Volume 28 Number 4b

Contents



PAPERS

José Sarukhán, An Outstanding Tropical Biologist, Honorary Fellow of ATB, 1996
Rodolfo Dirzo

Tropical Dry Forests of St. Lucia, West Indies: Vegetation and Soil Properties
Otto J. Gonzalez and Donald R. Zak

Abundance, Richness and Diversity of Myxomycetes in a Tropical Forest Ravine
Nisao Ogata, Victor Rico-Gray, and David Nestel

Responses to Simulated Drought and Elevated Nutrient Supply among Shade-Tolerant Tree Seedlings of Lowland Tropical Rain Forest in Singapore
D.F.R.P. Burslem, P.J. Grubb, I.M. Turner

Litterfall, Temperate and Tropical Dominant Trees, and Climate in a Mexican Lower Montane Forest
Guadalupe Williams-Linera and Javier Tolome

Leaf Decomposition in a Mexican Tropical Rain Forest
Javier Alvarez-Sánchez and Rosalba Becerra Enríquez

Tree Phenology in a Tropical Montane Forest in Rwanda
Chin Sun, Beth A. Kaplin, Kurt A. Kristensen, Viateur Munyaligoga, Joseph Mvukiyumwami, Kanyoyo ka Kajondo, and Timothy Moermond

Floral Biology and Pollination of the Dioecious Palm Phytelephas seemannii in Colombia: An Adaptation to Staphylinid Beetles
Rodrigo Bernal and Finn Ervik

Ant Dispersal of Croton priscus (Euphorbiaceae) Seeds in a Tropical Semideciduous Forest in Southeastern Brazil
Luciana Passos and Sirayama O. Ferreira

Ants Inhabiting Cubitermes Termitaries in African Rainforests
Alain Dejean, Barry Bolton and Jean Luc Durand

Activity and Habitat Use in a Population of Ameiva ameiva in Southeastern Colombia
Ma Carmen Blázquez

The Diet of Resplendent Quetzal (Pharomachrus mocinno mocinno: Trogonidae) in a Mexican Cloud Forest
Ma. Lourdes Avila H., V. Hugo Hernández O. and Enriqueta Velarde

Fine-root Biomass in Three Successional Stages of an Andean Cloud Forest in Colombia
Jaime Cavelier, Jaime Estevez and Beatriz Arjona

Reproductive Biology of a Threatened Madagascar Triangle Palm: Neodypsis decaryi Jumelle
Joelisoa Ratsirarson and John A. Silander, Jr.

Coexistence and Community Structure of Tropical Trees in a Hawaiian Montane Rain Forest
Jeff S. Hatfield, William A. Link, Deanna K. Dawson, and Edward L. Lindquist




NOTES

Distribution and Specificity in the Holoparasite Bdallophytum bambusorum (Rafflesiaceae) in a Tropical Dry Forest in Veracruz, Mexico
José G. Garcia-Franco and Victor Rico-Gray

Structure and Dispersion of Four Tree Populations in an Area of Montane Semideciduous Forest in Southeastern Brazil
Ary T. Oliveira-Filho, Arquimedes A. Camisão-Neto and Margarete M. L. Volpato

Pollen-feeding Fly Alters Floral Phenotypic Gender in Centropogon solanifolius (Campanulaceae)
Martha R. Weiss

Comparative Nutrient Relations in Canopy-Rooted and Ground-Rooted Didymopanax pittieri Marchal. (Araliaceae) Hemiepiphytes in a Wind-Exposed Tropical Montane Rain Forest
Taylor S. Field, Robert O. Lawton, and Todd E. Dawson

The Impact of Seed Harvesting Ants (Pheidole sp. nov.) on Ficus Establishment in the Canopy
Timothy G. Laman

Associations Between Termites and Bromeliads in Two Dry Tropical Habitats
Barbara L. Thorne, Michael I. Haverty, and David H. Benzing