Description
The International Conference on Cycad Biology, held every 3 years since its inception in 1987, is a prominent meeting centering on all aspects of the biology of this unusual, important, and interesting group of plants. The conference stimulates research in fields as diverse as horticulture and neurobiology: it also promotes ex-situ and in-situ conservation globally. Having survived for 250 million years, cycads now find themselves endangered as a result of human activity. This volume, comprised of 30 papers, addresses the issue from angles that include conservation biology, pest control, the role of insects and birds in cycad biology, and the role of cycads in various human cultural contexts.
Papers included in this Digital Download are listed below.
International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)/Species Survival Commission (SSC) Cycad Specialist Group Ex situ Conservation and Recovery Programme (CSG-ECRP)
Anders J. Lindtrom
http://dx.doi.org/10.21135/893275150.002
Cycad Aulacaspis Scale Invades the Mariana Islands
Thomas E. Marler
http://dx.doi.org/10.21135/893275150.003
SERBO and the Cycads of Oaxaca, Mexico
Silvia H. Salas-Morales and Jeffrey Chemnick
http://dx.doi.org/10.21135/893275150.004
How Critical Are the Early Life-cycle Stages in the Population Ecology of Cycads? A Case Study with Dioon merolae in Southeastern Mexico
Juan C. Flores-Flores-Vázquez, Teresa Valverde, and José L. Lucas-González
http://dx.doi.org/10.21135/893275150.005
Time, Place, and Relationships: Cycad Phenology in a Phylogenetic and Biogeographic Context
M. Patrick Griffith, Michael A. Calonje, Dennis W. Stevenson, Chad E. Husby, and Damon P. Little
http://dx.doi.org/10.21135/893275150.006
Sinkhole and Karst Habitat of Ceratozamia latifolia and Related Mexican Cycads
Geoffrey Hoese
http://dx.doi.org/10.21135/893275150.007
Germinación de Semillas de Dioon merolae, una CÃcada de Oaxaca, México, Bajo Diferentes Tratamientos de Riego
José L. Lucas-González and Juan C. Flores-Vázquez
http://dx.doi.org/10.21135/893275150.008
Pollination Systems of Island Cycads: Predictions Based on Island Biogeography
Irene Terry, William Tang, and Thomas Marler
http://dx.doi.org/10.21135/893275150.009
Cycads and Human Life Cycles: Outline of a Symbology
Mark Bonta
http://dx.doi.org/10.21135/893275150.010
The Ethnobotany of Cycas in the States of Assam and Meghalaya, India
Khuraijam Jibankumar Singh and Rita Singh
http://dx.doi.org/10.21135/893275150.011
Notes on the Ethnobotany of Panamanian Cycads
Alberto S. Taylor Blake
http://dx.doi.org/10.21135/893275150.012
Harvest, Use, and Ecology of Cycas circinalis L.— A Case Study in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve Area, Western Ghats, India
Anita Varghese, Vandana Krishnamurthy, and Tamara Ticktin
http://dx.doi.org/10.21135/893275150.013
Some Aspects of the Foliar Anatomy of Two Zamia Species from Costa Rica: Z. fairchildiana L. D. Gómez and
Z. neurophyllidia D.W.Stev.
Rafael Acuña-Castillo and Walter A. MarÃn-Méndez
http://dx.doi.org/10.21135/893275150.014
Population Genetics of Zamia in Puerto Rico, a Study with Ten SSR Loci
Alan W. Meerow, Javier Francisco-Ortega, Tomás Ayala-Silva, Dennis Wm. Stevenson, and Kyoko Nakamura
http://dx.doi.org/10.21135/893275150.015
Population Genetic Diversity in the Dioon edule Lindl. Species Complex (Zamiaceae, Cycadales):
Evidence from Microsatellite Data
Jeremy Moynihan, Andrew P. Vovides, J. González-Astorga, and Javier Francisco-Ortega
http://dx.doi.org/10.21135/893275150.016
Starch Accumulation in the Megagametophyte of Ceratozamia mexicana Brongn. and Zamia furfuracea L.f.
