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tropical forest ecology, sterile or virgin for
theoreticians (Contd.)
evolution of diverse forest of rare trees 135
pests and pathogens drive trade-offs 134
predator removal and consumer abundance
135
wind-pollination, and anti-herbivore defense
135
tree height 125–6
balance between costs and benefits of stature
125
cost of reproduction 126
growth depends on neighbors 125
height-associated costs 125–6
limiting factors 125
optimum height 125
trunk taper and tree shape 126
design of tree trunks 126
fixed safety factor against buckling 126
torque and countertorque 126
tree shape reflects trade-offs 126
what must be understood about tropical forests
121–2
control of forest productivity 121–2
herbivores shape characteristics 122
what governs forest structures 122
tropical forest mammals and soil fertility 349–64
basin-wide patterns of primate biomass 352–3
data compilation 352–3, 352
non-hunted and lightly hunted sites 353
primates ideal for regional-scale test of
bottom-up effects 352
survey sites 353
bottom-up forces regulating forest communities
359
edaphic determinants of primate biomass 353–5
aboreality does not always confer immunity to
predation 355
assemblage biomass estimated 353–4, 354
effects of soil fertility 354, 355
soil fertility, effect on local primate species
richness 354, 355
large edaphic constraints on forest habitat
productivity 359
mammal biomass and soil fertility in tropical
forests 356–9
primary forest productivity and primate species
richness 357
key indicators can affect primate biomass 356
positive effect on mammal biomass 358
strong bottom-up effects on primate biomass
356–7
soil fertility 353
index of soil fertility 353
role in regulating vertebrate populations 350
soil infertility in tropical forests 350–1
soil nutrient limitation and habitat productivity
355–6
heavy investment in defensive chemistry 355–6
levels of plant reproductive investment 356
nutrient-deficient environments 356
production rates of young leaves and soil fertility
356
spatial distribution of plant defenses and
phylogenetic inertia 356
soil texture and nutrient status, effects on plant
communities 350
soils in the humid tropics 349
tropical forest plants, ability to prevent nutrient loss
349
tropical forest succession, chance and determinism in
384–408
invasive plant species, long-lasting effects 388
is there an endpoint to succession 399–400
distinguishing climax from old secondary forest
399
overview of secondary forest succession 387–96
recruitment limitation during succession 398–9,
398
succession in relation to landscape pattern 400–1
secondary forests may develop near existing
forest patches 400
succession and relay floristics model 390
successional dynamics within individual forests
396–8
absence of canopy gaps drives species turnover
397
Budongo, Uganda 396
driven by high mortality of light-demanding
trees 397
Nicaragua 397
successional themes and variations 384–6
deterministic successional processes 385
framework applies to large-scale disturbances
399
human impact 384
niche-based processes 385
secondary succession 384
successional processes known from
chronosequence studies 385
successional studies 385