Nouragues

1 The field station.- 2. Geography and climate.- 3. Scales of ambient light variation.- 4. The lowland high rainforest: structure and tree species diversity.- 5. The low forest (Nouragues Inselberg).- 6. Plant communities on a granitic outcrop.- 7. Palaeoclimates and their consequences on forest composition.- 8. Diet and population densities of the primate community in relation to fruit supplies.- 9. Comparative positional behaviour of five primates.- 10. The bat community.- 11. The marsupial community.- 12. The avian community: an overview of species composition and guild structure.- 13. The adaptive significance of flocking in tropical understorey forest birds: the field evidence.- 14. Habitat selection, ambient light and colour patterns in some lek-displaying birds.- 15. Distribution and life histories of amphibians and reptiles.- 16. Fishes of the Arataye river and their space-time organization.- 17. Relationships between seed dispersal and behavioural ecology.- 18. Frugivory and seed dispersal by three neotropical primates: impact on plant regeneration.- 19. Frugivory and seed dispersal by bats.- 20. Frugivory and seed dispersal by Kinkajous.- 21. Frugivory and seed dispersal by terrestrial mammals.- 22. Vegetarian species in the bird community with an emphasis on frugivory and seed dispersal.- 23. Tree-falls and canopy gaps: patterns of natural disturbance.- 24. The dispersal and recruitment of Cyclanthaceae and Philodendron (Araceae) understorey root-climbing vines.- 25. Post-dispersal seed removal in four frugivore-dispersed tree species.- 26. Scatterhoarding and tree regeneration.- 27. Effects of tree height and light availability on plant traits at different organisation levels.- Appendices.- References.