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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