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May 1996

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    1. Rankin, J. M. 1980. Diversidade e dispersao de Lecythidaceae na floresta de terra firme da Amazonia Central. Ciencia e Cultura, Suplemento, 17. Abstract from the 32 Reunião da Sociedade Brasileira para o Progresso da Ciência (SBPC).

    2. Lovejoy, T. E. and D. C. Oren. 1981. Minimum critical size of ecosystems. In: Burgess, R. L. and D. M. Sharp, eds. Forest Island Dynamics in Man-dominated Landscapes. New York: Springer-Verlag; pp. 7-12.

    3. Lovejoy, T. E. 1981. Discontinuous wilderness: Minimum area for conservation. Parks 5(2):13-15. Republished in Tigerpaper 8(2):13-16, 1981.

    4. Lovejoy, T. E. and J. M. Rankin. 1981. Uma fisionomia ameacada: as implicações da dinâmica de parcelas florestais no planejamento silvicultural e de reservas. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Bol. Fundação Brasileira para a Conservação da Natureza 16; pp. 136-139.

    5. Lovejoy, T. E. 1984. Application of ecological theory to conservation planning. In: F. di Castri, F. W. G. Baker and M. Hadley, eds. Ecology in Practice. Paris, France: UNESCO; pp. 402-413.

    6. Rodrigues, W. A. 1982. Duas novas espécies da flora amazônica. Acta Amazônica 12(2):295-300.

    7. Bierregaard, R. O., Jr. 1982. Levantamentos ornitológicos no dossel da mata pluvial de terra firme. Supl. Acta Amazônica 12(3):107-111.

    8. Lovejoy, T. E., R. O. Bierregaard, Jr., J. M. Rankin, and H. O. R. Schubart. 1983. Ecological dynamics of forest fragments. In Sutton, S. L., Whitmore, T. C. and Chaddwick, A. C., eds. Tropical Rain Forest: Ecology and Management. Oxford, England: Blackwell Scientific Publications; pp. 377-384.

    9. Bierregaard, R. O., Jr. 1984. Observations on the nesting biology of the Guiana Crested Eagle (Morphnus guianensis). Wilson Bull. 96(1):1-5.

    10. Lovejoy, T. E., J. M. Rankin, R. O. Bierregaard, Jr., K. S. Brown, Jr., L.H. Emmons, and M. van der Voort. 1984. Ecosystem decay of Amazon Forest remnants. In: Nitecki, M. H., ed. Extinctions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press; pp. 295-325.

    11. Vanzolini, P. E. 1985. Micrurus averyi Schmidt, 1939, in central Amazônia (Serpentes, Elapidae). S. Paulo, Brazil: Papeis Avuls. Zool. 36(8): 77-85.

    12. Zimmerman, B. L. and W. Hodl. 1983. Distinctions of Phyrnohyas resinfictrix (Goeldi, 1907) from Phyrnohyas venulosa (Laurenti, 1768) based on acoustical and behavioural parameters Zool. Anz. (E. Germany) Jenna 211(5/6): 341-352.

    13. Zimmerman, B. L. 1983. A comparison of structural features of calls of open and forest habitat frog species in the Central Amazon. Herpetologica 39(3): 235-246.

    14. Zimmerman, B. L., and J. P. Bogart. 1986. Vocalizations of primary forest frog species in the Central Amazon. Acta Amazônica 14(3/4):473-519.

    15. Lovejoy, T. E. 1985. Forest fragmentation in the Amazon: A case study. In: H. Messel, ed. The Study of Populations. New York: Pergamon Press; pp. 243-251.

    16. Lovejoy, T. E. 1983. Biosphere reserves: The size question. (Proc. 1st International Biosphere Reserve Congress.) Minsk, USSR: UNESCO, Man and the Biosphere Program.

    17. Gascon, C. 1994. Sampling with artificial pools. pp.144-145, In Heyer, W.R., M.A. Donnelly, R. McDiarmid, L.C. Hayek, and M.S. Foster (eds.), Measuring and Monitoring Biological Diversity. Standard Methods for Amphibians. Smithsonian Institution Press,

    18. Bierregaard, R. O., Jr. 1988. Morphological data from understory birds in terra firme forest in the Central Amazonian basin. Rev. Bras. Biol. 48(2): 169-178.

    19. Powell, A. H. and G. V. N. Powell. 1987. Population dynamics of euglossine bees in Amazonian forest fragments. Biotropica 19: 176-179.

    20. Bierregaard, R. O., Jr., D. F. Stotz, L. H. Harper, and G. V. N. Powell.1987. Observations on the occurrence and behavior of the Crimson Fruit Crow (Haematoderis militaris), in central Amazonia. Bull. Brit. Ornith. Club 107:134-137.

    21. Martins, M. B. 1987. Variacao espacial e temporal de algumas especies de Drosophila (Diptera) em duas reservas de matas isoladas, nas vizinhanças de Manaus (Amazonas, Brazil). Bol. Mus. Par. Emílio Goeldi ser. Zool. 3: 195-218.

    22. Benson, W. W. and A. Y. Harada. 1988. Local diversity of tropical and temperate ant faunas (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Acta Amazonica, 18(3-4):275-289.

    23. Lovejoy, T. E., R. O. Bierregaard, Jr., A. B. Rylands, J. R. Malcolm, C. E. Quintela, L. H. Harper, K. S. Brown, Jr., A. H. Powell, G. V. N. Powell, H. O.R. Schubart, and M. Hays. 1986. Edge and other effects of isolation on Amazon forest fragments. In: Soulé, M., ed. Conservation Biology. Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Associates, Inc.; Pp. 257-285.

    24. Hrabovsky, Milan. 1987. On Anelaphus Linsley 1936--One new species and two new combinations (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Elaphidionini). Revta. Bras. Ent. 31(1):135-137.

    25. Rodrigues, M.T. 1988. A new anole of the Punctatus group from central Amazonia (Sauria, Iguanidae). Papeis Avulsos Zool., São Paulo, 36(29): 333-336.

    26. Lovejoy, T. E. 1985. Minimum Size for Birds [sic] Species and Avian Habitats. In Ilyichev, V. D. and V. M. Gavrilov, eds. Acta XVIII Cong. Inter. Ornit. Moscow, U.S.S.R.: Nauka; pp. 324-327.

    27. Rylands, A. B. and A. Keuroghlian. 1988. Primate populations in continuous forest and forest fragments in central Amazonia. Acta Amazônica, 18(3-4):291-307.

