Monteverde : Ecology and Conservation of a Tropical Cloud Forest

MI.CROBIAL BIOMASS AND ACTIVIW IN CANOPY ORGANIC MATTER AND THE FOREST FLOOR Eric Vance & Nalini M Nadkarni he environment o ...

litter. For each canopy sample, a paired ground sample was obtained. Invertebrates from sifted litter were ex- tracted using a W ...

•VESICULAR-ARBUSCUlAR MYCORRHIZAE OF EPIPHYTIC AND TERRESTRIAL PIPERACEAE Blase Maffia, Nalini ML Nadkarni,'& David P Janos ...

one-way, downward transfer by stemflow and through- fall. Spores or hyphae might be dislodged during rain events and swept down ...

sponges (air-dried foam sponges), and (6) control (nothing applied to stem). Modified techniques of air-layering (Hartmann and K ...

phyte colonization than does bare bark by "roughen- ing" the surface of the stem and providing more loca- tions for colonization ...

We measured fine litter deposition and decompo- sition within the upper tree canopy and on the forest floor with standard litter ...

Figure 9.16. Measured and calculated rates of biomass and nutrient change of intercepted litterfall of litter material in tether ...

LONGEVITY OF FALLEN EPIPHYTES Ten J; Matelson, Nalini ML Nadkarni,. & John T. Longino Ithough the vertical distance between ...

movement. Water and nutrient inputs may differ be- cause fallen epiphytes receive primarily throughfall, which is deposited in l ...

Kim D., and Li Z. 1992. Chemical climatology of high elevation spruce-fir forests in the southern Appala- chian mountains. Envir ...

Edwards, P. J., and P. J. Grubb. 1977. Studies of mineral cycling in a montane rain forest in New Guinea. I. The distribution of ...

Kress, W. J. 1986. The systematic distribution of vascular epiphytes: an update. Selbyana 9:2-22. Lane-Poole, C. E. 1925. The fo ...

—. 1992a. Biomass and nutrient dynamics of epiphyte litterfall in a neotropical cloud forest, Costa Rica. Biotropica 24:24-30. - ...

Strong, D. R. 1977. Epiphyte loads, tree falls, and peren- nial forest disruption: a mechanism for maintaining higher tree speci ...

Conservation in the Monteverde Zone Contributions of Conservation Organizations Leslie J. Burlingame Monteverde is renowned amon ...

rent practices of conservation organizations in the Monteverde Zone (Caufield 1984, Wallace 1992). Tourist guidebooks for Costa ...

gories for protected lands under government control. Biological reserves and national parks received the highest level of protec ...

ticed some conservation measures, such as reforest- ing, farming without agrochemicals, and leaving trees to protect water sourc ...

played a major role in interinstitutional environmen- tal cooperation. It has sponsored annual school con- tests and week-long e ...