1. ECOLOGY

2. EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED

3. EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED

7. EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED

8. HOW ARE WE CONNECTED TO THE RAINFOREST?

9. R-Strategist K-Strategist Baird’s Tapir Brazil Nut Cecropia Oryzomys rice rat

10. K-Strategist Baird’s Tapir Brazil Nut Species that produce a few, often large offspring or seeds, but invest a great deal of time and energy to ensure that most of the offspring or seeds will reach reproductive age…. A K-strategist is characterized by: 1) large parental investment in the young or seeds. K-strategists reproduce slowly, with long gestation periods, to permit the young to develop more in the womb. After birth, the young are tended until they can be reasonably expected to care for themselves, and... 2) the ability to exploit stable environmental situations. Once the population of a K- strategist has reached the carrying capacity of its environment, the population size stays relatively constant.

11. R-Strategist Cecropia Oryzomys rice rat An R-Strategist is characterized by: 1) small parental investment in the young or seeds. The prenatal period is short and postnatal care is minimal. To compensate, an r-strategist produces a large number of offspring or seeds, most of which will not survive long enough to reproduce, and... 2) the ability to rapidly exploit unpredictable environment opportunities. An example of this is the Cecropia.

12. BAMBOO

15. BROMELIADS

16. Aechmea sp. bromeliads in the canopy at Tiputini Biological Station, eastern Ecuador

17. fallen leaves in bromeliad along ACEER Canopy Walkway, Rio Napo, Peru

18. water in tank bromeliad along ACEER Canopy Walkway, Rio Napo, Peru

19. Dendrobates reticulatus

20. Osteocephalus sp.

21. Giant damselfly - Mecistogaster marchali

22. SLOTHS

23. Three-toed Sloth

24. Snout Moth on a Three-toed Sloth

25. rainforest structure