Monteverde : Ecology and Conservation of a Tropical Cloud Forest
Nepokroeff 1992, Nepokroeff et al. 1993), shows that succulent, unbranched, terrestrial forms and branched epiphytes have evolve ...
Figure 3.22. (top) Evolution of growth form in the genus Psychotria may involve one of two possible scenarios regarding the char ...
tropics and once in Australasia (Nepokroeff and Sytsnia 1996). It is likely that the evolutionary path- way for both lineages is ...
forest high (Pocs 1980). They serve as a substrate for the establishment of vascular epiphytes and offer shelter to many inverte ...
PLANTS GROWING ON LIVING LEAVES Maria I. Morales ost epiphyllous or foliicolous (leaf-inhabit- ing) plants in Monteverde are fol ...
MISTLETOES AND WHERE THEY GROW Sarah Sargent istletoes are unusual flowering plants in several closely related families. The def ...
1991). Such connections cannot form in the absence of host growth at the site of attachment of the mistletoe. Thus, limited host ...
GUT FUNGI OF INVERTEBRATES Robert W. Lichtwardt ur knowledge of tropical fungi is minimal. Fungi associated with insects and oth ...
cladiinae, none of which was collected above the effluent. Rio Guacimal midges were hosts to several new species of Smittium (Fi ...
Figure 3.28. Trichomycete gut fungi from the Monteverde region. A. Un- branched Harpella sp. bearing cylindrical sigmoid trichos ...
and common pollinators are hawkmoths and hum- mingbirds. Hawkmoth species visiting Inga flowers include Aelopos titan, Agrius ci ...
For three Inga species studied in detail, cross-pol- linations between individuals of the same species were more successful in s ...
The capability to switch gender in O. ten era sug- gests a mechanism for negative spatial association of the sexes, albeit one t ...
FERNS Seth Bigelow & Peter Kukie he cloud forest of Monteverde is graced by an awe-inspiring diversity of ferns, which range ...
DESCRIPTION OF. PERMANENT FOREST PLOTS IN MONTEVERDE William A. Haber Estacion Biologica: Lower montane wet forest life zone, A ...
between staminate and pistillate plants of dioecious tropical forest trees. Evolution 31:64-68. Benzing, D. H. 1989. The evoluti ...
. 1967. Life zone ecology. Tropical Science Center, San Jose, Costa Rica. . 1978. Ecologia basada en zonas de vida. Institute In ...
Borneo. Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University, Cam- bridge, Massachusetts. Lawton, R. O. 1980. Wind and the ontogeny of elfin s ...
Nepokroeff, M., and K. J. Sytsma. 1996. Systematics and patterns of speciation and colonization in Hawaiian Psychotria and relat ...
Insects and Spiders Edited by Paul Hanson Arthropods (e.g., insects, spiders, mites, crustaceans) are the most diverse group of ...
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