Ecology Letters (2011) 14: 939–947 Abstract Tropical rain forests play a dominant role in
global biosphere‐atmosphere CO2 exchange. Although climate and nutrient availability …

The consumption of figs (the fruit of Ficus spp.; Moraceae) by vertebrates is reviewed using
data from the literature, unpublished accounts and new field data from Borneo and Hong …

The poor conservation outcomes that followed decades of intrusive resource management
strategies and planned development have forced policy makers and scholars to reconsider …

Analyses of fine‐scale and macrogeographic genetic structure in plant populations provide
an initial indication of how gene flow, natural selection, and genetic drift may collectively …

We reviewed empirical data and hypotheses derived from demographic, optimal foraging,
life-history, community, and biogeographic theory for predicting the sensitivity of species to …

Consider this: Without interaction between animals and flowering plants, the seeds and fruits
that make up nearly eighty percent of the human diet would not exist. In The Forgotten …

Quantification of forest structure is important for developing a better understanding of how
forest ecosystems function. Additionally, estimation of forest structural attributes, such as …

Species richness is an important characteristic of ecological communities, but it is difficult to
quantify. We report here a thorough inventory of a tropical rain forest ant fauna and use it to …

During 1984–2000, canopy tree growth in old-growth tropical rain forest at La Selva, Costa
Rica, varied> 2-fold among years. The trees' annual diameter increments in this 16-yr period …

In tropical forests, lianas (woody vines) are important structural parasites of trees. We
assessed the effects of forest fragmentation, treefall disturbance, soils, and stand attributes …