Ceiba Pentandra
CTC
Center for
Tropical
Conservation
John
Terborgh, Ph.D.
Co-Director
Duke
University
Box 90381
Durham, NC 27708
Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences
Role played by herbivorous vertebrates, insects and pathogens in the
spacing dynamics and the maintenance of tree species diversity in tropical
rainforests
Principal Investigator: Varun Swamy, PhD, Duke University
Center for Tropical Conservation
Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences
Duke University Box 90328, Durham NC 27708, USA.
Web page: http://www.duke.edu/~vs12/
I am currently investigating the role played by herbivorous
vertebrates, insects and pathogens in the spacing dynamics and the maintenance
of tree species diversity in tropical rainforests, using a comparative,
diagnostic approach. In addition, I plan to initiate a study that examines
the effect of foraging behaviour and food preferences of white-lipped
peccaries on the composition of heterospecific seedling and sapling recruits
around adults of preferred food tree species vs. less-preferred species.