Ecology and Conservation of Neotropical Montane Oak Forests [Paperback]

Part I Introduction to Neotropical montane oak forests 1. Global and Neotropical distribution and diversity of oak (genus Quercus) and oak forests Kevin C. Nixon Part II Paleo-ecology and biogeography 2. Immigration of oak into northern South America: a paleo-ecological document Henry Hooghiemstra 3. Effects of the Younger Dryas cooling event on Late Quaternary montane oak forest in Costa Rica Gerald A. Islebe and Henry Hooghiemstra 4. Altitudinal zonation of montane oak forests along climate and soil gradients in Costa Rica Maarten Kappelle and Jan-Gerrit van Uffelen 5. Saprotrophic and ectomycorrhizal macrofungi of Costa Rican oak forests Gregory M. Mueller, Roy E. Halling, Julieta Carranza, Milagro Mata, and John P. Schmit 6. Diversity and biogeography of lichens in neotropical montane oak forests Harrie J. M. Sipman 7. Epiphytic communities of bryophytes and macrolichens in a Costa Rican montane oak forest Ingo Holz Part III Stand structure and composition 8. Composition and structure of humid montane oak forests at different sites in central and eastern Mexico Isolda Luna Vega, Oth?n Alc?ntara Ayala, Carlos Alberto Ruiz-Jim?nez, and Ra?l Contreras-Medina 9. Oak forests of the hyper-humid region of La Chinantla, northern Oaxaca Range, Mexico Jorge A. Meave, Armando Rinc?n and Marco A. Romero-Romero 10. Structure and composition of Costa Rican montane oak forests Maarten Kappelle 11. Structure and composition of Colombian montane oak forests Mar?a T. Pulido, Jaime Cavelier, and Sandra P. Cort?s Part IV Population dynamics 12. Regeneration and population dynamics of Quercus rugosa at the Ajusco Volcano, Mexico Consuelo Bonfil 13. Ecology of acorn dispersalby small mammals in montane forests of Chiapas, Mexico Fabiola L?pez Barrera and Robert H. Manson 14. Establishment, survival and growth of tree seedlings under successional montane oak forests in Chiapas, Mexico Neptal? Ram?rez-Marcial, Ang?lica Camacho-Cruz, Mario Gonz?lez-Espinosa, and Fabiola L?pez-Barreral#