Monteverde : Ecology and Conservation of a Tropical Cloud Forest

mates can differ by several orders of magnitude de- pending on the scale of measurement and the time that the census occurs rela ...

Table 6.6. Nest loss rates and predators of bird nests at Monteverde. Species^3 Predation rate (%)b Resplendent Quetzal (1) Emer ...

and dogs also take their toll on adult and nestling birds. Hunting of birds in most of Monteverde has stopped, but Black and Cre ...

6.6. Community Ecology Major works on the community ecology of birds in Monteverde include studies on hummingbird popula- tion d ...

appearing for varying periods throughout the year. These two guilds are apparently stable even in habi- tats that sustain distur ...

The consequences of plant interactions with birds have been investigated repeatedly. For example, fruit phenology, size, shape, ...

large insectivores such as motmots, puffbirds, and small hawks, all of which are less common at higher elevations. 6.8. Conserva ...

the MCL for the Children's International Rainforest, in which a major impetus for purchasing land in the San Bosco area was the ...

continue in this tradition by building on existing stud- ies or moving to new taxa, as well as providing the communitywide data ...

I have documented four major direct benefits to the beta male from his cooperation with an alpha male. First, upon the disappear ...

ferences in their diet: insects are cryptic and difficult to find, whereas fruits are often conspicuous (Moer- mond and Denslow ...

through their large home ranges, picking up and drop- ping off members of other species ("facultative join- ers") whose smaller ...

CHOOSiNESS AND PRODUCTIVITY IN WRENS OF FORESTS, FRAGMENTS, AND FARMS Kathy Winnett-Murray embers of the family Troglodytidae (w ...

Figure 6.10. (top) House Wren feeding insects to young at nest. Photograph by Kathy Winnett-Murray. Figure 6.11. (above) Frequen ...

habitats (Greenberg and Gradwohl 1980, Remsen and Parker 1984, Winnett-Murray 1986). Their young may depend on longer periods of ...

The birds displayed preferences among the differ- ent treatments in all three fruit species, with prefer- ences varying in degre ...

BROWN JAYS: COMPLEX SOCIALITY IN A COLONIZING SPECIES Dean A. Williams & Marcy R Lawton rown Jays were one of the first bird ...

juveniles (Lawton and Guindon 1981, Williams et al. 1994, D. Williams and M. Lawton, unpubl. data), which suggests that helpers ...

ECOLOGY AND SEXUAL DIMORPHISM OF EMERALD TOUCAN ETS Cecilia M. Riley & Kimberly G. Smith merald Toucanets are common and con ...

THE ROLES OF LONG-TAILED MANAKIN VOCALIZATIONS IN COOPERATION AND COURTSHIP iiil ML Trainer familiar sound of Monteverde is the ...