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SHORT COMMUNICATIONS

• A new case of ants nesting in Nepenthes pitcher plants. T. Ulmar Grafe & Rudolf J. Kohout
• Neotropical pygmy squirrels (Sciurillus pusillus) share termite nests. Rosa R. Jessen, Geoffrey H. Palmer & John L. Koprowski

BOOK REVIEW

• Silviculture in the Tropics (Tropical Forestry Vol. 8) (eds. Günter S, Weber, M, Stimm B & R Mosandl)
• MERIAN AWARDS 2013

BOOK REVIEWS

• Tropical Ecology Kircher, J.

MERIAN AWARDS 2011

VOLUME 18, 2012, No. 2

• Reproductive phenology of the main tree species in the Roraima Savanna, Brazilian Amazon. Reinaldo Imbrozio Barbosa, Moisés Mourão Jr., Giliola Maria Lima Casadio & Silvio José Reis da Silva
• Do microhabitats in forest gaps influence tree regeneration? A study in the montane forests of Venezuelan Guayana. Cristabel Durán-Rangel, Stefanie Gärtner, Lionel Hernández and Albert Reif
• Review of species richness and biogeography of bats (Chiroptera) from the Guiana subregion of South America with comments on conservation. Burton K. Lim & Valéria da C. Tavares
• Tree diversity and forest stand structure along disturbance gradients in Indian tropical dry evergreen forest. M. Anbarashan & N. Parthasarathy
• Temporal activity patterns of terrestrial mammals in lowland rainforest of Eastern Ecuador. John G. Blake, Diego Mosquera, Bette A. Loiselle, Kelly Swing, Jaime Guerra & David Romo

OBITUARY

• In remembrance of Professor Dr. Ernst Josef Fittkau

SHORT COMMUNICATIONS

• First record of Natalus lanatus (Chiroptera: Natalidae) in Costa Rica, and current distribution of Natalus in the country. Bernal Rodríguez-Herrera, Ragde Sánchez & Willy Piñeda

BOOK REVIEWS

• The energetics of mangrove forests (D.M. Alongi)
• Field guide Afghanistan – Flora and Vegetation (S.-W. Breckle & M.D. Rafiqpoor)
• The tropical mountain forest – Patterns and processes in a biodiversity hotspot (Editors: S.R. Gradstein, J. Homeier & D. Gansert)

Merian Awards 2011

Erratum

VOLUME 17, 2011, No. 2

• Impact of disturbance on composition, structure, and floristics of tropical moist forests in Uttara Kannada district, Western Ghats, India. D.M. Bhat, G.T. Hegde, D.M. Shetti, S.G. Patgar, G.N. Hegde, R.M. Furtado, C.M. Shastrim, P.R. Bhat & Ravindranath [online appendix]

• Is the resilience of epiphyte assemblages to human disturbance a function of local climate? Florian A. Werner, Nils Köster, Michael Kessler & S. Robbert Gradstein

• Artificial bird nest predation along a forest conversion gradient in Cameroon. Kadiri Serge Bobo & Matthias Walter

• Quantification of ramet production in the neotropical palm Euterpe precatoria (Arecaceae) in Costa Rica. Gerardo Avalos & Rachel A. Schneider

• Leaf litter breakdown and nutrient release in three tree plantations compared with a natural degraded forest on the Coromandel Coast (Puducherry, India). B. Swarnalatha & Vikram Reddy

• Structure and floristic composition of one of the last forest fragments containing the critically endangered northern muriqui (Brachyteles hypoxanthus, primates). Jean P. Boubli, Fabiana R. Couto-Santos & Karen B. Strier [online appendix]

• Seed dispersal by the Indian Grey Hornbill Ocyceros birostris in Eastern Ghats, India. E. Santhoshkumar & P. Balasubramanian

• Vertical and horizontal habitats of fruit-feeding butterflies (Lepidoptera) on Siberut, Mentawai Islands, Indonesia. Chung-Lim Luk, Upik Kesumawati Hadi, Thomas Ziegler & Matthias Waltert

• Abiotic factors controlling species richness, diversity, and abundance in the bromeliad Hohenbergia polycephala (Bromeliaceae). Lisa J. Wambold, Debbie O. Chan, Thomas W. Therriault & Jurek Kolasa

BOOK REVIEWS

• Seeds of Amazonian Plants (Cornejo, F. & J. Janovec)
• Palmas de Colombia: Guía de campo (Galeano, G. & R. Bernal)

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VOLUME 16, 2010, No. 1

• Effect of reduced-impact and conventional logging techniques on the lizard Kentropyx calcarata (Teiidae) in the Eastern Amazon. Juliana M. Silveira & Claudia Azevedo-Ramos

• Structural and floristic traits of habitats with differing relative abundance of the lemurs Microcebus murinus and M. ravelobensis in Northwestern Madagascar. Lalandy Sehen, Dethardt Goetze, Charlotte Rajeriarison, Edmond Roger, Sandra Thorén & Ute Radespiel

• Amazonian white- and blackwater floodplain forests in Brazil: Large differenceson a small scale. Leandro Valle Ferreira, Samuel Soares de Almeida & Pia Parolin

• Flooding gradient and treefall gap interactive effects on plant community structure, richness, and alpha diversity in the Peruvian Amazon. Randall W. Myster

SHORT COMMUNICATIONS

• Ecological traits indicate niche differentiation in Bornean Dacetine species (Myrmicinae: Formicidae). Dirk Mezger & Martin Pfeiffer

• A new case of albinism in the bat Micronycteris minuta (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) from Costa Rica. Melquisedec Gamba-Rios

• Quantitative assessment of habitat differences between Northern and Southern Muriquis (Primates, Atelidae) in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. Jean P. Boubli, Fabiana R. Couto-Santos & Ítalo M.C. Mourthé — Download supplementary material

• INDEX TO VOLUME 15, 2009

VOLUME 16, 2010, No. 2

• Floristic zonation, vegetation structure, and plant diversity patterns within a caribbean mangrove and swamp forest on the Bay Island of Utila (Honduras). Thomas Fickert & Friederike Grüninger

• Red abaxial coloring reduces herbivory in Columnea consanguinea. Alpha R. Wong & Diane S. Srivastava

• Abundance and vigor of three selected understory species along environmental gradients in south-eastern Brazil. André Lindner, Katharina Stein & Martin Freiberg

• Mangrove litter biomass input in a forest impacted by human physical disturbance, Gazi Bay, Kenya. C. M. Kihia, J. M. Mathooko, R. K. Ruwa & A. W. Shivoga

• Quantitative evaluation of gametogenesis in the mangrove mussel. Cleidson Paiva Gomes, Colin Robert Beasley, Suellen Maria Oliveira Perote, Aline Silva Favacho, Lenita Sousa da Silva Claudia Helena Tagliaro, Maria Auxiliadora Ferreira & Rosseneide Martins Rocha

SHORT COMMUNICATIONS

• New locality records and the first photographs of living Echimys saturnus (dark tree rat, Echimyidae) from eastern Ecuador. John G. Blake, Diego Mosquera, Jaime Guerra & David Romo

• Seed dispersal of the genus Leea in forest patches of Bataan, Philippines. Will Townes

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• EFFECT OF BATS ON SEED DISTRIBUTION AND GERMINATION OF CALOPHYLLUM BRASILIENSE (CLUSIACEAE). Márcia C. M. Marques & Erich Fischer

• GROWTH IN THE XEROPHYTIC EPIPHYTE TILLANDSIA FLEXUOSA SW. (BROMELIACEAE). Gerhard Zotz

• A NEW SPECIES OF SUNDEW (DROSERA , DROSERACEAE), WITH WATER-DISPERSED SEED, FROM THE FLOODPLAINS OF THE NORTHERN AMAZON BASIN, BRAZIL. Fernando Rivadavia, Alberto Vicentini & Andreas Fleischmann

