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tropical leaves, endophyte colonization and
abundance in (Contd.)
caused by seedling predation 375
limitation caused by a sparse seed bank 373
tropical rainforest conservation 442–57
exist in five major regions 443 , 444
forests’ differing responses to human
impacts 444
impact of hunting on key ecological
processes 444
many rainforests 447–50
many threats 444–7
saving the rainforests 450–3
situation critical but not hopeless 453
tropical rainforest restoration 453
time-tax on ecological restoration 453
tropical rainforests 63, 153
ants dominant canopy arthropod 334–48
high diversity due to stability or greater age 40
how vertebrates affect diversity critical 295
tropical secondary forest succession 6–7, 302
tropical secondary forest succession, an overview
387–96
phases of succession 387–90
first phase, stand initiation stage 387–8
secondary phase, stem exclusion phase 388
succession following hurricanes 387
third phase, understory reinitiation stage
388–90
tropical systems, implications for role of terrestrial
vertebrates in 301–4
AMF diversity may contribute to plant diversity
304
community response will be complex 301–2
differences in species pools available 302–3
increased local species extinction 303
non-mycorrhizal seedling species 304
terrestrial vertebrates increase local dispersal
limitation 303–4
tropical tree communities, ecological organization of
79–81
ecological exclusion and speciation 80
negative density dependence 80
segregated flowering and fruiting times 80–1
tropical trees 122
endophytes serve as acquired immune system 265
matrix of niches 161
taxonomic and ecological composition at multiple
scales 4
tropical tritrophic interactions 275–93
evolution of dietary specialization 277–9
feeding specialization studies 278
tritrophic view of feeding specialization
277–8
trophic cascades 280–4
future directions 284–7
future research, hypotheses 284–5
large-scale, long-term experiments 285
mesocosm/component-community approach
286
modeling approach 286
natural history 285
phytogenic approaches 285
species cascade approach 286–7
Janzen–Hallwachs plant–caterpillar-parasitoid
dataset 285
major issues 275–6
tougher predators, nastier plants, more specialized
consumers 276–7
climate–herbivory relationship 277
complex patterns of tritrophic
interactions 277
untested assumptions 276
tropical wet forest succession 394–5Uganda
Budongo Forest 417
canopy tree species compared across ten sites
395
species composition across tropical forest
chronosequence 393
successional dynamics in 396
Kibale National Park, seed predation in 374vegetation dynamics 312, 317, 386
in mature tropical forests, pioneer and
shade-tolerant species 390, 391 , 392
processes across successional phases in tropical
forests 389–90, 389
three conceptual frameworks in studies of 387
deterministic vs. stochastic factors 387
importance of life-history traits and species
interaction 387
initial floristic composition vs relay floristics
387
Venezuela
effects of Guri reservoir 136, 318
see alsoLago Guri, Venezuela
vertebrates
indirect effects 295