Tropical Forest Community Ecology

342 Diane W. Davidson and Steven C. Cook these food types are dispersed and unpredictable in space and time, favoring their loca ...

Tropical Arboreal Ants 343 species dominate EFNs on plants where they tend trophobionts (authors’ observations), and a phalanx o ...

344 Diane W. Davidson and Steven C. Cook Table 20.1 Comparison (on average) of leaf-foragers versus trophobiont-tenders with res ...

Tropical Arboreal Ants 345 as colonies finely divided into many searchers, they may be particularly attractive partners for plan ...

346 Diane W. Davidson and Steven C. Cook Daloze, D., Braekman, J.C., Vanhecke, P., Boevé, J.L., and Pasteels, J.M. (1986) Long c ...

Tropical Arboreal Ants 347 Gaume, L. McKey, D. and Terrin, S. (1998) Ant–plant– homopteran mutualism: how the third partner affe ...

348 Diane W. Davidson and Steven C. Cook Palmer, T.M. (2004) Wars of attrition: colony size deter- mine competitive outcomes in ...

Chapter 21 SOILFERTILITYANDARBOREAL MAMMALBIOMASSINTROPICAL FORESTS Carlos A. Peres OVERVIEW Tropicalforestshavebeencharacterize ...

350 Carlos A. Peres bottom-up constraints on green plant produc- ers often reverberate via successive nodes in a food chain onto ...

Tropical Forest Mammals and Soil Fertility 351 result in increased toxicity caused by H+, Al, and Mn and a reduced uptake of mos ...

352 Carlos A. Peres BASIN-WIDE PATTERNS OF PRIMATE BIOMASS Primates are ideal candidates for a regional-scale test of bottom-up ...

Tropical Forest Mammals and Soil Fertility 353 primate species occurring at a given site, or was considered to be based on an in ...

354 Carlos A. Peres hunted forest sites and 36 moderately to heavily hunted sites, was highly variable. In non-hunted to lightly ...

Tropical Forest Mammals and Soil Fertility 355 3.2 2.5 2.0 1.5 1.0 0.5 0 3.0 2.8 2.6 2.4 2.2 Log 10 total primate biomass (kg km ...

356 Carlos A. Peres physiological ecology (e.g., Coleyet al. 1985, Chapinet al. 1986, Fineet al. 2004). But essen- tially two ar ...

Tropical Forest Mammals and Soil Fertility 357 the density and patch size of keystone plant resources (Peres 1997a, 1999b, 2000c ...

358 Carlos A. Peres is largely a function of soil fertility. She noted that densities of non-volant mammals gradually decreased ...

Tropical Forest Mammals and Soil Fertility 359 from an intercontinental perspective, mammal biomass in a typical undisturbed ter ...

360 Carlos A. Peres Tropical Savannas. Springer-Verlag, New York, Berlin, pp. 183–216. Bodmer, R., Sidik, I., and Iskander, S. ( ...

Tropical Forest Mammals and Soil Fertility 361 Fittkau, E.J. (1973) Artenmannigfaltigkeit amazonis- cherLebensräumeausökologisch ...