Abundance, distribution and substrate association of Hong Kong stag beetles (Coleoptera: Lucanidae) in secondary forests

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tsz Kin Calvin Leung ◽  
Timothy C. Bonebrake
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Secondary Forests ◽  
Abundance Distribution ◽  
Stag Beetles

scholarly journals Pollination in a degraded tropical landscape: a Hong Kong case study

2001 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 155-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
RICHARD T. CORLETT
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Plant Species ◽  
Mixed Forest ◽  
Pollination Biology ◽  
Individual Plant ◽  
Secondary Forests ◽  
Yakushima Island ◽  
Northern Margin ◽  
Broad Leaved Forest ◽  
The Tropics

Although the pollination biology of many individual plant species has been investigated in the Oriental region, there have been very few community-level studies. The two most comprehensive of these were in the primary mixed dipterocarp forest of Lambir Hills National Park, Sarawak (4°20′N: Momose et al. 1998, Sakai et al. 1999) and in the warm temperate evergreen broad-leaved forest and cool temperate mixed forest on Yakushima Island (30°N: Yumoto 1987, 1988). Hong Kong (22°17′N) lies midway between these sites, at the northern margin of the tropics, where winter temperatures fall below 10 °C at sea-level for a few days every year and there are occasional frosts above 400 m (Dudgeon & Corlett 1994). Latitudinal effects, however, are compounded in comparisons with other well-studied East Asian sites, by centuries of massive human impact, leaving a degraded landscape of steep, eroded hillsides, covered in fire-maintained grassland, secondary shrublands and, locally, secondary forests (Zhuang & Corlett 1997). This history has left a relatively impoverished fauna but a surprisingly diverse flora, including 400 native tree species (Corlett & Turner 1997). In these circumstances, failures of pollination and dispersal mutualisms might be expected to accelerate the loss of plant species from the landscape (Bond 1994, Kearns & Inouye 1997). Previous studies have shown that most woody vegetation in Hong Kong is dominated by species whose seeds can be dispersed by the commonest avian frugivores, the light-vented and red-whiskered bulbuls (Pycnonotus sinensis (Gmelin) and P. jocosus (Linn.)) and the Japanese white-eye (Zosterops japonicus Swinhoe) (Corlett 1996, 1998), but there is no equivalent information available on pollination biology.

scholarly journals Investigation of plant mycorrhizae in secondary forests of Hong Kong

1997 ◽  
Vol 05 (4) ◽  
pp. 287-292
Author(s):  
Zhuang Xueying ◽  
Chan Wingkuen ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Secondary Forests

scholarly journals Responses of species abundance distribution patterns to spatial scaling in subtropical secondary forests

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 5338-5347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anchi Wu ◽  
Xiangwen Deng ◽  
Honglin He ◽  
Xiaoli Ren ◽  
Yiran Jing ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Species Abundance ◽  
Distribution Patterns ◽  
Secondary Forests ◽  
Species Abundance Distribution ◽  
Abundance Distribution ◽  
Spatial Scaling

Verocytotoxin-producing Escherichia coli infection: The Hong Kong experience

1998 ◽  
Vol 13 (11-s4) ◽  
pp. S289-S293 ◽  
Author(s):  
SSY WONG ◽  
WC YAM ◽  
PHM LEUNG ◽  
PCY WOO ◽  
KY YUEN
Keyword(s):  
Escherichia Coli ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Escherichia Coli Infection
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