Pollination Ecology and the Rain Forest

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.

The groundbreaking research gathered at Lambir Hills National Park in Sarawak, Malaysia, has contributed an immense body of knowledge to tropical biology More than a decade's worth of information about pollination ecology from this major study is synthesized here for the first time Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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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.

Inhalt
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.