• LEAF LITTER QUALITY AND LITTER DECOMPOSITION OF WOODY SPECIES IN A SEASONAL SUBTROPICAL FOREST (ARGENTINA). Nélida J. Carnevale & Juan P. Lewis

• TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENT KLEPTOPARASITISM IN A NEOTROPICAL DUNG BEETLE. Orrey P. Young

SHORT COMMUNICATIONS

• LONG-DISTANCE MOVEMENT OF ARTIBEUS LITURATUS (CHIROPTERA: PHYLLOSTOMIDAE) IN THE STATE OF ESPÍRITO SANTO, BRAZIL. Poliana Mendes, Thiago Bernardi Vieira, Monik Oprea & Albert David Ditchfield

• OBITUARY OTTO VON HELVERSEN

• MERIAN AWARDS 2009

• INDEX TO VOLUME 14, 2008

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• THE HETEROGENEITY OF AMAZONIAN TREEFALL GAPS AND BIRD COMMUNITY COMPOSITION. Christina Banks-Leite & Renato Cintra

• VEGETATION, CLIMATE, AND SOIL OF THE UNIQUE PURDIAEA FOREST OF SOUTHERN ECUADOR. S. Robbert Gradstein, Michael Kessler, Marcus Lehnert, Mengistu Abiy, Jürgen HomeierNicole Mandl, Franz Makeschin & Michael Richter -> electronical appendix
• GROWTH IN SAPLINGS OF SCHINOPSIS BALANSAE ENGL. C. Alzugaray, N. J. Carnevale &A. R. Salinas
• FRUIT SELECTION AND EFFECTS OF SEED HANDLING BY FLYING FOXES ON GERMINATION RATES OF SHEA TREES, A KEY RESOURCE IN NORTHERN BENIN, WEST AFRICA. Bruno A. Djossa, Jakob Fahr, Elisabeth K. V. Kalko & Brice A. Sinsin
• RESPONSES OF DUNG BEETLE ASSEMBLAGES TO CHARACTERISTICS OF RAIN FOREST EDGES. François Feer

SHORT COMMUNICATIONS

• ECOLOGY OF CAVERNICOLA PILOSA BARBER, 1937 (HEMIPTERA: REDUVIIDAE: TRIATOMINAE) IN THE BOA ESPERANÇA CAVE, TOCANTINS, BRAZIL. Maria Angélica de Oliveira, Rodrigo Lopes Ferreira, Maurício Antônio Carneiro & Liléia Diotaiuti
• PALM SPECIES DISTRIBUTION AND SOIL MOISTURE IN A SWAMPY AREA OF THE ATLANTIC FOREST, SOUTH-EASTERN BRAZIL. Dalva M. Silva Matos & Luciana F. Alves
• MERIAN AWARDS 2007
• INDEX TO VOLUME 13, 2007

VOLUME 14, 2008, No.2

• PREDATION, NEST ATTENDANCE, AND LONG INCUBATION PERIODS OF TWO NEOTROPICAL ANT BIRDS. Ghislain Rompré & W. Douglas Robinson
• SOIL MACROFAUNA AND DECOMPOSITION RATES IN SOUTHERN BRAZILIAN ATLANTIC RAINFORESTS. Petra Schmidt, Kauana Dickow, Aline Alinéia Rocha, Renato Marques, Ludger Scheuermann, Jörg Römbke, Bernhard Förster & Hubert Höfer
• VARIATION OF DISPERSAL AGENTS? FRUGIVORE ASSEMBLAGES AND FRUIT HANDLING IN A TYPICAL ‘BIRD-DISPERSED’ TREE (LANNEA ACIDA, ANACARDIACEAE). Britta K. Kunz, Thomas Hovestadt & K. Eduard Linsenmair
• MOVEMENT PATTERNS OF RATS AND TREESHREWS IN BORNEAN RAINFOREST INFERRED FROM MARK-RECAPTURE DATA. Konstans Wells, Maklarin B. Lakim & Martin Pfeiffer
• RESUSPENDED INTERTIDAL MICROPHYTO BENTHOS AS MAJOR DIET COMPONENT OF PLANKTIVOROUS ATLANTIC ANCHOVETA CETENGRAULIS EDENTULUS (ENGRAULIDAE) FROM EQUATORIAL MANGROVE CREEKS. Uwe Krumme, Heike Keuthen, Mario Barletta, Ulrich Saint-Paul & Wolfgang Villwock
• DISTRIBUTION OF NATIVE AND NON-NATIVE RATS (RATTUS SPP.) ALONG AN ELEVATIONAL GRADIENT IN A TROPICAL RAINFOREST OF SOUTHERN LUZON, PHILIPPINES. Cristina C. Salibay & Hazel Anne V. Luyon
• ORDER OF MERIT (BUNDESVERDIENSTKREUZ) FOR WOLFGANG J. JUNK

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VOLUME 13, 2007, No.1

• INFLUENCE OF HERBIVORE ATTACK PATTERNS ON REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS OF THE SHRUP PIPER HISPIDUMPIPERACEAE). Marco Aurelio Ribeiro Mello

• IDENTIFYING DIURNAL AND NOCTURNAL FRUGIVORES IN THE TERRESTRIAL AND ARBOREAL LAYERS OF A TROPICAL RAIN FOREST IN SRI LANKA. Palitha Jayasekara, Udayani Rose Weerasinghe, Siril Wijesundara & Seiki Takatsuki

• PHENOLOGY OF CANOPY TREES IN THE EVER-WET LOWLAND FOREST MOSAIC OF PICO DA NEBLINA NATIONAL PARK, AMAZONAS, BRAZIL. Jean Philippe Boubli & Fabiana R. Couto-Santos

• MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF FERN ASSEMBLAGES ALONG AN ELEVATIONAL GRADIENT: PATTERNS AND CAUSES. Jürgen Kluge & Michael Kessler

• WHY A CARNIVORUS PLANT COOPERATES WITH AN ANT-SELECTIVE DEFENSE AGAINST PITCHER-DESTROYING WEEVILS IN THE MYRMECOPHYTIC PITCHER PLANT NEPENTHES BICALCARATA HOOK. F. Marlis A. Merbach, Georg Zizka, Brigitte Fiala, Dennis Merbach, Webber E. Booth & Ulrich Maschwitz

• LIGHT INTERCEPTION EFFICIENCY OF THE UNDERSTORY PALM CALYPTEROGYNE GHIESBREGHTIANA UNDEER DEEP SHADE CONDITIONS. Silvia Alvarez-Clare & Gerardo Avalos

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• BAT DIVERSITY IN THREE CAVES IN A MONTANE FOREST OF BOLIVIA. Lizette Siles, Arturo Muñoz & Luis F. Aguirre

• SEED AND FRUIT PREDATION OF KIELMEYERA (GUTTIFERAE) AND QUALEA (VOCHYSICAEAE) SPECIES BY SIX PSITTACID SPECIES IN THE BRAZILIAN CERRADO. Iubatá Paula de Faria, Tarcísio Lyra dos Santos Abreu & Carlos Abs Bianchi

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• MERIAN AWARD 2007

• BOOK REVIEWS

• INDEX TO VOLUME 12, 2006

VOLUME 13, 2007, No.2

• ANT-GARDEN EPIPHYTES ARE PROTECTED AGAINST DROUGHT IN A VENEZUELAN LOWLAND RAIN FOREST. Viviane Schmit-Neuerburg & Nico Blüthgen

• SPECIES RICHNESS OF UNDERSTORY BIRDS IN DIFFERENT HABITATS OF THE CERRADO REGION OF SOUTHEASTERN BRAZIL. Marcos Rodrigues & Luciene de Paula Faria

• SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY OF FINE ROOT ABUNDANCE AND GROWTH IN TROPICAL MOIST FORESTS AND AGROFORESTRY SYSTEMS (SULAWESI, INDONESIA). Marieke Harteveld, Dietrich Hertel, Maria Wiens & Christoph Leuschner

• HABITAT DIFFERENCES AND SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION PATTERNS OF MARITIME STRAND FOREST AND ADJACENT INLAND FOREST ON SUBTROPICAL IRIOMOTE ISLAND, SOUTHERN JAPAN. Daisuke Hayasaka & Kazue Fujiwara

• INDICATOR VALUE OF DIFFERENT VASCULAR PLANT FAMILIES FOR OVERALL PLANT DIVERSITTY IN THE SAVANNA BELT OF WESTERN AFRICA. Marco Schmidt, Holger Kreft, Adjima Thiombiano & Georg Zizka

• TERMITES OF THE GENUS ODONTOTERMES ARE OPTIONALLY KERATOPHAGOUS. Bernd P. Freymann, Sara N. de Visser, Emilian P. Mayemba & Han Olff

Short communication

• FLORAL SCENT COLLECTION AT THE PERFUME FLOWERS OF ANTHURIUM RUBRINERVIUM (ARACEAE) BY THE KLEPTOPARASITIC ORCHID BEE AGLAE CAERULEA (EUGLOSSINI). Heiko Hentrich, Roman Kaiser, & Gerhard Gottsberger

• OBITUARY

• Prof. Dr. Joachim Adis

• Prof. Dr. Wilfried Morawetz

• BOOK REVIEWS

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VOLUME 12, 2006, No.1

• DIET BREADTH AND HOST PLANT RELATIONSHIPS OF SOUTH-EAST-ASIAN SPHINGID CATERPILLARS. Jan Beck, Ian J. Kitching & K. Eduard Linsenmair (download appendix here)

• FOOD PLANTS OF CAPTIVE ELEPHANTS IN THE OKKAN RESERVED FOREST, MYANMAR (BURMA), SOUTHEAST ASIA. Wibke Himmelsbach, Marco Aurelio González Tagle, Kai Füldner, Hanns Höfle & Wan Htun

• RESPIRATION RATES OF SOIL INVERTEBRATES FROM TEMPERATE AND TROPICAL ZONES AS MEASURED BY INFRARED GAS ANALYSIS. Bernhard Förster, Marco Garcia & Hans-Joachim Schallnaß

• FEEDING ECOLOGY OF LEOPARDS (PANTHERA PARDUS)IN THE WESTERN SOUTPANSBERG, REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA, AS REVEALED BY SCAT ANALYSES. Sebastian Schwarz & Frauke Fischer

• REGIONAL DEFORESTATION IN A TROPICAL MONTANE CLOUD FOREST IN ALTA-VERAPAZ, GUATEMALA. Swen C. Renner, Malte Voigt & Michael Markussen

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• SHRUB- VS. GRASS-PATCH-EFFECTS ON THE SEED RAIN AND SEED BANK OF A FIVE YEAR PASTURE IN PUERTO RICO. Drandall W. Myster

• FILMY FERNS (HYMENOPHYLLACEAE) AS HIGH-CANOPY EPIPHYTES. Thorsten Krömer & Michael Kessler

• BOOK REVIEWS

• INDEX TO VOLUME 11, 2005

VOLUME 12, 2006, No.2

• SEASONALITY IN AN EVERGREEN TROPICAL MOUNTAIN RAINFOREST IN SOUTHERN ECUADOR. Eduardo Cueva Oritz, Jürgen Homeier, Siegmar-Walter Breckle, Jörg Bendix, Paul Emck, Michael Richter & Erwin Beck 

• SEASONAL CHANGE IN LEAF AREA INDEX AT THREE SITES ALONG A SOUTH AMERICAN LATITUDINAL GRADIENT. Louise H. Emmons, Patrick Chatelet, Laurent Cournac, Nigel C. A. Pitman, Vicente Vilca V., Luis Fernando del Aguila & Marc A. Dubois

• EFFECT OF FOREST DISTURBANCE ON ABUNDANCE AND DISTRIBUTION OF EPIPHYTIC BROMELIADS AND ORCHIDS. Peter Hietz, Gerald Buchberger & Manuela Winkler

• COMMUNITY ASSEMBLY AND STRUCTURE OF TROPICAL LEAF-LITTER ANURANS. Raffael Ernst & Mark-Oliver Rödel

• MOVEMENT DISTANCES OF FIVE RODENT AND TWO MARSUPIAL SPECIES IN FOREST FRAGMENTS OF THE COASTAL ATLANTIC RAINFOREST, BRAZIL. Thomas Püttker, Yvonne Meyer-Lucht & Simone Sommer

• NEST SITES OF RODENTS AND TREESHREWS IN BORNEO. Konstans Wells, Maklarin B. Lakim & Martin Pfeiffer

• INFLUENCE OF SAMPLING STRATEGY ON THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN TROPICAL PIONEER AND NON-PIONEER FOREST SPECIES. Chrisoph Leuschner, Kerstin Bohman, Paul J. A. Kessler & Ramadhanil Pitopang 

• PHYSICAL DAMAGE TO ARTIFICIAL SEEDLINGS IN RELATION TO DISTANCE FROM TROPICAL FOREST EDGES. Ana C. Sánchez-Thorin, William F. Laurance, Catalina Perdomo & Robert M. Ewers

• BOOK REVIEWS

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VOLUME 11, 2005, No.1-2

• SEEDLING MORPHOLOGY OF NON-PIONEER TREES IN CENTRALAMAZONIAN VÁRZEA FLOODPLAIN FORESTS. Lúcia Alencar Maia, Savana Maia & Pia Parolin

• MOLLUSCAN DIVERSITY AND ABUNDANCE AMONG COASTAL HABITATS OF NORTHERN BRAZIL. Colin R. Beasley, Carlos M. Fernandes, Cleidson P. Gommes, Bethânia A. Brito, Sônia M. Lima dos Santos & Claudia H. Tagliaro

• DIVERSITY OF VASCULAR EPIPHYTES ON ISOLATED REMNANT TREES IN THE MONTANE FOREST BELT OF SOUTHERN ECUADOR. Florian A. Werner, Jürgen Homeier & S. Robbert Gradstein

• ICHNEUMONIDAE (HYMENOPTERA) FROM THE CANOPY OF TROPICAL FORESTS IN SABAH, MALAYSIA: A COMPARISON BETWEEN PRIMARY AND SECONDARY FORESTS. Klaus Horstmann, Andreas Floren & K. Eduard Linsenmair

• THE INFLUENCE OF FIRE ON SALTATORIA DIVERSITY IN COASTAL HABITATS NEAR PANGANI; TANZANIA (EAST AFRICA).Claudia Hemp

• TANK FUNCTION IN THE EPIPHYTIC BROMELIAD CATOPSIS SESSILIFLORA. Gerhard Zotz & Stefan Laube

Short communication

• POLLINATION OF THE ENIGMATIC MAURITIAN ENDEMIC ROUSSEA SIMPLEX (ROUSSEACEAE): BIRD OR GECKOS? Dennis M. Hansen

• EFFECTS OF SIMULATED CLIMATE CHANGE ON BIOMASS ALLOCATION PATTERNS OF SEEDLINGS OF TWO ANDEAN LEPIDIUM SPECIES (BRASSICACEAE) WITH DIFFERENT ELEVATIONAL DISTRIBUTIONS. Jorge Jácome & Michael Kessler

• MINERAL DEFICIENCIES IN A PINE PLANTATION IN SOUTHERN ECUADOR. Siegmar-Walter Breckle, Uta Breckle,Jürgen Homeier & Anja Scheffer

