Biotropica - 42 (5), 2010

Contents:

INSIGHTS

Vertical Stratification Responses of an Arboreal Dung Beetle Species to Tropical Forest Fragmentation in Malaysia (pages 521–525)
Daniel J. Tregidgo, Lan Qie, Jos Barlow, Navjot S. Sodhi and Susan Lee-Hong Lim

Declines in Leaf Litter Nitrogen Linked to Rising Temperatures in a Wet Tropical Forest (pages 526–530)
Katherine Tully and Deborah Lawrence


SPECIAL SECTION: 2010 INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF BIODIVERSITY

The International Year of Biodiversity: A Celebration and Cogitation (pages 531–533)
Jaboury Ghazoul and Marielos Pena-Claros

Between a Pristine Myth and an Impoverished Future (pages 534–536)
Charles R. Clement and André B. Junqueira

Evaluating Tropical Biodiversity: Do We Need a More Refined Approach? (pages 537–539)
Anne E. Magurran and Helder Queiroz

Hope for Tropical Biodiversity through True Bioliteracy (pages 540–542)
Daniel H. Janzen

Biodiversity Mapping: The ‘John Gould’ Component of Tropical Biology (pages 543–545)
John T. Longino

Rain Forest Conservation in a Tribal World: Why Forest Dwellers Prefer Loggers to Conservationists (pages 546–549)
Vojtech Novotny

Saving Slash-and-Burn to Save Biodiversity (pages 550–552)
Christine Padoch and Miguel Pinedo-Vasquez

Tropical Biodiversity in Human-Modified Landscapes: What is our Trump Card? (pages 553–554)
Marcelo Tabarelli

Global Mapping of Ecosystem Disservices: The Unspoken Reality that Nature Sometimes Kills us (pages 555–557)
Robert R. Dunn

Significance of Biodiversity to Health (pages 558–560)
Christopher N. Herndon and Rhett A. Butler

Will Tropical Biodiversity Survive our Approach to Global Change? (pages 561–562)
Hans Ter Steege

Is There Enough Science for Conservation Action? (pages 563–565)
Ramanan U. Shaanker and Kotiganahalli N. Ganeshaiah

Purity and Prejudice: Deluding Ourselves About Biodiversity Conservation (pages 566–568)
Douglas Sheil and Erik Meijaard

Conservation in Low-Governance Environments (pages 569–571)
Douglas W. Yu, Taal Levi and Glenn H. Shepard

A Government's Perspective on Safeguarding Biodiversity: The Seychelles Experience (pages 572–575)
Didier Dogley

Let's Not Forget the Biodiversity of the Cities (pages 576–577)
Ariel E. Lugo

Diamonds or Dragonflies? A Question of Reshaping Societal Values (pages 578–579)
Jaboury Ghazoul


PAPERS

Why is Abundance of Herbaceous Legumes Low in African Savanna? A Test with Two Model Species (pages 580–589)
Patrick G. Cech, Peter J. Edwards and Harry Olde Venterink

Age-Dependent Radial Increases in Wood Specific Gravity of Tropical Pioneers in Costa Rica (pages 590–597)
G. Bruce Williamson and Michael C. Wiemann

Tana River Mangabey Use of Nonforest Areas: Functional Connectivity in a Fragmented Landscape in Kenya (pages 598–604)
Julie Wieczkowski

Effects of Agricultural Intensification on the Assemblage of Leaf-Nosed Bats (Phyllostomidae) in a Coffee Landscape in Chiapas, Mexico (pages 605–613)
Kimberly Williams-Guillén and Ivette Perfecto

Habitat and Life History Determinants of Antbird Occurrence in Variable-Sized Amazonian Forest Fragments (pages 614–621)
Alexander C. Lees and Carlos A. Peres

Host-Specific Myrmecophily and Myrmecophagy in the Tropical Coccinellid Diomus thoracicus in French Guiana (pages 622–629)
Amélie Vantaux, Olivier Roux, Alexandra Magro, Nathan Tene Ghomsi, Robert D. Gordon, Alain Dejean and Jérôme Orivel


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POLITYKA I NIE TYLKO , PRZEPISY KULINARNE , ULUBIONE KSIĄŻKI , DOWCIPY , GEOGRAFIA , ŚWIEBODZICE , FORUM O RODZAJU HOYA