BIOTROPICA Volume 33 Number 2

Contents


PAPERS

Vegetative Identification of Tropical Woody Plants: State of the Art and Annotated Bibliography
Marcel Rejmánek and Steven W. Brewer

Nitrogen and Phosphorus Release from Decomposing Leaves under Subhumid Tropical Conditions
A. B. Kwabiah, N. C. Stoskopf, R. P. Voroney, and C. A. Palm

Detrital Fruit Processing in a Hawaiian Stream Ecosystem
Scott T. Larned, Charles T. Chong, and Noelani Punewai

Tropical Rain Forest Recovery from Cyclone Damage and Fire in Samoa

John Hjerpe, Henrik Hedenås, and Thomas Elmqvist

The Effect of Distance from Forest Edge on Seed Rain and Soil Seed Bank in a Tropical Pasture
Alejandro Cubiña and T. Mitchell Aide

Removal of Nonnative Vines and Post-Hurricane Recruitment in Tropical Hardwood Forest of Florida
Carol C. Horvitz and Anthony Koop

Brazilian Paramos. III. Patterns and Rates of Postfire Regeneration in the Campos de Altitude
Hugh DeForest Safford

Effects of Light Environment on Vesicular-Arbuscular Mycorrhiza Development in Inga leiocalycina , a Tropical Wet Forest Tree
Julie L. Whitbeck

Net CO 2 Uptake for Agave tequilana in a Warm and a Temperate Environment
Eulogio Pimienta-Barrios, Celia Robles-Murguia, and Park S. Nobel

Seedling Mortality in Hawaiian Rain Forest: The Role of Small-Scale Physical Disturbance
Donald R. Drake and Linda W. Pratt

Cost and Efficiency of Cutting Lianas in a Lowland Liana Forest of Bolivia
Diego R. Pérez-Salicrup, Alberto Claros, Rudy Gúzman, Juan Carlos Licona, Fredy Ledezma, Michelle A. Pinard, and Francis E. Putz

Pollination and Predation Limit Fruit Set in a Shrub, Bourreria succulenta (Boraginaceae), after Hurricanes on San Salvador Island, Bahamas
Beverly J. Rathcke

Mammalian Diet and Broad Hunting Strategy of the Dingo ( Canis familiaris dingo) in the Wet Tropical Rain Forest of Northeastern Australia
Karl Vernes, Andrew Dennis, and John Winter

Home Range Size of Sympatric Squirrel Species Inhabiting a Lowland Dipterocarp Forest in Malaysia
A. A. Saiful, A. H. Idris, Y. N. Rashid, N. Tamura, and F. Hayashi

Communities of Endophytic Fungi in Leaves of a Tropical Timber Tree ( Guarea guidonia : Meliaceaaae)
Miguel Gamboa and Paul Bayman


NOTES

Nutrient Levels in Rattan Foliage and Cane, and Implications for Harvesting
Stephen Siebert

Root Architecture and Root: Shoot Allocation of Shrubs and Saplings in a Bruneian Heath Forest
Jeffrey Grainger and Peter Becker

Sexual Dimorphism and Functional Dioecy in Maesa perlarius and M. japonica (Myrsinaceae)
Timothy Utteridge and R. M. K. Saunders

Attacobius attarum Spiders (Corinnidae): Myrmecophilous Predators of Immature Forms of the Leaf-Cutting Ant Atta sexdens (Formicidae)
Milton Erthal Jr. and Athayde Tonhasca Jr.