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| Preface to the first edition | |
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| Preface to the second edition | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Many Tropical Rain Forests | |
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| What are tropical rain forests? | |
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| Where are the tropical rain forests? | |
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| Rain forest environments | |
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| Rain forest histories | |
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| Origins of the similarities and differences among rain forests | |
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| Many rain forests | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Plants: Building Blocks of the Rain Forest | |
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| Plant distributions | |
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| Rain forest structure | |
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| How many plant species? | |
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| Widespread plant families | |
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| Neotropical rain forests | |
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| Asian rain forests | |
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| Rain forests in New Guinea and Australia | |
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| African rain forests | |
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| Madagascan rain forests | |
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| Conclusions and future research directions | |
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| Primate Communities: A Key to Understanding Biogeography and Ecology | |
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| What are primates? | |
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| Old World versus New World primates | |
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| Primate diets | |
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| Primate communities | |
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| Primates as seed dispersal agents | |
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| Conclusions and future research directions | |
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| Carnivores and Plant-eaters | |
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| Carnivores | |
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| Herbivores of the forest floor | |
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| Conclusions and future research directions | |
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| Birds: Linkages in the Rain Forest Community | |
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| Biogeography | |
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| Little, brown, insect-eating birds | |
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| Forest frugivores | |
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| Fruit size and body size | |
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| Flower visitors | |
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| Ground-dwellers | |
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| Woodpeckers | |
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| Birds of prey | |
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| Scavengers | |
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| Night birds | |
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| Migration | |
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| Comparison of bird communities across continents | |
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| Conclusions and future research directions | |
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| Fruit Bats and Gliding Animals in the Forest Canopy | |
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| Fruit- and nectar-feeding bats | |
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| Flying behavior | |
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| Foraging behavior | |
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| Bats as pollinators and seed dispersal agents | |
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| Gliding vertebrates | |
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| Conclusions and future research directions | |
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| Insects: Diverse, Abundant, and Ecologically Important | |
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| Butterflies | |
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| Ants | |
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| Termites | |
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| Bees | |
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| Conclusions and future research directions | |
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| Island Rain Forests | |
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| Pacific islands | |
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| Evolution on islands | |
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| Indian Ocean islands | |
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| Atlantic islands | |
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| Caribbean islands | |
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| Natural disasters | |
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| Human impacts | |
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| Conclusions and future research directions | |
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| The Future of Tropical Rain Forests | |
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| Different forests, different threats | |
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| The major threats | |
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| The forces behind the threats | |
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| Global climate change | |
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| Saving the many rain forests | |
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| Conclusions and future research directions | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |