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Article: Book describes state-of-the-art tropical canopy insect research.
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- Life Science Weekly
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- February 10, 2003
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2003 FEB 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Tropical forest canopies, leafy landscapes scorched by UV radiation and washed by torrential rains, house some of the most diverse but least understood creatures on our planet. And canopy biologists, pioneers of a very young science, are just beginning to describe this complex interface of plant and animal life.
A major contribution to this field, Arthropods of Tropical Forests, Spatio-Temporal Dynamics and Resource Use in the Canopy, a 490-page summary of state-of-the-art tropical entomology research, has just been released by Cambridge University Press.
This large-format edited volume, with foreword by Tom ...