Introduction: Frugivory, Phenology, and Rainforest Conservation -- Do Frugivore Population Fluctuations Reflect Fruit Production? Evidence from Panama -- Potential Keystone Plant Species for the Frugivore Community at Tinigua Park, Colombia -- Floristics, Primary Productivity and Primate Diversity in Amazonia: Contrasting a Eutrophic Várzea Forest and an Oligotrophic Caatinga Forest in Brazil …
Importance of Tropical Forests -- Characteristics of Tropical Forests -- Classification of Tropical Forests -- Deforestation in the Tropics -- Management of Tropical Forests -- Plantations and Agroforestry Systems -- Approaches for Implementing Sustainable Management Techniques -- Conclusions.Research in tropical forestry is confronted with the task of finding strategies to alleviate pressure o…
Gaining Insights on the Effects of Tree Species on Soils -- Effects of British Columbia Tree Species on Forest Floor Chemistry -- Nutrient Turnover, Greenhouse Gas Exchange and Biodiversity in Natural Forests of Central Europe -- Tree Species Effects on Nitrogen Cycling and Retention: A Synthesis of Studies Using 15N Tracers -- Tree Species Management and Nitrate Contamination of Groundwater: A…
Plant Responses to Air Pollution -- Metabolism of atmospheric sulfur gases in onion -- Impact of atmospheric NH3 deposition on plant growth and functioning — a case study with Brassica oleracea L. -- How sensitive are forest trees to ozone? - New research on an old issue -- Northern conditions enhance the susceptibility of birch (Betula pendula Roth) to oxidative stress caused by ozone -- Phy…
History and Environment of the Nordic Mountain Birch -- Soils and Nutrients in Northern Mountain Birch Forests: A Case Study from Finnmarksvidda, Northern Norway -- Vegetation of the Mountain Birch Forest in Northern Fennoscandia -- Biomass and Production on a Landscape Level in the Mountain Birch Forests -- Mountain Birch Growth in Relation to Climate and Herbivores -- Effects of Temperature C…
Sustainable Development: The Contribution by Biosphere Reserves -- MAB — a Programme over the Course of Time -- World Network of Biosphere Reserves -- Biosphere Reserves: Model Regions for the Future -- The Network of Biosphere Reserves in Germany -- New Concepts for the Model Regions -- People and Cultures in Biosphere Reserves -- From Environmental Education to Learning for Sustainability -…
Litter Dynamics -- Litter Input -- Leaf Retention -- Manipulation of Stream Retentiveness -- Coarse Benthic Organic Matter -- Leaching -- Leaf Mass Loss Estimated by Litter Bag Technique -- Coarse Particulate Organic Matter Budgets -- Leaf Chemical And Physical Properties -- Determination of Total Nitrogen and Phosphorus in Leaf Litter -- Total Protein -- Free Amino Acids -- Determination of To…
General description of partly meromictic hypertrophic Lake Verevi, its ecological status, changes during the past eight decades, and restoration problems -- Water and nutrient mass balance of the partly meromictic temperate Lake Verevi -- Distribution of sediment phosphorus fractions in hypertrophic strongly stratified Lake Verevi -- Optical properties and light climate in Lake Verevi -- Sedime…
In search of an operational lexicon for biological invasions -- Ecological aspects -- The ecology of biological invasions: past, present and future -- Ecological niche models and the geography of biological invasions: a review and a novel application -- Importance of species replication in understanding plant invasions into North American grasslands -- Residence time determines the distribution…
Integration of ecophysiological processes to stand dynamics -- Plant responses to elevated CO2 concentration at different scales: leaf, whole plant, canopy, and population -- Abies population dynamics simulated using a functional-structural tree model -- Estimation of aboveground biomass and net biomass increment in a cool temperate forest on a landscape scale -- Latitudinal/altitudinal transec…