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In the forests of Malaya, Sumatra and Borneo, 25 species of Macaranga trees are inhabited by mutualistic ants that occupy hollow stem domatia and defend their host plants against vines and herbivores. The ants harvest foodbodies secreted by the plants, and tend scale insects for…

Ecology and conservation of tigers (Panthera tigris) are least known from the Indochinese region largely due to the difficulty of studying elusive, forest-dwelling animals that occur naturally at low densities. The paucity of basic information is a major obstacle to developing a…

Since natural, catastrophic events are rare in tropical forests, little is known about their effects on wildlife populations. The present study was prompted by a unique disturbance in the tropical forests of East Borneo. The 1982-1983 El Nino Southern Oscillation Event engendere…