Volume 28 Number 2
Contents


PAPERS


Patterns of Tree Species Richness
in Rain Forests of the Middle Caquetit Area, Colombia, NW Amazonia
J. F. Duivenvoorden

Driptips Vis-ii-vis Soil Types in
Central Amaz6nia
Celeste F. Rebelo and G. Bruce Williamson

Seasonal Patterns of Leaf Growth and Loss, Flowering and Fruiting on Subtropical
Central Pacific Island
M. de L. Brooke, P. J. Jones, J. A. Vickery, and S. Waldren

Reproductive Phenology of Climbers in a Southeastern Brazilian Forest

Patricia C. Morellato and Hermógenes F. Leitão-Filho

Soil Seed Banks and Regeneration of Tropical Rain Forest from Milpa Fields at the Selva
Lacandona, Chiapas, Mexico
Pedro Francisco Quintana-Ascencio, Mario Gonz.Alez-Espinosa, Neptall Ramirez-Marcial,
Gabriela Dominguez-Vázquez, and Miguel Martinez-lcó

Fire Effects on a Paticourea rigida (Rublaceae) Gall Midge: A Test of the Plant Vigor
Hypothesis
Emerson M. Vieira, Isabel Andrade, and Peter W. Price

Structure and Dynamics in
Nepenthes madagascariensis Pitcher Plant Micro-Communities
Joelisoa Ratsirarson and John A. Silander, Jr.

The Aquatic Macrofauna of Water-Filled Bamboo (Poaceae: Bambusoideae: Guadua) lnternodes in
a Peruvian Lowland Tropical Forest
Jerry Louton, Jon Gelhaus, and Raymond Bouchard

Color Discrimination Conditioning of a Wasp, Polybia occidentalis (Hymenoptera:
Vespidae)
Sharoni Shafir

Aigunos Aspectos de la Ecologia Tr6fica de Anolis argenteolus (Sauria: Polychridae) en
una Localidad de la Costa Suroriental de Cuba
Lourdes Rodriguez Schettino y Mercedes Martinez Reyes

Aportes at Conocimiento de la Biologia de la Danta de Montar)a, Tapirus pinchaque, en los
Andes Centrales de Colombia
Hernando Acosta, Jaime Cavelier, y Sebastián Londofio



NOTES

Diniimica Estacional del Banco de Frutos del Teocintle Zea diploperennis (Gramineae)

Rogelia G. Lorente-Adame y Lázaro R. Sánchez-Velásquez

The Competition Effect of Brachiaria decumbens on Early Growth of Direct-Seeded Trees
of Alphitonia petriei in Tropical North Australia
Dan Sun and Geoff R. Dickinson