• MASS DEFOLIATION OF THE MANGROVE TREE AVICENNIA GERMINANS BY THE MOTH HYBLAEA PUERA (LEPIDOPTERA: HYBLAEIDAE) IN EQUATORIAL BRAZIL: Ulf Mehlig & Moirah P. M. de Menezes

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VOLUME 10, 2004, No.1

• MEASURING AND MONITORING AMPHIBIAN DIVERSITY IN TROPICAL FORESTS: I. AN EVALUATION OF METHODS WITH RECOMMENDATIONS FOR STANDARDIZATION. Mark-Oliver Rödel & Raffael Ernst

• ARBOREAL SPACING PATTERNS OF THE LARGE PENCIL-TAILED TREE MOUSE, CHIROPODOMYS MAJOR (MURIDAE), IN A RAINFOREST IN SABAH, MALAYSIA. Konstans Wells, Marin Pfeiffer, Maklarin Bin Lakim & Karl Eduard Linsenmair 

• HETEROTROPHIC SUCCESSION IN ALIBERTIA EDULIS FRUITS: VARIATION IN RESOURCE AVAILABILITY AND TEMPORAL HETEROGENEITY OF MICROHABITATS FOR INVERTEBRATES. Maroni Souza-Silva & Rodrigo Lopes Ferreira 

• AN UNUSUAL MYRMECOPHYTIC MACARANGA ASSOCIATION, OCCURRING IN A DISJUNCT AREA IN THE MONSOON ZONE OF SOUTH-EAST ASIA: PHENOLOGY AND THE DESCRIPTION OF A NEW ANT SPECIES. Ulrich Maschwitz, Brigitte Fiala & Klaus Dumpert

• GROWTH AND SURVIVAL OF THE EARLY STAGES OF THE HETEROBLASTIC BROMELIAD VRIESEA SANGUINOLENTA. Gerhard Zotz

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• USING THE VARIANCES OF MICROCLIMATE VARIABLES TO DETERMINE EDGE EFFECTS IN SMALL ATLANTIC RAIN FOREST FRAGMENTS, SOUTH-EASTERN BRAZIL. Ludmila P. de Siqueira, Mário Basílio de Matos, Dalva M. Silva Matos, Rita de Cássia Q. Portela, Maria Isabel G. Braz & Leonardo Silva-Lima

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• INDEX TO VOLUME 9, 2003#

VOLUME 10, 2004, No.2

• CONTRASTING RESPONSES OF TWO AMAZONIAN FLOODPLAIN TREES TO HYDROLOGICAL CHANGES.Nicole Armbrüster, Ewald Müller, Pia Parolin

• MEASURING AND MONITORING AMPHIBIAN DIVERSITY IN TROPICAL FORESTS. II. ESTIMATING SPECIES RICHNESS FROM STANDARDIZED TRANSECT CENSING. Michael Veith, Stefan Lötters, Franco Andreone & Mark-Oliver Rödel

• NON-DESTRUCTIVE ANALYSIS OF ARCHITECTURAL EXPANSION AND ASSIMILATE ALLOCATION IN DIFFERENT TROPICAL TREE SAPLINGS: CONSEQUENCES OF USING STEADY-STATE AND DYNAMIC PHOTOSYNTHESIS MODELS. Hans-Christoph Timm, Manfred Küppers & Jens Stegemann

• REVIEW OF THE GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTEION OF FISH FAUNA OF THE XINGU RIVER BASIN; BRAZIL. Mauricio Camargo, Tommaso Giarizzo & Victoria Isaac

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• SMALL MAMMAL SPECIES DIVERSITY AND COMPOSITION IN TWO ECOLOGICALLY DISTINCT RAIN FOREST SITES IN NORTHERN SUMATRA; INDONESIA. Jean Philippe Boubli, Carlos Eduardo Viveiros Grelle & Carel P. van Schaik

• REASSESSING THE CAUSES OF DECLINE OF POLYLEPIS, A TROPICAL SUBALPINE FOREST. Jessica Purcell & Alan Brelsford

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Prof. Dr. Harald Sioli

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• EDITORIAL

• THE BRACKEN FERN (PTERIDIUM ARACHNOIDEUM (KAULEF.) DILEMMA IN THE ANDES OF SOUTHERN ECUADOR. Katja Hartig & Erwin Beck

• INFLUENCE OF RAINFALL ON THE COMPOSITION OF A TROPICAL AVIAN ASSEMBLAGE IN NORTHEASTERN VENEZUELA. Arnaud Tarroux, Raymond McNeil & Pierre Legndre 

• PLANT DIVERSITY, INTERSPECIFIC ASSOCIATIONS, AND POSTFIRE RESPROUTING ON A SANDY SPIT IN A BRAZILIAN COASTAL PLAIN. Paulo Cirne, Henrique Leão Teixeira Zaluar & Fabio Rubio Scarano 

• GROWTH AND SURVIVAL OF THE FOLIOSE LICHEN PARMOTREMA ENDOSULPHUREUM IN THE LOWLAND TROPICS OF PANAMA. Gerhard Zotz & Tanja Schleicher 

• TROPICAL DRY EVERGREEN FORESTS ON THE COROMANDEL COAST OF INDIA: STRUCTURE, COMPOSITION AND HUMAN DISTURBANCE. R. Venkateswaran & N. Parthasarathy

• SEEDLING MORTALITY OF SIX PHILIPPINE RAIN FOREST TREE SPECIES: A TEST OF THE ‘ESCAPE HYPOTHESIS’. Eberhard Curio, Jochen Reiter, Benjamin Tacud, Henry Urbina & Carola Fink-Schabacker

• SALTATORIA COENOSES OF HIGH-ALTITUDE GRASSLANDS ON MT. KILIMANJARO, TANZANIA (ORTHOPTERA: SALTATORIA). Claudia Hemp & Andreas Hemp 

Short Communications

• HAKMOTH DIVERSITY IN NORTHERN BORNEO DOES NOT REFLECT THE INFLUENCE OF ANTHROPOGENIC HABITAT DISTURBANCE. Christian H. Schulze & Konrad Fiedler 

• RHINOCEROS BEETLES POLLINATE WATER LILIES IN AFRICA (COLEOPTERA: SCARABAEIDAE: DYNASTINAE; MAGNOLIDAE: NIYMPAEACEAE). Frank-Thorsten Krell, Gunar Hirthe, Rüdiger Seine & Stefan Porembski 

• CORONA STRUCTURE IN CYNANCHUM: LINKING MORPHOLOGY TO FUNCTION. Jeff Ollerton & Sigrid Liede 

• INDEX TO VOLUME 8, 2002

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VOLUME 8, 2002, No.1

• DISTANCE, DYNAMICS, AND DIVERSITY IN TROPICAL RAINFORESTS; AN EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH USING FOLIICOLOUS LICHENS ON ARTIFICIAL LEAVES. I. GROWTH PERFORMANCE AND SUCCESSION. Robert Lücking & Andrea Bernecker-Lücking

• POSSIBLE MECHANISMS FOR THE COEXISTENCE OF CONGENERIC (POUROUMA, CECROPIACEAE) AMAZONIAN TREE SPECIES. Else Magård

• GLOSSOPHAGINE BAT POLLINATION IN HELICTERES BARUENSIS (STERCULIACEAE). Otto von Helversen & Christian C. Voigt

• TREE SPECIES MONODOMINANCE OR SPECIES-RICH SAVANNAS? THE INFLUENCE OF ABIOTIC FACTORS IN DESIGNING PLANT COMMUNITIES OF THE BRAZILIAN CERRADO AND PANTANAL MATOGROSSENSE – A REVIEW.  Sérvio P. Ribeiro & Valerie K. Brown

