The ecology of a tropical forest :

A project of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.

The physical setting. Geology, climate, and hydrology of Barro Colorado Island / William E. Dietrich, Donald M. Windsor, and Thomas Dunne ; Variation in rainfall on Barro Colorado Island / A. Stanley Rand and William M. Rand --
The biotic setting. Introduction : Why are there so many kinds of tropical trees? / Egbert G. Leigh Jr. ; Structure and history of the vegetation of Barro Colorado Island / Robin B. Foster and Nicholas V.L. Brokaw ; Distribution of trees on Barro Colorado Island : a five-hectare sample / Richard W. Thorington Jr., Bernice Tannenbaum, A. Tarak, and R. Rudran ; Tree mortality rates on Barro Colorado Island / Francis E. Putz and Katharine Milton ; Treefalls : frequency, timing, and consequences / Nicholas V.L. Brokaw --
Seasonal rhythms in plants. Forest production and regulation of primary consumers on Barro Colorado Island / Egbert G. Leigh Jr. and Donald M. Windsor ; Rates of herbivory on different tropical trees / Phyllis D. Coley ; A cue for synchronous flowering / Carol K. Augspurger ; The seasonal rhythm of fruitfall on Barro Colorado Island / Robin B. Foster ; Seasonal rhythm of seed germination in a semideciduous tropical forest / Nancy C. Garwood --
Frugivores. Fruit production and animal activity in two tropical trees / Henry F. Howe ; Famine on Barro Colorado Island / Robin B. Foster ; Population sizes and breeding rhythms of two species of manakins in relation to food supply / Andrea Worthington ; Population regulation in some terrestrial frugivores / Nicholas Smythe, William E. Glanz, and Egbert G. Leigh Jr. ; Seasonal food use and demographic trends in Sciurus granatensis / William E. Glanz, Richard W. Thorington Jr., Jacalyn Giacalone-Madden, and Lawrence R. Heaney ; Cebus capucinus : home range, population dynamics, and interspecific relationships / John R. Oppenheimer ; Dietary quality and population regulation in a howler monkey population / Katharine Milton ; The genetic structure and socioecology of howler monkeys (Alouatta palliata) on Barro Colorado Island / Jeffery W. Froehlich and Richard W. Thorington Jr. --
Insects of tree crowns and their predators. The seasonal abundance of night-flying insects in a neotropical forest / Nicholas Smythe ; Seasonality of Homoptera on Barro Colorado Island / Henk Wolda ; Population irruptions and periodic migrations in the day-flying moth Urania fulgens / Neal G. Smith ; The breeding season of antwrens on Barro Colorado Island / Judy Gradwohl and Russell Greenberg --
Litter arthropods and their predators. Seasonal and annual variation in litter arthropod populations / SalIy C. Levings and Donald M. Windsor ; Ecology and population regulation in the army ant Eciton burchelli / Nigel Franks ; Population dynamics and seasonal recruitment in Bufo typhonius and Colostethus nubicola (Anura) / Catherine A. Toft, A. Stanley Rand, and Milton Clark ; Seasonal breeding and long-term population fluctuations in the lizard Anolis limifrons / Robin M. Andrews and A. Stanley Rand ; Timing of reproduction by coatis (Nasua narica) in relation to fluctuations in food resources / James K. Russell --
Long-term changes. Introduction : The significance of population fluctuations / Egbert G. Leigh Jr. ; Temporal variation in the understory bird community of a tropical forest / James R. Karr, Douglas W. Schemske, and Nicholas V.L. Brokaw ; The terrestrial mammal fauna of Barro Colorado Island : censuses and long-term changes / William E. Glanz --