scholarly journals Diversity begets diversity: Phorophyte and microsite relations of foliicolous lichens in the lowland rain forest at Los Tuxtlas Biosphere Reserve (Veracruz, Mexico)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paola Martínez Colín ◽  
Robert Lücking ◽  
María de los Ángeles Herrera‐Campos
Keyword(s):  
Rain Forest ◽  
Biosphere Reserve ◽  
Los Tuxtlas ◽  
Lowland Rain Forest ◽  
Foliicolous Lichens

Structure and floristic composition of the lowland rain forest of Los Tuxtlas, Mexico

Vegetatio ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Bongers ◽  
J. Popma ◽  
J. Meave Castillo ◽  
J. Carabias
Keyword(s):  
Rain Forest ◽  
Floristic Composition ◽  
Los Tuxtlas ◽  
Lowland Rain Forest

Ants accelerate litter decomposition in a Costa Rican lowland tropical rain forest

2012 ◽  
Vol 28 (5) ◽  
pp. 437-443 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terrence P. McGlynn ◽  
Evan K. Poirson
Keyword(s):  
Mass Loss ◽  
Leaf Litter ◽  
Litter Decomposition ◽  
Rain Forest ◽  
Costa Rican ◽  
Tropical Rain Forests ◽  
Rain Forests ◽  
Food Web Structure ◽  
Litter Bags ◽  
Lowland Rain Forest

Abstract:The decomposition of leaf litter is governed, in part, by litter invertebrates. In tropical rain forests, ants are dominant predators in the leaf litter and may alter litter decomposition through the action of a top-down control of food web structure. The role of ants in litter decomposition was investigated in a Costa Rican lowland rain forest with two experiments. In a mesocosm experiment, we manipulated ant presence in 50 ambient leaf-litter mesocosms. In a litterbag gradient experiment, Cecropia obtusifolia litter was used to measure decomposition rate constants across gradients in nutrients, ant density and richness, with 27 separate litterbag treatments for total arthropod exclusion or partial arthropod exclusion. After 2 mo, mass loss in mesocosms containing ants was 30.9%, significantly greater than the 23.5% mass loss in mesocosms without ants. In the litter bags with all arthropods excluded, decomposition was best accounted by the carbon: phosphorus content of soil (r2 = 0.41). In litter bags permitting smaller arthropods but excluding ants, decomposition was best explained by the local biomass of ants in the vicinity of the litter bags (r2 = 0.50). Once the microarthropod prey of ants are permitted to enter litterbags, the biomass of ants near the litterbags overtakes soil chemistry as the regulator of decomposition. In concert, these results support a working hypothesis that litter-dwelling ants are responsible for accelerating litter decomposition in lowland tropical rain forests.

Yams and megapode mounds in the lowland rain forest of Papua New Guinea

Human Ecology ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter D. Dwyer ◽  
Monica Minnegal
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Rain Forest ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Lowland Rain Forest

Seedling functional types in a lowland rain forest in Mexico

2001 ◽  
Vol 88 (10) ◽  
pp. 1801-1812 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guillermo Ibarra-Manríquez ◽  
Miguel Martínez Ramos ◽  
Ken Oyama
Keyword(s):  
Rain Forest ◽  
Lowland Rain Forest ◽  
Functional Types

Diversity and vertical distribution of epiphytic liverworts in lowland rain forest and lowland cloud forest of French Guiana

2013 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 243-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Gehrig-Downie ◽  
André Obregon ◽  
Jörg Bendix ◽  
Robbert Gradstein
Keyword(s):  
Vertical Distribution ◽  
Rain Forest ◽  
French Guiana ◽  
Cloud Forest ◽  
Lowland Rain Forest
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