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Brazil, designating new Amazonian protected
areas (Contd.)
varying in legal resource uses 468
strict-protection reserves, number will rise 468–9
Brazilian Atlantic Forest 449
bushmeat trade 452
canonical hypothesis 152
canopy gaps
promote increase in tree species richness 398–9
see alsotreefall gaps
carbohydrate pool size, and survival/tolerance of
seedlings 170
carbon credits 483
carbon sequestration, promoted through PES 482–3
Cecropia
cannot invade space occupied by deep crowns 163
lower investment in anti-herbivore defense 133
Center forTropical Forest Science (CTFS) network
110 ,111
development of large FDPs 99–104
parameter values, two versions of neutral
theory 151
certification, and tropical rainforest conservation
453
eco-certification or eco-labeling 453
invisibility of rainforest in end-products 453
only small proportion currently certified 453
chance events, important 386
chronosequence studies 385, 393, 395
CITES
impact on trade in endangered rainforest
animals 452
tropical rainforest trees listed in Appendix II 452
clades
with fitness deviations 47
legume, considered to be young 55
primarily driven by neutral processes 47
tropical, some considerably older 55
Clidemia hirta, relatively pest-free as an exotic 419
climate change mitigation 482
coevolutionary interactions 276
coevolutionary scenario
Blepharidabeetles, coevolution with
Burseraspp. 278
and theory of dietary specialization 277–8
top-down view, tested with tropical predators and
parasitoids 278–9
evidence against “nasty host hypothesis” 279
pattern of parasitism different 279
coevolutionary theory 276
colonization–establishment trade-off 250
colonization-related trade-offs
can contribute to diversity maintenance 192
and diversity maintenance, theory 183–6
equalizing vs. stabilizing influences 183–5
and habitat partitioning 186–7
dispersal–fecundity trade-off 186–7
tolerance–fecundity trade-off 186
methods for evaluating the presence and role of
187–8
can play role only if present 187
community-level seed addition
experiments 188
importance of habitat partitioning at
community level 187
most common approach 187
community dynamics 143–5, 154
niche assembly vs. neutrality, testing prediction of
154
prediction of 156, 156
role of gap dependency in 108–10
community ecology
neutral theory, prediction of community dynamics
153–4
simple measure of change over time, decay inR^2
154
testing hypotheses in 286
competition for light 124
a “tragedy of the commons” 124
competition–colonization trade-offs 5, 108, 182–3,
189–90, 192
in homogeneous environments 185–6
need for strong competitive asymmetry 185
many consist of equalizing trait relations 185
neither stabilizing not perfectly equalizing 190
competitive ability 185
competitive asymmetry 162, 185
competitive exclusion 242–3, 386
high rates in wet tropical forests 417–18
principle of 160–1
regional, extensive 89
resource-driven 19
conservation 317–18
motivation 430
no inherent link with bioprospecting 431
“use it or lose it” strategy 430
conservation solutions 475
reflect various socioeconomic contexts 480–1
deforestation and conversion of forests 480–1