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Welcome to the fig page for figs. We noticed the lack of lay information about figs in spite of them being one of the keystone species in the tropical forests and hope to remedy that oversight by researching figs starting with Singapore's.

The importance of figs in the tropical rainforest in one word: food.

Animals like the birds and the mammals need food on a daily basis. While fruits are a great source of energy, most plants fruit on a seasonal basis - meaning that animals cannot depend on those plants all year long. However, the fig depends on small wasps with short lifespans for pollination which means that for a fig species to survive, every time one fig tree ripens, there must be another of the same species within flight range of the wasp to pollinate.
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Bibliography:
Corner, E J H.
1988 [1940]. Wayside Trees of Malaya Vol. 2 (3rd ed). Kuala Lumpur: Malayan Nature Society.

King, Sir George.
1888. The species of ficus of the Indo-Malayan and Chinese countries, Annals of the Royal Botanic Garden. Calcutta.

Lambert, F. R.
1989. "Fig-eating by birds in a Malaysian lowland rain forest." IN J. Trop. Ecol. 5: 401-412.
1989. "Pigeons as seed predators and dispersers of figs in a Malaysian lowland forest." IN Ibis 131: 521-530.
1990. "Some notes on fig-eating by arboreal mammals in Malaysia." IN Primates 31: 453-458.
1992. "Fig dimorphism in bird-dispersed gynodioecious Ficus." IN Biotropica 24: 214-216.

Lambert, F. R. and A. G. Marshall
1991. "Keystone characteristics of bird-dispersed Ficus in a Malaysian lowland rain forest." IN Journal of Ecology 79: 793-809.
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