Arthropods are the most diverse group of organisms on our planet, and the tropical rainforests represent the most biologically diverse of all ecosystems. This volume provides an overview of data collected during recent studies in Australia, Africa, Asia, and South America. The contributions focus on the distribution of arthropods and their use of resources in the rainforest canopies, providing a basis for comparison between the forest ecosystems of the main biogeographical regions. The temporal dynamics of arthropod communities, habitats and food selection are examined within and among tropical tree crowns, as are the effects of forest disturbance.
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"We must congratulate the editors and authors. Arthropods of Tropical Forests is a milestone publication. It will be of great value to many tropical invertebrate zoologists. Moreover, it also has much to offer to a broader audience, including plant ecologists and conservation biologists." Plant Science Bulletin
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Arthropods of Tropical Forests provides a comprehensive review of the many recent ecological studies carried out on the most diverse group of organisms on earth living in the most diverse ecosystems. The book focusses on the temporal and spatial dynamics of the arthropod communities and their resource use. A truly international team of authors have been brought together to describe work from the tropical forests of Asia, Australia, Africa and South America. Contributions also contain the latest methods of accessing the forest canopy, including rafts, sledges and cranes.
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In 1929, O. W. Richards and his colleagues hoisted light traps into the canopy of a Guyana forest and became the first to collect arthropods quantitatively from the canopy of any tropical rainforest (Hingston, 1930, 1932). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
canopy entomology, arthropod stratification, dominant ant species, canopy biology program, pyraloid moths, canopy biology plot, sandwich stratification, understorey samples, anthophilous species, arboreal ant species, canopy entomologists, cocoa tree plantations, extreme polyphages, insecticide knockdown, conspecific seedlings, general flowering events, unidentified genera, gall species, postflowering period, many thrips, canopy arthropods, mite lineages, posthurricane years, individual tree characteristics, arthropod assemblages Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, New Guinea, Yves Basset, French Guiana, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Budongo Forest, Fort Sherman, Hawaiian Islands, Hurricane Hugo, Ivory Coast, Barro Colorado Island, Lambir Hills National Park, Natural History Museum, Hurricane Georges, Kinabalu Park, South America, West Africa, Canopy Biology Plot, Central America, Detritivores Blattidae, Luquillo Experimental Forest, Boraginaceae Cordia, Eduard Linsenmair, Mann-Whitney U-test New!
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In 1929, O. W. Richards and his colleagues hoisted light traps into the canopy of a Guyana forest and became the first to collect arthropods quantitatively from the canopy of any tropical rainforest (Hingston, 1930, 1932). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
canopy entomology, arthropod stratification, dominant ant species, canopy biology program, pyraloid moths, canopy biology plot, sandwich stratification, understorey samples, anthophilous species, arboreal ant species, canopy entomologists, cocoa tree plantations, extreme polyphages, insecticide knockdown, conspecific seedlings, general flowering events, unidentified genera, gall species, postflowering period, many thrips, canopy arthropods, mite lineages, posthurricane years, individual tree characteristics, arthropod assemblages Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, New Guinea, Yves Basset, French Guiana, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Budongo Forest, Fort Sherman, Hawaiian Islands, Hurricane Hugo, Ivory Coast, Barro Colorado Island, Lambir Hills National Park, Natural History Museum, Hurricane Georges, Kinabalu Park, South America, West Africa, Canopy Biology Plot, Central America, Detritivores Blattidae, Luquillo Experimental Forest, Boraginaceae Cordia, Eduard Linsenmair, Mann-Whitney U-test New!
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- Tropical Rain Forest: Ecology and Management (Special Publication Number 2 of the British Ecological Society) by Stephen L. Sutton on 5 pages
- Tropical Rain Forest Ecosystems by Frank B. Golley in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Tropical Rain-Forest: The Leed Symposium (Special publication of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society) by A. C. Chadwick in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Tropical Forest Canopies: Ecology and Management (Forestry Sciences) by K.E. Linsenmair in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Reproductive Ecology of Tropical Forest Plants by K.S. Bawa in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Insect Sampling in Forest Ecosystems (Ecological Methods and Concepts) by Simon R. Leather on page 165
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