Tropical rain forests

Bellehumeur, C. , Legendre, P. and Marcotte, D. 1997: Variance and spatial scale in a tropical rain forest: changing the size of sampling units. Plant Ecology 130, 89-98.

Brooks, T. M. , Pimm, S. L. and Collar, N. J. 1997: Deforestation predicts the number of threatened birds in insular southeast Asia. Conservation Biology 11, 382-394.

Brown, E. D. and Hopkins, M. J. G. 1996: How New Guinea rainforest flower resources vary in time and space: implications for nectarivorous birds. Australian Journal of Ecology 21, 363-378.

Cao, M. and Zhang, J. 1997: Tree species diversity of tropical forest vegetation in Xishuangbanna, SW China. Biodiversity and Conservation 6, 995-1006.

Chandrasekar-Rao, A. and Sunquist, M. E. 1996: Ecology of small mammals in tropical forest habitats of southern India. Journal of Tropical Ecology 12, 561-571.

Condit, R. , Hubbell, S. P. and Foster, R. B. 1996: Changes in tree species abundance in a neotropical forest: impact of climate change. Journal of Tropical Ecology 12, 231-256.

Danielson, F. 1997: Stable environments and fragile communities: does history determine the resilience of avian rain-forest communities to habitat degradation? Biodiversity and Conservation 6, 423-433.

Drake, D. R. , Whistler, W. A. , Motley, T. J. and Imada, C. T. 1996: Rain forest vegetation of 0Eua Island, Kingdom of Tonga. New Zealand Journal of Botany 34, 65-77.

Easa, P. S. , Surendranatham Asari and Chand Basha, S. 1997: Status and distribution of the endangered lion-tailed macaque Macaca silenus in Kerala, India. Biological Conservation 80, 33-37.

Emberton, K. C. 1996: Conservation priorities for forest-floor invertebrates of the southeastern half of Madagascar: evidence from two land-snail clades. Biodiversity and Conservation 5, 729-741.

Estrada, A. , Coates-Estrada, R. and Meritt, D. A. 1997: Anthropogenic landscape changes and avian diversity at Los Tuxtlas, Mexico. Biodiversity and Conservation 6, 19-43.

Fjeldsa, J. and Lovett, J. C. 1997: Geographical patterns of old and young species in African forest biota: the significance of specific montane areas as evolutionary centres. Biodiversity and Conservation 6, 325-346.

Fragoso, C. and Rojas-Fernandez, P. 1996: Earthworms inhabiting bromeliads in Mexican tropical rainforest: ecological and historical determinants. Journal of Tropical Ecology 12, 729-734.

Hamer, K. C. , Hill, J. K. , Lace, L. A. and Langan, A. M. 1997: Ecological and biogeographical effects of forest disturbance on tropical butterflies in Sumba, Indonesia. Journal of Biogeography 24, 67-75.

He, F. , Legendre, P. and LaFrankie, J. V. 1996: Spatial pattern of diversity in a tropical rain forest in Malaysia. Journal of Biogeography 23, 57-74.

Hill, C. J. 1996: Habitat specificity and food preferences of an assemblage of tropical Australian dung beetles. Journal of Tropical Ecology 12, 449-460.

Hyde, K. D. 1996: Biodiversity of microfungi in north Queensland. Australian Systematic Botany 9, 261-271.

Kappelle, M. , Geuze, T. , Leal, M. E. and Cleef, A. M. 1996: Successional age and forest structure in a Costa Rican upper montane Quercus forest. Journal of Tropical Ecology 12, 681-698.

Lodge, D. J. 1997: Factors related to diversity of decomposer fungi in tropical forests. Biodiversity and Conservation 6, 681-688.

Lovett, J. C. 1996: Elevational and latitudinal changes in tree associations and diversity in the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania. Journal of Tropical Ecology 12, 629-650.

Manrubia, S. C. and Sole, R. V. 1996: Self-organised criticality in rainforest dynamics. Chaos, Solitons and Fractals 7, 523-541.

Newbery, D. McC. , Campbell, E. J. F. , Protor, J. and Still, M. J. 1996: Primary lowland dipterocarp forest at Danum Valley, Sabah, Malaysia: species composition and pattern in the understorey. Vegetatio 122, 193-220.

O'Brien, T. G. and Kinnaird, M. F. 1996: Birds and mammals of the Bukit Barsian Selatan National Park, Sumatra, Indonesia. Oryx 30, 207-217.

Ojo, L. O. and Ola-Adams, B. A. 1996: Measurement of tree diversity in the Nigerian rainforest. Biodiversity and Conservation 5, 1253-1270.

Osho, J. S. A. 1996: Modelling the tree population dynamics of the most abundant species in a Nigerian tropical rain forest. Ecological Modelling 89, 175-181.

