Cover; Coexistence; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Interviews; 1. The Other World; 2. Legends; 3. Romancing the Rainforest; 4. Regeneration; 5. Is Evolution Different in the Tropics?; 6. Niche Construction; 7. Rhythms of the Forest; 8. On the Waterfronts; 9. The New Deal; 10. Ecology in Disequilibrium; 11. The Central Enigma; 12. Liberated from Fashionable Science; 13. Territories, Taxonomy, and Time; 14. Nineteen Eighty-Nine; 15. Biodiversity in Heat; 16. A Continent in the Canopy; 17. At the Root of Diversity; 18. The Other World Today; Notes; Index
Summary
This book is about tropical biology in action- how biologists grapple with the ecology and evolution of the great species diversity in tropical rainforests and coral reefs
