Tropical Rainforest Research — Current Issues: Proceedings of the Conference held in Bandar Seri Begawan, April 1993

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