The New Neotropical Companion

Elimination of large animals by hunting affects forest function, as first described by Kent Redford in a paper with the evocativ ...

(1,640 ft) from the source and one of which was 100 m from it? What are the differences between a 1 ha plot and a 10 ha plot, bo ...

pollinators, were apparently reluctant to fly into fragments isolated by 80 m (262 ft) or more from other forest. Primate speci ...

2.5 million ac) to assure that maximum biodiversity is maintained. This is particularly true for top carnivore species, each of ...

deforestation will be forced by increasing global demand for meat, lumber, and biofuels (soybeans are used in biofuels). More gr ...

looked closely at the two extremes of the continuum. One was called the BAU model, as in “business as usual.” The other was term ...

production. Diversification hedges against market fluctuations. Reforestation acts as an investment against price fluctuations i ...

position and assert that most deforestation has little to do with local populations and their impact on the landscape. Laurance ...

health, and simply having a place to live. For travelers and tourists, supporting local economies, hiring local guides, and doin ...

Anyone visiting the Neotropics should be aware of the animals that have the potential to annoy you or even endanger you. I have ...

In what is perhaps a play on words, the botfly species Dermatobia hominis is called the Human Botfly. In spite of its name, the ...

some measure of protection from the aggressive insects. The Africanized Honey Bee (also called the Killer Bee), a hybrid between ...

Oldies but Goodies Popular, historical, and classical references: these books, all still available (at least in libraries or thr ...

Further Reading Simpson, G. G. 1980. Splendid Isolation: The Curious History of South American Mammals. New Haven, CT: Yale Univ ...

Leigh, E. G. Jr. 1999. Tropical Forest Ecology: A View from Barro Colorado Island. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. Meyer- Abich, A ...

and S. V. Heald. 2004. Flowering Plants of the Neotropics. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press. Utley, J. F., and K. Burt- Utle ...

Vitousek, P. M., P. R. Ehrlich, A. E. Ehrlich, and P. A. Matson. 1986. Human appropriation of the products of photosynthesis. Bi ...

C. Santos, and K. Treseder. 1999. Nitrogen stable isotopic composition of leaves and soil: Tropical versus temperate forests. Bi ...

Cochrane, M. A., A. Alencar, M. D. Schulze, C. M. Souza Jr., D. C. Nepstad, P. Lefebvre, and E. A. Davidson. 1999. Positive feed ...

———. 1992. Short- term dynamics of a Neotropical forest: Why ecological research matters to tropical conservation and management ...