BIOTROPICA Volume 33 Number 3

Contents


PAPERS

Deforestation in Costa Rica: A Quantitative Analysis Using Remote Sensing Imagery
G. Arturo Sanches-Azofeifa, Robert C. Harriss, and David L. Skole

Age of A2 Horizon Charcoal and Forest Structure near Porto Trombetas, Pará, Brazil
John K. Francis and Oliver Henry Knowles

Hurricane Impacts on a Mangrove Forest in the Dominican Republic: Damage Patterns and Early Recovery
Ruth E. Sherman, Timothy J. Fahey, and Pedro Martinez

Landslides, Alien Species, and the Diversity of a Hawaiian Montane Mesic Ecosystem
Carla Restrepo and Peter Vitousek

Drought and Irrigation Effects on Fine Root Dynamics in a Tropical Moist Forest, Panama
Joseph B. Yavitt and S. Joseph Wright

Dinámica Estacional del Banco de Semillas en una Sabana en los Llanos Centro-Orientales de Venezuela
Elizabeth M. Pérez y Emilia T. Santiago

Seed Size, Seed Germination, and Seedling Survival of Brazilian Tropical Tree Species Differing in Successional Status
Rogéria Pereira de Souza and I. F. M. Válio

Morphology and Biology of Napoleonaea vogelii (Lecythidaceae) Flowers in Relation to the Natural History of Insect Visitors
Dawn Frame and Sébastien Durou

The Fate of Attalea phalerata (Palmae) Seeds Dispersed to a Tapir Latrine
Veronica D. Quiroga-Castro and Alejandra I. Roldan

Fruit Characteristics of Species Dispersed by the Black Lemur ( Eulemur macaco ) in the Lokobe Forest, Madagascar
Christopher Birkinshaw

Seed Dispersal of the Mistletoe Psittacanthus schiedeanus by Birds in Central Veracruz, Mexico
Lorena López de Buen and Juan Francisco Ornelas

Geographic Variation in Host Location Cues for a Dipteran Parasitoid of Paraponera clavata
Shellee A. Morehead

Patterns of Richness and Abundance in a Tropical African Leaf-litter Herpetofauna
James R. Vonesh

Landscape Heterogeneity and Diurnal Raptor Diversity in Honduras: The Role of Indigenous Shifting Cultivation
David L. Anderson

The Role of Fruits and Insects in the Nutrition of Frugivorous Bats: Evaluation the Use of Stable Isotope Models
L. Gerardo Herrera M., Keith A. Hobson, Adriana Manso A., Daniel Estrada B., Victor Sánchez-Cordero, and Germán Méndez C.


NOTES

Population Fragmentation, Florivory, and the Effects of Flower Morphology Alterations on the Pollination Success of Myrmecophila tibicinis (Orchidaceae)
Juan Malo, J. Leirana-Alcocer, and V. Parra-Tabla

On the Occurrence of Epizoic Cyanobacteria and Liverworts on a Neotropical Harvestman (Arachnida: Opiliones)
Glauco Machado and Daniel Moreira Vital

Hummingbird Flower Mites and Tillandsia spp. (Bromeliaceae): Polyphagy in a Cloud Forest of Veracruz, Mexico
Jose Garcia Franco, Daniel Martinez Burgoa, and Tila Perez

Fast Colonizaion of an Introduced Bird: The Case of Pycnonotus jocosus on the Mascarene Islands
Philippe Clergeau and I. Mandon-Dalger

Flight Cage Observations of Foraging Mode in Phyllostomus discolor, P. Hastatus, and Glossophaga commissarisi
Norberto Giannini and F. V. Brenes