BOOKS
Bullock, SH, Mooney H and Medina E (Editors.) Seasonally dry tropical forests.
Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK. 1995.
PAPERS
Beard, J. 1955. The classification of Tropical American vegetation types.
Ecology 36: 89-100.
Bullock, S.H. 1985. Breeding systems in the flora of a tropical deciduous forest
in Mexico. Biotropica, 17, 287-301.
Bullock, S.H. 1990. Abundance and allometrics of vines and self-supporting plants in a
tropical deciduous forest. Biotropica, 22, 106-109.
Bullock, S.H., Solis-Magallanes, J.A. 1990. Phenology of canopy trees of a tropical
deciduous forest in Mexico. Biotropica, 22, 22-35.
Chabot, B.F. and Hicks, D.J. 1982. The ecology of leaf life spans. Annual
Review of Ecology and Systematics 13: 229-259.
Frankie, G.W., Baker, H.H., Opler, P.A. 1974. Comparative phenological studies of trees
in tropical wet and dry forests in the lowlands of Costa Rica. Journal of Ecology, 52, 881919.
Gartner B.L., Bullock, S.H., Mooney, H.A., Brown, V. B., Whitbeck J.L. 1990. Water
transport properties of vine and tree stems in a tropical deciduous forests. American
Journal of Botany, 77, 742-749.
Lieberman, D. and Lieberman, M. 1984. The causes and consequences of
synchronous flushing in a dry tropical forest. Biotropica 16: 193-201.
Mooney H.A., Bullock, S., Ehleringer, J. 1989. Carbon isotope ratios of plants of a
tropical dry forest in Mexico. Functional Ecology, 3, 137-42.
Murphy, P.G., Lugo , A.E. 1986. Ecology of tropical dry forest. Annual Review of
Ecology and Systematics, 17, 67-88.
Olivares E, Medina E. Water and nutrient relations of woody perennials from tropical dry
forests. Journal of Vegetation Science 3: 383-392. 1992.
Reich, P.B. and Borchert, R. 1984. Water stress and tree phenology in a tropical
dry forest in the lowlands of Costa Rica. Journal of Ecology 72: 61-74.
Sobrado, M.A. 1986. Aspects of tissue water relations and seasonal changes of leaf water
potential components of evergreen and deciduous species coexisting in tropical dry
forests. Oecologia, 68, 413-6.
Swaine, M.D., Lieberman, D., Hall, B.J. 1990. Structure and dynamics of a tropical dry
forests in Ghana. Vegetatio, 88, 31-51.
Wright, S. J., Cornejo, F.H. 1990. Seasonal drought and leaf fall in a tropical forest.
Ecology 71: 1165-1175.