Tropical forest
Model Selection and Fitting for Basal Area Increment in a Vietnamese Tropical Forest
... in forest data science (Phillips et ...in forest science is paramount for prudent decision making (Hung and Doi, ...In tropical forest (Köhler and Huth, 1998) ecosystems, wood density is ...
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A quantitative model for relating species and tropical forest sites: A synecological study
... A site quality asses sment method is needed for natural regeneration projects, reforestation, for rehabilitating degraded sites 10 productive forests, and for decision making related 10 pre serving tropical ...
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Additional observations on the behavior of a tropical forest dung beetle, Megathoposoma candezei (Coleoptera:Scarabaeidae)
... During July of the same year another expedition was made to Cerro Nara to attempt to collect all the population from the isolated and rectangular forest area of 38,000 m2. A total of 56 beetles were captured. This ...
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A preliminary study of organic detritus in a tropical forest ecosystem
... The microfauna and micro flora of forest detritus are important ecological components that require intensive �tudies to understand the metabolism of forest ecosystems. An attempt was made to examine the ...
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Regional and seasonal patterns of litterfall in tropical South America
... cal forest NPP quantification, Clark et ...39 tropical forest sites and they estimated total tropical forest ...twigs). Tropical forest NPP was found to be poorly corre- ...
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... MATERIALS AND METHODS The study was carried out in the Chame- la Biological Station (CBS), located in the Pacific coast of the Mexican state of Jalisco (19°30´N - 105°03´W; Bullock 1988). Vegeta- tion is predominantly ...
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Effects of climate change on Andean biodiversity: a synthesis of studies published until 2015
... Trait-response effects are critical to forecast community structure and biomass pro- duction in highly diverse tropical forests. Ecological theory and few observation stud- ies indicate that trees with acquisitive ...
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Are government incentives effective for avoided deforestation in the tropical Andean forest?
... the tropical Andean forest is unknown, although these ecosystems are recog- nized for their high capacity to mitigate GHG effects and their biological diversity [31, 32, ...
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Changes in composition and structure of a Tropical Dry Forest following intermittent cattle grazing
... En el noroeste de Costa Rica se utiliza ganado como una “herramienta de manejo” para reducir la cantidad de material combustible, principalmente Hyparrhenia rufa, un zacate que proviene de Africa. Este proyecto se ...
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Observations on the behavior of a tropical rain forest dung beetle, Megathoposoma candezei (Harold) , Coleoptera: Scaraeidae
... the forest floor, and can eat insects and other small ...are forest birds that feed on large insects, and are abundant in our ...tria! forest species, are mainly ...
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NEW RECORDS OF TROPICAL DRY FOREST´S MAMMALS FROM THE STATE OF MEXICO
... The mammalian fauna of Central Mexico its been known by its high diversity, richness, and endemic species. The Transvolcanic belt, the main mountains system that cross Mexico from east to west, around 19 degrees of ...
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Comparing AWiFS and MERIS images for land use – land cover mapping in Spain
... The original AWiFS image was re-projected from its original Lambert Conformal Conic to the UTM- 30N-WGS84 coordinate-system and a subset con- taining the province of Madrid was obtained. Maximum Likelihood Supervised ...
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Tree species composition, breeding systems, and pollination and dispersal syndromes in three forest successional stages in a tropical dry forest in Mesoamerica
... early forest stage is dominated by species well adapted to open habitats like Silk cotton tree (Cochlospermum vitifolium), Madero negro (Gliricidia sepium) and Yayo (Rehdera trinervis) (Appendix 1) [44, ...
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Fish communities and environmental characteristics of a tropical rain forest river in Costa Rica
... Lowe-McConnell (1977), in her critique on the ecology of fishes in tropical waters, stated that "The biology of riverine fishes is governed by the seasonality of flooding following annual or biannual ...
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On the spatial distribution of woody plant species in a tropical montane cloud forest
... lowland tropical forest, and cloud forest may reveal different ...cloud forest are not necessarily the same as those that occur in tropical ...cloud forest species have different ...
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Analysis of the leaf litter arthropod fauna of a lowland tropical evergreen forest site (La Selva, Costa Rica)
... forest. Several' workers have noted a compara ble dorninahce andfor preponde:rance of ants in tropical forest litters and sOlls (Strickland, 1 945 ; Wolda, 1 977 ; Collins, 1 980). Bigger ( 1976) ...
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Troop movement and food habits of white faced monkeys in a tropical dry forest
... The white-faced monkey or capuchin, Cebus capucinus imitatar Thomas (Primates: Cebi dae), is found in a wide variety of forest types from Belize to Panama (Hall 198 1). This monkey is omnivorous and feeds mainly ...
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Phytomedicinal potential of tropical cloudforest plants from Monteverde, Costa Rica
... The pharmaceutical value of tropical forests is well known. Some 57% of prescip- tion drugs sold in the United States are based on natural products, that is, are either natural products themselves, or are ...
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MAMMALS FROM THE TARASCAN PLATEAU, MICHOACÁN, MÉXICO
... The tropical deciduous forest is found in the northern part and in the northeast area of the Sierra Purépecha. The altitude limits are usually located between 1,500 and 2,000 masl. The annual mean ...
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Seed predation by mammals in forest fragments in Monteverde, Costa Rica
... for Tropical Studies (OTS), WWF-Central America through the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor Program (CBM), and Monteverde Conservation League (MCL) provided finan- cial and logistical ...
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