Monteverde : Ecology and Conservation of a Tropical Cloud Forest

Figure 9.9. Moisture content of canopy organic matter (C-H) and the forest floor H horizon (FF-H) at the study area in Monteverd ...

Table 9.3. Tree families with percentage of mean total basal area (BA) and mean density (numbers of individual trees per hectare ...

Table 9.4. Structural and floristic characteristics of seven tropical montane cloud forests. Location Luquillo Mountains, Puerto ...

or (5) missing (trees not found again). During the final census, standing broken stems were checked for sprouting of foliage. Lo ...

local dominance by species that recover quickly from injury (Knight 1975, Putz and Brokaw 1989). As pre- dicted, the common cano ...

canopy foliage (see sec. 9.1). It influences nutrient cycles by altering ecosystem nutrient pools and path- ways and rates of nu ...

had similar amounts (12% and 15%, respectively); reproductive parts, stems, ferns, and epiphytic foli- age made up a very small ...

Table 9.7. Biomass (kg/ha) of epiphytic material (EM) components on seven substrates in the Monteverde leeward cloud forest stud ...

relative contribution of each of these sources to tropi- cal forest communities is unknown. From an ecosys- tem standpoint, it i ...

relative to other tropical and temperate sites (Table 9.9), suggesting that emissions of NOX, NH 3 , and par- ticles are high do ...

Table 9.10. Precipitation event data by event category. Event Categoryand number of Collections Windspeed > 2 m/s (JV=65) Win ...

Table 9.12. Ion deposition in bulk precipitation (BP). Ion BP Deposition (kg/ha/yr) CW BP + CW Tp + gT percentage (kg/ha/yr) Net ...

Table 9.15. Ion deposition in bulk precipitation (BP) at tropical premontane and montane forest sites in Central and northern So ...

9.2.3. Litterfall Fluxes The deposition and subsequent decomposition of fine litter represents a major pathway for transferring ...

Figure 9.12. Biomass of litterfall (g/m^2 /wk) of terrestrially rooted material collected from study plots between 1987 and 1990 ...

Table 9.19. Elemental concentration, nitrogen to phosphorus ratios, and nitrogen and phosphorus retranslocation of live foliage ...

Why might trees in this forest support foliage with high nutrient concentrations? One reason is that large amounts of nutrients ...

Table 9.21. Summary of biomass and nutrient pools and transfers in fine litter during the study period. Nutrient Standing crop E ...

Table 9.22. Mean nutrient concentration (mg/g ± SEM) of standing crop and litterfall of epiphytic components for 29 collection i ...

and carbon in montane forests may be bound in or- ganic forms for long periods of time (Edwards and Grubb 1977, Tanner 1985) bef ...