Recent literature

Recent papers related to tropical dry forests and savannas in the journal Biotropica:

Tabarelli, Marcelo, Ariadna V. Lopes, and Carlos A. Peres. 2008. Edge-effects Drive Tropical Forest Fragments Towards an Early-Successional System. Biotropica 40(6):657-661 doi:10.1111/j.1744-7429.2008.00454.x

Lebrija-Trejos, Edwin, Frans Bongers, Eduardo A. Pérez-García and Jorge A. Meave. 2008. Successional Change and Resilience of a Very Dry Tropical Deciduous Forest Following Shifting Agriculture. Biotropica 40(4):422-431 doi:10.1111/j.1744-7429.2008.00398.x

Poorter, Lourens and Lars Markesteijn. 2008. Seedling Traits Determine Drought Tolerance of Tropical Tree Species. Biotropica 40(3):321-331 doi:10.1111/j.1744-7429.2007.00380.x

Forrest Jessica L., Eric W. Sanderson, Robert Wallace, Teddy Marcelo Siles Lazzo, Luis Humberto Gómez Cerveró and Peter Coppolillo. 2008. Patterns of Land Cover Change in and Around Madidi National Park, Bolivia. Biotropica 40(3):285-294 doi:10.1111/j.1744-7429.2007.00382.x

Delsinne, Thibaut, Maurice Leponce, Laurence Theunis, Yves Braet, and Yves Roisin. 2008. Rainfall Influences Ant Sampling in Dry Forests. Biotropica 40(5):590-596 doi:10.1111/j.1744-7429.2008.00414.x

Kaminski, Lucas A. 2008. Polyphagy and Obligate Myrmecophily in the Butterfly Hallonympha paucipuncta (Lepidoptera: Riodinidae) in the Neotropical Cerrado Savanna. Biotropica 40(3):390-394 doi:10.1111/j.1744-7429.2007.00379.x

Santos, Evanira M. R., Elizabeth Franklinand William E. Magnusson. 2008. Cost-efficiency of Subsampling Protocols to Evaluate Oribatid-Mite Communities in an Amazonian Savanna. Biotropica 40(6):728-735 doi:10.1111/j.1744-7429.2008.00425.x

Vieira, Letícia, Júlio N. C. Louzada and Sacha Spector. 2008. Effects of Degradation and Replacement of Southern Brazilian Coastal Sandy Vegetation on the Dung Beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Biotropica 40(6):719-727 doi:10.1111/j.1744-7429.2008.00432.x