Foundations of Tropical Forest Biology: Classic Papers with Commentaries

This book is an essential item for any scientist hoping to work in the tropics. These papers provide a foundation (as the name states) for understanding both how the tropical forest biome functions as well as the process by which we came to gain some understanding of these processes. The value of this book is obvious to biologists, but I think it can also offer a lot of insight for anthropologists and archaeologists since culture and ecosystem are so closely tied. Finally, it offers us a chance to see the development of ideas about tropical biology and an understanding of where we are now in our grasp of what can be argued is the most important and imperiled of the world's ecosystems.

This book, as with the rest of this series, contains many fundamental papers and articles. A valuable resource for any ecologist, conservation biologist, or palaeoecologist working in the tropics.