Journal of Tropical Ecology

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Phenology, nectar production and visitation behaviour of bats on the flowers of the bromeliad Werauhia gladioliflora in a Costa Rican lowland rain forest

Marco Tschapka and Otto von Helversen

Journal of Tropical Ecology, Volume 23, Issue 04, July 2007, pp 385-395

doi:10.1017/S0266467407004129 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 02 Jul 2007

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An exotic plantation crop as a keystone resource for an endemic megachiropteran, Pteropus rufus, in Madagascar

Emma Long and Paul A. Racey

Journal of Tropical Ecology, Volume 23, Issue 04, July 2007, pp 397-407

doi:10.1017/S0266467407004178 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 02 Jul 2007

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Streblid bat fly assemblage structure on Paraguayan Noctilio leporinus (Chiroptera: Noctilionidae): nestedness and species co-occurrence

Steven J. Presley

Journal of Tropical Ecology, Volume 23, Issue 04, July 2007, pp 409-417

doi:10.1017/S0266467407004245 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 02 Jul 2007

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Small-mammal diversity and abundance in a French Guianan rain forest: test of sampling procedures using species rarefaction curves

J.-F. Mauffrey, C. Steiner and F. M. Catzeflis

Journal of Tropical Ecology, Volume 23, Issue 04, July 2007, pp 419-425

doi:10.1017/S0266467407004154 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 02 Jul 2007

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Use of a fragmented landscape by three species of opossum in south-eastern Brazil

Paula Koeler Lira, Fernando Antonio dos Santos Fernandez, Henrique Santiago Alberto Carlos and Patrícia de Lima Curzio

Journal of Tropical Ecology, Volume 23, Issue 04, July 2007, pp 427-435

doi:10.1017/S0266467407004142 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 02 Jul 2007

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Effects of tree cover and season on soil nitrogen dynamics and microbial biomass in an African savanna woodland dominated by Colophospermum mopane

Donald Mlambo, Eddie Mwenje and Petros Nyathi

Journal of Tropical Ecology, Volume 23, Issue 04, July 2007, pp 437-448

doi:10.1017/S0266467407004233 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 02 Jul 2007

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Adaptive function of drip tips: a test of the epiphyll hypothesis in Psychotria marginata and Faramea occidentalis (Rubiaceae)

Martin Burd

Journal of Tropical Ecology, Volume 23, Issue 04, July 2007, pp 449-455

doi:10.1017/S0266467407004166 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 02 Jul 2007

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Niche differentiation and regeneration in the seasonally flooded Melaleuca forests of northern Australia

Donald C. Franklin, Peter S. Brocklehurst, Dominique Lynch and David M. J. S. Bowman

Journal of Tropical Ecology, Volume 23, Issue 04, July 2007, pp 457-467

doi:10.1017/S0266467407004130 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 02 Jul 2007

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Bird assemblages in secondary forests developing after slash-and-burn agriculture in the Brazilian Amazon

Sérgio Henrique Borges

Journal of Tropical Ecology, Volume 23, Issue 04, July 2007, pp 469-477

doi:10.1017/S0266467407004105 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 02 Jul 2007

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Vertical stratification in an acoustically communicating ensiferan assemblage of a tropical evergreen forest in southern India

Swati Diwakar and Rohini Balakrishnan

Journal of Tropical Ecology, Volume 23, Issue 04, July 2007, pp 479-486

doi:10.1017/S0266467407004208 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 02 Jul 2007

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The essential role of tree-fern trunks in the regeneration of Weinmannia tinctoria in rain forest on Réunion, Mascarene Archipelago

Géraldine Derroire, Laurent Schmitt, Jean-Noël Rivière, Jean-Michel Sarrailh and Jacques Tassin

Journal of Tropical Ecology, Volume 23, Issue 04, July 2007, pp 487-492

doi:10.1017/S026646740700418X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 02 Jul 2007

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Short Communications

Pollination ecology of cardamom (Elettaria cardamomum) in the Western Ghats, India

Palatty Allesh Sinu and K. R. Shivanna

Journal of Tropical Ecology, Volume 23, Issue 04, July 2007, pp 493-496

doi:10.1017/S0266467407004191 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 02 Jul 2007

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Visual assessment of wilting as a measure of leaf water potential and seedling drought survival

Bettina M. J. Engelbrecht, Melvin T. Tyree and Thomas A. Kursar

Journal of Tropical Ecology, Volume 23, Issue 04, July 2007, pp 497-500

doi:10.1017/S026646740700421X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 02 Jul 2007

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Increasing densities of leaf-cutting ants (Atta spp.) with proximity to the edge in a Brazilian Atlantic forest

Rainer Wirth, Sebastian T. Meyer, Walkiria R. Almeida, Manoel Vieira Araújo, Veralucia S. Barbosa and Inara R. Leal

Journal of Tropical Ecology, Volume 23, Issue 04, July 2007, pp 501-505

doi:10.1017/S0266467407004221 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 02 Jul 2007

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