The New Neotropical Companion

makes it extremely distinctive. If you see one, you’ll recognize it. Females are similar to males in size but lack the long horn ...

Owls and Witches Put out a few overripe bananas at night in the Neotropics, and soon both a large brownish butterfly and a big d ...

and nitrogen, just as bird droppings do for army ant butterflies. Other butterflies, especially swallowtails, may be present at ...

Some Scary- looking Invertebrates You are apt to see some large and rather intimidating- looking creatures scurrying about the r ...

one of the whipscorpions, common and innocuous animals that belong to an entirely different arthropod order (Amblypygi) than tru ...

Humans in all tropical regions have had millennia in which to learn about and adapt to their environments. Indigenous knowledge, ...

containing pottery and other artifacts that date from about 8,000 to 7,000 years before the present. The pottery dates to about ...

1,000 kg (2,200 lb) of edible nutritious seeds. The Breadnut Tree is tolerant of many soil types and grows rapidly, an ideal tre ...

Some Neotropical hunter- gatherer tribes are territorial and have been known, at least in the past, for high levels of aggressio ...

until it is time to harvest them, which requires more human labor. Agriculture requires work of a much different sort from that ...

Fire eliminates the leaves and wood while at the same time releasing the nutrients and minerals contained within. The ash raises ...

Agroforestry: Focus on Coffee Coffee and Cacao are each widely cultivated in the tropics and each is fundamentally an understory ...

degree that they no longer support forest biodiversity and thus represent a form of habitat loss, just as the cutting of forest ...

Ethnobotany is the study of how indigenous people have learned how to use ambient vegetation for a diversity of pragmatic purpos ...

lowland forest, is managed to accomplish the following: cultivation and documentation of medicinally useful plants; protection o ...

certain rituals, for chewing, and for nutrition. Studies show that ingestion of 100 g (3.5 oz) of coca leaves is sufficient to s ...

Plate 18- 1. Cattle ranching, fields of soybeans, teak plantations, continued logging, damming of major rivers, and climate chan ...

Threats to Tropical Forests: Overview Ecologists have identified many potential threats to the integrity of tropical forests. Th ...

become more frequent. Forests become so degraded by fire that the land becomes, in effect, deforested. This forest fire feedback ...

exception of areas in northern Mato Grosso. However, selective logging of the Brazilian Amazon had in effect doubled the total a ...