Volume 31 Number 1

Contents

PAPERS

Fire as a Recurrent Event in Tropical Forests of the Eastern Amazon: Effects on Forest Structure, Biomass, and Species Composition
Mark A. Cochrane and Mark D. Schulze
Edge Structure Determines the Magnitude of Changes in Microclimate and Vegetation Structure in Tropical Forest Fragments
Raphael K. Didham and John H. Lawton
Deforestation Rates (1938-1988) of Tropical Lowland Forests on the Andean Foothills of Colombia.
Andrés Viña and Jaime Cavelier
Before Cattle: a Comparative Floristic Study of Eucalyptus Savanna Grazed by Macropods and Cattle in North Queensland, Australia
R. J. Fensham and S. D. Skull
Structure of Benthic Diatom Assemblages from a Mangrove Environment in a Mexican Subtropical Lagoon
David A. Siqueiros Beltrones and Edna Sánchez Castrejón
Abundance and Distribution of Native and Alien Grasses in a "Cerrado" (Brazilian Savanna) Biological Reserve
V. R. Pivello, V.M.C. Carvalho, P. F. Lopes, A. A. Peccinini, and S. Rosso
Tree Ferns in the Interior and at the Edge of a Mexican Cloud Forest Remnant: Spore Germination and Sporophyte Survival and Establishment
N. Bernabe, G. Williams-Linera, and M. Palacios-Rios
Litter Interception on Astrocaryum mexicanum Liebm. (Palmae) in a Tropical Rain Forest
J. Alvarez-Sánchez and S. Guevara
Root Architecture and Root:Shoot Allocation of Shrubs and Saplings in Two Lowland Tropical Forests: Implications for Life-form Composition
Peter Becker, Norhartini Sharbini, and Razali Yahya
Growth Ecology of Carapa nicaraguensis Aublet. (Meliaceae): Implications for Natural Forest Management
Edward L. Webb
Ecology of Aglaia mackiana (Meliaceae) Seedlings in a New Guinea Rain Forest
Andrew L. Mack, Kalan Ickes, J. Heinrich Jessen, Brian Kennedy, and J. Ross Sinclair
Ecología, Producción y Aprovechamiento del Mangle Conocarpus erectus L., en Barra de Tecoanapa Guerrero, México
Cristian Tovilla Hernández y Guadalupe de la Lanza Espino
Ant-Homoptera Interactions in a Neotropical Savanna: The Honeydew-Producing Treehopper, Guayaquila xiphias (Membracidae), and its Associated Ant Fauna on Didymopanax vinosum (Araliaceae)
Kleber Del-Claro and Paulo S. Oliveira
Seed Dispersal by Monkeys and the Fate of Dispersed Seeds in a Peruvian Rain forest
Ellen Andresen
Environmental Effects on Components of Pollen Performance in Faramea occidentalis (L.) A. Rich. (Rubiaceae)
Steve Travers
Fruiting Phenology and the Conservation of the Great Pied Hornbill (Buceros bicornis) in the Western Ghats of Southern India
Ragupathy Kannan and Douglas A. James
Dry Season Migration by Costa Rican Lowland Paper Wasps to High Elevation Cold Dormancy Sites
James H. Hunt, Renae J. Brodie, T. Paige Carithers, Paul Z. Goldstein, and Daniel H. Janzen
Associations between Anurans and Ants in a West African Savanna (Anura: Microhylidae, Hyperoliidae, and Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
Mark-Oliver Rödel and Ulrich Braun