• BIOGEOGRAPHY OF RAMPHOMICRON BONAPARTE, 1850 (AVES: TROCHILIDAE). André-A. Weller & Karl-L. Schuchmann

• REGIONAL DIFFERENCES IN ANT COMMUNITY STRUCTURE AND CONSEQUENCES FOR SECONDARY DISPERSAL OF COMMIPHORA SEEDS. Friederike A. Voigt, Joachim F. Burkhardt, Manfred Verhaagh & Katrin Böhning-Gaese

• FOREST BIRD COMMUNITIES IN THE TIBAGI RIVER HYDROGRAPHIC BASIN, SOUTHERN BRAZIL. Luiz dos Anjos

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• PLANTS IN THE DEVIL’S GARDEN: INTRUDERS IN AN ANT-PLANT MUTUALISM. Jens M. Olesen, Annika Büchert Lindberg, Louise I. Eskildsen, Jens Chr. Svenning & Reno Lindberg

• SIT AND WAIT AT THE SOURCE OF DUNG – AN UNUSUAL STRATEGY OF DUNG BEETLES. Emérita R. Tirado Herrera, Kevina Vulinec, Christoph Knogge & Eckhard W. Heymann

• BOOK REVIEWS

• INDEX TO VOLUME 7, 2001

VOLUME 8, 2002, No.2

• EDITORIAL

• ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION OF HIGH-ANDEAN POLYLEPIS FOREST. Sebastian K. Herzog, Jennifer Cahill M., Jon Fjeldsa, Michael Kessler, Eric Yensen, Teresa Tarifa, José Capriles, Erika Fernández Terrazas, Isabell Hensen, Pierre L. Ibisch, Ingrid Loayza, Daniel Renison, Eduardo Dellacassa, Eliana Flores Bedregal, Ana M. Cingolani, Daniel Lorenzo, Erik Matthysen, Duilio Schinner, Rodrigo Soria A., Alejandra Troncoso J., Bertil Stahl & Antonia Vilaseca

• THE “POLYLEPIS PROBLEM”: WHERE DO WE STAND? M. Kessler

• POLYLEPIS FOREST – VESTIGES OF A VANISHING ECOSYSTEM IN THE ANDES J. Fjeldså

• KEY AREAS FOR CONSERVING THE AVIFAUNA OF POLYLEPIS FORESTS. J. Fjeldså

• COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE OF AVIAN MIXED-SPECIES FLOCKS IN A HIGH-ANDEAN POLYLEPIS FOREST IN BOLIVIA. S. K. Herzog, R. Soria A., A. Troncoso J. & E. Matthysen

• MAMMALS OF BOLIVIAN POLYLEPIS WOODLANDS: GUILD STRUCTURE AND DIVERSITY PATTERNS IN THE WORLD’S HIGHEST WOODLANDS. E. Yensen & T. Tarifa

• DIVERSITY AND PHYTOGEOGRAPHY OF THE VASCULAR FLORA OF THE POLYLEPIS FOREST OF THE CORDILLERA DE COCHAMAMBA, BOLIVIA. E. Fernández Terrazas & B. Ståhl

• IMPACTS OF ANTHROPOGENIC ACTIVITY ON THE VEGETATION OF POLYLEPIS WOODLANDS IN THE REGION OF COCHABAMBA, BOLIVIA I. Hensen

• EVALUATION OF A RURAL DEVELOPMENT PROJECT IN SOUTHWEST COCHABAMBA, BOLIVIA, AND ITS AGROFORESTRY ACTIVITIES INVOLVING POLYLEPIS BESSERI AND OTHER NATIVE SPECIES – A DECADE OF LESSONS LEARNED. P. L. Ibisch

• OPTIMIZING RESTORATION OF POLYLEPIS AUSTRALIS WOODLANDS: WHEN, WHERE AND HOW TO TRANSPLANT SEEDLINGS TO THE MONTAINS? D. Renison, A. M. Cingolani & D. Schinner

• THE ECONOMIC, SYMBOLIC, AND SOCIAL IMPORTANCE OF THE “KEÑUA” (POLYLEPIS SSP.) DURING PREHISPANIC TIMES IN THE ANDEAN HIGHLANDS OF BOLIVIA. J. M. Capriles & E. Flores Bedregal

• CHARACTERIZATION OF THE ESSENTIAL OIL AND EXTRACTS FROM THE AERIAL PARTS OF KEHUIÑA (POLYLEPIS BESSERI). I. Loayza, L. A. Vilaseca, D. Lorenza & E. Dellacassa

• DEMOGRAPHY, SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION, AND GROWTH OF THREE ARBORESCENT PALM SPECIES IN A TROPICAL PREMONTANE RAIN FOREST IN COSTA RICA. J. Homeier, S.-W. Breckle, H. Dalitz, C. Leyers & R. Oritz

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• AN IMPROVED NECKLACE FOR MARKING FRUIT BATS (PTEROPODIDAE). S. Luft & E. Curio

• BOOK REVIEWS

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VOLUME 7, 2001, No.1-2

• FEEDING ECOLOGY OF BLACK CAIMAN MELANOSUCHUS NIGER IN A WESTERN AMAZONIAN FOREST: THE EFFECTS OF ONTOGENY AND SEASONALITY ON DIET COMPOSITION. Julia Viviana Horna, Renato Cintra & Pedro Vasquez Ruesta

• SURVIVALS STRATEGY OF THE TERRICOLOUS DIPLURAN PARAJAPYX ADISI (PARAJAPYGIDAE) IN AN INUDATION FOREST OF CENTRAL AMAZONIA. Joachim Adis & Jean Pagés

• CANOPY STRUCTURE OF THE RIO SURUMONI RAIN FOREST (VENEZUELA) AND ITS INFLUENCE ON MICROCLIMATE. Dieter Anhuf & Rütger Rollenbeck

• DIVERSITY OF ORTHOPTERA FROM BORNEAN LOWLAND RAIN FOREST TREES. Andreas Floren, Klaus Riede & Sigfrid Ingrisch

• EPIPHYTE DIVERSITY IN A TROPICAL ANDEAN FOREST – RESERVA BIOLÓGICA SAN FRANSCISCO, ZAMORA-CHINCHIPE, ECUADOR. Rainer W. Bussmann

• PATTERNS OF TREE DIVERSITY WITHIN A LARGE-SCALE PERMANENT PLOT OF TROPICAL EVERGREEN FOREST, WESTERN GHATS, INDIA. N. Ayyappan & N. Parthasarathy

• EFFECTS OF INTENSITY AND AGE OF SELECTIVE LOGGING AND TREE GIRDLING OF AN UNDERSTORY BIRD COMMUNITY COMPOSITION IN CENTRAL AMAZONIA, BRAZIL. Edson Guilherme & Renato Cintra

• SPATIAL PATTERNS OF MANGROVE ECOSYSTEMS: THE BRAGANTINIAN MANGROVES OF NORTHERN BRAZIL (BRAGANÇA PARÁ). Gesche Krause, Dirk Schories, Marion Glaser & Karen Diele

• HOME RANGE, ROOST SWITCHING, AND FORAGING AREA IN A PHILIPPINE FRUIT BAT (PTENOCHIRUS JAGORI). Jochen Reiter & Eberhard Curio

• FURTHER OBSERVATIONS ON THE NATURAL HISTORY AND SURVIVAL STRATEGIES OF RIVERINE TIGER BEETLES (COLEOPTERA: CICINDELIDAE) FROM OPEN HABITATS IN CENTRAL AMAZONIAN FLOODPLAINS (BRAZIL). Matthias Zerm & Joachim Adis

