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Click Title for more Detail To the casual eye, mangroves do not look like any other forests, but they thrive in this amphibious environment. Every living being is a product of the environment, moulded by intricate events throughout its evolutionary history. Nature endows mangrove communities with ingenious adaptations for success. As such, many associated life forms have found a niche [...]
Click Title for more Detail This book aims to provide information to visitors and the general public on the various trees that are found in this special man-made forest. information is presented in layman’s language as far as possible, and illustrated with photographs. It attempts to describe 137 taxa of trees from 36 families and 89 genera, of which 107 [...]
Click Title for more Detail This pocket check-list replaces North Borneo Forest Record No. 6 “Check list of the Forest Flora of North Borneo” by G.H.S. Wood and J. Agama, first published in 1956, with subsequent editions. It is intended primarily as a definitive list of preferred vernacular names for those trees of Sabah which are commercially, ecologically or [...]
Click Title for more Detail The first comprehensive Check-List for the trees of Sarawak was compiled by Dr. J.A.R. Anderson and published in 1980, to meet the need for scientific forestry in the fields of forest inventory, silviculture and ecology. Anderson’s Check-List contains over 2,500 species, and he predicted at the time that more would be added in the [...]
Click Title for more Detail The Tree Flora of Sabah and Sarawak is an account of the families of trees that occur in these two botanically rich Malaysian states situated in the island of Borneo. The Flora provides identification keys and illustrations for all families treated and descriptions of all species that grow to a ‘significant size’, usually taken [...]
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