RAIN FOREST: Selected References

RAIN FOREST: selected references Books Holdridge, L.R., W.C. Grenke, W.H. Hatheway, T. Liang, and J.A. Tosi. 1971. Forest environments in Tropical Life Zones: a pilot study. Pergamon Press. New York. Huston, M. 1994. Biological diversity. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK. Jordan CF (ed) (1989) An Amazonian rain forest: the structure and function of a nutrient stressed ecosystem and the impact of slash-and-burn agriculture. Man and the Biosphere Series, Vol. 2. UNESCO & The Partenon Publ Group. London Kahn, F., and J.-J. de Granville. 1992. Palms in forests ecosystems of Amazonia. Ecological Studies Vol. 95. Springer Verag. Berlin. Mulkey, S.S., R.L. Chazdon, and A. P. Smith (eds.). 1996. Tropical forest plant ecophysiology. Chapman & Hall. New York. Odum, H.T. and R.F. Pigeon (eds).1970. A tropical rain forest: a study of irradiation and ecology at El Verde, Puerto Rico. US Atomic Energy Comission. Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Richards, P.W. 1952. The tropical rainforest. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. (and the 1996 revised and enlarged edition). Walter, H. 1973. Die Vegetation der Erde. I. Die tropischen und subtropischen Zonen. VEB Gustav Fischer Verlag. Jena.

Plant diversity Allen E.B., M.F. Allen, D.J. Helm, J.M. Trappe, R. Molina, and E. Rincón. 1995. Patterns and regulation of mycorrhizal plant and fungal diversity. Plant and Soil 170: 47- 62. Gentry A.H. 1988. Changes in plant commmunity diversity and floristic composition on environmental and geographic gradients. Annals Missouri Bot. Garden 75: 1-34. Gentry A.H. and Dodson C. 1987. Diversity and biogeography of neotropical vascular epiphytes. Annals Missouri Bot. Garden 74: 205-233. Hart T.B., Hart J.A. and Murphy P.G. 1989. Monodominant and species-rich forests of the humid tropics: causes for their co-occurrence. American Naturalist 133: 613-633. Torti, S.D., P.D. Coley, and D.P. Janos. 1997. Vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizae in two tropical monodominant trees. J. Trop. Ecol. 13: 623-629. Swaine, M. D. and T.C. Whitmore. 1988. On the definition of ecological species groups in tropical rain forests. Vegetatio 75: 81-86.

Tropical forests ecophysiology GENERAL Grubb PJ (1977) Control of forest growth and distribution on wet tropical mountains. Ann Rev Ecol Syst 8: 83-107. Hall J.B and Swaine M.D. 1976. Classification and ecology of closed-canopy forest in Ghana. Journal of Ecology 64: 913-951. Melillo, J.M., McGuire A.D., Kicklighter D.W., Moore III B., Vorosmarty C.J. and Schloss A.L. 1993. Global climate change and terrestrial net primary production. Nature 363: 234-240. Saldarriaga J.G., West D. C., Tharp M.L. and Uhl C. 1988. Long-term chronosequence of forest succession in the upper Río Negro of Colombia and Venezuela. J. Ecol. 76: 938- 958. Sanford, R.L. (1987). Apogeotropic roots in an Amazonian rain forest. Science, 235, 1062-1064. Sanford, R.L., Saldarriaga, J., Clark, K.E., Uhl, C. & Herrera, R. (1985). Amazon rain forest fires. Science,227, 54-55. Grace J., Malhi Y., Lloyd J., McIntyre J., Miranda A.,C., Meir P. & Miranda H.S. The use of eddy covariance to infer the net carbon dioxide uptake of Brazilian rain forest. Global Change Biology 2: 209- 217. 1996. Lloyd J. Current perspectives on the terrestrial carbon cycle. Tellus 51B: 336-342. 1999

NUTRITION Cuevas E. and Medina E. 1986. Nutrient dynamics in Amazonian forest ecosystems I. Nutrient flux in fine litter fall and efficiency of nutrient utilization. Oecologia 68: 466- 472. Cuevas E. and Medina E. 1988. Nutrient dynamics in Amazonian forest ecosystems II. Fine root growth, nutrient availability and leaf litter decomposition. Oecologia 76: 222- 235. Janos, D.P. 1980. Vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizae affect lowland tropical rain forest plant growth. Ecology 61: 151-162. Jordan C.F. and Escalante G. 1980. Root productivity in an Amazonian rain forest. Ecology 61: 14-18. Jordan, C.F., Caskey, W., Escalante, G., Herrera, R., Montagnini, F., Todd, R. and Uhl, C. 1982. The nitrogen cycle in a "Tierra Firme" rainforest in the Amazon territory of Venezuela. Plant and Soil 67: 325-332. Marrs RH, Thomson J, Scott D, Proctor J (1991) Nitrogen mineralization and nitrification in terra firme forest and savanna soils on Ilha de Maracá, Roraima, Brazil. J Tropical Ecol 7: 123-137. Scott DA, Proctor J, Thompson J (1992) Ecological studies on a lowland evergreen rainforest on Maracá island, Roraima, Brazil. II. Litter and nutrient cycling. J. Ecology 80: 705-717. Stark, N. & Jordan, C.F. (1978). Nutrient retention by the root mat of an Amazonian rainforest. Ecology, 59, 434-437. Swaine, M.D. 1996. Rainfall and soil fertility factors limiting forest species distribution in Ghana. J. Ecol. 84: 419-428. TiessenH., Cuevas E., and Chacón P. 1994. The role of soil organic matter in sustaining soil fertility. Nature 371: 783-785.

LIGHT –PHOTOSYNTHESIS-TRANSPIRATION Givnish, T.J. 1988. Adaptation to sun and shade: a whole plant perspective. Aust. J. Plant Physiol. 15: 63-92. Grace, J., J. Lloyd, J.A. Macintyre, A.C. Miranda, P. Meir, H.S. Miranda, C.A. Nobre, J. Moncrief, J. Massheder, I.R. Wright, and J.H.C. Gash. 1995. Carbon dioxide uptake by undisturbed tropical forest. Science 270: 778-780. Lovelock C.E., M. Jebb, and C.B. Osmond. 1994. Photoinhibition and recovery in tropical plant species: response to disturbance. Oecologia 97: 297-307. Reich, P.B., D.S. Elsworth, and C. Uhl 1995. Leaf carbon and nutrient assimilation and conservation in species differing status in an oligotrophic Amazonian forest. Functional Ecol. 9: 65-76. van der Merwe NJ, Medina E. 1989. Photosynthesis and 13C/12C ratios in Amazonian rain forests. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 53: 1091-1094. Wofsy S.C., Harriss R.VC. and Kaplan W.A. 1988. Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere over the Amazon basin. J. Geophys. Res. 93 (D2): 1377-1387.