• ETHNOZOOLOGICAL RESEARCH ON INVERTEBRATES ON MT. KILIMANJARO, TANZANIA. Claudia Hemp

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• A TROPICAL DERBIDAE (FULGOROIDEA, HOMOPTERA) THAT MIMICS A PREDATOR (SALTICIDAE, ARANEAE). Andreas Floren & Stefan Otto

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• A COMPARATIVE EXAMINATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS AT PATCHY MANGROVE SEEDLING STANDS ON THE PENINSULA OF BARANÇA, NORTHERN BRAZIL. Nina Thüllen & Uta Berger

• INFLUENCE OF SEED DISPERSAL BY BROWN LEMURS ON REMOVAL RATES OF THREE GREWIA SPECIES (TILIACEAE)IN THE DECIDUOUS FOREST OF MADAGASCAR. Sabine E. Spehn & Jörg Ganzhorn

• LICHEN FEEDERS AND LICHENICOLOUS FUNGHI: DO THEY AFFECT DISPERSAL AND DIVERSITY IN TROPICAL FOLICOLOUS LICHEN COMMUNITIES? Robert Lücking & Andrea Bernecker-Lücking

• SEED DISPERSAL BY BIRDS IN A SOUTH AFRICAN AND MALAGASY COMMIPHORA SPECIES. Bärbel Bleher & Kathrin Böhning-Gaese

• EPIPHYLLOUS BRYOPHYTES FROM COCOS ISLAND, COSTA RICA. A FLORISTIC AND PHYTOGEOGRAPHICAL STUDY. Andrea Bernecker-Lücking

• THE BIOMASS OF BAMBOO (GUADUA WEBERBAUERI PILGER) IN OPEN FOREST OF THE SOUTHWESTERN AMAZON. José Marcelo D. Torezan & Marcos Silveira

• FOREST MICROSPATIAL HETEROGENEITY AND SEED AND SEEDLING SURVIVAL OF THE PALM ASTROCARYUM MURUMURU AND THE LEGUME DIPTERYX MICRANTHA IN AN AMAZONIAN FOREST. Renato Cintra & John Terborgh

Short Communication

• OBSERVATIONS ON A HUMAN-INDUCED FIRE EVENT AT HUMID TIMBERLINE IN THE BOLIVIAN ANDES. Michael Kessler

• SIZE DEPENDENCE IN THE REPRODUCTIVE ALLOCATION OF DIMERANDRA EMARGINATA, AN EPIPHYTIC ORCHID. Gerhard Zotz

• ATTRACTION OF MIRIDAE AND LYGAEIDAE (HETEROPTERA) TO CANTHARIDIN. Claudia Hemp & Konrad Dettner

VOLUME 6, 2000, No.2

• ECOLOGY OF BAT GUANO ARTHROPOD COMMUNITIES IN A BRAZILIAN DRY CAVE. Rodrigo Lopes Ferreira, Rogério Parentoni Martins & Douglas Yanega

• FIVE YEARS OF POST-FIRE VEGETATION SUCCESSION IN A CARIBBEAN CLOUD FOREST (CORILLERA CENTRAL, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC). Thomas May

• UNDERSTORY PLANT DIVERSITY IN A TROPICAL EVERGREEN FOREST IN THE KOLLI HILLS, EASTERN GHATS, INDIA. C. V. Chittibabu & N. Parthasarathy

• ON THE LIFE CYCLES OF PHEAOXANTHA SPECIES (COLEOPTERA: CICINDELIDAE) FROM CENTRAL AMAZONIAN FLOODPLAINS (BRAZIL). Matthias Zerm & Joachim Adis

• FRUIT CHARACTERISTICS AS DETERMINANTS OF GUT PASSAGE IN A BULBUL (HYPSIPETES PHILIPPINUS). J. Schabacker & E. Curio

• HOW TO BE A FIG BEETLE? OBSERVATIONS OF GROUND BEETLES (COL., CARABIDAE) ASSOCIATED WITH FRUITFALLS IN A RAIN FOREST OF BORNEO. Rainer Borcherding, Wilfried Paarmann, Sanham Bin Nyawa & Hubertus Bolte

• EPIPHYTE DISTRIBUTION IN A SECONDARY CLOUD FOREST VEGETATION; A CASE STUDY OF THE APPLICATION OF GIS IN EPIPHYTE ECOLOGY. Maaike Bader, Hein J. F. van Dunné & H. John Stuiver

Short Communication

• FRUIT SIZE AND FRUGIVORE SPECIES RICHNESS: ADDITIONAL EVIDENCE FROM OBSERVATIONS AT A LARGE FICUS TREE. Bruno A. Walther

• THE EPIPHYTIC FILMY FERNS OF A TROPICAL LOWLAND FOREST – SPECIES OCCURANCE AND HABITAT PREFERENCES. Gerhard Zotz & Mechthild Büche

• SERICOMYRMEX ANTS AS SEED PREDATORS. Marianne Feldmann, Manfred Verhaagh & Eckhard W. Heymann

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VOLUME 5, 1999, No.1

• HIGH SPECIES RICHNESS OF ICHNEUMONIDAE (HYMENPTERA) FROM THE CANOPY OF A MALAYSIAN RAIN FOREST Klaus Horstmann, Andreas Floren & K. Eduard Linsenmair

• THE FOOD HABITS OF POLYNESIAN PIGEONS AND DOVES: A SYSTEMATIC AND BIOGEOGRAPHIC REVIEW David W. Steadman & Holly B. Freifeld

• MYRMECOPHAGY UNDERMINES ANT-PLANT MUTUALISMS: ANT-EATING CALLOSCIURUS SQUIRRELS (RODENTIA: SCIURIDAE) DAMAGE ANT-PLANTS IN SOUTHEAST ASIA Walter Federle, Anja Leo, Joachim Moog, Hj. Idris Azarae & Ulrich Maschwitz

• GIANT NECTARIES IN THE PERISTOME THORNS OF THE PITCHER PLANT NEPENTHES BICALCARATA HOOKER F. (NEPENTHACEAE): ANATOMY AND FUNCTIONAL ASPECTS Marlis A. Merbach, Georg Zizka, Brigitte Fiala, Dennis Merbach & Ulrich Maschwitz

• PHENOLOGY OF SIX TREE SPECIES FROM CENTRAL AMAZONIAN VÁRZEA Florian Wittmann & Pia Parolin

Short Communication

• MYMECOPHILY AND PARASITOID INFESTATION OF SOUTH-EAST ASIAN LYCAENID BUTTERFLY LARVAE Peter Seufert & Konrad Fiedler

• VEGETATIVE PROPAGATION IN AN EPIPHYTIC ORCHID OCCURENCE AND ECOLOGICAL RELEVANCE Gerhard Zotz

• MICROHABITAT-DEPENDENT RECRUITMENT OF IRIARTEA DELTOIDEA (ARECACEAE) IN AMAZONIAN ECUADOR. Jens-Christian Svenning & Henrik Balslev

• THE VASCULAR EPIPHYTES ON A VIROLA MICHELII TREE (MYRISTICACEAE) IN FRENCH GUIANA Martin Freiberg

• THE USE OF AN ICHTHYOTOXIC PLANT IN ARTISANAL COASTAL CUTUCA (MYROPHIS PUNCTATUS LÜTKEN – OPHICHTHIDAE) FISHERIES ALONG THE NORTH BRAZILIAN COAST. Mário Barletta, Ulrich Saint-Paul & Audrey Barletta-Bergan

VOLUME 5, 1999, No.2

• THE SIGNIFICANCE OF AMAZONIAN RAIN FOREST DEFORESTATION FOR REGIONAL AND GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE – A REVIEW Ulrich Saint-Paul, Ursula-Brigitte Schlüter & Heike Schmidt

