Monteverde : Ecology and Conservation of a Tropical Cloud Forest
Leslie J. Burlingame Science, Technology and Society Program Franklin and Marshall College P.O. Box 3003 Lancaster, PA 17604 USA ...
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Lisa K. Valburg Department of Biology Pennsylvania State University Dunmore, PA 18512-1699 USA
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Introduction Nalini M. Nadkarni Nathaniel T. Wheelwright Monteverde has been variously described as a virgin tropical cloud fore ...
Figure 1.1. (top) Group photograph of the residents of Monteverde at the last Quaker Meeting in 1957 in the old squatter house t ...
In the early 1960s, biologists first became aware of Monteverde. Welcomed by the small farming commu- nity and working largely i ...
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Figures 1.4-1.8 (preceding pages). Maps of the Monteverde area at various spatial scales. Maps are based on figures created by L ...
forests, trees in TMCF tend to be dense and relatively short with gnarled trunks, compact crowns, and small, thick leaves. Epiph ...
Julia Moberg, Andrew Stempel, Danni Kline, Maya Spier, Joselynn Plank, and Josie Heyward. Allison Woodruff contributed greatly i ...
roaches, scorpions, and any insect that could not fly away. In the early 1960s, tropical biologists from the Organ- ization for ...
Figure 1.9. Number of published scientific articles, theses, and dissertations on Monteverde natural history, ecology, and conse ...
tionally more studies on community ecology and pro- portionally fewer systematic studies were carried out in Monteverde than in ...
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The Physical Environment Kenneth L. Clark Robert O. Lawton Paul R. Butler Because biological diversity is directly related to di ...
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