Monteverde : Ecology and Conservation of a Tropical Cloud Forest

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Conservation Biology Nathaniel T. Wheelwright Each February, when I return to Monteverde to study the reproductive ecology of la ...

12.1. Richness, Endemism, and Biodiversity Monteverde's diverse habitats—forest canopies dense with epiphytes, deeply shaded und ...

Figure 12.1. Remaining primary forest in Costa Rica. tats (Rabinowitz 1981). Each type of rarity has differ- ent causes and impl ...

can jeopardize local populations. The effects of inter- actions and disturbance can also be indirect, For ex- ample, an introduc ...

the Monteverde Reserve Complex becomes increas- ingly isolated from the country's other lower montane forests (Fig. 12.1). Costa ...

virtually all bacteria and protists are likely to remain a mystery for a long time. K. Master's work on spittlebugs in the genus ...

Earlier hunting pressure and habitat modification virtually eliminated large raptorial birds such as hawk- eagles and large carn ...

stream flow, and vertebrate population data show that warming effects are already being felt abiotically and biotically in Monte ...

Figure 12.4. Distribution of the 30 forest remnants with respect to altitude and the continuous forest of the Monteverde Reserve ...

regions on a broad scale. That 25% of Costa Rica is now protected in the form of national parks and for- est reserves tells only ...

ever, the very nature of tropical lower montane forests—their great biodiversity, high degree of en- demism, and insularity—make ...

fruiting in one plant family, Lauraceae, over the last 17 years (N. Wheelwright, unpubl. data). One advan- tage of studying plan ...

12.6. Conclusions Restoration ecology, which deals with efforts to re- claim or rehabilitate degraded habitats (Hobbs and Norton ...

The rationale for protecting Monteverde's flora and fauna must be widened beyond the simple appeal to economic self-interest. Co ...

Species are disappearing at a far more rapid rate than did the dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous Period. It is poor conserv ...

helped create the reserves and protect the land. No matter what the local negative effects are, the eco- tourism boom in Monteve ...

In tropical forests used as extractive reserves, the experiment is underway. Many of these sites have lost an important componen ...