    28. Malcolm, J. R. 1988. Small mammal abundances in isolated and non-isolated primary forest reserves near Manaus, Brazil. Acta Amazônica, 18(3-4):67-83.

    29. Zimmerman, B. L. and J. P. Bogart. 1988. Ecology and calls of four little-known central Amazonian forest species of frogs. J. Herpetology 22: 97-108.

    30. Klein, B. C. and R. O. Bierregaard, Jr. 1988. Movement and calling behavior of the Lined Forest-falcon (Micrastur gilvicollis) in the Brazilian Amazon. Condor 90: 497-499.

    31. Bierregaard, R. O., Jr. and T. E. Lovejoy. 1989. Effects of forest fragmentation on Amazonian understory bird communities. Acta Amazônica 19: 215-241.

    32. Klein, B. C., L. H. Harper, R. O. Bierregaard, Jr., and G. V. N. Powell. 1988. Nesting and feeding behavior of the Ornate Hawk-eagle, Spizaetus ornatus. Condor 90:239-241.

    33. Quintela, Carlos E. 1987. First report of the nest and young of the Variegated Antpitta (Grallaria varia). Wilson Bull. 99:499-500.

    34. Martins, M. B. 1989. Invasão de fragmentos florestais por espécies oportunistas de Drosophila (Diptera, Drosophilidae). Acta Amazônica 19:265-271.

    35. Bierregaard, R. O. Jr. and T. E. Lovejoy. 1988. Birds in Amazonian forest fragments: Effects of insularization. In: Ouellet, H., ed., Acta XIX Cong. Int. Ornith., Vol II. Univ. of Ottawa Press, Ottawa. pp. 1564-1579.

    36. Kapos, V. 1989. Effects of isolation on the water status of forest patches in the Brazilian Amazon. J. Trop. Ecol. 5:173-185.

    37. Klein, B. C. and R. O. Bierregaard, Jr. 1988. Capture and telemetry techniques for the Lined Forest Falcon, Micrastur gilvicollis. Raptor Research 22: 29.

    38. Rankin-de-Merona, J. M. and D. D. Ackerly. 1987. Estudos populacionais de árvores em florestas fragmentadas e as implicações para conservação in situ das mesmas na floresta tropical da Amazônia central. Instituto de Pesquisas e Estudos Florestais da Escola Superior de Agricultura "Luiz de Queiroz". Universidade de São Paulo, Piracicaba, S. P. 35:47-59.

    39. Harper, L. H. 1989. Birds and army ants (Eciton burchelli), observations on their ecology in undisturbed forest and isolated reserves. Acta Amazônica 19: 249-263.

    40. Zimmerman, B. L. and R. O. Bierregaard, Jr. 1986. Relevance of the equilibrium theory of island biogeography with an example from Amazonia. J. Biogeography 13:133-143.

    41. Schwarzkopf, L. and A. B. Rylands. 1989. Primate species richness in relation to habitat structure in Amazonian rainforest fragments. Biological Conservation 48:1-12.

    42. Zimmerman, B. L., M.T. Rodrigues. 1990. Frogs, snakes and lizards of the INPA-WWF reserves near Manaus, Brazil. In: Gentry, A., ed. Four Neotropical Rainforests. Yale Univ. Press, New Haven. pp. 426-454.

    43. Lovejoy, T. E. and R. O. Bierregaard, Jr. 1990. Central Amazonian forests and the Minimum Critical Size of Ecosystems Project. In: Gentry, A., ed. Four Neotropical Rainforests. Yale Univ. Press, New Haven. pp. 60-74.

    44. Bierregaard, R.O., Jr. 1990. Avian Communities in the Understory of Amazonian Forest Fragments. In: A. Keast an J. Kikkawa, eds. Biogeography and Ecology of Forest Bird Communities. SPB Academic Publishing, The Hague. pp. 333-343.

    45. Bierregaard, R. O., Jr. 1990. Species composition and trophic organization of the understory bird community in a Central Amazonian terra firme forest. In A. Gentry, ed. Four Neotropical Rainforests. Yale Univ. Press. New Haven. pp. 217-236.

    46. Malcolm, J. R. 1990. Estimation of mammalian densities in continuous forest north of Manaus. In: Gentry, A., ed. Four Neotropical Rainforests. Yale Univ. Press, New Haven. pp. 339-357.

    47. Rankin-de-Merona, J. M., R. W. Hutchings, and T. E. Lovejoy. 1990. Tree mortality and recruitment over a five-year period in undisturbed upland rain forest of the central Amazon. In: Gentry, A., ed. Four Neotropical Rainforests. Yale Univ. Press, New Haven. pp. 573-584.

    48. Gascon, C. 1989. The tadpole of Atelopus pulcher Boulenger (Annura, Bufonidae) from Manaus, Amazonas. Revta. bras. Zool. 6(2): 235-239.

    49. Klein, B. C. 1989. The effects of forest fragmentation on dung and carrion beetle (Scarabaeinae) communities in Central Amazonia. Ecol. 70: 1715-25.

    50. Stotz, D. F. and R. O. Bierregaard, Jr. 1989. The birds of the fazendas Porto Alegre, Dimona and Esteio north of Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil. Rev. Bras. Biol. 49(3): 861-872

    51. Powell, G. V. N. 1989. On the possible contribution of mixed species flocks to species richness in neotropical avifaunas. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 24:387-393.

    52. Vasconcelos, H. 1990. Habitat selection by the queens of the leaf-cutting ant Atta sexdens. J. Trop. Ecol. 6: 249-252.

    53. Vasconcelos, H. 1990. Foraging activity of two species of leaf-cutting ants (Atta) in a primary forest of central Amazon. Insectes Sociaux 37: 131-145.

    54. Bierregaard, R.O., Jr. 1989. Conservation of tropical rainforests: Facing a fragmented future. Proc. Regional Meeting American Association of Zoological Parks and Aquariums: 4-12.

    55. Ackerly, D.D., J.M. Rankin-de Merona and W. A. Rodrigues. 1990. Tree densities and sex ratios in breeding populations of dioecious central Amazonian Myristicaceae. J. Tropical Ecol. 6:239-248.

    56. Vasconcelos, H. L. de. 1988. Distribution of Atta (Hymenopetera - Formicidae) in "terra-firme" Rain Forest of Central Amazonia: density, species composition and preliminary results on effects of forest fragmentation. Acta Amazônica, 18(3-4):309-315.

