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Pasoh

Ecology of a Lowland Rain Forest in Southeast Asia

Editors:

  1. Toshinori Okuda

    1. National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

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  2. N. Manokaran

    1. Forest Research Institute Malaysia (FRIM), Malaysia

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  3. Yoosuke Matsumoto

    1. Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute (FFPRI), Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

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  4. Kaoru Niiyama

    1. Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute (FFPRI), Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

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  5. Sean C. Thomas

    1. Faculty of Forestry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

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  6. Peter S. Ashton

    1. Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

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  • First book to provide the comprehensive information on ecology and natural history of Pasoh Forest Reserve, the site of intensive research on lowland tropical rainforest

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Table of contents (40 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages ii-xviii
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  2. Physical Settings and Environment

    1. Front Matter

      Pages xix-xix
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    2. Pasoh Research, Past and Present

      • Peter S. Ashton, Toshinori Okuda, N. Manokaran
      Pages 1-13

    4. The Trees of Pasoh Forest: Stand Structure and Floristic Composition of the 50-ha Forest Research Plot

      • Stuart J. Davies, Nur Supardi Md. Noor, James V. LaFrankie, Peter S. Ashton
      Pages 35-50

    7. Characteristics of Energy Exchange and Surface Conductance of a Tropical Rain Forest in Peninsular Malaysia

      • Makoto Tani, Abdul Rahim Nik, Yoshikazu Ohtani, Yukio Yasuda, Mohd Md. Sahat, Baharuddin Kasran et al.
      Pages 73-88

    8. Soil and Belowground Characteristics of Pasoh Forest Reserve

      • Tamon Yamashita, Nobuhiko Kasuya, Wan Rasidah Kadir, Suhaimi Wan Chik, Quah Eng Seng, Toshinori Okuda
      Pages 89-109

  3. Vegetation Structure, Diversity and Dynamics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages xix-xix
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    2. Leaf Phenology of Trees in the Pasoh Forest Reserve

      • Noriyuki Osada, Hiroshi Takeda, Akio Furukawa, Toshinori Okuda, Muhamad Awang
      Pages 111-121

    3. Eco-Morphological Grouping of Non-Dipterocarp Tree Species in a Tropical Rain Forest Based on Seed and Fruit Attributes

      • Mamoru Kanzaki, Song Kheong Yap, Yuka Okauchi, Katsuhiko Kimura, Takuo Yamakura
      Pages 123-135

    4. Microhabitat Preference of Two Sympatric Scaphium Species in a 50 ha Plot in Pasoh

      • Toshihiro Yamada, Toshinori Okuda, N. Manokaran
      Pages 137-147

    5. Diversity of Putative Ectomycorrhizal Fungi in Pasoh Forest Reserve

      • Lee Su See, Roy Watling, Evelyn Turnbull
      Pages 149-159

    6. Community Structure of Wood-Decaying Basidiomycetes in Pasoh

      • Tsutomu Hattori, Lee Su See
      Pages 161-170

  4. Plant Population and Functional Biology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages N3-N3
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    3. Palms of Pasoh

      • Nur Supardi Md. Noor
      Pages 195-213

    5. Leaf Physiological Adjustments to Changing Lights: Partitioning the Heterogeneous Resources across Tree Species

      • Atsushi Ishida, Akira Uemura, Naoko Yamashita, Michiru Shimizu, Takashi Nakano, Ang Lai Hoe
      Pages 225-239
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About this book

The Pasoh Forest Reserve (pasoh FR) has been a leading center for international field research in the Asian tropical forest since the 1970s, when a joint research project was carried out by Japanese, British and Malaysian research teams with the cooperation of the University of Malaya (UM) and the Forest Research Institute (FRI, now the Forest Research Institute Malaysia, FRIM) under the International Biological Program (IBP). The main objective of the project was to provide basic information on the primary productivity ofthe tropical rain forest, which was thought to be the most productive of the world's ecosystems. After the IBP project, a collaborative program between the University of Malaya and the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK, for post-graduate training was carried out at Pasoh. Reproductive biology of so me dipterocarp trees featured in many of the findings arrived at through the program, contributing greatly to progress in the population genetics of rain forest trees. Since those research pro grams, apart of the Pasoh forest and its field research station have been managed by FRIM. In 1984, FRIM started a long-term ecological research program in Pasoh FR with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) and Harvard University, establishing a 50-ha plot and enumerating and mapping all trees 1 cm or more in diameter at breast height. A recensus has been conducted every 5 years.
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Editors and Affiliations

  • National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

    Toshinori Okuda

  • Forest Research Institute Malaysia (FRIM), Malaysia

    N. Manokaran

  • Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute (FFPRI), Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

    Yoosuke Matsumoto, Kaoru Niiyama

  • Faculty of Forestry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

    Sean C. Thomas

  • Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

    Peter S. Ashton

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Pasoh

  • Book Subtitle: Ecology of a Lowland Rain Forest in Southeast Asia

  • Editors: Toshinori Okuda, N. Manokaran, Yoosuke Matsumoto, Kaoru Niiyama, Sean C. Thomas, Peter S. Ashton

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-67008-7

  • Publisher: Springer Tokyo

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Japan 2003

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-4-431-00660-2Published: 05 June 2003

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-4-431-67010-0Published: 13 July 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-4-431-67008-7Published: 29 June 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 628

  • Topics: Ecology, Nature Conservation

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