Most tropical woody plants produce new leaves and flowers in bursts rather than
continuously, and most tropical forest communities display seasonal variation in the …

The pulp of fleshy fruits, with the soft, edible, nutritive tissues surrounding the seeds, is a
primary food resource for many frugivorous animals, notably mammals and birds, but also …

Aim Elevational gradients distributed across the globe are a powerful test system for
understanding biodiversity. Here I use a comprehensive set of bird elevational gradients to …

1 Forest inventory data were collected in 1988-89 from permanent plots in undisturbed
tropical forest along an altitudinal transect on the northern slope of Volcan Barva, Costa …

Aim A global meta‐analysis was used to elucidate a mechanistic understanding of
elevational species richness patterns of bats by examining both regional and local climatic …

Time can be a limiting constraint for consumers, particularly when resource phenology
mediates foraging opportunity. Though a large body of research has explored how resource …

Understanding why species differ in their life history traits is a central question of life history
theory. Theory and evidence often focus on extrinsic sources of mortal-ity in driving life …

Our understanding of migratory birds' year‐round ecology and evolution remains patchy
despite recent fundamental advances. Periodic reviews focus future research and inform …

To investigate how plant diversity affects ecosystem‐level processes such as primary
production and nutrient cycling, I established an experimental plant diversity gradient in …

We studied avian breeding and molting activity in relation to rainfall, temporal fluctuations in
food resource abundance, and food exploitation by birds, in four arid and semiarid tropical …