Adaptive Strategies of Frugivore Bats to Andean Cloud Forests
It is well known that first feature distinguishing bat assemblages from along an altitudinal gradient is the drastic reduction in the number of constituent species (Graham 1983; Patterson et al. 1996). In two previous papers, we examined how the bat assem
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he Andean Cloud Forest
The Andean Cloud Forest
Randall W. Myster Editor
The Andean Cloud Forest
Editor Randall W. Myster Department of Biology Oklahoma State University Oklahoma City, OK, USA
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Contents
1 Introduction���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 1 Randall W. Myster 2 Dynamics of Andean Treeline Ecotones: Between Cloud Forest and Páramo Geocritical Tropes�������������������������������������������������� 25 Fausto O. Sarmiento 3 Análisis Regional En Ecosistemas De Montaña En Colombia: Una mirada desde la funcionalidad del paisaje y los servicios ecosistémicos�������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 43 Paola Isaacs-Cubides, Julián Díaz, and Tobias Leyva-Pinto 4 Ecohydrology of Tropical Andean Cloud Forests���������������������������������� 61 Conrado Tobón 5 Litterfall in Andean Forests: Quantity, Composition, and Environmental Drivers���������������������������������������������������������������������������� 89 Wolfgang Wilcke 6 Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi and Ectomycorrhizas in the Andean Cloud Forest of South Ecuador������������������������������������������������ 111 Ingeborg Haug, Sabrina Setaro, and Juan Pablo Suárez 7 Nesting Ecology of the Tucuman Amazon (Amazona tucumana) in the Cloud Forest of Northwestern Argentina����������������
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