Fragile Ecosystems: Evaluation of Research and Applications in the Neotropics

The Institute of Ecology (TIE) was organized to provide a mech­ anism for addressing ecological and environmental issues that were beyond the special interests of ecology as a profession. One method of evaluating such issues is the workshop, and this report describes the results of the third TIE workshop on a major environmental subject. The ecology of tropical regions is of interest to all the inhabitants of the biosphere. The tropics provide mankind with both the opportunity for and the c...