Tropical Forest Community Ecology

Chapter 19 ResourceLimitationof InsularAnimals:Causes andConsequences Gregory H. Adler OVERVIEW Populationsof herbivorousanimals ...

Resource Limitation of Insular Animals 323 regulation” is relatively rare in complex terrestrial ecosystems (Polis and Strong 19 ...

32 4Gregory H. Adler and provide environmental cues that allow organ- isms to prepare physiologically and behaviorally in advanc ...

Resource Limitation of Insular Animals 325 assumes more normal levels (Davis 2001, Adler unpublished data). Clearly, frugivorous ...

326 Gregory H. Adler for four nights each month, and all captured spiny rats were uniquely marked for individual identification. ...

Resource Limitation of Insular Animals 327 months, and availability of resources is entrained by environmental conditions that p ...

328 Gregory H. Adler 1.75 1.50 1.25 Island 4 Island 8 Island 14 Island 52 0.85 0.95 1.05 1.15 Log density of fruiting trees 1.25 ...

Resource Limitation of Insular Animals 329 Climatic seasonality Fruiting phenology Resource ( abundance ( Reproductive effort ) ...

330 Gregory H. Adler 80 70 60 50 40 30 (^2014) 4 5 51 52 9 8 Controls 12 Experimentals 10 0 10 15 20 25 Number of fruiting trees ...

Resource Limitation of Insular Animals 331 due to a natural recovery from low population densities or to the provisioning. Appar ...

332 Gregory H. Adler Adler,G.H.(1995)FruitandseedexploitationbyCentral American spiny rats,Proechimys semispinosus.Studies on Ne ...

Resource Limitation of Insular Animals 333 (Proechimys semispinosus) in eight isolated popula- tions.Journal of Tropical Ecology ...

Chapter 20 TropicalArborealAnts: LinkingNutritiontoRoles inRainforestEcosystems DianeW. Davidson and Steven C. Cook OVERVIEW Arb ...

Tropical Arboreal Ants 335 moreforhighantabundancethanforhighspecies richness (Stork 1988); exceptional abundance is typical of ...

336 Diane W. Davidson and Steven C. Cook nutrient flows as essential for understanding both the functional biology of individual ...

Tropical Arboreal Ants 337 gain no detectable N from plant or trophobiont exudates (Davidsonet al.2003). At a range of taxonomic ...

338 Diane W. Davidson and Steven C. Cook for total sugars (a) and amino acids (b). Reflect- ing mainly sucrose, glucose, and fru ...

Tropical Arboreal Ants 339 2004b, Davidsonet al.2004, Davidson 2005). Ideally also, future tests of the “manipulated competition ...

340 Diane W. Davidson and Steven C. Cook modelbehaviorsandinteractionsof antsas“black boxes.” Within communities of arboreal exu ...

Tropical Arboreal Ants 341 Defining foraging functional groups Correlations between proventricular anatomy and diet suggest pote ...