Nouragues
Subtitle: dynamics and plant-animal interactions in a neotropical rainforest
By: edited by Frans Bongers ... [et al.].
Contributors: Bongers, Frans.
Series: Monographiae biologicae -- v. 80.
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Dordrecht; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 421
Subjects: Rain forest ecology -- French Guiana -- Réserve naturelle des Nouragues
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [385]-416) and index.
Table of contents: title: The field station / Pierre Charles-Dominique; title: Geography and climate / Michel Grimaldi and Bernard Riéra; title: Scales of ambient light variation / Frans Bongers, Peter J. van der Meer and Marc Théry; title: The lowland high rainforest: structure and tree species diversity / Odile Poncy ... [et al.]; title: The low forest (Nouragues Inselberg) / Denis Larpin; title: Plant communities on a granitic outcrop / Corinne Sarthou; title: Palaeoclimates and their consequences on forest composition / Pierre Charles-Dominique ... [et al.]; title: Diet and population densities of the primate community in relation to fruit supplies / Bruno Simmen ... [et al.]; title: Comparative positional behaviour of five primates / Dionisios Youlatos and Jean-Pierre Gasc; title: The bat community / André Brosset, Pierre Charles-Dominique and Anya Cockle; title: The marsupial community / Marie-Laure Guillemin, Martine Atramentowicz and Didier Julien-Laferrière; title: The avian community: an overview of species composition and guild structure / Jean-Marc Thiollay ... [et al.]; title: The adaptive significance of flocking in tropical understorey forest birds: the field evidence / Mathilde Jullien and Jean-Marc Thiollay; title: Habitat selection, ambient light and colour patterns in some lek-displaying birds / Marc Théry and John A. Endler; title: Distribution and life histories of amphibians and reptiles / Marga Born and Philippe Gaucher; title: Fishes of the Arataye river and their space-time organization / François J. Meunier and Thierry Boujard; title: Relationships between seed dispersal and behavioural ecology / Pierre Charles-Dominique; title: Frugivory and seed dispersal by three neotropical primates: impact on plant regeneration / Catherine Julliot, Bruno Simmen and Shuyi Zhang; title: Frugivory and seed dispersal by bats / Pierre Charles-Dominique and Anya Cockle; title: Frugivory and seed dispersal by kinkajous / Didier Julien-Laferrière; title: Frugivory and seed dispersal by terrestrial mammals / François Feer ... [et al.]; title: Vegetarian species in the bird community with an emphasis on frugivory and seed dispersal / Christian Erard and Marc Théry; title: Tree-falls and canopy gaps: patterns of natural disturbance / Peter J. van der Meer and Frans Bongers; title: The dispersal and recruitment of Cyclanthaceae and Philodendron (Araceae) understorey root-climbing vines / Anya Cockle; title: Post-dispersal seed removal in four frugivore-dispersed tree species / Pierre-Michel Forget ... [et al.]; title: Scatterhoarding and tree regeneration / Patrick A. Jansen and Pierre-Michel Forget; title: Effects of tree height and light availability on plant traits at different organisation levels / Frank J. Sterck, Toon Rijkers and Frans Bongers; title: Appendices. Floristic checklist of the Nouragues area / Pierre Belbenoit ... [et al.] Practical guide to the palms / Jean-Jacques de Granville. Mammals of the Nouragues and lower Arataye areas / François Feer and Pierre Charles-Dominique. Bird species (from Nouragues Inselberg to Arataye River) / Jean-Marc Thiollay ... [et al.] Amphibian and reptile species at the Nouragues Nature Reserve / Marga Born and Philippe Gaucher. Fishes of the Arataye River / François J. Meunier and Thierry Boujard.