Porcupine! 23 - Recent Publications

Beakes, W.J., Mackie, A., Saunders, R. and Caley, K.J. (2000) Plant Diversity. The Virtual School of Biodiversity, Scholar's Desktop CD ROM version 2.01.

Carey, G.J., Chalmers, M.L., Diskin, D.A., Kennerley, P.R., Leader, P.J., Leven, M.R., Lewthwaite, R.W., Melville, D.S., Turnbull, M. and Young, L. (2001) The Avifauna of Hong Kong. Hong Kong Bird Watching Society, Hong Kong. [Contains details of status, distribution and any historical changes in abundance of all species that have been recorded in Hong Kong]

Chan, B.K.K., Gray, J.S and Caley, K.J. (2000) Spatial Variations in Biodiversity. The Virtual School of Biodiversity, Scholar's Desktop version CD ROM version 2.01.

Chow, S. and Hui, L. (2001) Green Outdoor Activity Guide. Green Power, Hong Kong, 84 pp.

Davies, P.M.C. and Dudgeon, D. (2000) Human Origins. The Virtual School of Biodiversity, Scholar's Desktop CD ROM version 2.01.

Davies, P.M.C. and Dudgeon, D. (2000) Primates. The Virtual School of Biodiversity, Scholar's Desktop CD ROM version 2.01.

Dudgeon, D. and Corlett, R.T. (2001) Biodiversity Survey (Version 2.0). Department of Ecology and Biodiversity, The University of Hong Kong: 1 CD-ROM and 111 pp.

Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden (2001) Report of a Rapid Biodiversity Assessment at Nanweiling Forest Area, Central Hainan, 1 to 2 April 1998. South China Forest Biodiversity Survey Report Series: No. 1. KFBG, Hong Kong, 10 pp.

Pointing S.B. and Hyde K.D. (eds) (2001) Bio-Exploitation of Filamentous Fungi. Fungal Diversity Press, The University of Hong Kong, 467pp.

Saunders, R. M. K. (2001) Schisandraceae. [Species Plantarum: Flora of the World 4]. Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra, 62 pp.

Williams, G.A., Caley, K.J. and Trewhella, W.J. (2000) Algae. The Virtual School of Biodiversity, Scholar's Desktop CD ROM version 2.01.

Ades, G., Banks, C.B., Buhlmann, K.A., Chan, B., Chang, H.C., Chen, T.H., Crow, P., Haupt, H., Kan, R., Lai, J.-Y., Lau, M., Lin, H.-C. and Shi, H. (2000) Turtle trade in northeast Asia: regional summary (China, Hong Kong and Taiwan). In: van Dijk, P.P., Stuart, B.L. and Rhodin, A.G.J. (eds.) Asian turtle trade: proceedings of a workshop on conservation and trade of freshwater turtles and tortoises in Asia. Chelonian Research Foundation, Lunenburg, pp. 52-54.

Bridson, D.M. (2000) The identity of Tsiangia (Rubiaceae). Kew Bulletin 55: 1011-1012. [The Hong Kong "endemic": she says it is Ixora chinensis]

Brock, P.D. and Seow-Choen, F. (2000) The stick insects (Insecta: Phasmida) of Hong Kong. Serangga 5: 115-147. [Describes 9 species, including 5 that are new to science]

Cheung, W.L and Sadovy, Y. (2001) From food to feed. About Life. World Wide Fund for Nature Hong Kong. Spring 2001 p. 5.

Corlett, R.T. (2001) Pollination in a degraded tropical Landscape: a Hong Kong case study. Journal of Tropical Ecology 17: 155-161.

Corlett, R.T. and Hau, B.C.H. (2000) Seed dispersal and forest restoration. In: Elliott, S., Kerby, J., Blakesley, B., Hardwick, K., Woods, K. and Anusarnsunthorn, V. (eds.) Forest Restoration for Wildlife Conservation. International Tropical Timber Organization and The Forest Restoration Research, Chiang Mai University, Thailand, pp. 317-325.

Davies, A.M., Aitchison, J.C., Flood, P.G., Morton, B.S., Baker, R.G.V. and Haworth, R.J. (2000) Late Holocene higher sea level indicators from the South China coast. Marine Biology 171: 1-5.

Davis, A.P., Bridson, D., Jarvis, C. and Govaerts, R. (2001) The typification and characterization of the genus Psychotria L. (Rubiaceae). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 135: 35-42.

Dominy, N.J. and Lucas, P.W. (2001) Ecological importance of trichromatic vision to primates. Nature 410: 363-366.

