Forests are critically important to global pollinator diversity and enhance pollination in adjacent crops

M Ulyshen, KR Urban‐Mead, JB Dorey… - Biological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Although the importance of natural habitats to pollinator diversity is widely recognized, the
value of forests to pollinating insects has been largely overlooked in many parts of the world …

Insects as flower visitors and pollinators

PG Kevan, HG Baker - Annual review of entomology, 1983 - annualreviews.org
Pollination ecology has been a fast growing field since the 1960s. A previous review by
Baker & Hurd (18) together with books (77, 84, 220, 221, 244, 264) and various symposia …

Plant-pollinator interactions in tropical rain forests

KS Bawa - Annual review of Ecology and Systematics, 1990 - annualreviews.org
Plant-pollinator interactions in tropical lowland rain forests (TLRF) offer unique opportunities
to address several problems of current evolutionary and ecological interest. First …

[图书][B] The biomechanics of insect flight: form, function, evolution

R Dudley - 2002 - books.google.com
From the rain forests of Borneo to the tenements of Manhattan, winged insects are a
conspicuous and abundant feature of life on earth. Here, Robert Dudley presents the first …

Staggered flowering in the Dipterocarpaceae: new insights into floral induction and the evolution of mast fruiting in the aseasonal tropics

PS Ashton, TJ Givnish… - The American Naturalist, 1988 - journals.uchicago.edu
The supra-annual mast fruiting of dipterocarps, dominant trees of Far Eastern lowland rain
forests, has been considered an adaptation to reduce seed predation through satiation …

[图书][B] The ecology of tropical East Asia

R Corlett - 2014 - books.google.com
Tropical East Asia is home to over one billion people and faces massive human impacts
from its rising population and rapid economic growth. It has already lost more than two-thirds …

[图书][B] History of insects

AP Rasnitsyn, DL Quicke - 2007 - books.google.com
Insects are not dinosaurs–and they probably pose us more strange
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS puzzles and unexpected questions. A million extant species, that …

Pollination biology in a lowland dipterocarp forest in Sarawak, Malaysia. I. Characteristics of the plant‐pollinator community in a lowland dipterocarp forest

K Momose, T Yumoto, T Nagamitsu… - American journal of …, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
Flowerings and flower visitors were observed continuously in a lowland dipterocarp forest in
Sarawak, Malaysia, for 53 mo in 1992–1996. Flower visitors of 270 plant species were …

[图书][B] Sexual reproduction of tree crops

M Sedgley, AR Griffin - 2013 - books.google.com
Research into the reproductive biology of crop plants has expanded greatly in recent years
and has lead to an increasing awareness of the importance of flowering, pollination, and fruit …

[图书][B] Tropical rain forest ecology, diversity, and conservation

J Ghazoul, D Sheil - 2010 - books.google.com
Rain forests represent the world's richest repository of terrestrial biodiversity, and play a
major role in regulating the global climate. They support the livelihoods of a substantial …