ABOUT THIS ARCHIVE:
As a non-botanist who has spent time searching floral lists for presence of taxa and trying to correlate local and scientific names, I find printed floral lists useful but difficult to use; on a computer one can search, sort, merge and split such lists depending on one's immediate interests. When Masazumi Mitani approached me about contributing to a collection of floral lists to be published in TROPICS, I suggested we look into the possibility of making the lists available via the Primate Info Net (PIN) of the Wisconsin Primate Research Center (WRPRC). Thanks to Larry Jacobsen of PIN, the publishers of TROPICS, and the authors of the five articles, here we are.
WARNING NOTE:
These files contain tables, abstracts, and
extracts of methods that have been edited for brevity, in
order to keep the archive size to a manageable level.
Users are STRONGLY URGED to consult the published text
and figures before interpreting these tables analytically.
These files supplement the hardcopy publication; they do
not replace it.
Five study sites are represented in the TROPICS 3(3/4) publication. Files are listed by site name rather than authors, for ease of notation and recognition:
KAHUZI-BIEGA (size: 24 kb)
Kahuzi-Biega National Park, Zaire (chimpanzees and gorillas)
Contains two tables: Table1 -- List for Kahuzi region
Table2 -- List for Itebero region
Yumoto, T., Yamagiwa, J., Mwanza, N., & Maruhashi, T. (1994)
List of Plant Species Identified in Kahuzi-Biega National Park,
Zaire. TROPICS 3(3/4): 295-308.
LOPE (size: 39 kb)
Lope Reserve, Gabon (chimpanzees and gorillas)
Contains three tables: Table1 -- List for Lope
Table2 -- Top 10 species in basal area and
density, by 2 forest types
Table3 -- Number species ape foods, by habitat
Tutin, C. E. G., White, L. J. T., Williamson, E. A., Fernandez, M.,
& McPherson, G. (1994) List of Plant Species Identified in the
Northern Part of the Lope Reserve, Gabon. TROPICS 3(3/4):
249-276
NDOKI (size: 27 kb)
Nouabale-Ndoki Forest, Congo (chimpanzees and gorillas)
Contains one table: Table1 -- List for Nouabale-Ndoki forest
Moutsambote, J.-M., Yumoto, T., Mitani, M., Nishihara, T.,
Suzuki, S., & Kuroda, S. (1994) Vegetation and list of plant
species identified in the Nouabale-Ndoki Forest, Congo.
TROPICS 3(3/4): 277-293
UGALLA (Size: 10 kb)
Tongwe East Forest Reserve ("Ugalla"), Tanzania (chimpanzees)
Contains one table: Table1 -- List for Ugalla
Moore, J. (1994) Plants of the Tongwe East Forest Reserve
(Ugalla), Tanzania. TROPICS 3(3/4): 333-340
WAMBA (size: 51 kb)
Wamba Forest, Zaire (bonobos)
Contains 4 tables: Table1 -- List for Wamba
Table2 -- Primary forest only, includes
density & basal areas
Table3 -- Swamp forest, w/density & basal area
Table4 --Secondary forest, " " "
Idani, G., Kuroda, S., Kano, T., & Asato, R. (1994). Flora and
vegetation of Wamba Forest, Central Zaire with reference to
bonobo (Pan paniscus) foods. TROPICS 3(3/4): 309-332
FILE FORMAT:
All files were saved as ASCII text files and should be easily
read by word processors or spreadsheet programs. The tables use
commas (,) or semicolons (;) to delimit fields; the delimiter used is
indicated in each file. I have removed some diacritics and written
out some symbols after discovering problems translating to/from
UNIX, hopefully without muddling content.
The abstracts *only* are formatted with
CITATION:
Please cite this material as you would the original TROPICS
publications.
UPDATES/ERRORS/COMMENTS/HELP:
Larry Jacobsen, Head of Library Services,
and content/format/addition/"it's a good/bad idea" comments to me:
Jim Moore
Floral Lists from Five Study Sites of Apes
in the African Tropical Forests.
PREFACE
The floral lists in this volume were produced after discussion in the
workshop of the 14th IPS Congress on August 19, 1992 at Strasbourg in
France. The workshop also produced a companion volume of TROPICS 2(4),
entitled "Field Studies of African Apes in Tropical Rain Forests:
Methods to Increase the Scope and Accuracy of Intersite Comparisons",
edited by S. Kuroda and C.E.G. Tutin, published in November 1993.
