Research Catalog

Title

Reproductive ecology of tropical forest plants / edited by K.S Bawa and M. Hadley.

Publication

Paris : Unesco ; Carnforth, Lancs, UK ; Park Ridge, N.J., USA : Parthenon, 1990.

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Additional Authors

• Bawa, Kamaljit S.
• Hadley, M. (Malcolm)

Description

xxv, 421 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Man and the biosphere series ; v. 7

Uniform Title

Man and the biosphere series ; v. 7.

Subject

• Rain forest plants > Ecophysiology
• Rain forest plants > Reproduction
• Forest plants > Ecophysiology > Tropics
• Forest plants > Tropics > Reproduction
• Rain forest ecology
• Forests and forestry > Tropics
• Pollination > Tropics
• Forest plants > Ecophysiology
• Forests and forestry
• Pollination
• Pflanzenphysiologie
• Pflanzenökologie
• Regenwald
• Waldpflanzen
• Ökologie
• Planten
• Voortplanting (biologie)
• Forêts et sylviculture > Régions tropicales > Congrès
• Plantes des forêts > Régions tropicales > Reproduction > Congrès
• Écologie des forêts pluviales > Écophysiologie > Congrès
• Pollinisation > Régions tropicales > Congrès
• Plantes des forêts pluviales > Écophysiologie > Congrès
• Pflanzenphysiologie
• Regenwald
• Waldpflanzen
• Tropics
• Tropen
• Tropen

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Section 1. Introduction. Reproductive ecology of tropical forest plants : management issues / Kamaljit S. Bawa, Peter S. Ashton, Salleh Mohd. Nor. Section 2. Phenology. Phenology -- commentary / Kamaljit S. Bawa and F.S.P. Ng -- Phenological behaviour of some shorea species in peninsular Malaysia / S.K. Yap and H.T. Chan -- Plant phenology, pollination ecology, pollinator behaviour and conservation of pollinators in neotropical dry forest / Gordon W. Frankie, S.B. Vinson, Linda E. Newstrom, John F. Barthell, William A. Haber and Jutta K. Frankie -- Seasonal drought and the timing of flowering and leaf fall in a neotropical forest / S. Joseph Wright and Fernando H. Cornejo.
• Section 3. Plant-pollinator interactions, sexual systems and gene flow. Plant-pollinator interactions, sexual systems and pollen flow -- commentary / Kamaljit S. Bawa -- Some aspects of pollination biology in Central American forests / George E. Schatz -- Plant-pollinator interactions in Malaysian rain forests / S. Appanah -- Phenology and floral morphology in relation to pollination of some Sri Lankan dipterocarps / S. Dayanandan, D.N.C. Attygalla, A.W.W.L. Abeygunasekera, I.A.U.N. Gunatilleke and C.V.S. Gunatilleke -- Beetle pollination in tropical forests of Australia / Anthony K. Irvine and Joseph E. Armstrong -- Pollination and reproductive biology of an understory neotropical aroid / Helen J. Young -- Pollen grain deposition patterns and stigma strategies in regulating seed number per pod in multi-ovulated species / R. Uma Shaanker and K.N. Ganeshaiah.
• Section 4. Seed and fruit dispersal. Seed and fruit dispersal -- commentary / John Terborgh -- Seed dispersal by birds and mammals : implications for seedling demography / Henry F. Howe -- Interactions among fruit and vertebrate fruit-eaters in an African tropical rain forest / Annie Gautier-Hion. Section 5. Seed physiology, seed germination and seedling ecology. Seed physiology, seed germination and seedling ecology -- commentary / Richard B. Primack -- Potential impact of fungal pathogens on tropical plant reproductive biology -- Carol K. Augspurger -- Seed dormancy in the tropical rain forest / C. Vazquez-Yanes and A. Orozco-Segovia -- Seedling types and plant establishment in an African rain forest / Annette Hladik and Sophie Miquel. Section 6. Regeneration. Regeneration -- commentary / Richard B. Primack -- Role of disturbance in the regeneration of neotropical moist forests / David B. Clark -- Fate of juvenile trees in a neotropical forest : implications for the natural maintenance of tropical tree diversity / Stephen P. Hubbell and Robin B. Foster.
• Section 7. Reproductive biology and tree improvement programmes. Reproductive biology and tree improvement programmes -- commentary / Peter S. Ashton and Kamaljit S. Bawa -- Reproductive biology and tropical plantation forestry / Arno Brune -- Effects of inbreeding on growth of forest trees and implications for management of seed supplies for plantation programmes / A. Rod Griffin -- Genetic structure of tropical tree species of Brazil / Paulo Y. Kageyama -- Use of small, clonal plants for experiments on factors affecting flowering in tropical trees / K.A. Longman, R.M. Manurung and R.R.B. Leakey. Section 8. Conclusions. reproductive ecology of tropical forest plants : concluding remarks / T.N. Koshoo.

ISBN

• 9231026690
• 9789231026690
• 1850702683
• 9781850702689
• 0929858220
• 9780929858227

LCCN

90044130

OCLC

• ocm22277019
• 22277019
• SCSB-1921937

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library