Biotic Interactions in the Tropics

Their Role in the Maintenance of Species Diversity

By: David Burslem (Editor), Michelle Pinard (Editor), Sue Hartley (Editor)

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Hardcover | 9 August 2005

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Tropical ecosystems house a significant proportion of global biodiversity. To understand how these ecosystems function we need to appreciate not only what plants, animals and microbes they contain, but also how they interact with each other. This volume synthesises the current state of knowledge in this area, with chapters providing reviews or case studies drawn from research conducted in both Old and New World tropics and including biotic interactions among taxa at all trophic levels. In most chapters plants (typically trees) are the starting point, but, taken together, the chapters consider interactions of plants with other plants, with micro-organisms and with animals, and the inter-relationships of human-induced disturbance with interactions among species. An underlying theme of the volume is the attempt to understand the maintenance of high diversity in tropical regions, which remains one of the most significant unexplained observations in ecological studies.

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Key topics include the maintenance of tree species richness, ant-plant interactions, mycorrhizal fungi, seed dispersal, and pollination biology. An extensive index, literature review, and handsome production make this volume a valuable addition to libraries. Choice "I am convinced this volume will be useful for a variety of readers, ranging from students to experienced researchers in tropical biology." Rodolfo Dirzo, ECOLOGY

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List of contributors	p. viii
Preface	p. xi
Plant-plant interactions
Plant-plant interactions in tropical forests	p. 3
Resource capture and use by tropical forest tree seedlings and their consequences for competition	p. 35
Role of life-history trade-offs in the equalization and differentiation of tropical tree species	p. 65
Neighbourhood effects on sapling growth and survival in a neotropical forest and the ecological-equivalence hypothesis	p. 89
Ecological drift in niche-structured communities: neutral pattern does not imply neutral process	p. 107
Plant-microbe interactions
Dimensions of plant disease in tropical forests	p. 141
Mycorrhizas and ecosystem processes in tropical rain forest: implications for diversity	p. 165
An overview of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal composition, distribution and host effects from a tropical moist forest	p. 204
Tropical plants as chimera: some implications of foliar endophytic fungi for the study of host-plant defence, physiology and genetics	p. 226
Plant-animal interactions
Implications of plant spatial distribution for pollination and seed production	p. 241
Seed dispersal of woody plants in tropical forests: concepts, examples and future directions	p. 267
The role of trophic interactions in community initiation, maintenance and degradation	p. 310
Impacts of herbivores on tropical plant diversity	p. 328
Have the impacts of insect herbivores on the growth of tropical tree seedlings been underestimated?	p. 347
Multi-trophic interactions and biodiversity: beetles, ants, caterpillars and plants	p. 366
The trophic structure of tropical ant-plant-herbivore interactions: community consequences and coevolutionary dynamics	p. 386
Multitrophic interactions in a neotropical savanna: ant-hemipteran systems, associated insect herbivores and a host plant	p. 414
Biotic interactions in human-dominated landscapes
The alteration of biotic interactions in fragmented tropical forests	p. 441
Effects of natural enemies on tropical woody-plant invasions	p. 459
New mix of alien and native species coexists in Puerto Rico's landscapes	p. 484
The dynamics of a tropical dry forest in India: climate, fire, elephants and the evolution of life-history strategies	p. 510
Changes in plant communities associated with timber management in natural forests in the moist tropics	p. 530
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