La
Selva
Key References
La Selva: ecology and natural history of a neotropical rain forest.
McDade, L.A., (ed.); Bawa, K.S., (ed.); Hespenheide, H.A. (ed.);
Hartshorn, G.S., (ed.). University of Chicago
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Field Biology Quarter 1994. La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica.
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Biological
Reserve Alberto M. Brenes
Key References
Brenes, L. et al. 1995. Composición florística y estructura de un
bosque primario del piso premontano pluvial en San Ramón, Costa
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Breckle, S.W. 1997. Soil conditions within the Río San Lorencito
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Freiberg, M. 1996. Phenotype expression of epiphytic Gesneriaceae
under different microclimatic conditions in Costa Rica. Ecotropica
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Gómez-Laurito, J. 1989. Ticodendron, a new tree from Central America.
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Kuppers, M. et al. 1996. Effects of light environment and successional
status on lightfleck use understory trees of temperate and tropical
forest. Tree Physiology. 16: 69-80.

Las
Cruces
Key References
Pounds, A., M. Fodgen, J. Savage and G. Gorman. 1997. Tests of Null
Model for Amphibian Declines on a Tropical Mountain. Conservation
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Haver, W. A., Zuchowski, W. and Bello, E. 1996. An introduction
to Cloud Forest Trees: Monteverde, Costa Rica. La Nación Press.
204 pp.
Fodgen, M.P. 1993. An annotated Checklist of the Birds of Monteverde
and Peñas Blancas. Green Mountain Publications, Monteverde, Costa
Rica. 63 pp.
Lawton, R. O. and F.E. Putz. 1987. Natural Disturbance and Gap-phase
regeneration in a wind-exposed tropical cloud forest. Ecology 69(3):764-777.
Nadkarni, N. and T. Matelson. 1992. Biomass and nutrient dynamics
of epiphytic litter fall in a neotropical montane forest, Costa
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