    57. Spironelo, W. 1991. A importância de frutos de palmeiras (Palmae) na dieta de um grupo de Cebus apella (Cebidae: Primates) na Amazônia central. A Primatologia no Brasil 3: 285-296.

    58. Malcolm, J. R. 1991. Comparative abundances of neotropical small mammals by trap height. J. Mammal. 72:188-192.

    59. Gascon, C. 1989. Predator-prey size interaction in tropical ponds. Revta. Bras. Zool. 6:701-706.

    60. Bassini, F. and P. Becker. 1990. Charcoal's occurrence in soil depends on topography in terra firme forest near Manaus, Brazil. Biotropica. 22:420-422.

    61. Gascon, C. 1991. Breeding of Leptodactylus knudseni: Responses to rainfall variation. Copeia, 1991(1): 248-252.

    62. Mori, S., and P. Becker. 1991. Flooding affects survival of Lecythidaceae in terra firme forest near Manaus, Brazil. Biotropica 23:87-90.

    63. Gascon, C. 1993. Breeding-habitat use by Amazonian primary-forest frogs species at forest edge. Biodiversity and Conservation 2:438-444.

    64. Frazão, E. 1991. Insectivory in free-ranging Bearded Saki (Chiropotes satanas) Primates (Japan) 32:245-7.

    65. Gascon, C. 1991. Population- and community-level analyses of species occurrences of central Amazonian rainforest tadpoles. Ecology 72: 1731-1746.

    66. Gribel, R. and V. A. Taddei. 1989. Notes on the distribution of Tonatia schulzi and Tonatia carrikeri in the Brazilian Amazon. J. Mamm. 70: 871-873.

    67. Rafael, J.A. and R. Ale-Rocha. 1990. Primeiro registro do gênero Ocydromia Meigen na região neotropical e descrição de O. amazonica sp.n. (Diptera, Empididae, Ocydromiinae). Revta bras. Ent. 34(4): 739-741.

    68. Karr, J. R., J. Blake, S. Robinson, and R. O. Bierregaard, Jr. Birds of four neotropical forests. 1990. In A. Gentry, ed. Four Neotropical Rainforests. Yale Univ. Press. New Haven. pp. 237-269.

    69. Boom, B., and M. T. V. A. Campos. 1991. A preliminary account of the Rubiaceae of a central Amazonian terra firme forest. Bol. Mus. Para. Emilio Goeldi, ser. Bot. 7:223-247.

    70. Adams, J. B., V. Kapos, M. O. Smith, R. Almeida Filho, A. R. Gillespie, D. A. Roberts. 1990. A new Landsat view of land use in Amazonia. Proc. International Symp. on Primary Data Acquisition. International Archives of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 28:177-185.

    71. Allmon, W. 1991. A plot study of forest floor litter frogs, Central Amazon, Brazil. J. Trop. Ecology 7:503-522.

    72. Vasconcelos, H. L. 1991. Mutualism between Maieta guianensis, a myrmecophytic melastome, and one of its ant inhabitants: ant protection against insect herbivores. Oecologia 81: 295-298.

    73. Gascon, C. 1992. Aquatic predators and tadpole prey at a central Amazonian site: field data and experimental manipulations. Ecology 73: 971-980.

    74. Gascon, C. 1992. The effects of reproductive phenology on larval performance traits in a three-species assemblage of central Amazonian tadpoles. Oikos 65: 307-313.

    75. Hero, J.-M. 1990. An illustrated key to tadpoles occurring in the Central Amazon rainforest, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil. Amazonia 11:201-262

    76. Becker, P., J. S. Moure, and F. J. A. Peralta. 1991. More about Euglossine Bees in Amazonian Forest Fragments. Biotropica 23(4b): 586-591.

    77. Rylands, A. B. and A. S. Neves. 1992. Diet of a group of howling monkeys (Alouatta seniculus) in an isolated forest patch in Central Amazonia. A Primatologia no Brasil 3: 263-274.

    78. Malcolm. J. R. 1992. Use of tooth impressions to identify and age live Proechimys guyqannensis and P. cuvieiri (Rodentia: Echimyidae J. Zool. 227:537-546.

    79. Gascon, C. 1992. Spatial distribution of Osteocephalus taurinus and Pipa arrabali in a central Amazonian forest. Copeia 1992(3): 894-897.

    80. Setz, Eleonore. 1992. Comportamento de alimentação de Pithecia pithecia (Cebidae, Primatas) em um fragmento florestal. Primatologia no Brasil 3: 327-330.

    81. Heyer, W. R. and L. M. Hardy. 1991. A new species of frog of the Eleutherodactylus lacrimosus assembly from Amazonia, South America (Amphibia: Anura: Leptodactylidae). Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 104(3): 436-447.

    82. Stotz, D. F., R. O. Bierregaard, Jr., M. Cohn-Haft, P. Peterman, J. Smith, A. Whittaker, and S. V. Wilson. 1992. The status of North American migrants in the Central Amazonian Brazil. Condor 94: 608-621.

    83. Mori, S. 1992. Eschweilera pseudodecolorans (Lecythidaceae), a new species from Amazonian Brazil. Brittonia 44: 244-246.

    84. Garcia, M. V. B., M. L. Oliveira, and L. A. O. Campos. 1992. Use of seeds of Coussapoa asperifolia magnifolia (Cecropiaceae) by stingless bees in the central Amazonian forest (Apidae: Meliponinae). Entomol. Gener 17(4): 255-258.

    85. Gascon, C. and O. de Souza Pereira. 1993. Preliminary checklist of the herpetofauna of the upper Rio Urucú, Amazonas, Brazil. Rev. Bras. de Zool. 10:179-183.

    86. Lovejoy, T. E. 1986. Conservation planning in a checkerboard world: The problem of size of natural areas. In: Last. F. T., M. C. B. Hotz, and B. G. Bell, (eds.) Land and Its Uses. Plenum.

    87. Cohn-Haft, M. 1993. Rediscovery of the White-winged Potoo. Auk 110:391-394.

    88. Bierregaard, R. O., Jr., T. E. Lovejoy, V. Kapos, A. A. dos Santos, and R. W. Hutchings. 1992. The biological dynamics of tropical rainforest fragments. BioScience 42:859-866.

