Volume 29 Number 4

Contents

Gentry Award Recipients 382



PAPERS

Stand Characteristics and Leaf Litter Composition of a Dry Forest Hectare in Santa Rosa National Park, Costa Rica
Robyn J. Burnham 384

Forest Regeneration in Logged and Unlogged Forests of Kibale National Park, Uganda
Colin A. Chapman and Lauren J. Chapman 396

Call for Nominations for 1998 Honorary Fellow of the Association for Tropical Biology 412

Structure de la Vegetation et Production Primaire dans la Mangrove de la Baie de Fort-de France, Martinique (RW.I.)
Daniel Imbert and Serge Menard 413

Rhizophora mangle L. Seedling Development into the Sapling Stage across Resource and Stress Gradients in Subtropical Florida
Marguerite S. Koch 427

Primary Herbivory by Wood-Boring Insects along an Architectural Gradient of Rhizophora mangle
Ilke C. Feller and Wayne N. Mathis 440

Fruit Production and Seed Predation in Two Miombo Woodland Trees in Zambia
Emmanuel N Chidumayo 452

Effects of Species, Habitat, and Distance from Edge on Post-dispersal Seed Predation in a Tropical Rainforest
Karen D. Holl and Megan E. Lulow 459

Relaciones Mutualisticas entre el Murcielago Glossophaga longirostris y las Cactaceas Columnares en la Zona Arida de La Tatacoa, Colombia
Adriana Ruiz, Mery Santos, Pascual J. Soriano, Jaime Cavelier, and Alberto Cadena 469

Observations at a Ficus Tree in Malagasy Humid Forest
Steven M. Goodman, Jorg U. Ganzhorn, and Lucienne Wilme 480

Seasonal and Spatial Patterns in Ground Foraging Ants in a Rain Forest in the Western Ghats, India
Parthiba Basu 489

Bird Populations in Rustic and Planted Shade Coffee Plantations of Eastern Chiapas, Mexico
Russell Greenberg, Peter Bichier, and John Sterling 501


NOTES

Fire in a Tropical Dry Forest of Central America: A Natural Part of the Disturbance Regime?
Beth A. Middleton, Eduardo Sanchez-Rojas, Beth Suedmeyer, and Astrid Michels 515

Structural Parasitism of an Epiphytic Bromeliad upon Cercidium praecox in an Intertropical Semiarid Ecosystem
Carlos Montaha, Rodolfo Dirzo, and Arturo Flores 517

Weevil Larvae Dispersal by Guans in Southeastern Brazil
Juan Carlos Guix and Xavier Ruiz 522

The Effect of Lunar Illumination on Movement and Activity of the Red Fig-eating Bat (Stenoderma rulum)
Michael R. Gannon and Michael R. Willig 525

Posffire Resprouting of Hypericum irazuense in the Costa Rican Paramos: Cerro Asunci6n Revisited
Sally P. Horn 529


Thanks to Reviewers 532

Subject Index to Volume 29 536

Volume Contents 540