References and Further Reading

Overview
Corner and the durian theory
Ashton, Fedorov and evolutionary processes
Gentry's hypotheses
Applications 
   • pollination
   • breeding systems
   • allozyme analysis
   • architecture 
 
References and further reading 
Questions 
 
Adam P (1994) Australian Rainforests Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK 

Ashton PS (1969) Speciation among tropical forest trees: some deductions in the light of recent evidence. Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 1:155-196

Ashton PS (1988) Dipterocarp Biology as a window to the understanding of tropical forest structure  Ann. Rev. Ecol.Syst.  19:347-70

Ashton PS  (1989)  Species richness in tropical forests  In: Tropical forest: Botanical dynamics, speciation and diversity   Eds: Holm-Neilsen LB and Balslev A  Academic Press, London

Baker HG (1969) Reproductive methods as factors in speciation in flowering plants. Cold Spring Harb. Symp. Quant. Biol. 24:177-199 

Bawa KS (1979) Breeding systems of trees in a tropical wet forest New Zealand J Botany 17:521-524 

Condit R Hubbell SP Lafrankie JV Sukumar R Manokaran N Foster RP Ashton PS  (1996)  Species-area and species-individual realtionships for tropical trees: a comparison of three 50ha plots  Journal of Ecology 84(4): 549-562

Connell J  (1978)  Diversity in tropical rain forests and coral reefs Science 199: 1302-1310

Connell J, Tracey JG and Webb LJ (1984) Compensatory recruitment, growth, and mortality as factors maintaining rain forest tree diversity Ecological Monographs 54:141-164 

Corner EJH (1949) The durian theory or the origin of the modern tree Ann Bot New Ser 13:367-414

Corner EJH (1954) The evolution of tropical forests. In: Huxley J, Hardy AC and Ford EB (Eds) Evolution as a process. Allen and Unwin, London. 

Crome F and Irvine A (1986) Two bob each way: the pollination and breeding system of the Australian rainforest tree Syzygium cormiflorum (Myrtaceae) Biotropica 18:115-25 

Cruden RW and Lyon DL (1989) Facultative Xenogamy: examination of a mixed mating system In: Bock JH and Linhart YB The Evolutionary ecology of plants Westview Boulder USA 

De Reffye P Houllier F Blaise F Barthelemy D Dauzat J Auclair D  (1995)  A model simulating above- and below-ground tree architecture with agroforestry applications  Agroforestry Systems  30 : 175-197

De Selincourt K (1996)  Demon farmers and other myths  New Scientist 36-39

Fedorov AA (1966) The structure of the tropical rainforest and speciation in the humid tropics. J. Ecol. 54 1-11 

Gentry A (1989) Speciation in tropical forests In: Holm-Neilsen LB  andd Balsev A Tropical forests: botanical diversity, speciation and diversity.  Academic press, London

Godoy R  (1992) Some organising principles in the valuation of tropical forests Forest Ecology and Management  50: 171-180

Hall P Chase MR Bawa KS  (1994)  Low genetic variation but high population differentiation in a common tropical rainforest tree species  Conservation Biology  8: 471-482

Hopkins MS and Graham AW (1989) Community phenological patterns of a lowland rainforest in north-eastern Australia Austr. J Ecology 14:39 9-413 

Hopper (1980) Pollination of the rainforest tree Syzygium tierneyanum (Myrtaceae) at Kuranda, N. Queensland Austr J Botany 28:223-37 

Hubbell SP and Foster RB (1986)  Commonness andrarity in a neotropical forest: Implications for tropical tree conservation  In: Conservation Biology: the science of scarcity and diversity  Ed: Soule M  Sinauer, Mass.

Hubbell SP and Foster RB  (1991)  Short term population dynamics of a neotropical forest: Why ecological research matters to tropical conservation and management  Oikos 63: 48-61

Loiselle BA, Sork VL and Graham C (1995) Comparison of Genetic Variation in bird-dispersed shrubs of a tropical wet forest Biotropica 27:487-494 

Loveless MD (1992) Isozyme variation in tropical trees: patterns of genetic organisation New Forests 6:67-94 

Moran GF, Muona O and Bell JC (1989) Breeding systems and genetic diversity in Acacia auriculiformis and A. crassicarpa Biotropica 21:250-256

Murawski DA  Dayanandan B Bawa KS  (1994) Outcrossing rates of two endemic Shorea species form Sri Lankan tropical rain forests Biotropica  26(1): 23-29

Okuda T Kachi N Yap SK Manokaran N  (1997)  Tree distribution pattern and fate of juveniles in a lowland tropical rain forest:  Implicaitons for regeneration and maintenance of species diversity  Plant Ecology  131: 155-171

Peters CM Gentry AH Mendelsohn RO  (1989)  Valuation of an Amazonian rainforest  Nature 339: 655-657

Tomlinson PB  (1987)  Architecture of tropical plants  Ann. Rev. Ecol. Syst.  18: 1-21 
Turner IM Gong WK Ong JE Bujang JS Kohyama T (1995)   The architecture and allometry of mangrove saplings   Functional Ecology   9(2): 205-212

Whitmore TC (1988) The influence tree population dynamics on forest species composition In: Plant Population Ecology Eds: AJ Davey, MJ Hutchings, and AR Watkinson Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford, UK 

Young A, Boyle T and Brown T (1996) The population genetic consequences of habitat fragmentation for plants. TREE 11: 413-418

 
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