Tropical Forest Ecology: Sterile or Virgin for Theoreticians? 137is governed mostly by its relationships with near
neighbors, a mathematical theory of tree diversity
based on a dynamics of the spatial arrangements
of trees is needed to predict useful relationships
between tree diversity and the pattern of pest
pressure.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I am most grateful to a variety of seminar audi-
ences for encouragement in this enterprise, to
David King for reading this chapter and warning
m eawayfrom various traps for th eunwary, to
Walter Carson for working so hard to make this
chapter readable, to the librarians of the Smithso-
nian Tropical Research Institute, especially Vielka
Chang-Yau and Angel Aguirre, for procuring me
a host of needed documents, and to the plants and
animals of Barro Colorado Island for reminding
me of what mathematical theory should try to
explain.
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