Introduction

Don E. Wilson

Abelardo Sandoval

GENERAL FLORISTICS

Mapping of the Biodiversity Site at Pakitza, Peru

George L. Venable

Terry L. Erwin

From the Forest to the User: A Methodology Update

Francisco Dallmeier

James A. Comiskey

FLORA

Floristic Composition, Diversity, Mortality and Recruitment on Different Substrates: Lowland Tropical Forest, Pakitza, Rio Manu, Peru.

Francisco Dallmeier

Margo Kabel

Robin B. Foster

Floristic Composition, Soil Quality, Litter Accumulation, and Decomposition in Terra Firme and Floodplain Habitats near Pakitza, Peru

Susan J. Mazer

Diversity of Tropical Forest Leaf Litter from Pakitza, Peru

Robyn J. Burnham

Estudio Preliminar de la Familia Arecaceae (Palmae) en el Parque Nacional del Manu (Pakitza y Cocha Cashu)

Flor Chavez

Inventario de los Bambues de Pakitza: Anotaciones Sobre su Diversidad

Ximena Londono

Estudio Preliminar sobre la Dinamica Poblacional de Guadua weberbaueri Pilger y Elytrostachys sp. (Poaceae: Bambumsoideae) en Pakitza, Parque Nacional del Manu, Peru

Alfredo Tupayachi Herrera

A Report on the Bryoflora of Peru

Noris Salazar Allen

S. Robert Grandstein

FAUNA

Invertebrates

Vertical Stratification of Flight by Ithomiinae Butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) at Pakitza, Manu National Park, Peru

Mirian C. Medina

Robert K. Robbins

Gerardo Lamas

Taxonomic Composition and Ecological Structure of the Species-Rich Butterfly Community at Pakitza, Parque Nacional del Manu, Peru

Robert K. Robbins

Gerardo Lamas

Olaf H. H. Mielke

Donald J. Harvey

Mirna M. Casagrande

Spiders of Pakitza (Madre de Dios, Peru): Species Richness and Notes on Community Structure

Diana Silva

Jonathan A. Coddington

Biodiversity of Cicadoidea (Homoptera) Of Pakitza, Manu Reserved Zone and Tambopata Reserved Zone, Peru: A Faunal Comparison

Michael G. Pogue

Contribucion a la Sistematica de las Mutilidas (Hymenoptera) del Peru, en especial las de la Estacion Biologica Biolat, Pakitza, Rio Manu

Diomedes Quintero

A. y Roberto

A. Cambra T

Natural History of the Carabid Beetles at the BIOLAT Biological Station, Rio Manu, Pakitza, Peru, Supplement I. Additional Records

Terry L. Erwin

The Trichoptera Collected on the Expeditions to Parque Manu, Madre de Dios, Peru

Oliver S. Flint, Jr.

The Odonata of Parque Nacional Manu, Madre de Dios, Peru; Natural History, Species Richness and Comparisons with other Peruvian Sites

Jerry A. Louton

Rossen W. Garrison

Oliver S. Flint

Vertebrates

Ictiofauna del Parque Nacional Manu, Peru

Hernan Ortega

Species Diversity of Gymnotiform Fishes in Manu Bioreserve, Pakitza, Peru

Mary Hagedorn

Clifford Keller

Annotated Checklist of the Amphibians and Reptiles of Pakitza, Manu National Park Reserve Zone, with Comments on the Herpetofauna of Madre de Dios, Peru

Victor R. Morales

Roy W. McDiarmid

Diversidad Genetica en Anfibios y Reptiles de Pakitza, Manu, Peru

Jesus H. Cordova

Mario Monteghirfo

y Gustavo Ybazeta

An Annotated List of Birds of the BIOLAT Biological Station at Pakitza, Peru

Grace P. Servat

Annotated Checklist of the Non-Flying Mammals at Pakitza, Manu Reserved Zone, Manu National Park, Peru

Victor Pacheco

Elena Vivar

Diversidad y Ecologia de los Quiropteros en Pakitza

Cesar F. Ascorra

Sergio Solari

y Don E. Wilson

Bats as Indicators of Habitat Disturbance

Don E. Wilson

Cesar F. Ascorra

Sergio Solari

Streblidae (Diptera: Pupipara) Parasitos de los Murcielagos de Pakitza, Parque Nacional Manu, Peru

Ricardo Guerrero

Estudio Preliminar de los Ectoparasitos de los Murcielagos de Pakitza, Parque Nacional Manu, Peru

Ricardo Guerrero

Amblyopinodes Amazonicus New Species (Coleoptera: Staphyliniidae) A Parasite of Rodents from Pakitza, Peru

Ricardo Guerrero

The Basilia Junquiensis Species-Group (Diptera: Nycteribiidae) with Description of a New Species from Pakitza, Peru

Ricardo Guerrero

Contributors