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10 Functional Basis for Resource Niche Partitionin gby Tropical Trees 160
Kaoru Kitajima and Lourens Poorter
11 Colonization-related Trade-offs in Tropical Forests and Their Role in the
Maintenance of Plant Species Diversity 182
Helene C. Muller-Landau
12 Treefall Gaps and the Maintenance of Plant Species Diversity in Tropical
Forests 196
Stefan A. Schnitzer, Joseph Mascaro, and Walter P. Carson13 Challen ges Associated with Testin gand Falsifyin gthe Janzen–Connell
Hypothesis: A Review and Critique 210
Walter P. Carson, Jill T. Anderson, Egbert G. Leigh, Jr, and Stefan A. Schnitzer
14 Seed Limitation and the Coexistence of Pioneer Tree Species 242
James W. Dalling and Robert John
15 Endophytic Fungi: Hidden Components of Tropical Community Ecology 254
A. Elizabeth ArnoldSECTION 4 ANIMAL COMMUNITY ECOLOGY AND TROPHIC
INTERACTIONS 273
16 Tropical Tritrophic Interactions: Nasty Hosts and Ubiquitous Cascades 275
Lee A. Dyer
17 Variation in Tree Seedlin gand Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fun gal Spore
Responses to the Exclusion of Terrestrial Vertebrates: Implications for
How Vertebrates Structure Tropical Communities 294
Tad C. Theimer and Catherine A. Gehring
18 Ecosystem Decay in Closed Forest Fragments 308
John Terborgh and Kenneth Feeley
19 Resource Limitation of Insular Animals: Causes and Consequences 322
Gregory H. Adler20 Tropical Arboreal Ants: Linkin gNutrition to Roles in Rainforest
Ecosystems 334
Diane W. Davidson and Steven C. Cook
21 Soil Fertility and Arboreal Mammal Biomass in Tropical Forests 349
Carlos A. PeresSECTION 5 SECONDARY FOREST SUCCESSION, DYNAMICS, AND
INVASION 365
22 Processes Constrainin gWoody Species Succession on Abandoned
Pastures in the Tropics: On the Relevance of Temperate Models of
Succession 367
Chris J. Peterson and Walter P. Carson
23 Chance and Determinism in Tropical Forest Succession 384
Robin L. Chazdon
24 Exotic Plant Invasions in Tropical Forests: Patterns and Hypotheses 409
Julie S. Denslow and Saara J. DeWalt