Abstract:
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 been at the point where a book this size
should be either devoted entirely to one of its
subcategories (physiological ecology,
dynamics of populations, interaction between
species, tropical forest analysis, savannas,
tropical water bodies, island ecosystems,
applications) or, if it is to be this broad, the
papers or chapters should be synthetic reviews
contributed by the best writers in the field.