Forests and Trees of Brunei Darussalam

About this book

Packed into the relatively small area of Brunei Darussalam is an amazing plant diversity of nearly 3500 species of indigenous seed plants. Almost 3% of these are extremely rare and endemic to Brunei, and nearly half of the overall Brunei seed-plant flora is not known outside of the botanically rich island of Borneo. Of the species documented, more than half of the total 1900 species are trees.

Forests and Trees of Brunei Darussalam gives an overview of Brunei Darussalam's varied rain forests and its incredibly rich plant wealth, and explains why the rain forests are an important aspect of conservation.

Contents

Prelude vii

Chapter 1 Forests, Trees and Brunei 1
Chapter 2 The Rain Forests of Brunei 15
Chapter 3 Forests: a Key Resource to be Conserved 35
Chapter 4 The Nature of the Brunei Flora 53
Chapter 5 A Tree Flora of Brunei 75

Acknowledgements 95
References 96
Index 99

 

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