Biotic Interactions in the Tropics (eBook, PDF)

Their Role in the Maintenance of Species Diversity
Redaktion: Burslem, David

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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, first published in 2005, synthesises the 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511126666
• Artikelnr.: 38206004

Autorenporträt

David Burslem is Senior Lecturer in Tropical Plant Science at the University of Aberdeen. His current research focuses on tropical forest sites in Malaysia, Sri Lanka and Ecuador.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; Part I. Plant-Plant Interactions: 1. Plant-plant interactions in
tropical rainforests John J. Ewel and Ankila Hiremath; 2. Resource capture
and use by tropical forest tree seedlings and its consequences for
competition Lourens Poorter; 3. Role of life-history trade-offs in the
equalisation and differentiation of tropical tree species Jim Dalling and
David Burslem; 4. Neighbourhood effects on sapling growth and survival in a
neotropical forest and the ecological equivalence hypothesis Maria Uriarte,
Stephen P. Hubbell, Robert John, Roger Condit and Charles D. Canham; 5.
Ecological drift in niche-structured communities: neutral pattern does not
imply neutral process Drew Purves and Steve Pacala; Part II. Plant-Microbe
Interactions: 6. Dimensions of disease in tropical forests Greg Gilbert; 7.
Mycorrhizas and ecosystem processes in tropical rain forests: implications
for diversity Ian Alexander and Lee Su See; 8. An overview of arbuscular
mycorrhizal fungal composition, distribution, and host effects from a
tropical moist forest Edward Allen Herre, Damond Kyllo, Scott Mangan,
Rebecca Husband, Luis C. Mejia and Ahn-Heum Eom; 9. Tropical plants as
chimera: some implications of foliar endophytic fungi for the study of host
plants defense, physiology, and genetics Edward Allen Herre, S. A. Van
Bael, Z. Maynard, N. Robbins, J. Bischoff, A. E. Arnold, E. Rojas, L. C.
Mejia, R. A. Cordero, C. Woodward and D. A. Kyllo; Part III. Plant-Animal
Interactions: 10. Implications of spatial distribution on pollination and
seed production and dispersal Jaboury Ghazoul; 11. Seed dispersal of woody
plants in tropical forests: concepts, examples and future directions Helene
Muller-Landau and Denise Hardesty; 12. The role of trophic interactions in
community initiation, maintenance and degradation Joe Fragoso; 13. Impacts
of herbivores on tropical plant diversity Bob Marquis; 14. Have the impacts
of insect herbivores on the growth of tropical tree seedlings been
underestimated? Fergus Massey, Malcolm Press and Sue Hartley; 15.
Multi-trophic interactions and biodiversity: beetles, ants, caterpillars
and plants Deborah Letourneau and Lee Dyer; 16. The trophic structure of
tropical ant-plant-herbivore interactions: community consequences and
coevolutionary dynamics Doyle McKey, Laurence Gaume, Carine Brouat, Bruno
Di Gusto, Laurence Pascal, Gabriel Debout, Ambroise Dalecky and Martin
Heil; 17. Multitrophic interactions in a neotropical savanna:
ant-hemipteran systems, associated insect herbivores, and a host plant
Paulo S. Oliveira and Kleber Del-Claro; Part IV. Biotic Interactions in
Human-Sominated Landscapes: 18. The disruption of biotic interactions in
fragmented tropical landscapes William F. Laurance; 19. Effects of natural
enemies on tropical plant invasions Saara DeWalt; 20. A new mix of alien
and native species coexist in Puerto Rico's landscapes Ariel Lugo and
Thomas Brandeis; 21. The dynamics of a tropical dry forest in India:
climate, fire, elephants and the evolution of life history strategies R.
Sukumar, H. S. Suresh, H. S. Dattaraja, A. Srinidhi and C. Nath; 22.
Changes in plant communities associated with timber management in natural
forests in the moist tropics Michelle Pinard.