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9780387213095

Pollination Ecology And The Rain Forest

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  • ISBN13:

    9780387213095

  • ISBN10:

    0387213090

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2005-03-23
  • Publisher: Springer Verlag
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Summary

The groundbreaking canopy-access and rain forest research at Lambir Hills National Park in Sarawak, Malaysia, has contributed an immense body of knowledge. Its major studies over more than a decade are synthesized here for the first time. The focus of this unique volume is on plant-animal interactions and some of the foundations that create and maintain tropical diversity, especially pollination and the phenomenon of the General Flowering. The work discussed has implications for tropical biology, ecology, and pollination studies. The power of the El Nino-Southern Oscillation events and drought, particularly in their effects on mutualisms, are discussed in detail.

Table of Contents

Preface v
Acknowledgments ix
Contributors xv
1. Large Processes with Small Targets: Rarity and Pollination in Rain Forests
1(12)
David W. Roubik
2. The Canopy Biology Program in Sarawak: Scope, Methods, and Merit
13(9)
Takakazu Yumoto and Tohru Nakashizuka
3. Soil-Related Floristic Variation in a Hyperdiverse Dipterocarp Forest
22(13)
Stuart J. Davies, Sylvester Tan, James V. LaFrankie, and Matthew D. Potts
4. Plant Reproductive Phenology and General Flowering in a Mixed Dipterocarp Forest
35(16)
Shoko Sakai, Kuniyasu Momose, Takakazu Yumoto, Teruyoshi Nagamitsu, Hidetoshi Nagamasu, Abang A. Hamid Karim, Tohru Nakashizuka, and Tamiji Inoue
5. A Severe Drought in Lambir Hills National Park
51(14)
Rhett D. Harrison
6. The Plant-Pollinator Community in a Lowland Dipterocarp Forest
65(8)
Kuniyasu Momose and Abang A. Hamid Karim
7. Floral Resource Utilization by Stingless Bees (Apidae, Meliponini)
73(16)
Teruyoshi Nagamitsu and Tamiji Inoue
8. Honeybees in Borneo
89(15)
David W. Roubik
9. Beetle Pollination in Tropical Rain Forests
104(7)
Kuniyasu Momose
10. Seventy-Seven Ways to Be a Fig: Overview of a Diverse Plant Assemblage 111(17)
Rhett D. Harrison and Mike Shanahan
11. Ecology of Traplining Bees and Understory Pollinators 128(6)
Makoto Kato
12. Vertebrate-Pollinated Plants 134(11)
Takakazu Yumoto
13. Insect Predators of Dipterocarp Seeds 145(13)
Michiko Nakagawa, Takao Itioka, Kuniyasu Momose, and Tohru Nakashizuka
14. Diversity of Anti-Herbivore Defenses in Macaranga 158(14)
Takao Itioka
15. Coevolution of Ants and Plants 172(6)
Takao Itino
16. Lowland Tropical Rain Forests of Asia and America: Parallels, Convergence, and Divergence 178(13)
James V. LaFrankie
17. Lambir's Forest: The World's Most Diverse Known Tree Assemblage? 191(26)
Peter S. Ashton
18. Toward the Conservation of Tropical Forests 217(6)
Tamiji Inoue
Appendices 223(28)
Glossary 251(16)
Bibliography 267(32)
Index 299

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