    89. Zimmerman, B. L. 1994. Audio strip transects. pp.92-96, In Heyer, W.R., M.A. Donnelly, R. McDiarmid, L.C. Hayek, and M.S. Foster (eds.), Measuring and Monitoring Biological Diversity. Standard Methods for Amphibians. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington DC.

    90. Fowler, H. G. 1991. A teoria de biogeografia de ilhas e a preservação: um paradigma que atrapalha? Rev. Geogr. São Paulo 10: 39-49.

    91. Fowler, H. G. In press. The colonial spider, Parawixia bistriata (rngger, 1835) (Araneae: Arandidae), in the central Amazon. Bol. Zool. Univ. S. Paulo.

    92. Fowler, H. G. In press. A remarkable record of Cylindromyrmex brasiliensis Emery, 1901 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae: Cylindromyrmecini) in central Amazonia, with notes of behavior. Bol. Mus. Goeldi.

    93. Fowler, H. G. In press. Apparency and accumulated herbivory in understory myrmecophytes of the central Amazon. Ciência e Cultura.

    94. Fowler, H. G. 1993. Herbivory and assemblage structure of myrmecophytous understory plants and their associated ants in the central Amazon. Insect Sociaux 40:137-145.

    95. Fonseca, C. R. 1993. Nesting space limits colony size of the plant-ant Pseudomyrmex concolor. Oikos 67:473-482.

    96a. Buchacher, C. O. 1993. Field studies on the small Surinam toad Pipa arrabali (Pipidae, Anura) near Manaus, Brazil. Amphibia-Reptilia 14: 59-69.

    96b. Kapos, V., G. M. Ganade, E. Matsui, and R.L . Victoria. 1993. 13C as an indicator of edge effects in tropical rain forest reserves. Journal of Ecology 81:425-432.

    97. Venticinque, E. M., H. G. Fowler, and C. A. Silva. 1993. Modes and frequencies of colonization and its relation to extinctions, habitat and seasonality in the social spider Anelosimus eximius in the Amazon (Araneidae: Theridiidae). Pysche 100:35-41.

    98. Fowler, H. G., C. A. Silva, and E. Venticinque. 1993. Size, taxonomic and biomass distributions of flying insects in central Amazonia: Forest edge vs. understory. Revista de Biologia Tropical. 41:755-760.

    99. Morato, E. F., L. A. de O. Campos, and J. S. Moure. 1992. Abelhas Euglossini (Hymenoptera, Apidae) coletadas na Amazônia Central. Rev. bras. Ent. 36(4): 767-771.

    100. Vasconcelos, H. L. 1993. Ant colonization of Maeta guianensis seedlings, an Amazon ant-plant. Oecologia. 95:439-443.

    101. Bowen W. T., P. Becker and F. Bassini. 1990. Spatial variability of extractable phosphorus in an Amazon forest. Proceedings of the SCOPE workshop on phosphorus cycles in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems in Latin America with emphasis on the Amazon Basin, Venezuela.

    102. De Souza, O. F. F. and V. K. Brown 1994. Effects of habitat fragmentation on Amazonian termite communities. J. Tropical Ecology 10:197-206.

    103. Whittaker, A. 1993. Notes on the behavior of the Crimson Fruitcrow Haematoderus militaris near Manaus, Brazil, with the first nesting record for this species. Bull. British Ornith. Club 1993:000

    104. Prance, G.T. 1991. Five new species of neotropical Chrysbalanaceae. Kew Bulletin 47:247-256.

    105. Nelson, B., V. Kapos, J.B. Adams, W.J. Oliveira, O.P Braun, and I. do Amaral. 1994. Forest disturbance by large blowdowns in the Brazilian Amazon. Ecology 75:853-858.

    106. Fearnside, P.M., N. Leal Filho, and F.M. Fernandes. 1993. Rainforest burning and the global carbon budget: Biomass, combustion efficiency, and charcoal formation in the Brazilian Amazon. Journal of Geophysical Research 98:16733-16743.

    107. Stouffer, P.C., and R.O. Bierregaard. 1993. Seasonal rainfall patterns and the abundance of Ruddy Quail-doves (Geotrygon montana) near Manaus, Brazil. Condor 95:896-903.

    108. Junca, F.A., R. Altig, and C. Gascon. 1994. Breeding biology of Colostethus stepheni: a dendrobatid with a non-transported nidicolous tadpole. Copeia 1994:747-750.

    109. Shaffer, H.B., R.A. Alford, B.G. Woodward, S.J. Richards, R.A. Altig, C. Gascon. 1994. Quantitative sampling of amphibian larvae. pp.130-141, In Heyer, W.R., M.A. Donnelly, R. McDiarmid, L.C. Hayek, and M.S. Foster (eds.), Measuring and Monitoring Biological Diversity. Standard Methods for Amphibians. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington DC.

    110. Rankin de Merona, J.M., G.T. Prance, R.W. Hutchings, F.M. Silva, W.A. Rodrigues, M.E. Uehling. 1992. Preliminary results of large-scale tree inventory of upland rain forest in the Central Amazon. Acta Amazonica 22:493-534.

    111. Bierregaard, R.O., Jr. and V.H. Dale. 1993. Islands in an ever-changing sea: the dynamics of Amazonian rainforest fragments. Pp.8-10 in Doyle, J.K., and J. Schelhas (eds.), Forest Remnants in the Tropical Landscape: Benefits and Policy Implications. Smithsonina Migratory Bird Center, Washington, DC.

    112. Camargo, J.L.C., V. Kapos. 1995. Complex edge effects on soil moisture and microclimate in Central Amazonian forest. J. Trop. Ecology 11:205-221.

    113. Fonseca, C.R. 1994. Herbivory and long-lived leaves of an Amazonian ant-tree. J. of Ecology 82:833-842.

    114. Malcolm, J.R. 1994. Edge effects in Central Amazonian Forest Fragments. Ecology 75:2438-2445.

    115. Malcolm, J.R. In Press. Forest structure and the abundance and diversity of Neotropical small mammals. In M. Lowman and N.M. Nadkarni (eds.), Forest Canopies: Ecology, Biodiversity and Conservation. Academic Press.

    116. Gascon, C. 1994. Bottom-nets as a new method to quantitatively sample tadpole populations. Revista Braseira de Zoologia 11:355-359.

    117. Mori, S., and N.L. Cunha. 1995. The Lecythidaceae of a central Amazonian moist forest. Memoirs of the NYBG 75. Bronx.

