coleoptera: Beetles; 4.5 Lepidoptera: Moths and Butterflies; 4.6 Diptera: Flies; 4.7 Hymenoptera: Sawflies, Wasps, Ants, and Bees; 4.8 Arachnids: Spiders, Scorpions, and Mites; Literature Cited; 5. Amphibians and Reptiles; 5.1 The Area and Its Fauna; 5.2 Distribution and Diversity

5.3 Geography and History5.4 Population Ecology; 5.5 Reproductive Ecology; 5.6 Habitat Use; 5.7 Conservation; 5.8 Summary; The Discovery of the Golden Toad; Monteverde Salamanders, Golden Toads, and the Emergence of the Global Amphibian Crisis; How Do Meadow Treefrogs Decide Where to Lay Eggs?; The Golden Toad Laboratory for Conservation; Literature Cited; 6. Birds; 6.1 Distribution, Species Richness, and Diversity; 6.2 Behavior; 6.3 Reproductive Biology; 6.4 Responses to Seasonality; 6.5 Population Biology; 6.6 Community Ecology; 6.7 Comparative Ecology; 6.8 Conservation Issues

6.9 ConclusionsCooperation Between Male Long-Tailed Manakins; Why Join Mixed-Species Flocks? A Frugivore's Perspective; The Cost of Social Foraging in Mixed-Species Bird Flocks; Choosiness and Productivity in Wrens of Forests, Fragments, and Farms; Do Fruit-Eating Birds Actively Select or Avoid Insect-Infested Fruits?; Brown Jays: Complex Sociality in a Colonizing Species; Ecology and Sexual Dimorphism of Emerald Toucanets; The Roles of Long-Tailed Manakin Vocalizations in Cooperation and Courtship

Do Subordinate Species Have an Advantage? Testing the Pointer Hypothesis with Tropical Hummingbirds

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1999.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-756154-3

1-280-59332-6

9786613623157

0-19-977097-2

OCLC:

777576758