Tropical Forest Ecology: A View from Barro Colorado Island

by Egbert Giles Leigh Jr. and Egbert Giles Leigh

Book Overview

How do tropical forests stay green with their abundance of herbivores? Why do tropical forests have such a diversity of plants and animals? And what role does mutualism play in the ecology of tropical forests?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195096037
• ISBN13: 9780195096033
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.3" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

A joy to read

The recent proliferation of books on tropical ecology is a goodthing, but it might make it difficult to decide which books toread. I've read almost all the books on tropical ecology and taughtseveral tropical ecology courses, and this is the best work I've seenyet. It is definitely not a text book and should not be used as such,but it covers all the major issues in tropical ecology while focusingon one of the best studied neotropical ecosystems: Barro ColoradoIsland. I recommend this book to anyone interested in tropicalecology.