Pendry, C. A. and Proctor, J. 1996: The causes of altitudinal zonation of rain forests on Bukit Belalong, Brunei. Journal of Ecology 84, 407-418.

Phillips, O. 1995: Evaluating turnover in tropical forests. Science 268, 895-895.

Phillips, O. 1997: The changing ecology of tropical forests. Biodiversity and Conservation 6, 291-311.

Phillips, O. L. and Gentry, A. H. 1994: Increasing turnover through time in tropical forests. Science 263, 954-958.

Phillips, O. , Hall, P. , Sawyer, S. and Vasquez, R. 1997: Species richness, tropical forest dynamics, and sampling: response to Sheil. Okois 79, 183-187.

Porembski, S. , Szarynski, J. , Mund, J. and Barthlott, W. 1996: Biodiversity and vegetation of small-sized inselbergs in a west African rain forest (Tai, Ivory Coast). Journal of Biogeography 23, 47-55.

Poulsen, A. D. 1996: Species richness and density of ground herbs within a plot of lowland rainforest in north-west Borneo. Journal of Tropical Ecology 12, 177-190.

Raven, P. H. 1988: Tropical floristics tomorrow. Taxon 37, 549-560.

Reichel, H. and Andersen, A. N. 1996: The rain-forest ant fauna of Australia's Northern Territory. Australian Journal of Zoology 44, 81-95.

Ruokolainen, K. , Linna, A. and Tuomisto, H. 1997: Use of melastomataceae and pteridophytes for revealing phytogeographical patterns in Amazonian rain forest. Journal of Tropical Ecology 13, 243-256.

Sheila, D. 1995: Evaluating turnover in tropical forests. Science 268, 894-895.

Sheila, D. 1996: Species richness, tropical forest dynamics and sampling: questioning cause and effect. Okios 76, 587-590.

Sheila, D. 1997: Further notes on species richness, tropical forest dynamics and sampling -a reply to Phillips et al. Okios 79, 188-189.

Silver, W. L. , Brown, S. and Lugo, A. E. 1995: Effects of changes in biodiversity on ecosystem function in tropical forests. Conservation Biology 10, 17-24.

Smith, P. G. and Kerry, S. M. 1996: The Iwokrama rain forest programme for sustainable development: how much of Guyana's bat (Chiroptera) diversity does it encompass? Biodiversity and Conservation 5, 921-942.

Spitzer, K. , Jaros, J. , Havelka, J. and Ieps, J. 1997: Effect of small-scale disturbance on butterfly communities of an Indochinese montane rain-forest. Biological Conservation 80, 9-15.

Strasberg, D. 1996: Diversity, size composition and spatial aggregation among trees on a 1-ha rain forest plot at La Reunion. Biodiversity and Conservation 5, 825-840.

Tackaberry, R. and Kellman, M. 1996: Patterns of tree species richness along peninsular extensions of tropical forests. Global Ecology and Biogeography Letters 5, 85-90.

Taylor, D. M. , Hamilton, A. C. , Whyatt, J. D. , Mucunguzi, P. and Bukenya-Ziraba, R. 1996: Stand dynamics in Mpanga Research Forest Reserve, Uganda, 1968-1993. Journal of Tropical Ecology 12, 583-597.

Terborgh, J. , Foster, R. B. and Nunez, P. 1996: Tropical tree communities: a test of the non-equilibrium hypothesis. Ecology 77, 561-567.

Tuomisto, H. and Poulsen, A. D. 1996: Influence of edaphic specialization on pteridophyte distribution in neotropical rain forests. Journal of Biogeography 23, 283-293.

Tuomisto, H. and Ruokolainen, K. 1997: The role of ecological knowledge in explaining biogeography and biodiversity in Amazonia. Biodiversity and Conservation 6, 347-357.

Turner, I. M. , Chua, K. S. , Ong, J. S. Y. , Soong, B. C. and Tan, H. T. W. 1995: A century of plant species loss from an isolated fragment of lowland tropical rain forest. Conservation Biology 10, 1229-1244.

Turner, I. M. , Tan, H. T. W. and Chua, K. S. 1996: Relationship between herb and canopy composition in a tropical rain forest successional mosaic in Singapore. Journal of Tropical Ecology 12, 843-851.

Turner, I. M. , Wong, Y. K. , Chew, P. T. and bin Ibrahim, A. 1997: Tree species richness in primary and old secondary tropical forest in Singapore. Biodiversity and Conservation 6, 537-543.

Zimmerman, B. L. and Simberloff, D. 1996: An historical interpretation of habitat use by frogs in a central Amazonian forest. Journal of Biogeography 23, 27-46.