Biology 176: Tropical Ecology

Taught by Dr. Donald A.

Additional Reading

The following papers are all available in the libraries of the Claremont Colleges.

Papageorgis: Mimicry in Neotropical Butterflies. Am. Sci. 63: 522-532

Weber: The Attines. Fungus culturing Ants. Am. Sci. 60: 448-456

Jordan and Herrera: Tropical Rain Forests: Are nutrients really critical? Am. Nat. 117: 167-180

Oster and Oster: The great Breadfruit scheme. Nat. Hist. 94: 35-41

Estrada et al: Observations on the fruiting and dispersers of Cercropia...... Biotrop. 16: 315-318

Andrade and Carauta: The Cercropia-Azteca association: A case of mutualism? Biiotrop. 14: 15

Kunz et al: Harem social organization in cave roosting Artibeus jamaicensis. Biotrop. 15: 133-138

Brokaw: Gap-phase regeneration in a tropical forest. Ecol. 66: 682-687

Ewel et al.: Slash and burn impacts on a Costa Rican wet forest site. Ecol. 62: 816-829

Golley et al.: The structure and metabolism of a Puerto Rican Red Mangrove forest in May. Ecol. 43: 9-19

Rockwood: Plant selection and foraging patterns in two species of leaf cutter ants. Ecol. 57: 48-61

Martin: The biochemical basis of the fungus - attine ant symbiosis. Science 169: 16-20

Forman: Canopy lichens with blue-gree algae: A nitrogen source in a Colombian rain forest. Ecology 56: 1176-1184

Janzen: Co-evolution of mutualism between ants and acacias in Central America. Evol. 20: 249-275

The following "Classics" are all readily available (eg. Amazon.com) and may be of interest :

 Wallace, Alfred Russel. The Malay Archipelago.

Kircher, John. A Neotropical Companion.

Burton, Richard R. F. The Lake Regions of Central Africa.

Park, Mungo. Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa.

Bates, Walter Henry. A Naturalist of the River Amazons.