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THE FOOD WEB OF A TROPICAL RAIN FOREST Edited by Douglas P Reagan and Robert B. Waide. Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 1996: 616 pp., black-and-white photographs with caption figs., numerous tables. $39.95 (paper); $110.00 (cloth).-This multi-authored volume represents an ambitious and successful attempt to provide a comprehensive analysis of the trophic dynamics of a single tropical rain forest. However, the rain forest chosen is El Verde, at an elevation between 300 and 500 meters on the northwest slope of the Luquillo Mountains on the island of Puerto Rico. Situated as it is, on an island, this forest is dramatically different in...