Pollination Ecology and the Rain Forest

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Large Processes with Small Targets: Rarity and Pollination in Rain Forests

   • David W. Roubik

   Pages 1-12

3. The Canopy Biology Program in Sarawak: Scope, Methods, and Merit

   • Takakazu Yumoto, Tohru Nakashizuka

   Pages 13-21

4. Soil-Related Floristic Variation in a Hyperdiverse Dipterocarp Forest

   • Stuart J. Davies, Sylvester Tan, James V. LaFrankie, Matthew D. Potts

   Pages 22-34

5. Plant Reproductive Phenology and General Flowering in a Mixed Dipterocarp Forest

   • Shoko Sakai, Kuniyasu Momose, Takakazu Yumoto, Teruyoshi Nagamitsu, Hidetoshi Nagamasu, Abang A. Hamid Karim et al.

   Pages 35-50

6. A Severe Drought in Lambir Hills National Park

   • Rhett D. Harrison

   Pages 51-64

7. The Plant-Pollinator Community in a Lowland Dipterocarp Forest

   • Kuniyasu Momose, Abang A. Hamid Karim

   Pages 65-72

8. Floral Resource Utilization by Stingless Bees (Apidae, Meliponini)

   • Teruyoshi Nagamitsu, Tamiji Inoue

   Pages 73-88

9. Honeybees in Borneo

   • David W. Roubik

   Pages 89-103

10. Beetle Pollination in Tropical Rain Forests

    • Kuniyasu Momose

    Pages 104-110

11. Seventy-Seven Ways to Be a Fig: Overview of a Diverse Plant Assemblage

    • Rhett D. Harrison, Mike Shanahan

    Pages 111-127

12. Ecology of Traplining Bees and Understory Pollinators

    • Makoto Kato

    Pages 128-133

13. Vertebrate-Pollinated Plants

    • Takakazu Yumoto

    Pages 134-144

14. Insect Predators of Dipterocarp Seeds

    • Michiko Nakagawa, Takao Itioka, Kuniyasu Momose, Tohru Nakashizuka

    Pages 145-157

15. Diversity of Anti-Herbivore Defenses in Macaranga

    • Takao Itioka

    Pages 158-171

16. Coevolution of Ants and Plants

    • Takao Itino

    Pages 172-177

17. Lowland Tropical Rain Forests of Asia and America: Parallels, Convergence, and Divergence

    • James V. LaFrankie

    Pages 178-190

18. Lambir’s Forest: The World’s Most Dive Known Tree Assemblage?

    • Peter S. Ashton

    Pages 191-216

19. Toward the Conservation of Tropical Forests

    • Tamiji Inoue

    Pages 217-222

20. Back Matter

    Pages 223-307

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Rain Forest Biology and the Canopy System, Sarawak, 1992–2002 The rain forest takes an immense breath and then exhales, once every four or ?ve years, as a major global weather pattern plays out, usually heralded by El Nin ˜o–Southern Oscillation. While this powerful natural cycle has occurred for many millennia, it is during the past decade that both the climate of Earth and the people living on it have had an increasing in?uence on the weather pattern itself, with many biological consequences. In Southeast Asia, as also in most of the Neotropics, El Nin ˜o accompanies one of the most exuberant o- pourings of nature’s diversity. After several years of little activity, the incredibly diverse rain forests suddenly burst into ?ower—a phenomenon referred to as General Flowering in Asia. Plant populations are rejuvenated and animals are fed, but the process involves a delicate and complex balance. When the canopy access system was under construction at Lambir Hills - tional Park in the early 1990s, it made use of an underlying technology that was already in place: bridges. For centuries, bridges have spanned the natural chasms over rivers. This existing network of bridges and the people who built and use them produced the technology we needed to gain access to the canopy. Bridge builders were our natural allies in the quest for biological knowledge of the high canopy.

• Borneo
• Canopy
• Flora
• Forest
• Pollination
• Roubik
• Sarawak
• Tropical
• ecology

From the reviews:

"This book is a compilation of more than 10 years of research on the ecology of the lowland dipterocarp forest of Lambir Hills National Park, Malaysia. … Many chapters contain valuable data on dipterocarp forest ecology and phenology never published before. Additionally, the book contains an appendix on reproductive traits, floral characteristics, and pollinators of 270 plant species of Lambir Hills National Park, belonging to 73 families. The book is comprehensively written and is recommendable to anyone working in (paleo)tropical ecology, or pollination biology." (Niels Raes, Blumea, Vol. 51 (1), 2006)

"This book provides an overview of … studies conducted in the Lambir Hills National Park in Malaysia. … A notable feature of this edited volume is the comparative analysis of pollination systems in neotropical and paleotropical forests. … Papers on pollination and phenology provide important insights to evolution and ecology of tropical rain forest trees and their pollen vectors. … this volume considerably enriches our knowledge of not only pollination in the tropics, but also differences between the Old- and the New-World tropics." (Kamaljit S. Bawa, Ecology, Vol. 87 (7), 2006)

"This volume focuses on interactions between plants and animals. … Many informative tables and carefully drawn figures … colour photos and a glossary enrich this unique and useful book. … I expect that this book will find many appreciative users … . The authors can be congratulated for the immense variety of interesting details presented in this substantial work. The book is necessary for all scientists working in the field of Tropical Ecology, but it is also very useful for students." (Anselm Kratochwil, Phytocoenologia, Vol. 36 (3), 2006)

• Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Ancon, Balboa, Republic of Panama

  David W. Roubik

• Center for Ecological Research, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

  Shoko Sakai

• Department of Agriculture, Menara Pelita Petra Jaya, Kuching, Malaysia

  Abang A. Hamid Karim

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