    118. Whittaker, A. 1995. Bird Observations. Bull. British Ornith. Club 115:45-48.

    119. Mesquita R. and C.H. Franciscon. In Press. Flower visitors of Clusia nemorosa G.F.W. Meyer (Clusiaceae) in an amazonian white-sand campina. Biotropica.

    120. Garcia, M.V.B. In Press. Wasps.

    121. Morato, E.F., L.A. de Campos. 1994. Aspetos da biologia de Pisoxylon xanthosa na Amazonia central. Rev. Bras. Ent. 38:585-594.

    122. Morato. E. In Press. Abundancia e riqueza de machos de Euglossini em mata de terra firme e areas de derrubadas nas vizinhancas de Manaus.

    123. Vasconcelos, H. , J.M. Cherrett. 1995. Colonization changes in leaf-cutting ant populations after the clearing of marutre forest in Amazonia. Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment 30:107-113.

    124. Fowler, H.G. 1994. Interference competition between ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Amazonian clearings. Ecoclogia Austral 4:35-39.

    125. Stouffer, P. and R.O. Bierregaard, Jr. 1995. Effects of forest fragmentation on understory hummingbirds in Amazonia, Brazil. Conservation Biology 9:1085-1094.

    126. Stouffer, P. and R.O. Bierregaard, Jr. 1995. Use of Amazonian forest fragments by understory insectivorous birds. Ecology 76:2429-2443.

    127. Viera, R.S. and H. Hofer. 1994. Prey sprectrum of two army ants in Central Amazonia, with special attention on their effect on spider populations. Andrias 13: 189-198.

    128. Gascon, C. 1995. Natural History Notes on frogs from the Manaus region. Revista Brasileira de Zoologia 12:9-12.

    129. Darlington, J.P.E.C., E.M. Cancello, O.F.F. de Souza. 1992. Ergatoid reproductives in termites of the genus Dolichorhinotermes (Isoptera, Rhinotermatidae). Sociobiology 20:41-47.

    130. Nelson, B.W. 1994. Natural forest disturbance and change in the Brazilian Amazon. Remote Sensing Reviews 10:105-125.

    131. Rebelo, F.C., G.B. Williamson. 1996. Driptips Vis-à-vis Soil types from Central Amazônia. Biotropica 28:159-163.

    132. Vasconcelos, H. 1990. Effects of litter collection by understory palms on the associated macroinvertebrate fauna in Central Amazonia. Pedobiologia 34:157-160.

    133. Gascon, C. 1995 Tropica larval anuran fitness in the absence of direct effects of predation and competition. Ecology 76:2222-2229.

    134. Hofer, H., A.D. Brescovit, T. Gasnier. 1994. The wandering spiders of the genus Ctenus of Reserva Ducke, a rainforest reserve in central Amazonia. Andrias 13:81-98.

    135. Zimmerman, B, and D. Simberloff. 1996. An historical interpretation of habitat use by frogs in a central Amazonian forest. J. of Biogeography 23:27-46.

    136. Fowler, H.G. 1994. Agelaia brevistigma (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) in Central Amazonia. Rev. Biol. Trop. 47:387-388.

    137. Fowler, H.G., and E.M. Venticinque. In Press. Spiders and understory myrmecophytes of the central Amazon, Brazil. Rev. Bras. Entomol.

    138. Borges, S. 1995. Ninhos e ovos de Caryothraustes candensis. Ararajuba 3:76.

    139. Spironelo, W.R., 1987. Range size of a group of Cebus apella in Central Amazonia. Am. J. Primatol. 8:522.

    140. Offerman, H., V.H. Dale, S.M. Pearson, R.O. Bierregaard, Jr., and R.V. O'Neill. In Press. Effects of forest fragmentation on neotropical fauna: current research and data availabiltiy. Environmental Reviews.

    141. Fonseca, C.R., G. Ganade. 1996. Asymmetry, compartments and null interactions in an Amazonian ant-plant community. J. of Animal Ecology 65:339-347.

    142. Whittaker, A. 1995. Notes of feeding behavior, diet and anting of some cotingas. Bull. British Ornith. Soc. 116:58-62.

    143. Cruz Neto, A.P., M. Gordo. 1996. Temperatura corporea e comportamento termoregulativo de Ameiva ameiva. Studies in Neotropical Fauna and Environmental 31:11-16.

    144. Vasconcelos, H.L., J.L. Cherrett.1996. The effect of of wilting in the selection of leaves by the leaf-cutting and Atta laevigata. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 78:215-220.

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    148. Malcolm, J. 1997. Biomass and diversity of small mammals in forest fragments. pp. 207-221. In Tropical Forest Remmants: Ecolgy, Management, and Conservationof Fragmented Communities. W.F. Laurance and R.O.Bierregaard, eds. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, III. USA.

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    150. Tocher, M., C. Gascon, B. Zimmerman. 1997. Fragmentation effects on a central Amzonian frog community: a ten-year study.pp. 124-137. In Tropical Forest Remnants: Ecology, Management, and Conservationof Fragmented Communities. W.F. Laurece and R.O.Bierregaard, eds. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, III, USA.

    151. Didham, R. 1997. The influence of edge effects and forest fragmentation on leaf litter invertebrates in central Amazonia. pp. 55-70. In Tropical Forest Remnants: Ecolgy, Management, and Conservationof Fragmented Communities. W.F. Laurance and R.O. Bierregaard, eds. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, III. USA.

    152. Kapos, V., E.Wandelli, J.L.C. Camargo, G.M.S. Ganade. 1997. Edge-related changes in environment and plant responses due to forest fragmentation in central Amazonia. pp. 33-44. In Tropical Forest Remnants: Ecology, Management , and Conservationof Fragmented Communities. W.F. Laurance and R.O. Bierregaard, eds. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, III. USA.

    153. Pacheco, M. A. Henderson. 1996. Testing Association betwen species abundance and a conituous variable with Kolmogorov-Smirnov statistics. Vegetatio 124:95-99.

    154. Gilbert, K. In Press. Red howling monkey use of speciefic deffecation sites as a parasite avoidance strategy. Animal Behavior.

    155. Malcolm, J. In Press. A model of conductive heat flow in forest edges and fragmetned landscapes. Climatic Change.

    156. Setz, E., Z. Freira, D. de Alemar, In Press. Scent-making in free-ranging golden-faced saki monkeys, Pithecia pithecia chrysocephala: sex diffferences and context. J. Zool.

