Oil of Australian sandalwood (Santalum spicatum (R.Br.) A.DC.)

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Santalum Spicatum

scholarly journals When losing your nuts increases your reproductive success: sandalwood (Santalum spicatum) nut caching by the woylie (Bettongia penicillata)

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie Murphy ◽  
Kay Howard ◽  
Giles E. St J. Hardy ◽  
Bernard Dell
Keyword(s):  
Recruitment Rate ◽  
Primary Method ◽  
Seed Disperser ◽  
The Past ◽  
Successful Recruitment ◽  
Bettongia Penicillata ◽  
Santalum Spicatum ◽  
Study Sites ◽  
Germinated Seeds

To regenerate sandalwood (Santalum spicatum) stands in south-western Australia it is necessary to understand the complex relationship between woylies (Bettongia penicillata ogilbyi) and sandalwood. Sandalwood requires a seed disperser for successful recruitment and in the past the critically endangered woylie played an important role in dispersing and caching seeds, but it is not clear whether this mutualistic and antagonistic relationship is beneficial to regeneration efforts. An enclosure in a woodland and 46Scandium-labelled seeds, enabled study of the in situ predation of seeds, caching, the fate of cached seeds, the detection of cached seeds and predation of germinated seeds. Woylies preferentially cached sandalwood, then S. acuminatum seeds, before any interest was shown in Acacia acuminata and Gastrolobium microcarpum seeds, which were virtually all eaten in situ. Of a further 500 radiolabelled and individually numbered sandalwood seeds deployed, 42.2% were eaten in situ, 20.8% had an unknown fate and 37% were cached, with some seeds being recached up to four times. After nine months, only four cached seeds remained undisturbed. Olfaction appeared to be the primary method of cache detection. To examine the recruitment rate of cached seeds, the fate of 89 transplanted sandalwood seedlings at two study sites was followed. After one month 38% were intact and growing, but half of the transplanted seedlings were dug up and the remaining endosperm was eaten in situ or taken away. The results highlight the potential of providing seed supplies, including sandalwood seeds and seeds of their hosts, to seed-dispersal marsupials for passive ecosystem repair.

Santalum spicatum(R. Br.) A. DC. (Santalaceae)—nor-Helifolenal and Acorenol Isomers: Isolation and Biogenetic Considerations

2003 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
pp. 381-386 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norbert A. Braun ◽  
Manfred Meier ◽  
Birgit Kohlenberg ◽  
Claudia Valder ◽  
Michael Neugebauer
Keyword(s):  
Santalum Spicatum

Sesquiterpenes of Santalum album and Santalum spicatum

1975 ◽  
Vol 14 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 1459-1460 ◽  
Author(s):  
David R. Adams ◽  
Surendra P. Bhatnagar ◽  
Richard C. Cookson
Keyword(s):  
Santalum Album ◽  
Santalum Spicatum

Mineral Nutrition of Sandalwood (Santalum spicatum)

1986 ◽  
Vol 37 (9) ◽  
pp. 1274-1284 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. STRUTHERS ◽  
B. B. LAMONT ◽  
J. E. D. FOX ◽  
S. WIJESURIYA ◽  
T. CROSSLAND
Keyword(s):  
Mineral Nutrition ◽  
Santalum Spicatum

Termite attractants in Santalum spicatum

1970 ◽  
Vol 23 (11) ◽  
pp. 2337 ◽  
Author(s):  
AJ Birch ◽  
KB Chamberlain ◽  
BP Moore ◽  
VH Powell
Keyword(s):  
Trail Pheromone ◽  
Santalum Spicatum ◽  
Cis And Trans

The oil of Santalum spicatum (R.Br.) A.DC. has been fractionated to yield 10-cis- (1) and 10-trans-2,6,10-trimethyldodeca-2,6,10-triene (2). These compounds have been synthesized by reduction of a mixture of cis- and trans-farnesyl acetate. Although not identical with the trail pheromone of Nasutitermes they have similar specific trail activities, the former being the more active.

Reintroduced burrowing bettongs (Bettongia lesueur) scatter hoard sandalwood (Santalum spicatum) seed

2015 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamra F. Chapman
Keyword(s):  
Host Plants ◽  
Parent Plant ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Term Study ◽  
Short Term Study ◽  
Rangeland Restoration ◽  
Primary Means ◽  
Poor Recruitment ◽  
Santalum Spicatum ◽  
Agricultural Regions

Sandalwood (Santalum spicatum) has been almost entirely removed from the agricultural regions of Australia. Remaining stands, in the rangelands of Western Australia, are characterised by poor recruitment due to grazing of seedlings and lack of seed dispersal. The aim of this study was to determine whether reintroduced burrowing bettongs (Bettongia lesueur) would disperse sandalwood seed as part of a rangeland-restoration project. The bettongs removed most of the experimental seed within two days, scatter hoarded and cached seed near potential host plants. No broad conclusions can be made from this short-term study, but it has established that burrowing bettongs carry out an important ecosystem service, because moving sandalwood seeds away from the parent plant and close to a host plant is the primary means of promoting recruitment.

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