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Preface | |
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Introduction | |
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Tropical Naturalists of the Sixteenth through Nineteenth Centuries | |
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Excerpts from Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent, during the Years 1799-1804 | |
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Excerpt from The Naturalist on the River Amazons | |
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Excerpt from The Naturalist in Nicaragua | |
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Excerpt from Natural Selection and Tropical Nature | |
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Excerpt from Plant-Geography upon a Physiological Basis | |
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What Shaped Tropical Biotas As We See Them Today? | |
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The Pleistocene Changes of Vegetation and Climate in Tropical South America | |
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Speciation in Amazonian Forest Birds | |
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Excerpts from Angiosperm Biogeography and Past Continental Movements | |
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A Kaleidoscope of Plates, Faunal and Floral Dispersals, and Sea Level Changes | |
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Three Ecological and Evolutionary Perspectives on the Origins of Tropical Diversity | |
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Evolution in the Tropics | |
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Latitudinal Variations in Organic Diversity | |
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The Structure of the Tropical Rain Forest and Speciation in the Humid Tropics | |
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Latitudinal Gradients in Species Diversity: A Review of Concepts | |
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Why Mountain Passes are Higher in the Tropics | |
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Patterns of Communities in the Tropics | |
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Diversity in Tropical Rain Forests and Coral Reefs | |
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Plant-Animal Interactions and Community Structure | |
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Herbivores and the Number of Tree Species in Tropical Forests | |
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Effects of Leaf Age and Plant Life History Patterns on Herbivory | |
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Excerpt from Principles of Dispersal in Higher Plants | |
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Ecology, Flowering Phenology, and Hummingbird Pollination of some Costa Rican Heliconia Species | |
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Coevolution | |
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Contributions to an Insect Fauna of the Amazon Valley. Lepidoptera: Heliconidae | |
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Excerpt from The Naturalist in Nicaragua | |
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On the Pollination Ecology of Ficus sycomorus in East Africa | |
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Biologically Active Compounds in Orchid Fragrances | |
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Evolutionary Aspects of Fruit-Eating by Birds | |
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Case Studies of Arthropod Diversity and Distribution | |
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Patchy Distributions of Ant Species in New Guinea Rain Forests | |
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Entomological Studies from a High Tower in Mpanga Forest, Uganda | |
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Tropical Forests: Their Richness in Coleoptera and Other Arthropod Species | |
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Terrestrial Vertebrate Diversity | |
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Excerpts from The Distribution of Feeding Habits among Animals in a Tropical Rain Forest | |
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Evolution of Primate Societies | |
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Excerpt from The Seasonality and Population Dynamics of Equatorial Forest Birds i | |
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