Abstract
Abstract One of the most striking features of tropical forest is the extraordinary diversity of its inhabitants. Diversity of plants, insects, bats, and birds is conspicuously higher in tropical forests than in their temperate zone counterparts (Karr 1971, MacArthur 1972, Erwin 1982, Fi.ndley 1993), just as in marine settings the diversity of molluscs is higher at lower latitudes (Fischer 1960). As the diversity of tropical plants provides the foundation for the diversity of their consumers and the carnivores and insectivores that prey upon those consumers (Hutchinson 1959), I shall focus on why there are so many kinds of tropical trees. The diversity of tropical trees is one of the most extraordinary mysteries of tropical forest; it has yet to receive a definitive explanation.
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