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302 Tad C. Theimer and Catherine A. Gehring 0 5 10 15 20 25(a) (b) Years since exclosure Mean species richness − 8 − 6 − 4 − 2 0 ...

Response of Seedlings and AMF Spores to Vertebrates 303 − 10 − 8 − 6 − 4 − 2 0 2 4 6 8 10 Years since exclosure Change in specie ...

304 Tad C. Theimer and Catherine A. Gehring a site will successfully establish there. Factors that increase dispersal limitation ...

Response of Seedlings and AMF Spores to Vertebrates 305 seedlings respond to spores dispersed by terrestrial vertebrates under v ...

306 Tad C. Theimer and Catherine A. Gehring Eisenberg, J.F. (1981)TheMammalianRadiations. Univer- sity of Chicago Press, Chicago ...

Response of Seedlings and AMF Spores to Vertebrates 307 Tabarelli, M., Mantovani, W., and Peres, C.A. (1999) Effects of habitat ...

Chapter 18 EcosystemDecayinClosed ForestFragments John Terborgh and Kenneth Feeley OVERVIEW We summarize a long-term study of fo ...

Ecosystem Decay in Closed Forest Fragments 309 Further levels of complexity and ambiguity are inherent in the common use of “ope ...

310 Jo hn Terborg hand Kennet hFeeley resulted in the distortion of many biological interactions. Since vertebrate and invertebr ...

Ecosystem Decay in Closed Forest Fragments 311 Table 18.1 Relative abundance of some animals on Lago Guri islands, by functional ...

312 Jo hn Terborg hand Kennet hFeeley Medium islands ranged in area from 4 to 25 ha. In addition to the species present on small ...

Ecosystem Decay in Closed Forest Fragments 313 consumersandlesservertebratestobehyperabun- dant only on S and M islands that lac ...

314 Jo hn Terborg hand Kennet hFeeley Multiple pathways to vegetation decline Although damaging levels of herbivory, especially ...

Ecosystem Decay in Closed Forest Fragments 315 herbivore pressure has already resulted in sig- nificant shifts in tree community ...

316 Jo hn Terborg hand Kennet hFeeley Consumer populations regulated from the bot- tom u p(i.e., by food resources) should show ...

Ecosystem Decay in Closed Forest Fragments 317 et al. 2006). Exclosure experiments revealed that arthropod herbivory was a major ...

318 Jo hn Terborg hand Kennet hFeeley influence the presence and/or abundance of non- volant vertebrates in fragments (Malcolm 1 ...

Ecosystem Decay in Closed Forest Fragments 319 Asquith, N.M., Terborgh, J., Arnold, A.E., and Riveros, C.M. (1999) The fruits th ...

320 Jo hn Terborg hand Kennet hFeeley Huber, O. (1986) La vegetación de la cuenca del Rio Caroní.Interciencia11, 301–310. Kapos, ...

Ecosystem Decay in Closed Forest Fragments 321 Rodda, G.H. and Dean-Bradley, K. (2002) Excess density compensation of island her ...