Amazonia is awesome in the complexity, diversity, and richness of its ecosystems and
cultures. Research in Amazonia has made impressive advances since the early 1970s, yet it …

Abstract JUNK, W.. l., PB BAYLRY, AND RE SPARKS. I989. The flood pulse concept in river-
floodplain systems, p. I10-I27. In DP Dodge [cd.] Proceedings of the International Large …

This book describes the underlying water conditions and geologies that support viable
riparia, illustrates the ecological characteristics of riparia, and discusses how riparia are …

Four of the world's leading ornithologists and ardent conservationists have produced this
unique synthesis of the ecological information on all 4,037 species of birds found from …

Background The threats facing Ecuador's Yasuní National Park are emblematic of those
confronting the greater western Amazon, one of the world's last high-biodiversity wilderness …

Numerous collecting expeditions of Theobroma cacao L. germplasm have been undertaken
in Latin-America. However, most of this germplasm has not contributed to cacao …

The elevational gradient of species richness is often claimed to mirror the latitudinal gradient
and has traditionally been explained by assuming a decrease in productivity with elevation …

We suggest here that large-scale natural forest disturbance and primary succession in the
lowland rainforests of the Peruvian Amazon is caused by lateral erosion and channel …

The Pantanal of Mato Grosso, Brazil, is famous for its luxurious plant and animal life. We
combine a literature review with recent work and show that species diversity is large but that …

We sampled understory insectivorous birds in Amazonian forest fragments from before
isolation through 9 yr after isolation. We accumulated 3658 mist net captures of 84 …