Although the importance of natural habitats to pollinator diversity is widely recognized, the
value of forests to pollinating insects has been largely overlooked in many parts of the world …

1. Moths (L epidoptera) are the major nocturnal pollinators of flowers. However, their
importance and contribution to the provision of pollination ecosystem services may have …

Evidence concerning mechanisms hypothesized to explain species coexistence in hyper-
diverse communities is reviewed for tropical forest plants. Three hypotheses receive strong …

In his classic work Schimper (1888), emphasizing the taxonomic diversity of epiphytes, listed
33 families and 232 genera of epiphytes. Until very recently, subsequent authors have …

Plant-pollinator interactions in tropical lowland rain forests (TLRF) offer unique opportunities
to address several problems of current evolutionary and ecological interest. First …

Epiphytes (plants which grow on other plants, not parasitically but for support), comprise
more than one-third of the total vascular flora in some tropical forests. Growing within tropical …

In a fragmented, dry subtropical forest in northwestern Argentina, we compared pollination
levels, fruit set, and seed set among small (< 1 ha) forest fragments, large (> 2 ha) fragments …

T he nature of land-use change in recent decades has not only resulted in a dramatic
decrease in total forest cover, but also in an increasingly skewed sizedistribution of forest …

The first edition of Tropical Rain Forests: an Ecological and Biogeographical Comparison
exploded the myth of 'the rain forest'as a single, uniform entity. In reality, the major tropical …

There is a voluminous literature on pollination and dispersal, very little of which deals with
the consequences of reproductive failure and its most extreme consequence: extinction. The …