1. Foreword

   • K. Eduard Linsenmair

   Foreword Pages: 1 - 3

2. Introduction – Canopy science: time to shape up

   • Andrew Mitchell

   OriginalPaper Pages: 5 - 11

3. Alice grows up: canopy science in transition from Wonderland to Reality

   • Stephen L. Sutton

   OriginalPaper Pages: 13 - 21

4. Forest canopy research: sampling problems, and some solutions

   • Martin G. Barker
   • Michelle A. Pinard

   OriginalPaper Pages: 23 - 38

5. Plants in the forest canopy: some reflections on current research and future direction

   • Margaret D. Lowman

   OriginalPaper Pages: 39 - 50

6. Epiphytes and their contribution to canopy diversity

   • Jürgen Nieder
   • Juliana Prosperí
   • Georges Michaloud

   OriginalPaper Pages: 51 - 63

7. Plant size: an ignored parameter in epiphyte ecophysiology?

   • Gerold Schmidt
   • Sabine Stuntz
   • Gerhard Zotz

   OriginalPaper Pages: 65 - 72

8. Pollination and phenology of flowers in the canopy of two contrasting rain forest types in Amazonia, Colombia

   • Arthur van Dulmen

   OriginalPaper Pages: 73 - 85

9. Invertebrates in the canopy of tropical rain forests How much do we really know?

   • Yves Basset

   OriginalPaper Pages: 87 - 107

10. Arboreal tropical forest vertebrates: current knowledge and research trends

    • Roland Kays
    • Allen Allison

    OriginalPaper Pages: 109 - 120

11. Vertical stratification of figs and fig-eaters in a Bornean lowland rain forest: how is the canopy different?

    • Mike Shanahan
    • Stephen G. Compton

    OriginalPaper Pages: 121 - 132

12. Understorey versus canopy: patterns of vertical stratification and diversity among Lepidoptera in a Bornean rain forest

    • Christian H. Schulze
    • K. Eduard Linsenmair
    • Konrad Fiedler

    OriginalPaper Pages: 133 - 152

13. The influence of anthropogenic disturbances on the structure of arboreal arthropod communities

    • Andreas Floren
    • K. Eduard Linsenmair

    OriginalPaper Pages: 153 - 167

14. Seasonal changes in the canopy arthropod fauna in Rinorea beniensis in Budongo Forest, Uganda

    • Thomas Wagner

    OriginalPaper Pages: 169 - 178

15. Arthropods in tropical oaks: differences in their spatial distributions within tree crowns

    • Ulrich Simon
    • K. Eduard Linsenmair

    OriginalPaper Pages: 179 - 191

16. Behaviour and ecology of birds in tropical rain forest canopies

    • H. Winkler
    • M. Preleuthner

    OriginalPaper Pages: 193 - 202

17. Canopy processes: implications for transpiration, interception and splash induced erosion, ultimately for forest management and water resources

    • Ian R. Calder

    OriginalPaper Pages: 203 - 214

18. Modelling rainfall and canopy controls on net-precipitation beneath selectively-logged tropical forest

    • Nick A Chappell
    • Kawi Bidin
    • Wlodek Tych

    OriginalPaper Pages: 215 - 229

19. Micrometeorological conditions and canopy energy exchanges of a neotropical rain forest (Surumoni-Crane Project, Venezuela)

    • Jörg Szarzynski
    • Dieter Anhuf

    OriginalPaper Pages: 231 - 239

20. The influence of epiphyte cover on branch temperature in a tropical tree

    • Martin Freiberg

    OriginalPaper Pages: 241 - 250

21. Forest light and its influence on habitat selection

    • Marc Théry

    OriginalPaper Pages: 251 - 261

22. Methods to assess tropical rain forest canopy structure: an overview

    • Frans Bongers

    OriginalPaper Pages: 263 - 277

23. Tree architecture in a Bornean lowland rain forest: intraspecific and interspecific patterns

    • Frank J. Sterck
    • Frans Bongers
    • David M. Newbery

    OriginalPaper Pages: 279 - 292

24. Canopy surface topography in a French Guiana forest and the folded forest theory

    • P. Birnbaum

    OriginalPaper Pages: 293 - 300

25. Crown typology and the identification of rain forest trees on large-scale aerial photographs

    • Valérie Trichon

    OriginalPaper Pages: 301 - 312

26. The management implications of canopy research

    • Nigel E. Stork

    OriginalPaper Pages: 313 - 317

27. Neotropical bats in the canopy: diversity, community structure, and implications for conservation

    • Elisabeth K.V. Kalko
    • Charles O. Handley Jr.

    OriginalPaper Pages: 319 - 333

28. Reproductive ecology of tropical forest trees in logged and fragmented habitats in Thailand and Costa Rica

    • Jaboury Ghazoul
    • Moray McLeish

    OriginalPaper Pages: 335 - 345

29. Edge effects and tropical forest canopy invertebrates

    • Andrew Foggo
    • Claire M.P. Ozanne
    • Clive Hambler

    OriginalPaper Pages: 347 - 359

30. Enhancement of forest canopy research, education, and conservation in the new millennium

    • Nalini M. Nadkarni

    OriginalPaper Pages: 361 - 367