How large numbers of competing plant species manage to coexist is a major unresolved
question in community ecology. The classical explanation, that each species occupies its …

Nitrogen (N) cycling in mangroves is complex, with rapid turnover of low dissolved N
concentrations, but slow turnover of particulate N. Most N is stored in soils. The largest …

Phosphorus availability is widely assumed to limit primary productivity in tropical forests,, but
support for this paradigm is equivocal. Although biogeochemical theory predicts that …

Tropical forest vegetation is shaped by climate and by soil, but understanding how the
distributions of individual tree species respond to specific resources has been hindered by …

Although patterns of tree species distributions along environmental gradients have been
amply documented in tropical forests,,,,,,, mechanisms causing these patterns are seldom …

The importance of niche vs. neutral assembly mechanisms in structuring tropical tree
communities remains an important unsettled question in community ecology [Bell G (2005) …

The first edition of Tropical Rain Forests: an Ecological and Biogeographical Comparison
exploded the myth of 'the rain forest'as a single, uniform entity. In reality, the major tropical …

We determine the spatial pattern of Aedes aegypti and the containers in which they develop
in two neighborhoods of the Amazonian city of Iquitos, Peru. Four variables were examined …

In tropical tree communities, processes occurring during early life stages play a critical role
in sha** forest composition and diversity through differences in species' performance …

Summary 1 Spatial distributions of tropical trees often correlate with environmental variation,
suggesting that ecological sorting caused by niche differentiation may be important for …