Plant-Herbivore Networks in the Tropics

2018 ◽  
pp. 111-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio López-Carretero ◽  
Ek del-Val ◽  
Karina Boege
Keyword(s):  
Plant Herbivore ◽  
The Tropics

Consumption of macro-fungi by invertebrates in a Mexican tropical cloud forest: do fruit body characteristics matter?

1999 ◽  
Vol 15 (5) ◽  
pp. 603-617 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Guevara ◽  
Rodolfo Dirzo
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Forest ◽  
Fruit Body ◽  
Interspecific Variation ◽  
Species Identity ◽  
Tropical Cloud Forest ◽  
Aggregation Size ◽  
Coloration Patterns ◽  
Plant Herbivore ◽  
Consumer Interactions ◽  
The Tropics

The emphasis of antagonistic fungus–consumer interactions to date has been on temperate taxa and predominantly zoocentric, neglecting the effects on the fungal component. These interactions are expected to be especially complex and diverse in the tropics, where both components display their greatest diversity. Variability in fungivory (apparent biomass consumed) of understorey basidiomycetes in a tropical cloud forest was investigated to test whether this could be explained (at the proximate level) by apparency-related characteristics of the aboveground structures (colour of pileus, stipe and hymenium; size and aggregation), as has been suggested for plant–herbivore relationships. Considerable interspecific variation in fungivory was detected (range 0–50%). Cluster analysis showed that neighbouring clusters had dissimilar levels of fungivory. Such clusters were similar in colour attributes of aboveground structures, but differed in aggregation size and apparent biomass. A quantitative analysis also showed that colour attributes were not strongly associated with the observed variation of consumption levels, whereas apparent biomass and aggregation size did correlate with the observed variation in fungivory. Furthermore, specific identity correlated with fungivory. It was concluded that coloration patterns may not be important for fungivory, whereas genet size and species identity (probably via characteristics unrelated to apparency, such as mycotoxins and nutritional value) seemed to be critical factors.

The Tick Pest in the Tropics

1895 ◽  
Vol 40 (1022supp) ◽  
pp. 16330-16331
Keyword(s):  
The Tropics

Pathology of Renal Diseases in the Tropics

2003 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vijitr Boonpucknavig ◽  
Virawudh Soontornniyomkij
Keyword(s):  
Renal Diseases ◽  
The Tropics

: China's March towards the Tropics . Herold J. Wiens.

1955 ◽  
Vol 24 (10) ◽  
pp. 159-160
Author(s):  
E. Stuart Kirby
Keyword(s):  
The Tropics

THE EFFECTS OF INTERNAL PARTITION ON INDOOR DAYLIGHTING PERFORMANCE OF STUDENT RESIDENTIAL BUILDING IN IPOH, PERAK

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Khairul Azmi Mohamed ◽  
Asmat Ismail ◽  
Nur Azfahani Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Residential Building ◽  
Illumination Level ◽  
Internal Partition ◽  
The Tropics

The installation of an internal partition has resulted in lowering the illumination level inside a building. Therefore, this study is intended to evaluate the effects of several internal partition layout on indoor daylighting performance in student residential rooms. Several options of internal partition were simulated using Climate Based Daylight Modelling (CBDM) to suggest the effective partition layout to overcome low daylighting level inside the room at the annual level. The findings indicate that the internal partition perpendicular to the window layout has been proven to have the highest annual daylight sufficiency in a student residential room in the tropics.

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