Talk:Dipterocarpaceae

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Sources?
Hopea and Dryobalanops are listed as being over 80 m tall, but no source is given. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 139.133.7.37 (talk) 15:26, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
 * References added. Krasanen (talk) 21:55, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

The article could be bigger and with red words in BLUE, please
"why are they important? what habitat are they living? what animals eat their seeds? are they important economically? what minerals or grounds they need?" I ask you if you could enlarge Dipterocarpaceae making better known this group of trees in Wikipedia, adding links to "Dipterocarpaceae" and information about  "Dipterocarpaceae" existence on topics as trees articles in tropical articles or botanical or biodiversity articles. You are welcome if you want edit this article, Lauraceae or some genera or species in these families or another one. Really, there are few knowledge about tropical and subtropical trees and they are so many. I thank you very much your help.Curritocurrito (talk) 20:13, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

Knowledge of Dipterocarpaceae
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Hi Curritocurrito, thanks for your post at WikiProject Forestry. If you could elaborate a little more either there or at Talk:Dipterocarpaceae about what specific additions you might suggest for that article, that would be helpful. Thanks, DA Sonnenfeld (talk) 19:04, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your reply. I suggest that you add your questions -- "why are they important? what habitat are they living? what animals eat their seeds? are they important economically? what minerals or grounds they need?" -- to the Talk:Dipterocarpaceae page. That will help others think about how they might contribute to that article. DA Sonnenfeld (talk) 20:03, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

I don't get much time to edit Wikipedia pages, but am slowly trying to creat stubs for all the Dipterocarps and correct errors in existing stubs/article. If anyone is interested in editing these pages and needs access to primary sources - I have a reasonable collection of papers (mainly for SE Asia) and can send pdfs.

RE: the questions raised above

are they important economically? - they use to be the main timber export from SE Asia. I don't have figures for what % of the timber trade they account for now

what minerals or grounds they need?- variable - there is a high degree of habitat speacilsation. Some species only occur in Peatswamps, other in poor sand soils i.e. heath forests, others on rich clay soils.

what animals eat their seeds? - when they fruit, which varies from yearly in some of the Sri Lankan species to onces every x (2-16) years in some of the Borneo species - they are an important food source. Sepilok2007 (talk) 23:16, 23 May 2012 (UTC) ***Preceding unsigned comment added by Curritocurrito (talk • contribs)

These trees are both economically and ecologically important - although disappearing fast! I am trying to clarify what we have here in Cat Tien National Park and will contribute - although only an amateur botanist ... Roy Bateman (talk) 03:36, 22 January 2014 (UTC)

Reverted to an older version
I reverted the page back to the May 2012 version. I did this because much of what was added was complete rubbish and not worth the time editing. Sepilok2007 (talk) 11:54, 8 June 2012 (UTC)

Ecology section
Much of the ecology info is incorrect. Bees are only important for the large flowered species - Parashorea, Dipterocarpus and some of the larger flowered Shoreas. Most of the other use a mixture of thrips/beetles. Most species don't flower annually, but participate in the General FloweringSepilok2007 (talk) 06:43, 13 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Perhaps this is an example of relying on a single flora, in this case perhaps the one for Thailand. (I don't have access to that document.) I've seen that sort of thing happen with the Flora of China, which is very accessible online, that the description only covers the taxa that occur in China, but some editors don't realize that the species that occur elsewhere have different characteristics. Sminthopsis84 (talk) 16:18, 13 October 2012 (UTC)
 * I agree Sminthopsis - the Thai Dipts are also only a small portion of the Dipts. A slightly better easily accessibl source would be the CIFOR publications on Dipterocarps — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sepilok2007 (talk • contribs) 23:14, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

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