Pollination Ecology and the Rain Forest: Sarawak Studies (Ecological Studies) Review

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(More customer reviews)I had never contemplated anything like the rain forest of Borneo, where trees and flowers and most of the biology takes place over 100 feet above the soil. This book ranks first in garnering this 'educated' person's appreciation for how such a magnificent and stately system as a tropical rain forest works. I had no idea so many animals were involved in getting pollen between flowers on different trees, so that those trees could reproduce. It is, obviously, very difficult. If I could be a thrips or a beetle or a bee, I could see where and when the peak reproduction of the rain forest occurs, while I fly to the flowers high in the air, in the 60 meters between the base and the canopy of the forest trees. Me, I am easy, and it is enough to read an account of what takes place in this cradle of tropical forest diversity and life.

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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.