Pollination ecology and the rain forest : Sarawak studies
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Pollination ecology and the rain forest : Sarawak studies
（Ecological studies : analysis and synthesis, v. 174）
Springer, c2005
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-298) and index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
Foreword -- Preface -- Rain forest biology and the canopy system, Sarawak (1992-2002), David W. Roubik -- Large processes with small targets: rarity and pollination in rain forests, David W. Roubik -- The canopy Biology Program in Sarawak--its scope, methods and merit, Takakazu Yumoto and Tohru Nakashizuka -- Soil-related floristic variation in a hyper-diverse dipterocarp forest, Stuart J. Davies, Sylvester Tan, James V. LaFrankie and Matthew D. Potts -- Plant reproductive phenology in a mixed dipterocarp forest, Shoko Sakai, Kuniyasu Momose, Takakazu Yumoto, Teruyoshi Nagamitsu, Hidetoshi Nagamasu, Abang A. Hamid, Tohru Nakashizuka and Tamiji Inoue -- A severe drought in Lambir Hills National Park, Rhett D. Harrison -- The plant-pollinator community in a lowland dipterocarp forest, Kuniyasu Momose and Abdul Hamid -- Floral resource utilization by stingless bees (Apidae, Meliponini), Teruyoshi Nagamitsu and Tamiji Inoue -- Honey bees in Borneo, David W. Roubik -- Beetle pollination in tropical rain forests, Kuniyasu Momose -- Seventy-five ways to be a fig: an overview of a diverse plant assemblage, Rhett D. Harrison and Mike Shanahan -- Ecology of traplining bees and understory pollinators, Makoto Kato -- Vertebrate-pollinated plants, Takakazu Yumoto -- Invertebrate predators of dipterocarp seeds, Michiko Nakagawa, Takao Itioka, Kuniyasu Momose and Tohru Nakashizuka -- Diversity of anti-herbivore defenses in Macaranga, Takao Itioka -- Coevolution of ants and plants, Takao Itino - Lowland Tropical Rain Forests of Asia and America: Parallels, Convergence and Divergence, James V. LaFrankie -- Lambir's forest: The World's most diverse known tree assemblage?, Peter S. Ashton -- Toward the conservation of tropical forests, Tamiji Inoue -- Glossary -- Bibliography
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