Frohlich, J., Hyde, K.D. and Petrini, O. (2000) Endophytic fungi associated with palms. Mycological Research 104: 1202-1212.

Gu, J., Belay, B. and Mitchell, R. (2000) Protection of catheter surfaces from adhesion of Pseudomonas aeruginosa by a combination of silver ions and lectins. World Journal of Microbiology & Biotechnology 17: 173-179.

Hao, G., Chye, M.-L. and Saunders, R.M.K. (2001) A phylogenetic analysis of the Schisandraceae based on morphology and nuclear ribosomal ITS sequences. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 135: 401-411.

Harper, E.M., Hide, E.A. and Morton, B.S. (2001) Relationships between the extant Anomalodesmata: a cladistic test. In: Harper, E.M., Crame, J.A. and Taylor, J.D. (eds.) The Evolutionary Biology of the Bivalvia. The Geological Society of London, Special Publications 177: 129-143.

Harper, K.D. and Williams, G.A. (2001) Variation in abundance and distribution of the chiton Acanthopleura japonica and associated molluscs on a seasonal, tropical, rocky shore. Journal of Zoology 253: 293-300.

Hill, R.D. (2000) Laboratory tests of water-absorbing gel for Vetiver Planting. The Vetiver Newsletter 22: 17.

Hill, R.D. (2000) Observations on the formation and character of Vetiver Tiller. The Vetiver Newsletter 22: 14.

Hodgkiss, I.J. (2000) The N:P ratio revisited. Proceedings of a Regional Symposium on the Prevention and Management of Harmful Algal Blooms in the South China Sea, Daya Bay and Hong Kong, November 2000.

Hodgkiss, I.J., Chan, L.L. and Lo, S.C.L. (2000) Preliminary study of identifying HAB species using Isoelectric Focusing (IEF) and Two-dimensional SDS polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis (2-D page). Proceedings of a Regional Symposium on the Prevention and Management of Harmful Algal Blooms in the South China Sea, Daya Bay and Hong Kong, November 2000.

Hodgkiss, I.J. and Lu, S. (2000) Establishment of Hong Kong's first algal culture collection focused on harmful species. Proceedings of a Regional Symposium on the Prevention and Management of Harmful Algal Blooms in the South China Sea, Daya Bay and Hong Kong, November 2000.

Hyde, K.D., Ho, W.H., Jones, E.B.G. Tsui, K.M. and Wong, W.S.W. (2000) Torrentispora fibrosa gen. sp. nov. (Annulatascaceae) from freshwater habitats. Mycological Research 104: 1399-1403. [New genus from Tai Po Kau stream]

Hu, W.F., Lo, W., Chua, H., Sin, S.N. and Yu, P.H.F. (2001) Nutrient release and sediment oxygen demand in a eutrophic land-locked embayment in Hong Kong. Environment International 26: 369-375 [Tolo Harbour].

Jefferson, T.A. and Karczmarski, L. (2001) Sousa chinensis. Mammalian Species 655: 1-9.

Jim, C.Y. (2001) Ecological and landscape rehabilitation of a quarry site in Hong Kong. Restoration Ecology 9: 85-94.

Lam, H.Y.I. and Hodgkiss, I.J. (2000) An overview on red tides in Hong Kong. Proceedings of a Regional Symposium on the Prevention and Management of Harmful Algal Blooms in the South China Sea, Daya Bay and Hong Kong, November 2000.

Lau, M.W.N. (2000) Diversity of Hong Kong amphibians and the threats they face. In: Xu Zhihong (Chief Editor) China’s Biodiversity Conservation Toward the 21^st Century. Proceedings of the Third National Symposium on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biological Diversity. China Forestry Publishing House, Beijing, pp.182-186 (In Chinese with English abstract).

Lau M., Chan B, Crow P and Ades G. (2000) Trade and conservation of turtles and tortoises in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People's Republic of China. In: van Dijk, P.P., Stuart, B.L. and Rhodin, A.G.J. (eds.) Asian turtle trade: proceedings of a workshop on conservation and trade of freshwater turtles and tortoises in Asia. Chelonian Research Foundation, Lunenburg, pp. 39-44.

Lau, M. and Shi, H. (2000) Conservation and trade of terrestrial and freshwater turtles and tortoises in the People's Republic of China. In: van Dijk, P.P., Stuart, B.L. and Rhodin, A.G.J. (eds.) Asian turtle trade: proceedings of a workshop on conservation and trade of freshwater turtles and tortoises in Asia. Chelonian Research Foundation, Lunenburg, pp. 30-38.