    157. Fonseca, C., J.L. John. 1996. Connectance: arole for community allometry. Oikos 77:353-358.

    158. Bierregaard, R.O., Jr., M. Cohn-Haft, and D.F. Stotz. 1997. Cryptic biodiversity: an overlooked species and new subspeices of antbird (Aves; Formicariidae) with a revision of Cercomacra tyrannina in northeastern South America. Ornithological Monographs 48:111-128.

    159. Stouffer P., and R.O. Bierregaard, Jr. 1996. Forest fragmentation and seasonal patterns of hummingbird abundance in Amazonian Brazil. Ararajuba 4:9-15.

    160. Cohn-Haft, M. A Whittaker, P.C. Stouffer, In Press. A new look at "species-poor' central Amazon: the avifauna north of Manaus, Brazil.

    161. Juncá F.A. 1996. Parental care and egg mortality in Colostethus stepheni. J. of Herpet. 30:292-294.

    162. Oliveira. M.L., L.M.O. Campos,1996. Preferência por estratos florestais e por substâncias odoríferas em abelhas euglossinas. Rev. Bras. Zool. 13:1075-1085.

    163. Vasconcelos, H.L., J.M. Cherrett. 1997. Leaf-cutting ants and early forest regeneration in central Amazonia: effects of herbivory on tree seedling establishment. J. Trop. Ecol. 13:357-370.

    164. Williamson, B.G., R.C. Mesquita, K. Ickes, e G. Ganade. 1997. Estratégias de pioneiras nos trópicos. In, C. Gascon e P. Mouthino, Floresta Amazônica: Dinâmica, Regeneração e Manejo, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia.

    165. Vasconcelos, H.L., J.M. Cherrett. 1997. Efeitos da herbivoria por saúvas (Atta laevigata) sobre a regeneração florestal em uma área agrícola abandonada da Amazônia central. In, C. Gascon e P. Mouthino, Floresta Amazônica: Dinâmica, Regeneração e Manejo, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia.

    166. Miriti, M. 1997. Regeneração florestal em pastagens abandonadas na Amazônia central: competição, predação, e dispersão de sementes. In, C. Gascon e P. Mouthino, Floresta Amazônica: Dinâmica, Regeneração e Manejo, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia.

    167. Tocher, M. 1997. A comunidade de anfíbios da Amazônia central: diferenças na composição específica entre a mata primária e pastagens. In, C. Gascon e P. Mouthino, Floresta Amazônica: Dinâmica, Regeneração e Manejo, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia.

    168. Mesquita. R.C. 1997. O impacto da remoção do dossel em florestas secundárias sobre o crescimento de duas espécies de árvores de importância econômica. In, C. Gascon e P. Mouthino, Floresta Amazônica: Dinâmica, Regeneração e Manejo, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia.

    169. Moreira, F.W., L.A. de Oliveira, e P. Becker. 1997. Ausência de micorrizas vesículo-arbusculares efetivas em Lecyhidaceas numa área de floresta primária da Amazônia central. Acta Amazônica 27.

    170. Laurance. W.F., and C. Gascon. 1997. How to creatively fragment a landscape. Conservation Biology 11:577-579.

    171. Schiesari, L.C. and G. Moreira. 1996. The tadpole of Phrynohyas coriacea with comments on the species reproduction. J. of. Herpet. 30:404-407.

    172. Benitez-Malvido. J. 1997. Impact of forest fragmentation on seedling abundance in a tropical rain forest. Conservation Biology.

    173. Stouffer, P. Interspecific agression in Amazonian antthrushes? the view from Central Amazonin Brazil. Auk 114.

    174. Didham, R.K. 1997. An Overview of invertebrate responses to forest fragmentation. pp.301-318, In Watt A.D., N.E. Stork, M.D. Hunter (eds), Forest and Insects. Chapman and Hall.

    175. Ferreira, L.V. and W.F. Laurance 1997. Effects of forest fragmentation on mortality and damage of selected trees in central Amazonia. Conservation Biology 11:1-5.

    176. Didham, R.K., J.H. Lawton, P.M. Hammond, and P. Eggleton, In press. Trophic structure stability and extinction dynamics of beetles (Coleoptera) in tropical forest fragments. Phil Trans. Royal. Soc. of London, Series B.

    177. Mesquita, R. de C., S.W. Workman, C.L Neely. In Press. Slow decomposition in a Cecropia-dominated secondary forest of Central Amazonia. Soil Biology and Biochemistry.

    178a. Laurance et al. Plot Shape paper. Biotropica.

    178b. Hero.J.M., C. Gascon, W.E. Magnusson. In Press. Direct and indirect effects of predation on tadpole communitiy structure in the Amazon rainforest. Australian Jounral of Ecology.

    179. W.F. Laurance. 1997. Landscape alterations in the Americas. TREE 12:253-254.

    180. W.F. Laurance. 1997. Effects of logging on wildlife in the tropics. Conservaiton Biology 11:311-312.

    181. W.F. Laurance, L.V. Ferreira, J. M. Rankin-de Merona, S.G. Laurance, R.W. Hutchings, and T.E. Lovejoy. In Press. Effects of forest fragmentaiton on recruitment patterns in central Amazonia. Conservaiton Biology.

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    183. W.F. Laurance, L.V. Ferreira, J.M. Rankin-de Merona, and S.G. Laurance. In Press. Rainforest fragmentaiton and the dynamics of amazonian tree communities. Ecology.

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    185. Fowler, H.G., and E.M. Venticinque. 1996. Interference competition and scavenging by Crematogaster ants associated with the webs of the social spider Anelosimus eximius in the central Amazon. J. Kansas Entomol. Soc. 69:267-269.

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    188. Laurance, W.F. 1997. Logging and wildlife in tropical forests. Environmental Conservation 23:372-373.

    189. Laurance, W.F. R. O. Bierregaard, Jr. C. Gascon, R.K. Didham, A.P. Smith, A.J. Lynam, V.M. Viana, T.E. Lovejoy, K.E. Sieveing, J.W. Sites, M. Andersen, M.D. Tocher, E.A. Kramer, C. Restrepo, C. Moritz. 1997. Tropical Forest Fragmentation: Synthesis of a Diverse and Dynamics Discipline. pp. 502-514. In Tropical Forest Remnants: Ecolgy, Management, and Conservationof Fragmented Communities. W.F. Laurance and R.O. Bierregaard, eds. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, III. USA.

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Theses (as of March 1997)

  M.Sc.

Braz.

