A view from the summit : the story of Bukit Timah Nature Reserve
Digitised Book 3.144.135.207 (0)
1996
Information About
This publication describes the history of Bukit Timah Nature Reserve, its biodiversity and the efforts of some people who seek to preserve this conservation area.
Additional Details
- Creators
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- Subject
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- Natural areas--Singapore
- Bukit Timah Nature Reserve (Singapore)
- Publisher
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- Nanyang Technological University : National University of Singapore, 1996
- National Library Board Singapore, 1996
- Contributors
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- Sharp, Ilsa
- Lum, Shawn K. Y.
- Digital Description
- application/pdf, ill. (chiefly col.)
- Provenance
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- Table of Contents
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- Introduction -- ch. 1. History: where tigers roamed -- ch. 2. Biodiversity: the mark of Gondwanaland -- ch. 3. Evolutionary ecology: life out of death -- ch. 4. Conservation and management: what next? -- Special topic box stories. Alfred Russel Wallace: the 'exceeding productiveness' of Bukit Timah -- Legends: our inner space -- Mammals: Singapore’s ark -- Palms: the pain and beauty of palms -- Economic products: the forest as bottom-line -- Amphibians & reptiles: hop, slither and glide ... -- Reminiscences. Danger, diving drongos! / Goh Si Guim -- Ferns as crisis indicators / Wee Yeow Chin -- Encounters of the forest kind / R. Subaraj -- Coping with the 'so cute' factor / Ian Turner -- A researcher's forest idyll / Daniel Metcalfe -- Helping nature help herself / Wong Yew Kwan -- Conservation. A kind of zoo? -- Protection, then healing -- Writers' biodata -- Picture credits -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography.
- Edition
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- Copyright
- All Rights Reserved. National Library Board Singapore 2009.