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        Draft manuscripts

       A Gilman, R Collwell and Rundel P.  Elevational patterns of species distributions in Tropical wet mountain    

            ecosystem, in Costa Rica.  To be submitted to Ecology.

       A Gilman and C Taylor. Rubiacearum Americanarum Magna Hama Pars VII.  New Species of Palicourea    

            (Psychotrieae) from Costa Rica.  To be submitted to Annals of Missouri Botanical Gardens.

       A Gilman.  Asexual reproduction of understory tropical forest herbs (Rubiaceae) for experimental manipulations.

            To be submitted to Biotropica.

        Research Acknowledgements: 

        Aside from all the funding I have received over the past 3 years working in Costa Rica, a few groups of people and individuals have helped me...often going far beyond their job descriptions!  The park guards and managers of Braulio Carrillo who were always happy to see us, welcoming us with coffee, and relieved we had not been eaten by jaguars or bitten by venomous snakes whilst on the volcano.  The team of 4WD drivers from the La Selva Biological Station who carefully guided our truck through axel deep mud on a weekly basis, waited patiently for us to arrive at various pick up points and rushed to our aid when emergency extraction was necessary, whisking us to hospital.   Felix Corrales, pictured with me in the photographs above, right, has been my field assistant during all my work in Braulio Carrillo.  He has valiantly maintained our trails with his machete, measured, pressed and planted thousands of Rubiaceae, made excellent strong coffee every morning at the crack of dawn for 3 years, pulled spines from various parts of my body (!), carried phenomenal loads in his backpack, waited patiently for me to catch up on the uphill parts of the trail (just about all of it), pulled me numerous times to safety in the swampy parts as I was sinking in above my thigh, or guided me with care across dangerously high rivers and, perhaps most importantly, made me laugh when things, inevitably, went horribly wrong.  This work could not have been done without him, or if so, it would have been a lot less fun.