Lau, P.P.F. and Sadovy, Y. (2001) Gonad structure and sexual pattern in two threadfin breams and possible function of the dorsal accessory duct. Journal of Fish Biology 58: 1438-1453.

Lee, S.Y., Fong, C.W. and Wu, R.S.S. (2001) The effects of seagrass (Zostera japonica) canopy structure on associated fauna: a study using artificial seagrass units and sampling of natural beds. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 259: 23-50.

Leung, S.F. and Morton, B.S. (2000) The population dynamics of Metapenaeus ensis (De Haan) (Crustacea: Penaeidae) in the Mai Po Marshes Nature Reserve, Hong Kong. Asian Marine Biology 17: 77-99.

Lu, S. and Hodgkiss, I.J. (2000) Identifying important harmful dinoflagellates in Hong Kong Waters. Proceedings of a Regional Symposium on the Prevention and Management of Harmful Algal Blooms in the South China Sea, Daya Bay and Hong Kong, November 2000.

Mahunka, S. (2000) Oribatids from Hong Kong III (Acari: Oribatida: Microzetidae and Oribatulidae) (Acarologica Genavensia XCV). Archives Des Sciences (Geneva) 53: 177-184. [Describes two new species in two new genera from Tai Mo Shan]

Martin, J.H. (2001) Description of an invasive new species of Neotropical aleurodicine whitefly (Hemiptera Aleyrodidae) … a case of complete or partial misidentification? Bulletin of Entomological Research 91: 101-107. [Found on crops in Hong Kong]

Mitchell, R. and Gu, J. (2000) Changes in the biofilm microflora of limestone caused by atmospheric pollutants. International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation 46: 299-303.

Morton, B.S. (2000) The pallial eyes of Ctenoides floridanus (Bivalvia; Limidae). Journal of Molluscan Studies 66: 449-455.

Morton, B.S. (2000) Hong Kong's international malacological and marine biological workshops: their successes and achievements. National Taiwan Museum Special Publication Series 10: 1-18.

Morton, B.S. (2000) Editorial: The Republic does not need scientists! Marine Pollution Bulletin 40: 721-722.

Morton, B.S. (2000) Editorial: Fishing in the South China Sea. Marine Pollution Bulletin 40: 287-288.

Morton, B.S. (2000) Editorial: Sustainable development. Marine Pollution Bulletin 40: 563-564.

Morton, B.S. (2000) Editorial: Scientific déja vu. Marine Pollution Bulletin 40: 887-888.

Morton, B.S. (2001) The function of pallial eyes within the Pectinidae, with a description of those present in Patinopecten yessoensis. In: Harper, E.M., Crame, J.A. and Taylor, J.D. (eds.) The Evolutionary Biology of the Bivalvia. The Geological Society of London, Special Publications 177: 247-255.

Pearce, C.A., Reddell, P. and Hyde, K.D. (2001) Revision of the Phyllachoraceae (Ascomycota) on hosts in the angiosperm family, Proteaceae. Australian Systematic Botany 14: 283-328.

Poonyth, A.D., Hyde, K.D., Aptroot, A. and Peerally, A. (2000) Mauritiana rhizophorae gen. et sp. nov. (Ascomycetes, Requienellaceae), with a list of terrestrial saprobic mangrove fungi. Fungal Diversity 4: 101-116.

Poonyth, A.D., Hyde, K.D. and Peerally, A (2001) Colonisation of Bruguiera gymnorrhiza and Rhizophora mucronata wood by marine fungi. Botanica Marina 44: 75-80.

Quednau, F.W. (2001) World review of the genus Tinocallis (Hemiptera: Aphididae, Calaphidinae) with description of a new species. Canadian Entomologist 133: 197-213. [T. dalbergicola described from Dalbergia hancei in Hong Kong]

Rainbow, P.S. and Blackmore, G. (2001) Barnacles as biomonitors of trace metal availabilities in Hong Kong coastal waters: changes in space and time. Marine Environmental Research 51: 441-463.

Sadovy, Y. (2001) The live reef food fish trade in Hong Kong: Problems and prospects. In: B.C. Paust and A.A. Rice (eds.), Marketing and shipping live aquatic products: Proceedings of the Second International Conference and Exhibition, November 1999, Seattle, WA. University of Alaska Sea Grant, AK-SG-01-03. pp. 183-192.