M.Sc.

Latin

M.Sc.

Non Latin

Ph.D.

Braz.

Ph.D.

Latin

Ph.D.

Non Latin

Total
In prog. 10 0 2 9 1 5 27
Comp. 21 0 4 6 1 8 40
Total 31 0 6 15 2 13 67

Theses completed - Teses completadas

    1983

    Barbara L. Zimmerman. A survey of forest frog species in the Central Amazon and an analysis of vocal behavior. M.Sc. Thesis, Univ. of Guelph, Ontario, Canada; James Bogart.

    1985

    Marlucia Martins. Influencia da modifica‡ o do habitat sobre a diversidade e abundƒncia de esp‚cies de Drosophila (Diptera, Drosophilidae) em uma floresta tropical da Amaz“nia Central. M.Sc. Thesis, INPA & FUA.

    Carlos E. Quintela. Forest Fragmentation and Differential Use of Natural and Man-made Edges by Understory Birds in Central Amazonia. M.Sc. Thesis, Univ. of Illinois, Chicago.

    1987

    Heraldo Vasconcelos. Atividade forrageira, distribuicao de colonias de sauvas (Atta spp.) em uma floresta da Amazonia Central. M.Sc. Thesis, INPA & FUA; Ilse Walker.

    Lee H. Harper. The conservation of ant-following birds in small Amazonian forest fragments. Ph.D. Thesis, State Univ. of New York, Albany; Kenneth Able.

    Bert C. Klein. The effects of forest fragmentation on dung and carrion beetle (Scarabaeinae) communities in Central Amazonia. M.Sc. Thesis, Univ. of Florida.

    1988

    Og Fonseca de Souza. Levantamento da composicao em especies de termitas (Insecta: Isoptera) em fragmentos florestais na Amazonia Central. M.Sc. Univ. Federal de Vi‡osa; Sebastiao Nogueira.

    1989

    Rita Mesquita. Aspectos da biologia reprodutiva e remocao de sementes de Clusia grandiflora numa reserva florestal na Amazonia Central. M.Sc. Thesis, INPA; William Magnusson.

    Samuel Soares de Almeida. Natural forest clearings in the central Amazon: Abundance, distribution, structure and aspects of plant recolonization. M.Sc. Thesis, INPA; Judy Rankin-de Merona.

    1990

    Gascon, C. The relative importance of habitat characteristics in the maintenance of a species assemblage of tropical forest-breeding frogs. Ph.D. Thesis, Florida State Univeristy; Joseph Travis.

    1991

    Carlos Fonseca. Interaction between Tachigalia myrmecophila Ducke (Caesalpinaceae) and associated ants. M.Sc. Thesis, UNICAMP, Campinas; Woodruff W. Benson.

    Roger Hutchings. The Dynamics of Three Communities of Papilionoidea (Lepidoptera: Insecta) in Forest Fragments in Central Amazonia. M.Sc. Thesis, INPA; Keith Brown

    Maristerra R. Lemes. Agregacao de ovos como estrat‚gia reprodutiva de Hypothirys euclea barii (Lepidoptera, Nymphalisae: Ithomiinae) na regi o de Manaus, Amazonas. M.Sc. Thesis, Instituto de Biologia, UNICAMP, Campinas; Jo o Vasconselos Neto.

    Jay Malcolm. The small mammals of Amzonian forest fragments: Pattern and process. Ph. D. Thesis, Univ. Florida; John Eisenberg.

    Elisa Wandelli. Eco-physiological response of the understory palm Astrocaryum sociale to environmental changes resulting from the forest edge effect. M.Sc. Thesis, INPA; Valerie Kapos.

    Barbara Zimmerman. Distribution and abundances of forest frogs at a site in the Central Amazon. Ph.D. Thesis, Florida State Univ; Daniel Simberloff.

    1992

    Edson Frazao. Diet and foraging strategy of Chiropotes satanas chiropotes (Cebidae: Primates) in central Brazilian Amazonia. M.Sc. Thesis, INPA; Marc van Roosmalen.

    Nigel Sizer. The impact of edge formation on regeneration and litterfall in a tropical rain forest fragment in Amazonia. Ph.D. Thesis, Cambridge University, England; Ed Tanner.

    Regina Oliveira da Silva. Observations on the community structure and ecology of Odonata (Insecta, Hemimetabola) in terra firme streams and igapo forests. M.Sc. Thesis, INPA/FUA; Ilse Walker.

    1993

    Elder Morato. Effects of forest fragmentation on solitary bees and wasps in central Amazonia. M.Sc. Thesis, Univ. Fed. Vicosa; L£cio Ant“nio Campos.

    Jose‚ Luiz Camargo. Cambridge Univ.; Valerie Kapos. Variation in soil moisture and air vapour pressure deficit relative to tropical rain forest edges near Manaus, Brazil. M.Sc. Thesis, Cambridge Univ.; Valerie Kapos.

    Eleonore Setz. Feeding ecology of Pithecia pithecia; A comparison between groups in continuous forest and an isolated forest fragment. Ph.D. Thesis, UNICAMP, Campinas; Marc van Roosmalen.

    1994

    Flora Junc  Acuna. Ecologia e biologia reprodutiva de duas especies de Colostethus da regi o de Manaus, Amaz“nia Central. Tese de mestrado, USP, Sao Paulo; Miguel T. Rodrigues.

    Marcio Luiz de Oliveira. A fauna de abelhas Euglossinae em florestas continuas de terra firme na Amazonia central. Tese de Mestrado, INPA. Dr. Rafael Albertino.

    Kellen Gilbert. Prevalence and abundance of endoparisitic infection in Alouatta seniculus in forest fragments and continuous forest in central Amazonia. Ph.D. Thesis, Rutgers University. Susan Cachel.

    Heraldo Vasconcelos. Interactions between leaf- cutter ants and forest regeneration in the Amazon. Ph.D. Thesis, Univ. of Wales; J. Malcolm Cherrette.

    1995

    Rosamary Silva Viera. The effect of army ant foraging on spider communitites in tropical rainforest. M.Sc. Thesis, INPA/FUA; Hubert Hofer.

    Eduardo Venticinque. Architecture, parisitism, foundation and mortality of social spider (Anelosimus eximius, (Araneae, Theridiidae) colonies in edges and interior of continuous forest and forest fragments in the central Amazon. M.Sc. Thesis, UNESP, Harry Fowler.

