Palms in Forest Ecosystems of Amazonia
Palms are tropical miracles. Heinrich Heine, the German poet, stated "Unter den Palmen wandert man nicht ungestraft", i.e., one does not wander unpunished under the palms. It was Professor H.C.D. de Wit who taught me this in the late 1950s, and it is a pl
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W.D. Billings, Durham, USA F. Golley, Athens, USA O.L. Lange, Wiirzburg, FRG 1.S. Olson, Oak Ridge, USA H. Remmert, Marburg, FRG Guest Editor
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Francis Kahn J ean-J acques de Granville
Palms in Forest Ecosystems of Amazonia With 64 Figures and 67 Tables
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Dr. Francis Kahn Institut Fran 15 cm) on 1 ha, belonging to 43 families, ten of them with more than ten species each. In eastern Amazonia, Black et al. (1950), Pires et al. (1953), and Pires (1978) found 87 species (DBH > lOcm) on 1ha, 179 species (DBH > lOcm) on 3.5ha, and 224 species (DBH > 30 cm) on 5 ha surveyed, respectively, and Campbell et al. (1986) listed 118 to 162 species (DBH > lOcm) in three 1-ha samples along the Rio Xingu. In French Guiana, Sabatier and Prevost (1989) inventoried 130 and 175 tree species (DBH > lOcm) on 0.5 and 1 ha surveyed respectively at Piste de Saint Elie, and Mori and Boom (1987) reported