Sadovy, Y. (2000) Regional survey for fry/fingerling supply and current practices for grouper mariculture: evaluating current status and long-term prospects for grouper mariculture in South East Asia. Final report to the Collaborative APEC grouper research and development network (FWG 01/99). December, 2000. 109 pp + plates. [http://www.enaca.org/grouper/News/2001/02/survey.htm]

Salas, M. and Dudgeon, D. (2001) Stable-isotope determination of mayfly (Insecta: Ephemeroptera) food sources in three tropical Asian streams. Archiv fur Hydrobiologie 151: 17-32.

Schintlmeister, A. and Fang C.L. (2001) New and less known Notodontidae from mainland China (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Notodontidae). Neue Entomologische Nachrichten 50: 1-141. [Includes 3 species from Hong Kong, illustrated in colour]

Shan, X.C., Weatherhead, M.A., Song, S.Q. and Hodgkiss, I.J. (2000) Malondialdehyde content and superoxide dismutase activity in seed of Phaius tankervilliae (Orchidaceae) during storage. Lindleyana 15: 176-183.

Shan, X.C., Weatherhead, M.A. and Hodgkiss, I.J. (2000) Studies on symbiotic germination of Spathoglottis pubescens. Malayan Orchid Review 34: 82-88.

Sin, S.N., Chua, H., Lo, W. and Ng, L.M. (2001) Assessment of heavy metals in sediments of Shing Mun River, Hong Kong. Environment International 26: 297-301.

Siu, G. and Chau, L. (2000) Conservation of Native Orchids in Hong Kong. In: Xu Zhihong (Chief Editor) China’s Biodiversity Conservation Toward the 21^st Century. Proceedings of the Third National Symposium on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biological Diversity. China Forestry Publishing House, Beijing, pp. 222-229 (In Chinese with English abstract).

Tang, S., Hodgkiss, I.J. and Dickman, M.D. (2000) Distribution of Chlorophyll biomass in reverse to the nutrient gradient in Hong Kong waters. Proceedings of a Regional Symposium on the Prevention and Management of Harmful Algal Blooms in the South China Sea, Daya Bay and Hong Kong, November 2000.

Trewhella, W.J., Davies, P.M.C., Chan, K.K. and Williams, G.A. (2000) Inter-Institutional Collaborative Teaching in the Virtual School of Biodiversity. The Tenth International WWW Conference - Poster Proceedings, pp.116-117.

Tsui, K.M, Goh, T.K., Hyde, K.D. and Hodgkiss, I.J. (2001) New species or records of Cacumisporium, Helicosporium, Monotosporella and Bahusutrabeeja on submerged wood in Hong Kong streams. Mycologia 93: 389-397.

Tsui, K.M., Hyde, K.D. and Hodgkiss, I.J. (2001) Colonization patterns of wood-inhabiting fungi on baits in Hong Kong rivers, with reference to the effects of organic pollution. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 79: 33-38.

Utteridge, T.M.A. and Saunders, R.M.K. (2000). Maesa reflexa (Maesaceae): a new species from Mindanao, Philippines. Kew Bulletin 55: 981-984.

Wang, Y., Shen, P.P., Qi, Y.Z., Xie, L.C., Lu, S. and Hodgkiss, I.J. (2000) Comparative studies on the growth characteristic of Phaeocystis globosa Scheffel under different temperatures. Proceedings of a Regional Symposium on the Prevention and Management of Harmful Algal Blooms in the South China Sea, Daya Bay and Hong Kong, November 2000.

Weerasooriya, A.D. and Saunders, R.M.K. (2001) Three new species of Mitrephora (Annonaceae) from Sabah, Malaysia. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 135: 305-313.

Wewalka, G. (2000) Taxonomic revision of Allopachria (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae). Entomological Problems 31: 97-128. [Describes 2 new species from Hong Kong]

Williams, G.A. and Little, C. (2001) Preliminary observations on algal growth under limpet (Patella vulgata) home scars. Journal of the Marine Biological Association, U.K. 81: 175-176.

Wilson, K.D.P. and Reels, G.T. (2001) Odonata of Hainan. Odonatologica 30: 145-208.

Wilson, K.D.P. and Zhou W-B (2000) Sinocnemis yangbingi gen. nov., sp. nov. and Sinocnemis dumontia sp. n., new platycnemidids from south-west China (Odonata: Plactycnemididae). International Journal of Odonatology 3: 173-177.

Wilson, K.D.P. (2000) Notes on the genus Rhipidolestes with descriptions of two new species from South China (Zygoptera: Megapodagrionidae). Odonatologica 29: 45-50.

