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INDEX

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abiotic control 68
abiotic gradients, non-random distribution of taxa on
79–80
abiotic microsite characteristics 175
abiotic niche filtering 87–8
additive diversity partitioning scheme 13
adult stature, important life-history trait 173
adult stature–juvenile light requirements, positive
correlation 173–4
Africa 477
Central 358
dominant tree species recruit poorly even in gaps
399–400
large areas of rainforest remain 448
East, large mammal, high species richness 358
origin of herbaceous begonias 55
post-agricultural grasslands and plantations 376
rainforests 448
defaunation rather than deforestation 448
rapid population growth and extreme poverty
445 , 448
West, rainforests largely gone 448
age–area (range) relationship 4
age–range size, expectation of a positive
relationship 47
age-and-area hypothesis
for modern times 56–8
failure to account for old species with small
ranges 56–7
models of post-speciation range-size
transformation 56–7
molecular ages, errors and uncertainties 57
newer species may have smaller range sizes 57
molecular dating, single snapshot at a given point
in time 48, 49
no explicit tests using tropical plants 49

species fossil record and whole history sampling

48, 49

agriculture, Amazon basin 459–60

agricultural drivers of deforestation 459–60

cattle ranching 459–60

industrial agriculture 460

slash-and-burn farming 460

soy farming 460

factors limiting development 459

rising rate of deforestation 459, 460

yearly fluctuation in rates 459, 460

Akaike information criterion (AIC) 145, 150, 246

alpha-diversity, tends to be underestimated 14

Alseis blackiana 173

switch from light demander to shade tolerant 172

Amazon basin

agricultural frontier advancing into

rainforest 449

classification of soil fertility 353

index of soil fertility 353

diurnal primates, population density and biomass

352, 352

small plot tree records 153

neutral theory predictions 152, 153

strong differentiation found in 89

Amazon basin, environmental promise and peril

458–73

closed-canopy forests 458

terra firme 458

várzeaandigapó 458

direct threats 459–66

agriculture 459–60

forest fragmentation 462–3

growth of hunting pressure 466

illegal goldmining 466

logging 460–2, 464

oil, natural gas, minerals, developments 466