MAN AND THE BIOSPHERE SERIES Series Editor J.N.R. Jeffers VOLUME 21 FOREST BIODIVERSITY IN NORTH, CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA, AND THE CARIBBEAN Research and Monitoring Edited by F. Dallmeier and J.A. Comiskey Smithsonian Institution Washington DC, USA PUBLISHED BY PARIS AND The Parthenon Publishing Group International Publishers in Science, Technology & Education