Forest canopies. ([2004])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Margaret D. Lowman, H. Bruce Rinker.
• Editors: Lowman, Margaret; Rinker, H. Bruce
• Contents: SECTION I: Structures of Forest Canopies; Chapter 1: The Nature of Forest Canopies; Side Bar: Verticality and Habitat Analysis: MacArthur and Wilson"s Biogeography Theory Revisited; Side Bar: Empty Space: Another View of Forest Canopy Structure; Chapter 2: Tropical Microclimate Considerations; Chapter 3: Quantifying and Visualizing Canopy Structure in Tall Forests: Methods and a Case Study; Side Bar: "Canopy Trekking": A Ground-Independent, Rope-Based Method for Horizontal Movement; Chapter 4: Vertical Organization of Canopy Biota; Side Bar: Macaws: Dispersers in a Tropical Habitat; Side Bar: Vertical Stratification Among Neotropical Migrants; Chapter 5: Age-Related Development of Canopy Structure and Its Ecological Functions; Side Bar: Measuring Canopy Structure: The Forest Canopy Database Project; Chapter 6: A History of Tree Canopies; Side Bar: The Evolution of Rain Forest Animals; Side Bar: The Botanical Ghosts of Evolution; SECTION II: Organisms in Forest Canopies; Chapter 7: What Is Canopy Biology? A Microbial Perspective; Side Bar: Arboreal Stromatolites: A 230 Million Year Old Record; Chapter 8: Lichens and Bryophytes in Forest Canopies; Chapter 9: Vascular Epiphytes; Side Bar: Orchid Adaptations to an Epiphytic Lifestyle; Side Bar: Tank Bromeliads-Faunal Ecology; Side Bar: Strangler Fig Trees: Demons or Heroes of the Canopy?; Chapter 10: Mistletoes: A Unique Constituent of Canopies Worldwide; Chapter 11: Hidden in Plain Sight: Mites in the Canopy; Chapter 12: Soil Microarthopods: Belowground Fauna that Sustain Forest Systems; Chapter 13: Tardigrades: Bears of the Canopy; Side Bar: Rotifers in the Water Film; Chapter 14: The Biodiversity Question: How Many Species of Terrestrial Arthropods Are There?; Side Bar: Insect Zoos as Windows into Forest Canopies; Chapter 15: Physical Transport, Heterogeneity, and Interactions Involving Canopy Anoles; Side Bar: The Color of Poison: Flamboyant Frogs in the Rain Forest Canopy; Chapter 16: Ecology and Conservation of Canopy Mammals; Side Bar: Vertical Stratification of Small Mammals in Lowland Rain Forest of the Australian Wet Tropics; Side Bar: Body Mass of Gliding Mammals: An Energetic Approach; Side Bar: Orangutans: The Largest Canopy Dwellers; SECTION III: Ecological Processes in Forest Canopies; Chapter 17: Photosynthesis in Forest Canopies; Chapter 18: Insect Herbivory in Tropical Forests; Side Bar: Measuring Forest Herbivory Levels Using Canopy Cranes; Side Bar: The Leipzig Canopy Crane Project: Biodiversity, Ecology, and Function in a Temperate Decidious Forest; Chapter 19: Nutrient Cycling; Chapter 20: Reproductive Biology and Genetics of Tropical Trees from a Canopy Perspective; Side Bar: DNA Sequences and Orchid Classification; Chapter 21: Decomposition in Forest Canopies; Chapter 22: Survival Strategies: A Matter of Life and Death; SECTION IV: Conservation and Forest Canopies; Chapter 23: Tarzan or Jane? A Short History of Canopy Biology; Side Bar: Canopy Walkways: Highways in the Sky; Side Bar: International Canopy Crane Network; Chapter 24: Economics and the Forest Canopy; Side Bar: Ethnobotany in Forest Canopies; Side Bar: The Value of Herbaria for Plant Conservation; Chapter 25: Ecotourism and the Treetops; Side Bar: A Climb for Conservation; Side Bar: Florida From the Treetops; Chapter 26: The Reintegration of Wonder into the Emerging Science of Canopy Ecology; Side Bar: Global Canopy Programme: A Worldwide Alliance for Forest Studies ; Side Bar: International Canopy Network (ICAN)
• Edition: Second edition
• Publisher Details: Burlington, MA : Academic Press
• Publication Date: 2004
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 577.3; Forest canopy ecology; Forest canopies
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780080491349; 0080491340
• Related ISBNs: 0124575536
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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