Tropical lowland South America boasts a diversity of vegetation cover as impressive, and
often as bewildering, as its diversity of plant species. In this essay, we attempt to describe …

Winner of the Society for Economic Botany's Mary W. Klinger Book Award. Cultural Forests
of the Amazon is a comprehensive and diverse account of how indigenous people …

Trends in community composition and diversity of neotropical forests as measured by a
series of samples of (1) plants≥ 2.5 cm dbh in 0.1 ha,(2) plants over 10 cm dbh in 1-ha …

The lowland Peruvian Amazon remains sparsely populated and densely forested. Few
roads exist and rivers provide much of the infrastructure. Over 12% of the area is comprised …

This book attempts to make growth models more accessible to foresters and others
interested in mixed forests, whether planted or natural. There is an increasing interest in …

The Ka'apor people are small-scale, village-level swidden horticulturalists of the extreme
eastern Amazonian state of Maranhão. The first 2 chapters give an introduction and …

It is argued that adaptionist theories, which propose that native Amazonians adapt to the
conditions and environmental limits of the forest, are incorrect and that the reverse theory …

The biomass of tropical forests plays an important role in the global carbon cycle, both as a
dynamic reservoir of carbon, and as a source of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere in areas …

The floristic nature of central Brazilian forests, as well as their links to other main forest
formations of eastern tropical South America, is assessed by means of multivariate analyses …

Floodplains are ecosystems which are driven by periodic inundation and oscillation
between terrestrial and aquatic phases. An understanding of such pulsing systems is only …