Monteverde : Ecology and Conservation of a Tropical Cloud Forest
verde in museum collections were found dead, pre- sumably discarded by predators. Alfaro's Pygmy Squirrels were observed by R, L ...
Figure 7.14. Alston's Brown Mouse (Scotinomys teguina). Photograph by Richard K. LaVal. Slender Harvest Mouse (Reithrodontomys g ...
kHz) is lower than that of the calls of the other vocal- izing species. Vocalizations of the Vesper Rat during close so- cial in ...
to six litters in their lifetime, which is far below their reproductive potential (Heideman and Bronson 1993). In comparison to ...
understory and canopy. Because of their small size (10-250 g), nocturnal habits, and climbing nature, they are rarely seen. Live ...
MICE/BIRDS, AND POLLINATION OF BLAKEA CHLORANTHA Catherine A, Langtimm & Robert Unnasch n Monteverde, Lumer (1980) documente ...
BAIRD'S TAPIR Robert (X Lawton he ancestral tapiroids were widespread in the vast broad-leaved forests that covered North Americ ...
deleterious consequences of inbreeding over the next few centuries. On a more optimistic note, tapirs are raising young in the C ...
Langtimm, C. A. 1992. Specialization for vertical habitats within a cloud forest community of mice. Ph.D. dis- sertation, Univer ...
Plant-Animal Interactions K. Greg Murray Sharon Kinsman Judith L. Bronstein The term "plant-animal interactions" includes a di- ...
a few studies of herbivory in particular species (e.g., Peck, "Agroecology of Prosapia," pp. 409-410), even basic surveys remain ...
Table 8.1. Frequencies (% of species) of 13 pollination systems of Monteverde flowering plants, by growth form and sexual system ...
b, Murray et al. 1987, Feinsinger and Tiebout 1991, Tiebout 1991, Podolsky 1992). Hawkmoths (Sphingidae) Hawkmoths are crepus- c ...
Large bees Flowers adapted for pollination by large bees (principally Anthophorinae, Apinae, Xylo- copinae, Colletidae, and Mega ...
tal Divide in Monteverde (see Lumer, "Reproductive Biology ofBlakea and Topobea," pp. 273-276). Systems unknown in Monteverde No ...
be large. With a few exceptions (Bronstein 1991; Weiss, "A Fly Larva," pp. 278-279), their effects in Monte- verde are poorly kn ...
Bird-pollinated Besleria Besleria triflora (Ges- neriaceae), a shrub pollinated by short-billed hum- mingbirds, is andromonoecio ...
Second, floristic and life-form differences between low and mid-elevation sites could drive pollination system differences. For ...
and Busby 1987, Feinsinger et al. 1988b). In a series of elegant indoor experiments that controlled the se- quence in which a bi ...
especially common under montane climate condi- tions, if potential pollinators are less active (or less common) than at lower el ...
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