MarÃa Ydelia Sánchez-Tinoco, José Rubén Ordóñez-Balderas, and E. Mark Engleman
http://dx.doi.org/10.21135/893275150.017
The Effect of Taproot Pruning and AMF Mycorrhiza on Growth and Development of Dioon angustifolium Miq. Seedlings
Andrew P. Vovides, Carlos Iglesias, Melquiades Cruz, Julieta Hernández Reyes, Laura Hernández Cuevas, and
Sonia Galicia Castellanos
http://dx.doi.org/10.21135/893275150.018
Cycad-induced Neurodegeneration Is Different in Rat and Mouse Models of ALS- PDC
P. Yarowsky, Kimberly A. McDowell, Wei-Bin Shen, J.M.B. Wilson, R. Cruz-Aguado, Thomas E. Marler, and C. A. Shaw
http://dx.doi.org/10.21135/893275150.019
Entomofauna Asociada a Dioon sp. nov. y Actividad de los Insectos Polinizadores en San Jerónimo Taviche, Oaxaca, México
M. F. Maldonado-Ruiz and Juan C. Flores-Vázquez
http://dx.doi.org/10.21135/893275150.020
Comparison of Experimental Measurements and Predictions from Biophysical Models of Thermogenic Events in Cones ofMacrozamia lucida, M. macleayi, and Cycas micronesica
Robert Roemer, Irene Terry, Gimme Walter, and Thomas E. Marler
http://dx.doi.org/10.21135/893275150.021
Role of Cycad Cone Volatile Emissions and Thermogenesis in the Pollination of Encephalartos villosus Lem.: Preliminary Findings from Studies of Plant Traits and Insect Responses
Terence N. Suinyuy, John S. Donaldson, Steven D. Johnson, and J. DeWet Bösenberg
http://dx.doi.org/10.21135/893275150.022
Distribution and Evolutionary Patterns of the Cycad Weevil Genus Rhopalotria (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea: Belidae) with Emphasis on the Fauna of Panama
William Tang and Charles W. O’Brien
http://dx.doi.org/10.21135/893275150.023
An Overview of Cycad Pollination Studies
Irene Terry, William Tang, Alberto S. Taylor Blake, John S. Donaldson, Rita Singh, Andrew P. Vovides, and Angélica Cibrián Jaramillo
http://dx.doi.org/10.21135/893275150.024
Volatile Emissions, Thermogenesis, and Dehiscence Patterns of Macrozamia communis (Zamiaceae): Implications for Cycad Pollination Research
Thomas C. Wallenius, Rod Peakall, Wolf J. Wanjura, Sylwek Chyb, and Rolf G. Oberprieler
http://dx.doi.org/10.21135/893275150.025
Zamia lindleyi: A Misunderstood Species from the Highlands of Western Panama
Michael A. Calonje, Alberto S. Taylor Blake, Dennis W. Stevenson, Gregory Holzman, and Yan Arley Ramos
http://dx.doi.org/10.21135/893275150.026
Arbuscular Micorrhizal Fungi in Three Species of Mexican Cycads
Julieta Hernández Reyes, Andrew P. Vovides, Yaqueline A. Gheno-Heredia, and Laura Hernández Cuevas
http://dx.doi.org/10.21135/893275150.027
A Phylogenetic Study of Dioon Lindl. (Zamiaceae, Cycadales), Based on Morphology, Nuclear Ribosomal DNA, a Low- copy Nuclear Gene and Plastid RFLPs
Jeremy Moynihan, Dennis Wm. Stevenson, Carl E. Lewis, Andrew P. Vovides, Paolo Caputo, and Javier Francisco-Ortega
http://dx.doi.org/10.21135/893275150.028
The World List of Cycads
Roy Osborne, Michael A. Calonje, Ken D. Hill, Leonie Stanberg, and Dennis Wm. Stevenson
http://dx.doi.org/10.21135/893275150.029
Cone Size in the Florida Cycad, Zamia integrifolia: Trade-off between Seed Size and Seed Number
William Tang
http://dx.doi.org/10.21135/893275150.030
The Zamia skinneri (Cycadales: Zamiaceae) Complex in Panama
Alberto S. Taylor Blake, Jody L. Haynes, and Greg Holzman
http://dx.doi.org/10.21135/893275150.031
