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Amazon basin, environmental promise and peril
(Contd.)
wildfires 463, 465–6
an expanding network of reserves 467–9
ARPA, establishing reserves within
ecoregions 469
biodiversity corridor concept 469
evolving location strategies 469
expert workshops 469
period of opportunity for conservation 467–8
expansion of protected and semi-protected areas
469–70
facing its own apocalypse 458
future threats 466–7
environmental change due to global warming
467
forest degradation caused by infrastructure
projects 467, 468
forest loss and fragmentation 467, 468
major infrastructure projects 467
opening up new frontiers for colonization 467
population expansion 466–7
rainfall varies across the region 459
regeneration of secondary forests 469
savannas and gallery forest 458–9
Amazon, Brazilian
facilitation of recruitment by residual
vegetation 394
large, unmanaged rainforest parks 451
Amazonia 357
Barreira formation 351
endophyte colonization 259
environmental protection improving in 449
fertility gradient in 129
mammal abundances function of soil fertility
357–8
much soil nutrient-poor and acidic 351
agriculture severely constrained 351
export of soil nutrients 351
spread ofOcoteathrough 131
Venezuelan, longer-lived leaves 130
America, rainforests 449
animal community ecology and trophic
interactions 6
ant proventriculus, form and function 340
diverse in form and function 340
exudate foragers 340
liquids transported internally 340
passive damming of crop fluids 340
ventricular anatomy and foraging behaviors 340
arctiids, breadth of diet 279
Ascomycota 255, 255B, 256B, 257
aseasonal wet forests, impact of gaps 204–5
Asia
East 400
rainforests 448
Southeast
dipterocarp forests, more intense logging 444
highest rates of forest loss/degradation 445 ,
448
Australian rainforests 450
comparative attributes of 296
arbuscular mycorrhizae dominate 296
high proportion of non-mycorrhizal
species 296
native vertebrate fauna depauperate 296
differing response of seedlings and AMF spores
297–301
AMF spores, higher abundance and richness on
open plots 301
colonizing species, limited 299, 299
common terrestrial vertebrates, agents of
seedling mortality 300
Glomus rubiformespores, distribution 301, 303
higher mortality rate on open plots 301
seedling mortality rate 299–300
species accumulation, lower net rate on open
plots 301, 302
tree seedlings, species higher in exclosure
plots 300
of interest from biological and conservation point
450
Queensland
forest fragments degraded by exotic vines 415
intact rainforest resistant to invasion by exotics
415
results of terrestrial vertebrate exclusion from one
forest 296–7
AMF spore abundance higher/richer 295 , 297
faunal censuses 297
increase in seedling abundance 295 , 297
levels of colonization by AMF 297, 298
species richness increased 295 , 297
WetTropics of Queensland World Heritage
Area 450
threat from climate change 450Barro Colorado Island (BCI)seeBCI FDP
BCI FDP 99, 110 , 136, 150, 205, 217
chosen as first CTFS plot 103
density dependence
negative conspecific effects 155