• FRUITING PHENOLOGY AND FRUGIVORY ON THE PALM EUTERPE EDULIS IN A LOWLAND ATLANTIC FOREST OF BRAZILMauro Galetti, Valesca B. Zipparro & Patrícia C. Morellato

• PLANT SPECIES RICHNESS AND ENDEMISM DURING NATURAL LANDSLIDE SUCCESSION IN A PREHUMID MONTANE FOREST IN THE BOLIVIAN ANDES Michael Kessler

• LEAF POLYPHENOLS IN BRAZILIAN MELASTOMATACEAE: SCLEROPHYLLY, HABITATS, AND INSECT HERBIVORES Sérvio Pontes Ribeiro, Alaíde O. Braga, Cláudia Hermínia L. Silva & Geraldo Wilson Fernandes

• AN ETHNOBOTANICAL STUDY ON MT. KILIMANJARO Andreas Hemp

• OBSERVATIONS OF FRUGIVOROUS BIRDS AT FRUIT-BEARING PLANTS IN THE NORTH NEGROS FOREST REESERVE, PHILIPPINES Martin Heindl & Eberhard Curio

• FLAGELLATES, BACTERIA, AND FUNGHI ASSOCIATED WITH TERMITES: DIVERSITY AND FUNCTION IN NUTRITION – A REVIEW Renate Radek

• INVENTORIES OF UNDERSTORY PLANTS IN A TROPICAL EVERGREEN FOREST IN THE ANAMALAIS, WESTERN GHATS, INDIA J. Annaselvam & N. Parthasarathy

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• ECOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF BAMBOO-DOMINATED FOREST IN SOUTHWESTERN AMAZONIA: AN ETHNOSCIENCE PERSPECTIVE Marcos Silveira

• LIANA INFESTATION OF TREES: SOME OBSERVATIONS IN A NEOTROPICAL LOWLAND FOREST Ludwig Kammesheidt

• HOYA MITRATA KERR (ASCLEPIADACEAE): A NEW MYRMECOTROPHIC EPIPHYTE FROM SOUTHEAST ASIA WITH A UNIQUE MULTILEAVED DOMATIUM Andears Weissflog, Joachim Moog, Walter Federle, Michael Werner, Rosli Hashim & Ulrich Maschwitz

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VOLUME 4, 1998, No. 1-2

• ECOLOGY OF FOLICOLOUS LICHEY,S AT THE “BOTARRAMA” TRAIL (COSTA RICA), A NEOTROPICAL RAIN, FOREST SITE. PART II. PATTERNS OF DIVERSITY AND AREA COVER, AND THEIR DEPENDENCE ON MICROCLIMATE AND PHOROVHYTE SPECIES. Robert Lücking

• ARE THERE DIFFERENCES IN SPECIFIC WOOD GRAVITIES BETWEEN TREES IN VARZEA AND IGAPO (CENTRAL AMAZONIA)? Pia Parolin & Leandro V. Eerreira

• METHODS OF ANALYZING THE STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS OF VASCULAR EPIPHYTE COMMUNITIES. Jürgen Nieder & Gerhard Zotz 

• DESCRIPTION OF THE FISHERIES STRUCTURE IN THE MANGROVE-DOMINATED REGION OF BRAGANCA (STATE OF PARA, NORTH BRAZIL). Mario Barletta, Audrey Barletta-Bergan & Ulrich Saint-Paul 

• NON-EQUILIBRIUM COMMUNITIES OF COLEOPTERA IN TREES IN A LOWLAND RAIN FOREST OF BORNEO. Andreas Floren & Karl Eduard Linsenmair 

• ANGIOSPERM POLLINATION AND SEED DISPERSAL, A REVIEW. Marc Théry, Albert-D. Stevens, Jürgen R. Hoppe, Pierre Charles-Dominique & Karl-L. Schuchmann 

• CANOPY FOGGING OF AN OVERSTORY TREE – RECOMMENDATIONS FOR STANDARDIZATION. Joachim Adis, Yves Basset, Andreas Floren, Peter M. Hammond & Karl Eduard Linsenmair 

• FISHERIES ECOLOGY IN THE LOWER AMAZON: A TYPICAL ARTISANAL PRACTICE IN THE TROPICS. Mauro Luis Ruffino, Victoria Judith Isaac & Ana Milstein 

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• WOOD LITTER STOCKS IN TROPICAL MOIST FOREST IN CENTRAL AMAZONIA. Christopher Martius & Aldemar G. Bandeira

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VOLUME 3, 1997, No.1

• DESCRIPTION OF A DYNAMIC ECOTONE IN THE PANTANAL OF MATO GROSSO, BRAZIL. Charles W. Heckman

• WING-SHAPE VARIATION IN RELATION TO ECOLOGY AND SEXUAL SELECTION IN FIVE SYMPATRIC LEKKING MANAKINS (PASSERIFORMES: PIPRIDAE). Marc Théry

• REPRODUCTIVE SYNCHRONIZATION IN THE TROPICS: THE CIRCA-SEMIANNUAL RHYTHM IN THE NUPTIAL FLIGHT OF THE GIANT ANT CAMPONOTUS GIGAS LATEREILLE (HYMENOPTERA; FORMICIDAE). Martin Pfeiffer & K. Eduard Linsenmair

• SEED DISPERSAL AND PLANT REGENERATION BY SNAKES? Thomas R. Engel

• BIOGEOGRAPHICAL AFFINITIES OF THE AVIFAUNA OF THE TIBAGI RIVER BASIN, PARANA DRAINAGE SYSTEM, BRAZIL.Luiz dos Anjos & Karl-L. Schuchmann

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• FIELD OBSERVATI ON THE NEOTROPICAL PYGMY SQUIRREL, SCIURILLUS PUSILLUS (RODENTIA: SCIURIDAE) IN PERUVIAN AMAZONIA. Eckhard W. Heymann & Christoph Knogge

VOLUME 3, 1997, No.2

• ECOLOGY AND ADAPTATIONS OF THE TIGER BEETLE PENTACOMIA EGREGIA (CHAUDOIR) (CICINDELINAE: CARABIDAE) TO CENTRAL AMAZONIAN FLOOD-PLAINS. Maristela A. Amorim, Joachim Adis & Wilfried Paarmann.

• DISTRIBUTION OF LEAFHOPPERS (AUCHENORRHYNCHA, HEMIPTERA) ON THEIR HOST PLANT OXYSPORA PANICULATA(MELASTOMATACEAE) IN THE UNDERSTORY OF A DIVERSE RAINFOREST. Vojtech Novotný & Jan Leps.

• DENSITY, BIOMASS, AND MOVEMENT ESTIMATES FOR MURID RODENTS IN MOSSY FOREST ON MOUNT ISAROG, SOUTHERN LUZON, PHILIPPINES. Danilo S. Balete & Lawrence R. Heaney.

• GROWTH CURVE SHAPE AND GROWTH VARIATION OF THE TROPICAL LIZARD URANOSCODON SUPERCILIOSUS (SAURIA: TROPIDURIDAE). Thierry Gasnier, William E. Magnusson & Andrea V. Waichman.

• ANNUAL VARIATION IN SPECIES DIVERSITY AND RELATIVE DENSITY OF RODENTS AND INSECTIVORES IN THE PARC NATIONAL DE LA MONTAGNE D’AMBRE, MADAGASCAR. Steven M. Goodman, Jörg Ganzhorn, Link Olson, Mark Pidgeon & Voahangy Soarimalala.

• THE SPECIES RICHNESS AND COMPOSITION OF TERMITES (ISOPTERA) IN PRIMARY AND REGENERATING LOWLAND DIPTEROCARP FOREST IN SABAH, EAST MALAYSIA. Paul Eggleton, Rahman Monathevi, Dhamarajah Jeeva, David T. Jones, Richard G. Davis & Mohamed Maryati.

