Preface

The Contributors

Introduction

Alwyn H. Gentry

PART I The Sites

La Selva Biological Station: A Blueprint for Stimulating Tropical Research

David B. Clark

Barro Colorado Island and Tropical Biology

Egbert Giles Leigh, Jr.

S. Joseph Wright

An Overview of Research at Cocha Cashu Biological Station

John Terborgh

Central Amazonian Forests and the Minimum Critical Size of Ecosystems Project

Thomas E. Lovejoy

Richard O. Bierregaard, Jr.

PART II Flowistics

The Distribution of Diversity among Families, Genera, and Habit Types in the La Selva Flora

Barry Hammel

The Floristic Composition of the Barro Colorado Island Forest

Robin B. Foster

Stephen P. Hubbell

The Floristic Composition of the Rio Manu Floodplain Forest

Robin B. Foster

The Floristic Composition of the Forests of Central Amazonian Brazil

Ghillean T. France

Floristic Similarities and Differences between Southern Central America and Upper and Central Amazonia

Alwyn H. Gentry

PART III Birds

Birds of La Selva Biological Station: Habitat Use, Trophic Composition, and Migrants

John G. Blake

F. Gary Stiles

Bette A. Loiselle

The Avifauna of Barro Colorado Island and the Pipeline Road, Panama

James R. Karr

Bird Communities of the Cocha Cashu Biological Station in Amazonian Peru

Scott K. Robinson

John Terborgh

Species Composition and Trophic Organization of the Understory Bird Community in a Central Amazonian Terra Firme Forest

Richard O. Boierregaard, Jr.

Birds of Four Neotropical Forests

James R. Karr

Scott Robinson. John G. Blake

Richard O. Bierregaard, Jr.

PART IV Mammals

Mammals of La Selva, Costa Rica

Don E. Wilson

Neotropical mammal Densities: How Unusual is the Community on Barro Colorado Island, Panama?

William E. Glanz

Ecological Structure of the Nonflying Mammal Community at Cocha Cashu Biological Station, Manu National Park, Peru

Charles H. Janson

Louise H. Emmons

Estimation of Mammalian Densities in Continuous Forest North of Manaus

Jay R. Malcolm

Neotropical Mammal Communities

John F. Eisenberg

PART V Reptiles and Amphibians

The Herpetofauna of La Selva, Costa Rica

Craig Guyer

The Herpetofauna of Barro Colorado Island, Panama: An Ecological Summary

A. Stanley Rand

Charles W. Myers

A Preliminary Overview of the Herpetofauna of Cocha Cashu, Manu National Park, Peru

Lily B. Rodriguez

John E. Cadle

Frogs, Snakes, and Lizards of the INPA-WWF Reserves near Manaus, Brazil

Barbara L. Zimmerman

Miguel T. Rodrigues

Herpetofaunas in Neotropical Rainforests: Comparative Composition, History, and Resource Use

William E. Duellman

PART VI Forest Dynamics

Forest Dynamics at La Selva Biological Station, Costa, Rica, 1969--1985

Diana Lieberman

Gary S. Hartshorn

Milton Lieberman

Rodolfo Peralta

Structure, Dynamics, and Equilibrium Status of Old-Growth Forest on Barro Colorado Island

Stephen P. Hubbell

Robin B. Foster

Composition and Dynamics of the Cocha Cashu ``Mature'' Floodplain Forest

Alwyn H. Gentry

John Terborgh

Long-Term Change in the Successional Forest Community of the Rio Manu Floodplain

Robin B. Foster

Tree Mortality and Recruitment over a Five-Year Period in Undisturbed Upland Rainforest of the Central Amazon

Judy M. Rankin-De-Merona

Roger W. Hutchings H.

Thomas E. Lovejoy

An Overview of Neotropical Forest Dynamics

Gary S. Hartshorn

Scientific Index

Subject Index