Nouragues : dynamics and plant-animal interactions in a neotropical rainforest /
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 p...
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Dordrecht ; Boston :
Kluwer Academic Publishers,
[2001]
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| Series: | Monographiae biologicae ;
volume 80. |
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Table of Contents:
- The field station / Pierre Charles-Dominique
- Geography and climate / Michel Grimaldi and Bernard Riéra
- Scales of ambient light variation / Frans Bongers, Peter J. van der Meer and Marc Théry
- The lowland high rainforest: structure and tree species diversity / Odile Poncy [and others]
- The low forest (Nouragues Inselberg) / Denis Larpin
- Plant communities on a granitic outcrop / Corinne Sarthou
- Palaeoclimates and their consequences on forest composition / Pierre Charles-Dominique [and others]
- Diet and population densities of the primate community in relation to fruit supplies / Bruno Simmen [and others]
- Comparative positional behaviour of five primates / Dionisios Youlatos and Jean-Pierre Gasc
- The bat community / André Brosset, Pierre Charles-Dominique and Anya Cockle
- The marsupial community / Marie-Laure Guillemin, Martine Atramentowicz and Didier Julien-Laferrière
- The avian community: an overview of species composition and guild structure / Jean-Marc Thiollay [and others]
- The adaptive significance of flocking in tropical understorey forest birds: the field evidence / Mathilde Jullien and Jean-Marc Thiollay
- Habitat selection, ambient light and colour patterns in some lek-displaying birds / Marc Théry and John A. Endler
- Distribution and life histories of amphibians and reptiles / Marga Born and Philippe Gaucher
- Fishes of the Arataye river and their space-time organization / François J. Meunier and Thierry Boujard
- Relationships between seed dispersal and behavioural ecology / Pierre Charles-Dominique.
- Frugivory and seed dispersal by three neotropical primates: impact on plant regeneration / Catherine Julliot, Bruno Simmen and Shuyi Zhang
- Frugivory and seed dispersal by bats / Pierre Charles-Dominique and Anya Cockle
- Frugivory and seed dispersal by kinkajous / Didier Julien-Laferrière
- Frugivory and seed dispersal by terrestrial mammals / François Feer [and others]
- Vegetarian species in the bird community with an emphasis on frugivory and seed dispersal / Christian Erard and Marc Théry
- Tree-falls and canopy gaps: patterns of natural disturbance / Peter J. van der Meer and Frans Bongers
- The dispersal and recruitment of Cyclanthaceae and Philodendron (Araceae) understorey root-climbing vines / Anya Cockle
- Post-dispersal seed removal in four frugivore-dispersed tree species / Pierre-Michel Forget [and others]
- Scatterhoarding and tree regeneration / Patrick A. Jansen and Pierre-Michel Forget
- Effects of tree height and light availability on plant traits at different organisation levels / Frank J. Sterck, Toon Rijkers and Frans Bongers
- Appendices. Floristic checklist of the Nouragues area / Pierre Belbenoit [and others] Practical guide to the palms / Jean-Jacques de Granville. Mammals of the Nouragues and lower Arataye areas / François Feer and Pierre Charles-Dominique. Bird species (from Nouragues Inselberg to Arataye River) / Jean-Marc Thiollay [and others] Amphibian and reptile species at the Nouragues Nature Reserve / Marga Born and Philippe Gaucher. Fishes of the Arataye River / François J. Meunier and Thierry Boujard.