Author Description

This volume brings together the results of the Smithsonian Institution's extensive work on the plants and animals of Barro Colorado Island - one of the most intensively studied areas in the tropics. It lays emphasis on the effects of seasonal rhythms of drought and rain on the vegetation and the fauna. Contributions are grouped into sections: physical setting, biotic setting, seasonal rhythms in plants, frugivores, insects of tree crowns and their predators, litter arthropods and their predators, and long-term changes.