Tropical Rainforest Research ― Current Issues: Proceedings of the Conference held in Bandar Seri Begawan, April 1993 (Monographiae Biologicae, 74)

This volume contains 53 of the papers presented at the Conference on Tropical Rainforest Research - Current Issues, which was held in Brunei Darussalam in April 1993. The book provides an overview of current knowledge, particularly with respect to south-east Asia, and is divided into three sections - Biodiversity, Forest Dynamics and Socioeconomics. The Biodiversity section emphasises the vast range of life forms in tropical forests and considers the theory and practice of estimating species richness and spatial distribution, while contributions on Forest Dynamics provide a better understanding of the maintenance of this species richness. With an improved background of ideas on rainforest dynamics and biodiversity, better management and conservation strategies are possible, and some of these are explored in the papers on Socioeconomics. The need to demonstrate the total worth of tropical forests to ensure their conservation is taken up by a number of contributors. Front Matter....Pages i-x Tropical forest dynamics: the faunal components....Pages 1-20 The biodiversity of arthropods from Australian rain forest canopies: some results on the role of the tree species....Pages 21-28 Describing and comparing high invertebrate diversity in tropical forest — a case study of small moths in Borneo....Pages 29-42 The herbaceous ground flora of the Batu Apoi Forest Reserve, Brunei Darussalam....Pages 43-57 Wild bees of Brunei Darussalam....Pages 59-66 Australian monsoon rainforest mammals and possible implications for the conservation of tropical rainforest biodiversity....Pages 67-69 Presbytis species sympatry in Borneo versus allopatry in Sumatra: an interpretation....Pages 71-76 Diversity of sound-producing insects in a Bornean lowland rain forest....Pages 77-84 The arthropod community of bamboo internodes in Peninsular Malaysia: microzonation and trophic structure....Pages 85-99 The avifauna of the Belalong forest, Brunei Darussalam....Pages 101-116 Terrestrial Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Poring, Kinabalu Park, Sabah....Pages 117-123 Temporal and spatial patterns of butterfly diversity in a lowland tropical rainforest....Pages 125-138 A quantitative inventory of trees in one hectare of mixed dipterocarp forest in Temburong, Brunei Darussalam....Pages 139-150 Forest bird diversity in Oceania....Pages 151-152 The fauna and flora of a semi-deciduous forest in Perlis, Peninsular Malaysia....Pages 153-161 Brunei and biodiversity — the Kew-Brunei checklist project....Pages 163-168 Stalk-Eyed Flies: Caprices of Evolution?....Pages 169-174 Small mammal diversity in riparian and dipterocarp habitats in Belalong forest, Brunei Darussalam....Pages 175-182 Species radiation of predatory empidoids (Insecta, Diptera) in lowland rainforest in northern Papua New Guinea....Pages 183-192 The theory and practice of estimating regional species richness from local samples....Pages 193-213 Rainforest dynamics: the need for new paradigms....Pages 215-233 The interaction of rainfall, tree diameter and sulphuric-acid treatments on resin yield of Palosapis ( Anisoptera thurifera (Blanco) Blume ssp. thurifera )....Pages 235-240 Preliminary studies of altitudinal zonation and nitrogen supply on Bukit Belalong, Brunei Darussalam....Pages 241-257 Soil conditions, erosion and nutrient loss on steep slopes under mixed dipterocarp forest in Brunei Darussalam....Pages 259-270 Construction of a low-cost runoff and sediment monitoring plot....Pages 271-275 The growth performance of four dipterocarp species under different terrain and shade conditions....Pages 277-281 Variation in reproductive success of gynodioecious figs ( Ficus spp., Moraceae) and their pollinators (Hymenoptera: Agaonidae) in New Guinea....Pages 283-289 Interactions between lycaenid butterflies and ants in Peninsular Malaysia....Pages 291-296 A quantitative survey of the termite assemblage and its consumption of food in lowland mixed dipterocarp forest of Brunei Darussalam....Pages 297-305 Resource use in a freshwater fish community of a tropical rainforest stream in northern Borneo....Pages 307-314 Spatio-temporal resource utilization by a Bornean rainforest herpetofauna: Preliminary results....Pages 315-323 The altitudinal distribution of forest tree families on the western slopes of Mount Banahao, Luzon, Philippines....Pages 325-330 Interspecific colony dispersion and niche relations of three large tropical rain forest ant species....Pages 331-340 Immediate effects on wildlife of selective logging in a hill dipterocarp forest in Sarawak: mammals....Pages 341-346 Growth performance of a naturally regenerated stand of Kapur ( Dryobalanops aromatica Gaertn. f.) 37 years after a heavy low thinning treatment....Pages 347-355 A Comparative Study of the Ant Fauna in a Primary and Secondary Forest in Sabah, Malaysia....Pages 357-366 Comparative morphology and physiology of gap and understorey seedling leaves from a mixed dipterocarp forest....Pages 367-375 Distributional ecology of freshwater fishes in tropical rainforest streams of Borneo....Pages 377-386 Analysis of factors contributing to the stability of steep hillslopes in the tropical rainforest of Temburong, Brunei Darussalam....Pages 387-409 The effects of timber harvesting and forest conversion on peat swamp forest dynamics and environment in West Kalimantan....Pages 411-415 Socio-economic values and tropical rain forest conservation....Pages 417-423 Impact of rainforest destruction — the Siberut Island case, Sumatra Indonesia....Pages 425-433 Higher-order categories in Brunei Dusun Ethnobotany: the Folk-Classification of Rainforest Plants....Pages 435-450 The Socio-Economic Benefits of Indonesian Forest....Pages 451-456 Putting plants in their place: Anthropological approaches to understanding the ethnobotanical knowledge of rainforest populations....Pages 457-465 Valuing a tree: the ethics of environmental evaluation....Pages 467-475 Extraction and Tropical Rain Forest Conservation in Eastern Brazil....Pages 477-487 Geographic information systems in rainforest ecosystem research: the Sarawak pilot model....Pages 489-494 The creation of a geographical information system for the Kuala Belalong Field Studies Centre....Pages 495-502 Tropical rain forests in Sri Lanka: characteristics, history of human impact, and the protected area system....Pages 503-511 A Conflict over Natural Resources between Highland and Lowland Populations in Thailand....Pages 513-522 Rattan inventory: determining plot shape and size....Pages 523-533 Conservation of biodiversity in Kenya’s indigenous forests: biological currencies used in management planning....Pages 535-546 Back Matter....Pages 547-566