Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Division of Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48104. Present address: Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19174. This study was ...

Beginning in about 1965, the IBP psychologically and financially supported variously coordinated studies of the basic biology of five major widespread arthropod pests: fruit flies (Tephritidae), Myzus persicae, rice ...

The greatest challenge facing the tropical biodiversity community is to stop intellectualizing and start doing. We now know how to conserve tropical biodiversity, and there are viable and growing conservation projects ...

The professional conservation community is fighting a brave battle in the tropics, but it is losing. And it will continue to lose, and thus everyone will lose, unless there is a dramatic change in the number of participants ...

MICHAEL Crawley set out to put together a plant ecology text for the undergraduate, a text that would haul itself out of the musty bog of old world descriptive and aggregate plant ecology and into the chaos of new ...

Our pet African grey parrot (origin: Cameroon), living in a free-flight wood and screen indoor cage (3 x 2 x 1 m), uses 1.5-4cm long splinters of wood to scratch the skin on the posterior part of its head.

A captive nearly mature least pigmy owl Glaucidium minutissimum rarum Griscom from Limon Province was found to eat a very wide variety of animals and animal parts. When capturing prey or taking food she always closed ...

This symposium volume reads like the first 25 papers dealing with the tropics to be found in a miscellaneous collection of standard and substandard journals of ecology! limnology!evolution. Tropical ecology has for long ...

1. Six 8oo-sweep samples of English and Michigan ("old field") secondary vegetation arthropods are compared with Costa Rican samples taken in the same way. 2. Parasitic Hymenoptera and spiders accounted for a larger ...