Volume 28 Number 3

Contents



SPECIAL SECTION: TROPICAL FORESTRY

Retaining Forest Biomass By Reducing Logging Damage
Michelle A. Pinard and Francis E. Putz

Responses of Venezuelan Understory Birds to Selective Logging, Enrichment Strips, and Vine Cutting
Douglas Mason

Responses of Five Arboreal Marsupials to Recent Selective Logging in Tropical Australia
William F. Laurance and Susan G. W. Laurance

Biological Challenges for Certification of Tropical Timber
F. E. Putz and V. Viana

PAPERS

Changes in Leaf Morphology and Foliar Nutrient Status Along a Successional Gradient in a
Costa Rican Upper Montane Quercus Forest
Maarten Kappelle and Miguel E. Leal

Spatial Distribution of Vascular Epiphytes on Three Emergent Canopy Trees in French Guiana
Martin Freiberg

Host Associations of Two Adventitious-Root-Climbing Vines in a North Queensland Tropical Rain Forest
Sharon M. Talley, William N. Setzer, and Betsy R. Jackes

Macroinvertebrates and the Processing of Leaf Litter in a Tropical Stream
Jonathan P. Benstead

Genetic and Morphological Variation in Vanzolinius discodactylus: a Test of the River Hypothesis of Speciation
Claude Gascon, Stephen C. Lougheed, and James P. Bogart

Malarial Parasites (Plasmodium) of Anolis Lizards: Biogeography in the Lesser Antilles
Christine M. Staats and Joseph J. Schall

Comparison of Forest Structure and Use by the Indian Giant Squirrel (Ratufa indica) in Two Riverine Forests of Central India
Aparajita Datta and S. P. Goyal




NOTES


Distribution of Bradyrhizobium spp. and Endemic Leguminous Tree Acacia koa Along an
Altitudinal Transect on the Windward Slope of Haleakala, Maui, Hawaii
Patricia Nakao and Kanchiro Kitayama

Amazonian Arthropods Respond to El Niño
Joachim Adis and Mojib Latif

Macaranga caladiifolia, a New Type of Ant-plant Among Southeast Asian MyrmecophyticMacaranga Species
Brigitte Fiala, Ulrich Maschwitz, and K. Eduard Linsenmair