The Biological Dynamics of Tropical Rainforest Fragments

Abstract

Richard 0. Bierregaard Jr. is director of the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragment Project at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560; his research focuses on avian community structure in Amazonian rainforests, particularly the responses of such communities to forest fragmentation. Thomas E. Lovejoy is the Assistant Secretary for External Affairs of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560. Valerie Kapos is a research associate in the Department of Botany, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EA, United Kingdom and at the University of North Wales; her research is on water and nutrient relations and phenology of tropical deciduous trees and edge effects on environment and plant responses. Angelo Augusto dos Santos is the coordinator for international cooperation at Brazil's National Institute for Amazonian Research (INPA) and the Brazilian co-principal investigator of BDFFP at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560; his research focuses on the structure and ecology of tropical rainforest fragments. Roger W. Hutchings is the field director of BDFFP, Ecologia/V-8, INPA, C.P. 478, 69.011 Manaus, AM, Brazil; his research interests include butterflies in tropical forest fragments and adjacent continuous forest, botanical ecology, and general conservation biology of tropical rainforests. A mosaic of small