Species loss in fragments of tropical rain forest: a review of the evidence.
- I. Turner
- Environmental Science
- 1 April 1996
A review of the literature shows that in nearly all cases tropical rain forest fragmentation has led to a local loss of species, with animals that are large, sparsely or patchily distributed, or very specialized and intolerant of the vegetation surrounding fragments, particularly prone to local extinction.
Sclerophylly: primarily protective?
- I. Turner
- Environmental Science
- 1 December 1994
Critical examination of the data available indicates that the anatomical features typical of sclerophylls serve a fundamentally protective function, which is significant for water conservation, nutrient conservation or the prevention of damage.
The Ecology of Trees in the Tropical Rain Forest: Reproductive biology
- I. Turner
- Environmental Science
- 1 July 2001
With detailed information available for perhaps only a few hundred of the many thousand of species that occur, our current knowledge of the ecology of tropical rainforest trees is limited. This book…
The conservation value of small, isolated fragments of lowland tropical rain forest.
- I. Turner, R. T Corlett
- Environmental ScienceTrends in Ecology & Evolution
- 1 August 1996
Leaf fracture toughness and sclerophylly: their correlations and ecological implications
- M. F. Choong, P. Lucas, J. Ong, B. Pereira, H. Tan, I. Turner
- Environmental Science
- 1 August 1992
The high correlation between fracture toughness and the index of sclerophylly for a large sample suggests that leaf toughness could be the factor used as a proximate cue for determining food quality in herbivore foraging strategies.
Mechanical Defences to Herbivory
- P. Lucas, I. Turner, N. Dominy, Nayuta Yamashita
- Materials Science
- 1 November 2000
The effectiveness of toughness in preventing herbivory is indisputable, but largely indirect due to confusion over a false equivalence between nutritional ‘fibre content’ and toughness.
A catalogue of the vascular plants of Malaya.
- I. Turner
- Biology
- 1995
A brief description and nolcs o n thc hahila! and dislribution of each species are given.
A Century of Plant Species Loss from an Isolated Fragment of Lowland Tropical Rain Forest
- I. Turner, K. S. Chua, J. Ong, B. Soong, H. Tan
- Environmental Science
- 1 August 1996
It is concluded that tiny fragments will act as refuges for tropical rain-forest plant species for decades, possibly even centuries after isolation but on their own they will not provide a permanent guarantee of the conservation of tropical biodiversity.
Tree species richness in primary and old secondary tropical forest in Singapore
- I. Turner, Y. K. Wong, P. T. Chew, A. Ibrahim
- Environmental ScienceBiodiversity and Conservation
- 1 April 1997
It is concluded that secondary forest cannot be assumed to accrete biodiversity rapidly in the tropics, and may not be of direct value in conservation, however, other indirect roles, such as providing resources for native animals, and buffering and protecting primary forest fragments may make the protection of secondary forest worthwhile.
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