    Rita Mesquita. Utilization of Cecropia-dominated secondary forest for establishment and growth of primary forest seedlings in the Brazilian Amazon. Ph.D. Thesis, Univ. of Georgia; Carl Jordan.

    Mario Cohn-Haft. Dietary specialization by lowland tropical rainforest birds: forest interior versus canopy and edge habitats. M.Sc. Thesis, Tulane Univ.; Thomas W. Sherry.

    Sergio Borges. Comunidade de aves em dois tipos de vegeta‡ o secund ria da Amaz“nia central. M.Sc. Thesis, INPA; Philip Stouffer

    Julieta Benitez-Malvido. Studies of seedling communities in Amazonian forest fragments with special reference to Sapotaceae. Ph.D. Thesis, Cambridge Univ.; Edmund Tanner.

    Carlos R. Fonseca. The growth and reproduction of ant colonies living in sympatric Amazonian myrmecophytes. Ph.D. Thesis, Oxford University; William Hamilton.

    Gislene Ganade. On the survival of forest seeds and seedlings in abandoned fields of central Amazonia. Ph.D. Thesis, Imperial College, London; Valerie Brown.

    1996

    Aldicir Scariot. The ecological consequences of fragmentation on a tropical palm community. Ph.D. Univ. California at Santa Barbara.

    Nadja Cunha. Genetic variation of a rare species in central Amazonia with regards to its conservation. M.Sc. Thesis, ESALQ; Paulo Kageyama.

    Angela Imakawa. Establishemt and distribution pattern of Lecythis barnebyi and L. prancei. M.Sc. Thesis, INPA;

    Selvino Neckel. Factors structuring tadpole distributions. INPA. Claude Gascon.

    Mandy Tocher. The effects of forest disturbance on habitat use and abundance of frogs in central Amazonia. Ph.D. Thesis, Univ. of Canterbury, New Zealand; M. Winterborn.

    1997

    Rafael Didham. The litter beetle fauna and habitat fragmentation. British National Museum. Nigel Stork.

    Joana Ribeiro. The ecology of termites in tropical terra firme forest. Ph.D. INPA;

    Maria E. de Assis Elias. The influence of fragmentation and succession on the growth and survival of seedlings of Copaifera multijuga. M.Sc. Thesis, INPA; Isolde Ferraz.

    Alexandre A. de Oliveira. Composition, structure and phenology of a terra firme forest in central Amazonia. M.Sc. Thesis, USP, Sao Paulo; Jose Rubens Pirani.

Theses in progress - Teses em andamento

    Murilo Drummond. [Sexual dynamics of populations of bees and wasps in forest fragments and continuous forest]. Ph.D. Thesis, Fed. Univ. of Vicosa, Minas Gerais; L£cio Ant“nio Campos.

    Maria Miriti. Promotion of seed dispersal as a technique for restoration of tropical rain forests. Ph.D., Univ. of Illinois; Henry Howe.

    Manoel Pacheco. Mechanisms of seed and seedling mortality controlling the distribution of two tropical trees. Ph.D. Thesis, Univ. of Illinois; Henry Howe.

    Christian Buchacher. [Reproductive biology of Pipa pipa (Amphibia, Anura)]. M.Sc. Thesis, Univ. Vienna; Walter Hodl

    Flora Acuna. Reproductive Ecology of Colostethus stepheni. Univeristy of S o Paulo, M. Rodrigues.

    Larissa Barreto. The effects of forest fragmentation on the structure and dynamics of tadpole communities in central Amazonia. INPA, Claude Gascon.

    Wilson Spironello. Sapotaceae community ecology in a central Amazon forest. Cambridge University, Terry Pennington.

    Maria Freitas. Factors affecting colonization and establishment of arboreal species in forest clearings. INPA, Renato Cintra.

    Chris Dick. The effect of fragmentation on the genetic structure of tropical forest trees. Harvard University, Peter Ashton.

    Marcelo Gordo. Factors that affect habitat use of adult frogs. INPA. Claude Gascon

    Erica Sampaio. The effects of fragmentation on structure and diversity of bat communities in Amazonian Tropical Rain forest. Ph.D. thesis, Elizsabeth Kalko, Charles Handley, University of Tuebingen.

    Leslie N.J. Tavares. Efeitos de borda e do crescimento secundário sobre pequenos mamíferos da Amazônia. M.Sc. thesis, INPA, William Laurance.

    Leandro V. Ferreira. Efeito de borda e recrutamento. Ph.D. thesis. William Laurance. INPA.

    Jeffrey Chambers. Dynamics of woody debris in tropical evergreen forests of the Amazon Basin. Ph.D. thesis. John Melack, University of California at Santa Barbara.

    Luciana Monaco. O uso do solo e a regeneração florestal em área abandonadas. M.Sc. thesis. Rita Mesquita. INPA

    Simon Lewis. Treefall gaps and Regeneration: a comparison of continuous forest and fragmented forest in central Amazônia. Ph.D. thesis. Edmund Tanner. University of Cambridge.

    Jeffrey Stratford. Effects of forest fragmentation on terrestrial insectivorous birds. M.Sc. thesis. Philip Stouffer. Southeastern Louisiana University.

    Karine S. Carvalho. Efeitos de borda e do isolamento florestal sobre a comunidade de formigas associadas a pequenos troncos na liteira. M.Sc. thesis. Heraldo Vasconcelos. INPA.

    Ellen Andresen. Effect of dung beetles and rodents on the post-dispersal fate of different-sized seeds in central Amazonia. Ph.D. thesis, University of Florida.

    Cristina M. Burnheim. Composição, riqueza,, e comportamento de peixes de igarapés de floresta de terra firme na Amazônia central. M.Sc. thesis. C. Cox, INPA.

    Domitila Pascoaloto. Levantamento taxonómico, variação sazonal e padrões de distribuição de macroalgas lóticos na região de Manaus e arredores. Ph.D. thesis, Bruce Forsberg, INPA

    Enrico Bernard. Estrutura vertical de uma comunidade de morcegos na floresta primária no PDBFF, Manaus. M.Sc. thesis, Claude Gascon, INPA

    Marcelo G. Lima. Uso de matas associadas à igarapés como áreas de dispersão de pequenos mamíferos terrestres e sapos no PDBFF. M.Sc. thesis, Claude Gascon, INPA

    Emilio Bruna. The effects of forest fragmentation on mating patterns and population structure of tropical plants. Ph.D. thesis. University of California at Davis.

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