Wong, C.K., Wong, P.P.K. and Chu, L.M. (2001) Heavy metal concentrations in marine fishes collected from fish culture sites in Hong Kong. Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 40: 60-69.

Wong, L.C., Corlett, R.T., Young, L. and S.Y. Lee (2001) Utilization of wetlands by ardeids in Starling Inlet, Hong Kong: a year-round study and a comparison between the census and flight-line methods. Waterbirds 24: 153-160.

Wong, M.K.M and Hyde, K.D. (2001) Fungi on grasses: new species of Ascotaiwania, Diaporthe and Oxydothis (Ascomycetes). Cryptogamie Mycologie 22: 19-28. [Four new species from Hong Kong]

Wong, W.H. and Cheung, S.G. (2001) Feeding rates and scope for growth of green mussels, Perna viridis (L.) and their relationship with food availability in Kat O, Hong Kong. Aquaculture 193: 123-137.

Wong, W.H. and Cheung, S.G. (2001) Feeding rhythms of the green-lipped mussel, Perna viridis (Linnaeus, 1758) (Bivalvia: Mytilidae) during spring and neap tidal cycles. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 257: 13-36.

Xie, H. and Feng, Z.X. (2000) Description of two species of genus Hirschmanniella from Hong Kong. Journal of the South China Agricultural University 21: 53-55. [Nematodes!]

Yang, K. and Lam, K.C. (2001) Cumulative impact assessment: problems and practice in China Mainland and Hong Kong. Huanjing Kexue 22: 120-125.

Yang, Z. and Hodgkiss, I.J. (2000) Potentially harmful Pseudo-Nitzschia species in Hong Kong. Proceedings of a Regional Symposium on the Prevention and Management of Harmful Algal Blooms in the South China Sea, Daya Bay and Hong Kong, November 2000.

Yang, Z.B., Takayama, H., Matsuoka, K. and Hodgkiss, I.J. (2000) Karenia digitala sp. nov. (Gymnodiniales, Dinophyceae), a new harmful algal bloom species from the coastal waters of west Japan and Hong Kong. Phycologia 39: 463-470.

Yang, Z.B., Hodgkiss, I.J. and Hansen, G. (2001) Karenia longicanalis sp. nov. (Dinophyceae): a new bloom-forming species isolated from Hong Kong, May 1998. Botanica Marina 44: 67-74.

Yanna, Ho, W.H., Goh, T.K. and Hyde, K.D. (2000) A new species of Everhartia associated with leaf spots of Phoenix hanceana from Hong Kong. Botanical Journal of the Linnean-Society 134: 465-470.

Young, J.J. (2000) A brief note on the life history of Tajuria maculata (Hewitson) Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae in Hong Kong, PRC. Futao 33: 11-16.

Yuen, T.K., Hyde, K.D. and Hodgkiss, I.J. (2000) Soft rot decay in tropical freshwater fungi. Material und Organismen 79: 33-38.

Zhang, D.X. and Saunders, R.M.K. (2001) ['2000']. Systematics of the Burmannia coelestis complex (Burmanniaceae). Nordic Journal of Botany 20: 385-394.

Zheng, G.J., Lam, M.H.W., Lam, P.K.S., Richardson, B.J., Man, B.K.W. and Li, A.M.Y. (2001) Concentrations of persistent organic pollutants in surface sediments of the mudflat and mangroves at Mai Po marshes nature reserve, Hong Kong. Marine Pollution Bulletin 40: 12, 1210-1214.

Zhou, D. Hyde, K.D. and Lu, B.S. (2000) Striatodecospora gen. nov. from bamboo in Hong Kong. Mycotaxon 76: 141-147.

Zhou, H. (2001) Effects of leaf litter addition on meiofaunal colonization of azoic sediments in a subtropical mangrove in Hong Kong. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 256: 99-121.

Zhou W-B. and Wilson, K.D.P. (2001) Priscagrion kiautai gen. nov., sp. nov., and Priscagrion pinheyi sp. nov., new damselflies from southwestern China (Zygoptera: Megapodagrionidae). Odonatologica 30: 117-121.

Zhuang, X. and Maxwell, G. (2000) Improving ecological impact assessment to enhance conservation of China's ecological resources. Urban Environment and Urban Ecology 13: 23-25. [Chinese with English abstract]

We try to list ALL recent publications on the ecology and biodiversity of Hong Kong - plus a few other things that we think may be of interest. If we have omitted anything that you think should have been included, or if you have published anything that you think we are likely to miss, please let us know.

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