Humid broadleaf tropical and subtropical forests cover just 14% of the Earth’s land surface, but support at least half of all species and offer key ecosystem services, making them crucial to ...

The diversity and ecological functionality of bird communities in tropical agroforestry systems are shaped by the surrounding landscape, in particular the extent and composition of the forest. An ...

Journal of Tropical Ecology, Vol. 18, No. 5 (Sep., 2002), pp. 659-670 (12 pages) A plot of 1200 m2 was selected to represent the average epiphyte abundance of a moist subtropical broadleaved forest at ...

In a lower montane moist forest of southeastern Brazil, leaf-fall was maximal (1.8-2.9 g/m 2 /day) during the period of greatest precipitation and high temperatures. Through most of the dry season ...