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Dr. Marco Tschapka
ECOTROPICA
Department of Experimental Ecology (Bio3)
University of Ulm
Albert-Einstein Allee 11
D-89069 Ulm, Germany
e-mail: ecotropica [@] uni-ulm.de
Ecotropical Monographs: Volume 17 (2011)
AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TROPICAL ECOLOGY
© The German Society for Tropical Ecology
VOLUME 17, 2011, No. 1
- A comparison of six methods to detect altitudinal belts of vegetation in tropical mountains. Kerstin Bach & S. Robbert Gradstein — Appendices 1, 2, 3, 4
- Effects of forest fragmentation on canopy spider communities in SE-Asian rain forests. Andreas Floren, Tobias Müller, Christa Deeleman-Reinhold & Karl-Eduard Linsenmair
- Diversity patterns of Neotropical plant parasitic microfungi. M. Piepenbring, T.A. Hofmann, R. Kirschner, R. Mangelsdorff, O. Perdomo, D. Rodríguez Justavino & T. Trampe
- Florivory, nectarivory, and pollination – a review of primate-flower interactions. Eckhard W. Heymann — Appendices 1 & 2, Video
- Modelling the distribution of photosynthetic types of grasses in Sahelian Burkina Faso with high-resolution satellite data. Marco Schmidt, Konstantin König, Jonas Müller, Ulrike Brunken & Georg Zizka
- Spatial and temporal patterns of wood stork Mycteria americana feces and nutrient deposition in an Orinoco wetland of Venezuela. Rubén A. Montes, José San-José & Giogehet De-Jesús
- Litter production and decomposition in cacao (Theobroma cacao) and Kolanut (Cola nitida) plantations. Joseph Ikechukwu Muoghalu & Anthony Ifechukwude Odiwe
- Diversity of flower visitors an their Role for pollination in the ornithophilous bromeliad Vriesea friburgensis in two different habitats in Southern Brazil. Simone Schmid, Volker S. Schmid, Anne Zillekens & Josefina Steiner — Appendices: Video 1, Video 2, Video 3, Video 4, readme.pdf
- Sampling vascular epiphyte diversity – species richness and community structure. Gerhard Zotz & Maaike Bader
SHORT COMMUNICATIONS
- First record of Natalus lanatus (Chiroptera: Natalidae) in Costa Rica, and current distribution of Natalus in the country. Bernal Rodríguez-Herrera, Ragde Sánchez & Willy Piñeda
BOOK REVIEWS
- The energetics of mangrove forests (D.M. Alongi)
- Field guide Afghanistan – Flora and Vegetation (S.-W. Breckle & M.D. Rafiqpoor)
- The tropical mountain forest – Patterns and processes in a biodiversity hotspot (Editors: S.R. Gradstein, J. Homeier & D. Gansert)
Merian Awards 2011
Erratum
VOLUME 17, 2011, No. 2
- Impact of disturbance on composition, structure, and floristics of tropical moist forests in Uttara Kannada district, Western Ghats, India. D.M. Bhat, G.T. Hegde, D.M. Shetti, S.G. Patgar, G.N. Hegde, R.M. Furtado, C.M. Shastrim, P.R. Bhat & Ravindranath [online appendix]
- Is the resilience of epiphyte assemblages to human disturbance a function of local climate? Florian A. Werner, Nils Köster, Michael Kessler & S. Robbert Gradstein
- Artificial bird nest predation along a forest conversion gradient in Cameroon. Kadiri Serge Bobo & Matthias Walter
- Quantification of ramet production in the neotropical palm Euterpe precatoria (Arecaceae) in Costa Rica. Gerardo Avalos & Rachel A. Schneider
- Leaf litter breakdown and nutrient release in three tree plantations compared with a natural degraded forest on the Coromandel Coast (Puducherry, India). B. Swarnalatha & Vikram Reddy
- Structure and floristic composition of one of the last forest fragments containing the critically endangered northern muriqui (Brachyteles hypoxanthus, primates). Jean P. Boubli, Fabiana R. Couto-Santos & Karen B. Strier [online appendix]
- Seed dispersal by the Indian Grey Hornbill Ocyceros birostris in Eastern Ghats, India. E. Santhoshkumar & P. Balasubramanian
- Vertical and horizontal habitats of fruit-feeding butterflies (Lepidoptera) on Siberut, Mentawai Islands, Indonesia. Chung-Lim Luk, Upik Kesumawati Hadi, Thomas Ziegler & Matthias Waltert
- Abiotic factors controlling species richness, diversity, and abundance in the bromeliad Hohenbergia polycephala (Bromeliaceae). Lisa J. Wambold, Debbie O. Chan, Thomas W. Therriault & Jurek Kolasa
BOOK REVIEWS
- Seeds of Amazonian Plants (Cornejo, F. & J. Janovec)
- Palmas de Colombia: Guía de campo (Galeano, G. & R. Bernal)
