Monteverde : Ecology and Conservation of a Tropical Cloud Forest

Table 6.1. Doctoral dissertations based on research on Monteverde birds.

Author Year Institution Title

Busby, W. H.

Buskirk, W. H.
Feinsinger, P.
Guindon, C.

Lawton, M. F.

McDonald, D. B.
Murray, K. G.
Powell, G.

Sargent, S.

Shopland, J. M.

Tiebout, H. M., Ill

Valburg, L.

Wheelwright, N. T.

Williams, D. A.

Winnett-Murray, K.

Young, B. E.

1987

1972

1974

1997

1982

1987

1986

1977

1994

1985

1990

1990

1982

1997

1986

1993

U. Florida

U. Gal., Davis

Cornell

Yale

U. Chicago

U. Arizona

U. Florida

U. CaL, Davis

Cornell

U. Chicago

U. Florida

Washington State

U. Washington

Purdue

U. Florida

U. Washington

Flowering phenology and density-dependent pollination

success in Cephalis elata.

Ecology of bird flocks in a tropical forest.

Organization of a tropical guild of nectarivorous birds.

The importance of forest fragments to the maintenance of

regional biodiversity surrounding a tropical montane

reserve, Costa Rica.

Altruism and sociobiology: a critical look and the critical

issue.

Male-male cooperation in a neotropical lekking bird.

Avian seed dispersal of neotropical gap-dependent plants.

Socioecology of mixed species flocks in a neotropical

forest.

Seed dispersal of mistletoes by birds in Monteverde, Costa

Rica.

Facultative following of mixed-species feeding flocks by

two species of neotropical warbler.

Energetics of tropical hummingbirds: effects of foraging

mode, competition, and resource availability.

Flocking, frugivory, and infested fruit consumption:

choice in the foraging ecology of the Common Bush-

Tanager (Chlorospingus ophthalmicus}.

Fruit characteristics and the foraging behavior of tropical

fruit-eating birds.

Multiple pathways to fitness in the cooperatively breeding

Brown Jay.

Variation in the behavior and food supply of four neo-

tropical wrens.

Geographical variation in avian clutch size: the case of the

tropical House Wren, Troglodytes aedon.

Figure 6.1. A pair of Long-tailed Manakin males displaying while a female looks on. Photograph by

Gregory Dimijian.