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• THE “FOREST FLOOR” SAPROPHYTES VOYRIA SPRUCEANA and V. APHYLLA (GENTIANACEAE) GROWING AS EPIPHYTES IN COLOMBIAN AMAZONIA. Jeron P. Groenendijk, Arthur T. J. van Dulmen & Ferry Bouman.

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VOLUME 2, 1996, No.1

• VARIATION IN TERMITE ALATE SWARMING IN RAIN FORESTS OF CENTRAL AMAZONIA. Christopher Martius, Adelmar Gomes Bandeira & Lucilene Gomes da Silva Medeiros

• A SOUTH-EAST ASIAN MYRMECOPHYTE WITH TWO ALTERNATIVE INHABITANTS: CAMPONOTUS OR CREMATOGASTER AS PARTNERS OF MACARANGA LAMELLATA. Ulrich Maschwitz, Brigitte Fiala, Stuart J. Davies & K. Eduard Linsenmair

• HOW DIVERSE ARE NEOTROPICAL EPIPHYTES? AN ANALYSIS BASED ON THE “CATALOGUE OF THE FLOWERING PLANTS AND GYMNOSPERMS OF PERU”. Pierre L. Ibisch, Andreas Boegner, Jürgen Nieder & Wilhelm Barthlot

• GIS AND REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUES AS TOOLS FOR SURVEYING PRIMATES. Dietmar Zinner & Frank Torkler
• PHENOTYPE EXPRESSION OF EPIPHYTIC GESNERIACEAE UNDER DIFFERENT MICROCLIMATIC CONDITIONS IN COSTA RICA. Martin Freiberg
• HOW TO SAMPLE THE EPIPHYTIC DIVERSITY OF TROPICAL RAIN FORESTS. S. Rob Gradstein, Peter Hietz, Robert Lücking, Andrea Lücking, Harrie J. M. Sipman, Hans F. M. Vester, Jan H. D. Wolf & Eric Gardette

Short Communications

• COMPARISON OF SEASONAL AND DIURNAL VERTICAL OXYGEN DISTRIBUTIONS IN CENTRAL AMAZONIAN WHITE AND BLACK WATER LAKES. Ulrich Saint-Paul

• DOES ß-DIVERSITY ALLOW RELIABLE DISCRIMINATION BETWEEN DETERMINISTICALLY AND STOCHASTICALLY ASSEMBLED COMMUNITIES? Armin Götzke & K. Eduard LinsenmairPROF. DR. H. SIOLI – HONORY MEMBER

VOLUME 2, 1996, No.2

• PATTERNS OF ELEVATIONAL DISTRIBUTION OF BIRDS AND SMALL MAMMALS IN THE HUMID FORESTS OF MONTAGNE D’AMBRE; MADAGASCAR. Steven M. Goodmann, Aristide Andrianarimisa, Link E. Olson & Voahangy Soarimalala

• THE COMPOSITION AND RICHNESS OF THE TREE-CROWN COLEOPTERA ASSEMBLAGE IN AN AUSTRALIAN SUBTROPICAL FOREST. Peter M. Hammond, Roger L. Kitching & Nigel E. Stork

• SPECIES RICHNESS OF FOREST-DWELLING BIRDS, RODENTS AND INSECTIVORES IN A PLANTED FOREST OF NATIVE TREES: A TEST CASE FROM THE ANKARATRA, MADAGASCAR. Steven M. Goodman, Daniel Rakotondravony, George Schatz & Lucienne Wilmé

• EPIPHYTIC VEGETATION AND ECOLOGY IN CENTRAL AFRICAN FORESTS (RWANDA, ZAÏRE). Nadja Biedinger & Eberhard Fischer

• VALUE OF FRUITS AND SEEDS FROM THE FLOODPLAIN FOREST OF CENTRAL AMAZONIA AS FOOD RESOURCE FOR FISH. Danielle Waldhoff, Ulrich Saint-Paul & Bodo Furch

• INTERACTIONS BETWEEN A PARASITIC FLY, NEODOHRNIPHORA DECLINATA (DIPTERA: PHORIDAE), AND ITS HOST, THE LEAF-CUTTING ANT ATTA SEXDENS ROBROPOLOSA (HYMENOPTERA: FORMICIDAE). Athayde Tonhasca Jr.

• ON ABUNDANCE AND PHENOLOGY OF GEOPHILOMORPHA (CHILOPODA) FROM CENTRAL AMAZONIAN UPLAND FORESTS. Joachim Adis, Alessandro Minelli, José Wellington de Morais, Luis A. Pereira, Francesco Barbieri & José Maria G. Rodrigues

• STRANGULATION OF THE PALM PHYTETEPHAS SEEMANNII BY THE PIONEER TREE CECROPIA OBTUSIFOLIA: THE COST OF EFFICIENT LITTER TRAPPING. Rodrigo Bernal & Henrik Balsev

• PRELIMINARY CLIMATIC OVERVIEW OF MIGRATION PATTERNS IN SOUTH AMERICAN AUSTRAL MIGRANT PASSERINES. Leo Joseph

• HABITAT PREFERENCES OF GRASSHOPPERS (ORTHOPTERA: ACRIDOIDEA, EUMASTACOIDEA) IN THE EAST USAMBARA MOUNTAINS, NE TANZANIA, AND THEIR USE FOR BIOINDICATION. Axel Hochkirch

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VOLUME 1, 1995, No.1

• AN INVENTORY OF MAMMALS OBSERVED AT PANGUANA BIOLOGICAL STATION, AMAZONIAN PERU. Rainer Hutterer, Manfred Verhaagh, Juliane Diller & Richard Podloucky 

• TREE SPECIES DIVERSITY OF A PREMONTANE RAIN FOREST IN THE CORDILLERA DE TILARAN, COSTA RICA. Ingrid Wattenberg & Siegmar-Walter Breckle

• ROTIFERS (ROTIFERA) OF JAMAICAN INLAND WATERS. A SYNOPSIS. Wolfgang Janetzky, Walter Koste & Ekkehard Vareschi

• SEED DISPERSAL BY FRUGIVOROUS TREE VISITORS IN THE MALAGASY TREE SPECIES COMMIPHORA GUILLAUMINI. Katrin Böhning-Gaese, Bernhard H. Gaese & Seth B. Rabemanantsoa

• LYCAENID BUTTERFLIES AND PLANTS: HOSTPLANT RELATIONSHIPS, TROPICAL VERSUS TEMPERATE. Konrad Fiedler

• PREDATION VERTEBRATES IN THE KIRINDY FOREST, WESTERN MADAGASCAR. Rodin M. Rasoloarison, Bernardin P. N. Rasolonandrasana, Jörg U. Ganzhorn & Steven M. Goodman PROF. DR. W. KOEPKE – HONORARY MEMBER

VOLUME 1, 1995, No.2

• FACTORS AFFECTING THE “ACTIVITY DENSITY” OF SPIDERS ON TREE TRUNKS IN AN AMAZONIAN RAINFOREST. Thierry R. Gasnier, Hubert Höfer & Antônio D. Brescovit

• REGENERATION AND SUCCESSION PROCESSES IN THE CEDAR FORESTS (JUNIPERION PROCERAE) OF MOUNT KENYA. Rainer Willi Bussmann & Erwin Beck

• STRUCTURE OF A SHREW COMMUNITY IN THE CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC BASED ON THE ANALYSIS OF CARNIVORE SCATS, WITH THE DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SYLVISOREX (MAMMALIA: SORICIDAE). Justina C. Ray & Rainer Hutterer

• BOREAL MIGRANT BIRDS IN SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: DISTRIBUTION, ABUNDANCE, AND ECOLOGICAL IMPACT ON NEOTROPICAL BREEDING SPECIES. François Vuilleumier