Recent advances in the studies of apes underway in the central African
tropical forests have addressed questions about the adaptability of apes
and the variation of their ecology. However, methodological difference
between, and incomplete habitat descriptions from, each site have
limited intersite comparison (Kuroda & Tutin, 1993). The workshop and
the companion volume reflect our attempts to overcome this problem. And
the floral lists in this volume also contribute by giving better
description of the habitats.
Floral lists have been compiled from the sites of several field
studies of African apes. Listing plant species recorded in the sites
has been looked upon as one of the fundamental works for field
researchers, even if they were not botanical specialists. Considering
recent advances in primate research, we can notice additional, or up to
date, meanings of the lists. These may be summarized as follows: (1)
The African Apes are essentially plant eaters and the phenology and
production of plants determines their foraging, ranging, and other
behaviours. Floral lists give us knowledge of the potential
availability of these resources, necessary to understand the apes'
ecological strategies. And (2) the African apes may have the histories
of coevolution with plants, either prey-predatory relationship or
mutualism. A set of the plant species recorded in a list may be a
result, or one of the results, of such coevolution. (3) Of course, the
plant species composition is not stable. Earth-wide climate changes
have modified the vegetation over time. In this sense, the lists are
living fossils resulting from regional history. And (4) more serious
and more recent floral changes may be found due to the impact of human
activities. African tropical forests have been more seriously disturbed
than S.E. Asian and S. American tropical forests. Additionally, many
cases of the habitat isolation of African apes exist. The lists of
plant species recorded from sites where apes live today allow comparison
with already disturbed forests and some predictions about the impact of
forest disturbance in the future. In relation to this point, (5) floral
lists play an important role in conservation tactics, and, sometimes,
they speak with more eloquence than hundreds of sentences. And above
all things, (6) floral list encourage collaboration between biological
fields, which are usually separate in scientific institutions, e.g.,
primatology and botanical taxonomy. Many of the floral lists in this
volume are the result of such coworking.
Masazumi MITANI Division of Ecology, Museum of Nature and
Human Activities Hyogo. Yayoi-ga-oka 6, Sanda, Hyogo, Japan
REFERENCE
Kuroda, S. & Tutin, C.E.G. 1993, Field Studies of African Apes in
Tropical Rain Forest: Methods to Increase the Scope and Accuracy
of Intersite Comparisons. TROPICS 2(4): 187-188.
URL: http://www.primate.wisc.edu/pin/tro1.html
Within PIN operational constraints, in principle it would be nice
to include additional sites, and to update existing lists as
needed. It would also be good to fix any problems encountered by
users, and to get an idea of whether there ARE any users. Please
send network-related queries to Larry Jacobsen:
Primate Center Library,
Wisconsin Primate Research Center,
1220 Capitol Court, Madison, WI 53715-1299
Email: jacobsen@primate.wisc.edu;
Tel: (608) 263-3512; Fax: (608) 263-4031
Anthropology Dept. 0101
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla CA 92093 - 0101
Email: jjmoore@ucsd.edu
Tel: (619) 534-5572; Fax: (619) 534-5946
Related Publications
Mahale NP (Tanzania)--
Nishida, T. & Uehara, S. (1981). Kitongwe name of plants:
A preliminary listing. Afr. Study Monogr. 1: 109-130.
Nishida, T. & Uehara, S. (1983). Natural diet of chimpanzees
(Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii): Long-term record from
the Mahale Mountains, Tanzania. Afr. Stud. Monogr. 3:
109-130.
Gombe NP (Tanzania)--
Clutton-Brock, T. H. & Gillet, J. B. (1979). A survey of forest
composition in the Gombe National Park, Tanzania. Afr. J.
Ecol. 17: 131-158.
General:
Peters, C. R., O'Brien, E. M. & Drummond, R. B. (1992).
Edible Wild Plants of Subsaharan Africa: an Annotated
Checklist, Emphasizing the Woodland and Savanna Floras of
Eastern and Southern Africa, Including the Plants Utilized
for Food by Chimpanzees and Baboons. Kew: Royal Botanic
Gardens.
About The Special Issue of TROPICS
(Preface, TROPICS 3(3/4): 247-248; 1994)
Edited by
Masazumi MITANI, Suehisa KURODA, and Caroline E.G. TUTIN
Suehisa KURODA Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science,
Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Caroline E.G. TUTIN Centre International de Recherches
Medicales de Franceville, Franceville, Gabon; Department of
Biological and Molecular Sciences, University of Stirling,
Scotland, U.K.
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