Change with Time and the Role of Cyclones in Tropical Rain Forest on Kolombangara, Solomon Islands.

1975 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 723
Author(s):  
P. S. Ashton ◽  
T. C. Whitmore
Keyword(s):  
Rain Forest ◽  
Tropical Rain Forest ◽  
Solomon Islands

Role of environmental and spatial processes in structuring anuran communities across a tropical rain forest

2012 ◽  
Vol 37 (8) ◽  
pp. 865-873 ◽  
Author(s):  
DIANA PATRICIA ROJAS-AHUMADA ◽  
VICTOR LEMES LANDEIRO ◽  
MARCELO MENIN
Keyword(s):  
Rain Forest ◽  
Tropical Rain Forest ◽  
Spatial Processes

Our Father the Cayman, Our Dinner the Llama: Animal Utilization at Chavín de Huántar, Peru

1995 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 421-458 ◽  
Author(s):  
George R. Miller ◽  
Richard L. Burger
Keyword(s):  
High Altitude ◽  
Rain Forest ◽  
Tropical Rain Forest ◽  
Mixed Economy ◽  
Animal Bones ◽  
Chavin De Huantar ◽  
Socioeconomic Stratification ◽  
Chavín De Huántar ◽  
Animal Utilization

Analysis of the animal bones recovered from the excavations of residential contexts at Chavín de Huántar reveals a mixed economy that included the herding and hunting of camelids (llama and vicuña) at Chavín de Huántar as early as the Urabarriu Phase (900–500 B.C.). It also suggests that a pattern of trade in dried llama meat (ch'arki) from high altitude environments (punas) to lower ones had developed by the Chakinani phase (500–400 B.C.), while the consumption of hunted animals (especially deer) sharply declined in importance. During the apogee of Chavín de Huántar (400–200 B.C.), socioeconomic stratification is reflected in differential access to tender meat from younger animals. The role of Chavín de Huántar in the spread of camelid pastoralism and the importance of highland vs. tropical rain forest animals in Chavín ideology is discussed as well.

The vegetation of the Solomon Islands

1969 ◽  
Vol 255 (800) ◽  
pp. 259-270 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Rain Forest ◽  
Tropical Rain Forest ◽  
Solomon Islands ◽  
Seasonal Climate ◽  
Small Areas ◽  
Wet Climate

The Solomon Islands are entirely clothed in tropical rain forest except for small areas of probably anthropogenous grasslands and heaths which occur in regions with a seasonal climate. The main features of the vegetation are described and related to the exceptionally wet climate of the archipelago. The extensive areas which carry thickets of small trees and climber tangles instead of high forest are thought due to the combined influence of man, earthquake, landslip and cyclone. Many species are shown to have wide ecological amplitudes.

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