Earthworms inhabiting bromeliads in Mexican tropical rainforests: Ecological and historical determinants

Journal of Tropical Ecology

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 729-734

  Fragoso, Carlos ^a   Rojas Fernández, Patricia ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Bromeliads; Earthworms; M xico; Tropical rainforests

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; EARTHWORM; HABITAT PREFERENCE; HABITAT SPECIFICITY; RAINFOREST; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

MEXICO, CHIAPAS STATE, CHAJUL;

AECHMEA MEXICANA; ANDROLEPIS SKINNERI; BROMELIACEAE; EUTRIGASTER SPORADONEPHRA; OLIGOCHAETA;

EID: 0030428196     PISSN: 02664674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0266467400009925     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. ADIS, J. & RIGHI, G. 1989. Mass migration and life cycle adaptation - a survival strategy of terrestrial earthworms in Central Amazonian forests. Amazoniana 11:23-30.
2. BENZING, D. H. 1990. Vascular epiphytes. General biology and related biota. Cambridge University Press. 354 pp
3. BEUTELSPACHER, C R. 1971. La especie Aechmea bracteata (Swartz) Griseb, (Bromeliaceae) considerada como un ecosistema. Tesis Doctoral, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México. 105 pp.
4. BOUCHÉ, M. B 1977. Strategies Lombriciennes. Ecological Bulletin (Stockholm) 25:122-132
5. FRAGOSO, C. 1985. Ecología general de las lombrices terrestres (Oligochaeta: Annelida) de la región Boca del Chajul, Selva Lacandona, Estado de Chiapas. Tesis, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México. 130 pp.
6. FRAGOSO, C. 1992 Las Lombrices Terrestres de la Selva Lacandona, Ecología y Potencial Práctico. Pp. 101-118 in Vásquez-Sánchez, M. A. & Ramos, M. A. (eds). Reserva de la Biosfera Montes Azules, Selva Lacandona: Investigación para su uso. Publ. Esp. Ecósfera 1. Chiapas, México 436 pp.
7. FRAGOSO, C., JAMES, S. & BORGES, S. 1995. Native earthworms of the North Neotropical Region: current status and controversies. Pp 67-115 in Hendrix, P. F. (ed.). Ecology and biogeography of earthworms in North America. Lewis Publishing, Boca Raton, FL. 252 pp.
8. FRAGOSO, C. & LAVELLE, P. 1987. The earthworm community of a Mexican tropical rain forest (Chajul, Chiapas). Pp. 281-295 in Bonvincini Paglai, A. M. & Omodeo, P. (eds). On earthworms. Selected Symposia and Monographs U.Z.I. Mucchi, Modena. 562 pp
9. FRAGOSO, C. & LAVELLE, P 1992. Earthworm communities of tropical rain forests Soil Biology and Biochemistry 24:1397-1408.
10. FRAGOSO, C. & ROJAS, P. 1994. Earthworms from southeastern Mexico. New acanthodriline genera and species (Megascolecidae, Oligochaeta). Megadrilogica 6:1-12.
11. LAESSLE, A. M. 1961. A micro-limnological study of Jamaican bromeliads. Ecology 42:499-517.
12. LAVELLE, P. 1983. The soil fauna of tropical savannas. II. The earthworms. Pp. 449-466 in Bourlière, F. (ed) Tropical savannas. Ecosystems of the world, vol. 13. Elsevier, Amsterdam.
13. LAVELLE, P. & KOHLMANN, B. 1984. Etude quantitative de la macrofaune du sol dans une forêt tropicale humide du Mexique (Bonampak, Chiapas). Pedobiologia 27:377-393.
14. LEE, K. E. 1983. Earthworms of tropical regions - some aspects of their ecology and relationships with soils. Pp. 179-194 in Satchell, J. (ed.). Earthworm ecology. Chapman & Hall, London. 495 pp.
15. LEE, K. E. 1985 Earthworms, their ecology and relationships with soils and land use. Academic Press, London. 411 pp
16. LOUNIBOS, L. P., FRANK, J. H., MACHADO-ALLISON, C. E., OCANTO, P. & NAVARRO, J. C. 1987. Survival, development and predatory effects of mosquito larvae in Venezuelan phytotelmata. Journal of Tropical Ecology 3:221-242.
17. MITCHELL, A. W. 1986. The enchanted canopy. Fontana/Collins, London. 255 pp.
18. MURILLO, R., PALACIOS, J., LABOUGLE, J., HENTSCHEL, E., LUNA, K. LLORENTE, J., ROJAS, P. & ZAMUDIO, S. 1983. Variación estacional de la entomofauna asociada a Tillandsia spp. en una zona de transición biótica. The Southwestern Entomologist 8:292-300.
19. PAOLETTI, M. G., TAYLOR, R. A. J., STINNER, B. R., STINNER, D H. & BENZING, D. H. 1991. Diversity of soil fauna in the canopy and forest floor of a Venezuelan cloud forest. Journal of Tropical Ecology 7 373-383.
20. PICADO, C. 1913. Les broméliacées épiphytes considérées comme milieu biologique. Bulletin Scientifique de la France et de la Belgique 47:215-360