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Princeton Field Guides
rooted in field experience and scientific study, Princeton'Princeton guides to animals and plants are the authority for professional scientists and amateur naturalists alike. Princeton Field Guides present this information in a compact format carefully designed for easy use in the field. the guides illustrate every species in color and provide detailed information on identification, distribution, and biology.
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Trees of Panama and Costa Rica, by richard condit, rolando Prez, and nefertaris d aguerre
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Condit, Richard, 1956
Trees of Panama and Costa Rica / Richard Condit, Rolando Prez, Nefertaris Daguerre.
p. cm.(Princeton field guides)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-691-14707-9 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-691-14710-9 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. TreesPanamaIdentification. 2. TreesCosta RicaIdentification. I. Prez, Rolando, 1963
II. Daguerre, Nefertaris, 1969III. Title.
QK480.P2C66 2011
582.16097287dc22 2010005197
British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available
This book has been composed in ITC Cheltenham with Gill Sans Family Display
Printed on acid-free paper.
Printed in the United States of America
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Forests of the tropics are famous for high species diversity. In Panama and Costa Rica, 200 or more species of trees can be found on a walk of a few hundred meters. This shocks visitors from Europe or North America, where a similar walk might uncover at most 10 species of trees. But those same visitors often study the ground layer of plants in a northern forest, and they are very likely to have learned more than 200 species of smaller plants. Many learned these plants by studying field guides such as the classic by Roger Tory Peterson and Margaret McKenney (1968). Peterson and McKenney'McKenney guide covers far more than 200 species, and thus it provides access for casual botanists to a wide diversity of plants.
For me (RC) growing up in North America, these field guides, for both plants and birds (Elias 1980; Petrides 1972; Ridgely 1978), were the basis of my development as an ecologist. It seems very likely to me I would not have ended up a professional in natural history, botany, and ecology if I had not had these sorts of guides to study. When I first took ornithology in Illinois, A Field Guide to the Birds (Peterson 1934) was in constant use on my tables and desks. Later, the Field Guide to Pacific States Wildflowers (Niehaus and Ripper 1976) was also just as important when I first studied botany in California.
In contrast, for two of us growing up in Panama (RP, ND), such field guides were scarce, and there were no plant guides. Our botany teachers at the University of Panama captured our attention, but there were no color plates to study over the dinner table, only technical floras (Croat 1978). Many potential botanists of Central America are very likely lost at this career stage because of this gap in their botanical studies.
We are trying to remedy the gap by offering an attractive book of photos and range maps for a large number of tree species. Our intent is that budding botanists and ecologists will often have it handy while they become familiar with the plants they encounter near their homes or on walks in the woods. If our impact can be anywhere near the impact of Peterson'Peterson classics, maybe there will be many more botanists and more such books in coming decades.
Acknowledgments
We foremost would like to thank Robin Foster, our mentor in tropical botany and tropical ecology. He first showed us how to study details of leaves to identify trees even when there were no flowers present, traditionally not the way botanists learn. Another prominent contributor to our work has been Suzanne Lao, who keeps track of complex databases and thus helps us organize complicated and oftenchanging scientific names. We also thank the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, with its excellent modern facilities in Panama City, for all manner of logistical support for our forays into Central American forests. Both the Smithsonian and the Center for Tropical Forest Science provided us financial support for the work leading to this book. Moreover, the Smith-sonian and the University of Panama, especially Professor Mireya Correa, let us consult specimens in their herbarium collections.
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