Reproductive Ecology of Fruit Bats and the Seasonality of Fruit Production in a Costa Rican Cloud Forest

Biotropica ◽  
1986 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 307 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Dinerstein
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Forest ◽  
Reproductive Ecology ◽  
Fruit Production ◽  
Costa Rican ◽  
Fruit Bats

scholarly journals Reproductive biology of Macleania rupestris (Ericaceae), a pollen-limited Neotropical cloud-forest species in Costa Rica

2010 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 351-354 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric J. Fuchs ◽  
Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra ◽  
Gilbert Barrantes
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
Relative Humidity ◽  
Reproductive Success ◽  
Cloud Forest ◽  
Fruit Production ◽  
Foraging Activity ◽  
High Altitudes ◽  
Forest Species ◽  
Effective Time ◽  
Complex Interactions

The reproductive success of hummingbird-pollinated plants often depends on complex interactions between environmental conditions and pollinator biology (Navarro 1999, Stiles 1985, Wolf et al. 1976). The effect of environment on reproductive success of hummingbird-pollinated plants is particularly pronounced at high altitudes, where large daily fluctuations in temperature, relative humidity and solar radiation limit the effective time for photosynthesis (Cavieres et al. 2000) and affect foraging activity (Navarro 1999) and abundance of pollinators (Rahbek 1997). At high altitudes in the tropical cloud forests of Costa Rica these factors may have serious impacts on fruit production.

scholarly journals Reproductive ecology of distylous Palicourea padifolia (Rubiaceae) in a tropical montane cloud forest. II. Attracting and rewarding mutualistic and antagonistic visitors

2004 ◽  
Vol 91 (7) ◽  
pp. 1061-1069 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Francisco Ornelas ◽  
Clementina González ◽  
Leonor Jiménez ◽  
Carlos Lara ◽  
Armando J. Martínez
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Forest ◽  
Reproductive Ecology ◽  
Tropical Montane Cloud Forest ◽  
Montane Cloud Forest

The wet-canopy water balance of a Costa Rican cloud forest during the dry season

2011 ◽  
pp. 302-308 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Schmid ◽  
R. Burkard ◽  
K. F. A. Frumau ◽  
C. Tobón ◽  
L.A. Bruijnzeel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Balance ◽  
Cloud Forest ◽  
Dry Season ◽  
Costa Rican ◽  
Canopy Water

Epiphytic and terrestrial mycorrhizas in a lower montane Costa Rican cloud forest

Mycorrhiza ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 257-264 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kai Coshow Rains ◽  
Nalini M. Nadkarni ◽  
Caroline S. Bledsoe
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Forest ◽  
Costa Rican

scholarly journals Fine litter accumulation in Central Amazonian Tropical Rainforest canopy

2010 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 781-786 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabiana Rita do Couto-Santos ◽  
Flávio J Luizão
Keyword(s):  
Forest Floor ◽  
Cloud Forest ◽  
Soil Surface ◽  
Costa Rican ◽  
Litter Dynamics ◽  
Wood Component ◽  
Litter Accumulation ◽  
Amazonian Rainforest ◽  
Fine Wood ◽  
Amazonian Forests

Fine litter dynamics within the canopy differ from litter dynamics on the forest floor for reasons such as differences in microclimate, substrate, disturbance level, stratum influence and decomposition rates. This study is the first attempt to quantify the fine litter accumulated in the canopy of Central Amazonian forests. We compared the canopy litter accumulation to fine litter-layer on forest floor and to other forests and also investigated which were the mostly accumulated litter omponents. We found that Central Amazonian Rainforest intercepts greater fine litter in the canopy (294 g.m-2) compared to other forest formations with higher winds speed as in a Costa Rican Cloud Forest (170 g.m-2). The mean canopy fine litter accumulated at the end of the dry season was less than a half of that on soil surface (833 g.m-2) and the fine wood component dominates the canopy samplings (174 g.m-2) while leafy component predominate on soil surface litter (353 g.m-2).

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