Synthesizing theoretical and empirical analyses of the processes that help shape these unique ecosystems, Tropical Rainforests looks at the effects of evolutionary histories, past climate change, and ecological dynamics on the origin and maintenance of tropical rainforest communities. Featuring recent advances in paleoecology, climatology, geology, molecular systematics, biogeography, and community ecology, the volume also offers insights from those fields into how rainforests will endure the impact of anthropogenic change. With more than sixty contributors, Tropical Rainforests will be of great interest to students and professionals in tropical ecology and conservation.
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Eldredge Bermingham is a staff scientist and deputy director of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama and an associate professor in the biology departments of the University of Missouri, St. Louis, and McGill University in Montreal. Christopher Dick is a Tupper postdoctoral fellow at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Craig Moritz is director of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, chairman of the Berkeley Natural History Museum, and professor in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Origin and maintenance of rainforest diversity,
By Kouta Räsänen (Germany) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Tropical Rainforests: Past, Present, and Future (Paperback)
An excellent collection of articles concentrating on the origin and maintenance of the high diversity of tropical rainforests. Note that over a third of the book is about the rainforests of northeastern Australia. For those who became interested in the book after seeing the beautiful cover photo: it is the only animal photo in the book.
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a good starting point,
This review is from: Tropical Rainforests: Past, Present, and Future (Paperback)
This book introduces the reader to the research and state-of-the-art in evolution and conservation of rainforest fauna. Very good texts, some of them very biased towards certain trends. Worth taking a look.
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wet tropics, world heritage area, birthday creek, species rank, montane blocks, rainforest angiosperms, two complete glacial cycles, riverine diversification, data matrix coded, mesothermal rainforests, macrofloral record, vicariant backbone, perhumidity index, subspecies endemism, slope quadrats, models for tropical rainforests, superwet climates, riverine hypothesis, rainforest gymnosperms, palynological richness, endemic vertebrate species, ecotone populations, metacommunity size, rainforest vertebrates, rainforest contraction Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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wet tropics, world heritage area, birthday creek, species rank, montane blocks, rainforest angiosperms, two complete glacial cycles, riverine diversification, data matrix coded, mesothermal rainforests, macrofloral record, vicariant backbone, perhumidity index, subspecies endemism, slope quadrats, models for tropical rainforests, superwet climates, riverine hypothesis, rainforest gymnosperms, palynological richness, endemic vertebrate species, ecotone populations, metacommunity size, rainforest vertebrates, rainforest contraction Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South America, North America, New Guinea, Southeast Asia, Middle Eocene, Brazilian Amazon, Lynch's Crater, North Queensland, Barro Colorado Island, Van Veller, Davies Creek, Early Miocene, New South Wales, Hill of Six Lakes, Yuccabine Creek, Kimba Arch, Fort Sherman, Madre de Dios, Late Pliocene, Lake Pata, Coral Sea, Golden Grove, Black Mountain Corridor, Atherton Tableland, Forest Dynamics Plot Browse Sample Pages:
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