Pollination Ecology and the Rain Forest Sarawak Studies /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Roubik, David W. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Sakai, Shoko (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Hamid Karim, Abang A. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2005.
• Σειρά: Ecological Studies, Analysis and Synthesis, 174
• Θέματα: Life sciences.; Ecology.; Plant ecology.; Nature conservation.; Life Sciences.; Plant Ecology.; Terrestial Ecology.; Nature Conservation.

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 interactio...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Large Processes with Small Targets: Rarity and Pollination in Rain Forests
• The Canopy Biology Program in Sarawak: Scope, Methods, and Merit
• Soil-Related Floristic Variation in a Hyperdiverse Dipterocarp Forest
• Plant Reproductive Phenology and General Flowering in a Mixed Dipterocarp Forest
• A Severe Drought in Lambir Hills National Park
• The Plant-Pollinator Community in a Lowland Dipterocarp Forest
• Floral Resource Utilization by Stingless Bees (Apidae, Meliponini)
• Honeybees in Borneo
• Beetle Pollination in Tropical Rain Forests
• Seventy-Seven Ways to Be a Fig: Overview of a Diverse Plant Assemblage
• Ecology of Traplining Bees and Understory Pollinators
• Vertebrate-Pollinated Plants
• Insect Predators of Dipterocarp Seeds
• Diversity of Anti-Herbivore Defenses in Macaranga
• Coevolution of Ants and Plants
• Lowland Tropical Rain Forests of Asia and America: Parallels, Convergence, and Divergence
• Lambir’s Forest: The World’s Most Dive Known Tree Assemblage?
• Toward the Conservation of Tropical Forests.