ECOLOGICAL GENETICS: THE INTERFACE
1 MAHOGANY: TREE OF THE FUTURE SECTION 1 THE TREE AND ITS GENETICS 2 GENETIC VARIATION IN NATURAL MAHOGANY POPULATIONS IN BOLIVIA 3 TWENTY MAHOGANY PROVENANCES UNDER DIFFERENT CONDITIONS IN PUERTO RICO AND THE U S VIRGIN ISLANDS 4 HURRICANE DAMAGE TO MAHOGANY CROWNS ASSOCIATED WITH SEED SOURCE CONTENTS 5 A NEW MESOAMERICAN COLLECTION OF BIG-LEAF MAHOGANY SECTION 2 ECOPHYSIOLOGY AND REGENERATION 6 PHOTOSYNTHETIC RESPONSE OF HYBRID MAHOGANY GROWN UNDER CONTRASTING LIGHT REGIMES 7 COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE NUTRITIONAL STATUS OF MAHOGANY PLANTATIONS IN PUERTO RICO 8 GROWTH-, WATER-, AND NUTRIENT-RELATED PLASTICITY IN HYBRID MAHOGANY LEAF DEVELOPMENT UNDER CONTRASTING LIGHT REGIMES 9 REGENERATION, GROWTH, AND SUSTAINABILITY OF MAHOGANY IN MÉXICO’S YUCATÁN FORESTS 10 REGENERATION OF BIG-LEAF MAHOGANY IN CLOSED AND LOGGED FORESTS OF SOUTHEASTERN PARÁ, BRAZIL 11 EFFECTS OF LARGE-SCALE FLOODING ON REGENERATION OF BIG-LEAF MAHOGANY IN THE BOLIVIAN AMAZON 12 REGENERATION AFTER HURRICANE DISTURBANCE OF BIG-LEAF AND HYBRID MAHOGANY PLANTATIONS IN PUERTO RICO SECTION 3 SILVICULTURE 13 SILVICULTURAL SYSTEMS FOR BIG-LEAF MAHOGANY PLANTATIONS 14 ENRICHMENT PLANTING OF BIG-LEAF MAHOGANY AND SPANISH CEDAR IN QUINTANA ROO, MÉXICO 15 STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS OF MAHOGANY PLANTATIONS IN PUERTO RICO 16 MAHOGANY PLANTING AND RESEARCH IN PUERTO RICO AND THE U S VIRGIN ISLANDS 17 FIFTY-NINE-YEAR PERFORMANCE OF PLANTED BIG-LEAF MAHOGANY (SWIETENIA MACROPHYLLA KING) IN PUERTO RICO 18 WOOD DENSITIES OF MAHOGANIES IN PUERTO RICAN PLANTATIONS 19 EVALUATION OF FOUR TAUNGYA PERMANENT BIG-LEAF MAHOGANY PLOTS, AGED 36 TO 38 YEARS, IN BELIZE 20 GROWTH OF SMALL-LEAF MAHOGANY CROP TREES IN ST CROIX, U S VIRGIN ISLANDS SECTION 4 SHOOT BORER 21 TAXONOMY, ECOLOGY, AND CONTROL OF HYPSIPYLA SHOOT BORERS OF MELIACEAE 22 RESISTANCE TO THE SHOOT BORER IN MAHOGANIES ALLAN D WATT, ADRIAN C NEWTON, AND SECTION 5 EPILOGUE 23 RECENT LITERATURE ON BIG-LEAF MAHOGANY ABSTRACT IN MAHOGANY, MANY OF THE PROBLEMS CON- FRONTING TROPICAL RAIN FORESTS WORLDWIDE ARE SEEN IN MICROCOSM, YET IN SOME IMPORTANT WAYS THE GENUS IS UNIQUE IT IS UNUSUAL AMONG WELL-KNOWN TROPICAL TIMBERS IN HAVING POORLY KNOWN ECOLOGICAL REQUIRE- MENTS MOST TROPICAL TIMBERS HAVE LOW UNIT VALUE AND ARE INTERCHANGEABLE MAHOGANY HAS THRICE THEIR VALUE AND IS A HIGH-QUALITY CABINET WOOD WITH UNIQUE PROPER- TIES IT IS UNUSUAL AMONG CABINET WOODS IN BEING A STRONG LIGHT DEMANDER AND FAST GROWER THAT DOES WELL IN PLAN- TATIONS THUS, MAHOGANY HOLDS GREAT PROMISE FOR THE FUTURE ATTEMPTS TO CONTROL ITS TRADE SUFFER FAMILIAR PROBLEMS OF MISINFORMATION AND MISSING INFORMATION THE NATURAL RANGE IS VAST, AND, ALTHOUGH THE SPECIES IS NOT ON THE VERGE OF EXTINCTION, GENETIC EROSION HAS BEEN ALLEGED SUSTAINABLE EXPLOITATION IS HAMPERED BY INADE- QUATE KNOWLEDGE OF ITS REGENERATION ECOLOGY AND THE ALL TOO COMMON PRACTICAL PROBLEMS OF RULE ENFORCEMENT 1 MAHOGANY: TREE OF THE FUTURE