Monographiae Biologicae

Dynamics and Plant-Animal Interactions in a Neotropical Rainforest

By: F. Bongers (Editor), P. Charles-Dominique (Editor), P.-M. Forget (Editor)

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Hardcover | 30 November 2001

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Nouragues is a tropical forest research station in French Guiana. It was established in 1986 for research on natural mechanisms of forest regeneration. Since then a lot of research has been done on this and related topics.
This book provides an overview of the main research results, and focuses on plant communities, vertebrate communities and evolutionary ecology, frugivory and seed dispersal, and forest dynamics and recruitment.
The appendices give (annoted) checklists of plants, birds, mammals, herpetofauna and fishes found in the same area.

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Editors Preface	p. xiii
Introduction
The field station	p. 1
Geography and climate	p. 9
Scales of ambient light variation	p. 19
Plant Communities
The lowland high rainforest: structure and tree species diversity	p. 31
The low forest (Nouragues Inselberg)	p. 47
Plant communities on a granitic outcrop	p. 65
Palaeoclimates and their consequences on forest composition	p. 79
Vertebrate Communities and Evolutionary Ecology
Diet and population densities of the primate community in relation to fruit supplies	p. 89
Comparative positional behaviour of five primates	p. 103
The bat community	p. 115
The marsupial community	p. 121
The avian community: an overview of species composition and guild structure	p. 129
The adaptive significance of flocking in tropical understorey forest birds: the field evidence	p. 143
Habitat selection, ambient light and colour patterns in some lek-displaying birds	p. 161
Distribution and life histories of amphibians and reptiles	p. 167
Fishes of the Arataye river and their space-time organization	p. 185
Frugivory and Seed Dispersal
Relationships between seed dispersal and behavioural ecology	p. 191
Frugivory and seed dispersal by three neotropical primates: impact on plant regeneration	p. 197
Frugivory and seed dispersal by bats	p. 207
Frugivory and seed dispersal by Kinkajous	p. 217
Frugivory and seed dispersal by terrestrial mammals	p. 227
Vegetarian species in the bird community with an emphasis on frugivory and seed dispersal	p. 233
Forest Dynamics and Recruitment
Tree-falls and canopy gaps: patterns of natural disturbance	p. 243
The dispersal and recruitment of Cyclanthaceae and Philodendron (Araceae) understorey root-climbing vines	p. 251
Post-dispersal seed removal in four frugivore-dispersed tree species	p. 265
Scatterhoarding and tree regeneration	p. 275
Effects of tree height and light availability on plant traits at different organisation levels	p. 289
Appendices
Floristic Checklist of the Nouragues area	p. 301
Practical guide to the palms	p. 343
Mammals of the Nouragues and Lower Arataye areas	p. 351
Bird species (from Nouragues inselberg to Arataye River)	p. 357
Amphibian and reptile species at the Nouragues Nature Reserve	p. 371
Fishes of the Arataye river	p. 381
References	p. 385
Index	p. 417
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