This book assesses the scientific knowledge of tropical tree biology set against a background of community ecology and forest structure.

Our knowledge of the ecology of tropical rain-forest trees is limited, yet a good understanding of the trees is essential to unravelling the workings of the for

Seventeen marvelous essays introducing the habitats, ecology, plants, and animals of the Central and South American rainforest. A lively, lucid portrait of the

Historically, tropical ecology has been a science often content with descriptive and demographic approaches, which is understandable given the difficulty of stu