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and toucans, seeds may be dispersed several kilome- ters. Within a fragmented landscape, occasional long- distance dispersal may ...

Table 12.2. Use of 30 forest remnants on the Pacific slope of the Cordillera de Tilaran, Costa Rica, by five species of fmgivoro ...

LA VENTANA IN MONTEVERDE: A MIGRATION CORRIDOR FOR INSECTS Michelle Williamson & Chris Darling n the tropics, insects cross ...

ELEVATIONAL MIGRATIONS AND HABITAT LINKAGES: USING THE RESPLENDENT QUETZAL AS AN INDICATOR FOR EVALUATING THE DESIGN OF THE MONT ...

Figure 12.5. Distribution of individual radio-tagged Resplendent Quetzals in the Tilaran Moun- tains, in west-central Costa Rica ...

Figure 12.6. Distribution of radio-tagged Resplendent Quetzals in 1989 (stars), 1990 (circles), and 1991 (triangles) on the Atla ...

Acknowledgments The success of our work de- pended on the generosity of residents of Monteverde and surrounding towns for allowi ...

many plants into abandoned agricultural lands could be limited, and succession of these areas might differ from that of treefall ...

pastures. I report the occurrence of two other species for contrast, Hampea, a bird-dispersed species, and Conostegia spp., whic ...

Figure 12.9. Comparison of the density of stems in plots located at the edge between the pasture and adjacent forest, in the ope ...

Figure 12.10. Density of stems as a function of the species identity of the shade tree left in the pasture for all species combi ...

Table 12.4. Comparison of stream fauna in the Quebrada Guacimal during 10 years when invertebrates were collected from upstream ...

HOUSE WRENS IN MONTEVERDE: A POPULATION SINK? Bruce E> Young ome habitats provide better conditions for sur- vival and reprod ...

and Cox 1987, Hobbs 1992, Simberloff et al. 1992). Since June 1993, we have spent over 1000 hours on local farms investigating w ...

were originally captured, showing that birds use windbreaks to move from one area to another. Fur- thermore, there were large di ...

windbreaks (P = .008; Fig. 12.12). These differences are most likely due to the preferential use of connected windbreaks and gre ...

THE SEARCH FOR MEDICINES FROM THE PLANTS OF MONTEVERDE William M Setzer ore than 3000 species of flowering plants in 185 familie ...

derivative £rans-c/-tocotrienoloic acid (Setzer et al. 1995a). trails-d-Tocotrienoloic acid The MCFP is a unique study area for ...

Fiedler, P. L., and P. M. Kareiva. 1998. Conservation biol- ogy for the coming decade. Chapman and Hall, New York. Forman, R. T. ...

Miller, S. G., R. L. Knight, and C. K. Miller. In press. Influ- ence of recreational trails on breeding bird communi- ties. Ecol ...