I. Resource Acquisition. - Photosynthesis. - 1. Photosynthetic Responses of Tropical Forest Plants to Contrasting Light Environm-ents. - 2. CAM and C4 Plants in the Humid Tropics. - 3. Diel Patterns of CO2 Exchange in Rainforest Canopy Plants. - 4. Scaling up from Leaves to Whole Plants and Canopies for Photosynthetic Gas Exchange. - 5. On the Relationship of Plant Geometry to Photosynthetic Response. - 6. Photosynthetic Characteristics of Tropical Trees Along Successional Gradients. - Water Relations. - 7. Influence of Seasonal Drought on the Carbon Balance of Tropical Forest Plants. - 8. Hydraulic Architecture of Woody Tropical Plants. - 9. Evaluating Aspects of Water Economy and Photosynthetic Performance with Stable Isotopes from Water and Organic Matter. - Acquisition of Soil Resources. - 10. Root Growth and Rhizosphere Interactions in Tropical Forests. - II. Ecophysiological Aspects of Species Interactions. - 11. Anti-Herbivore Defenses of Young Tropical Leaves: Physiological Constraints and Ecological Tradeoffs. - 12. Causes and Consequences of Epiphyll Colonization. - 13. Physiology of Tropical Vines and Hemiepiphytes: Plants that Climb Up and Plants that Climb Down. - III. Ecophysiological Patterns across Tropical Forest Communities. - 14. Environmental Factors and Ecophysiological Processes along Altitudinal Gradients in Wet Tropical Mountains. - 15. Phenological Responses to Seasonality in Tropical Forest Plants. - 16. Comparative Ecophysiology of Mangrove Forest and Tropical Lowland Moist Rainforest. - 17. Ecotypic Variation in the Physiology of Tropical Plants. - IV. Ecophysiology of Forest Regeneration and Succession. - 18. Physiological Ecology of Seed Dormancy and Longevity. - 19. Ecophysiology of Tropical Tree Seedlings. - 20. Ecophysiological Constraints on the Distribution ofPiper Species. - 21. Canopy Structure and Dynamics: Integration of Growth Processes in Tropical Pioneer Trees. Language: English