Key readings

Hill J. L and Hill R. A (2001) Why are tropical rain forests so species rich? Classifying, reviewing and evaluating theories. Progress in Physical Geography 25: 326-354.

Osborne P. L. (2000) Tropical rain forests and biodiversity, in ‘Tropical Ecosystems And Ecological Concepts’, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Nepstad D., Carvaldho G. et al. (2001) Road paving, fire regime feedbacks, and the future of Amazon forests. Forest Ecology and Management 154: 395-407.

Webb E. L. (1998) Gap-phase regeneration in selectively logged lowland swamp forest, northeastern Costa Rica. Journal of Tropical Ecology 14:247–260.

Whitmore T. C. (1998) Forest dynamics, in ‘An Introduction To Tropical Rain Forests’, Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Russell-Smith J., Setterfield S. A. (2006) Monsoon rain forest seedling dynamics, northern Australia: contrasts with regeneration in eucalypt-dominated savannas. Journal of Biogeography 33: 1597–1614.

Vandermeer J., de la Cerdab I. G. (2004) Height dynamics of the thinning canopy of a tropical rain forest: 14 years of succession in a post-hurricane forest in Nicaragua. Forest Ecology and Management 199: 125–135.