Pollination ecology and the rain forest: Sarawak studies

David Roubik, Shoko Sakai, Abg Abdul Hamid0387213090, 9780387213095

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.

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Table of contents :
Contents……Page 10
Preface……Page 5
Acknowledgments……Page 8
Contributors……Page 13
1. Large Processes with Small Targets: Rarity and Pollination in Rain Forests……Page 16
2. The Canopy Biology Program in Sarawak: Scope, Methods, and Merit……Page 28
3. Soil-Related Floristic Variation in a Hyperdiverse Dipterocarp Forest……Page 37
4. Plant Reproductive Phenology and General Flowering in a Mixed Dipterocarp Forest……Page 50
5. A Severe Drought in Lambir Hills National Park……Page 66
6. The Plant-Pollinator Community in a Lowland Dipterocarp Forest……Page 80
7. Floral Resource Utilization by Stingless Bees (Apidae, Meliponini)……Page 88
8. Honeybees in Borneo……Page 104
9. Beetle Pollination in Tropical Rain Forests……Page 119
10. Seventy-Seven Ways to Be a Fig: Overview of a Diverse Plant Assemblage……Page 126
11. Ecology of Traplining Bees and Understory Pollinators……Page 143
12. Vertebrate-Pollinated Plants……Page 149
13. Insect Predators of Dipterocarp Seeds……Page 160
14. Diversity of Anti-Herbivore Defenses in Macaranga……Page 173
15. Coevolution of Ants and Plants……Page 187
16. Lowland Tropical Rain Forests of Asia and America: Parallels, Convergence, and Divergence……Page 193
17. Lambir’s Forest: The World’s Most Diverse Known Tree Assemblage?……Page 206
18. Toward the Conservation of Tropical Forests……Page 232
Appendices……Page 238
A……Page 265
C……Page 266
E……Page 268
F……Page 269
G……Page 270
I……Page 271
M……Page 272
N……Page 273
P……Page 274
R……Page 275
S……Page 276
T……Page 278
W……Page 279
Bibliography……Page 280
B……Page 312
D……Page 313
F……Page 314
I……Page 315
L……Page 316
P……Page 317
R……Page 318
T……Page 319
Z……Page 320
Color Plates……Page 325