Image #MRF-1: Profile of the tropical montane forest at the Marafunga study site, Papua New Guinea, immediately west of one of the plots clear-felled for the determination of biomass. The tallest trees are podocarps. Note also the prominent pandans and occasional patches of scrambling bamboo. (Photograph taken 1970-71 by Dr. P.J. Edwards, Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland. Reproduced by kind permission of the Journal of Ecology and the British Ecological Society).