VITA

David W. Lee
Department of Biological Sciences
Florida International University
March 2002 Miami, Florida 33199
Voice 305 348-3111 Fax 348-1986
Email leed@fiu.edu

PERSONAL:
Born: 10 December 1942 in Wenatchee Washington.
Societies: Sigma Xi, Botanical Society of America, Association for Tropical Biology, Ecological Society of America, Malaysian Nature Society.
Languages: English; French (read, write and speak); Malay (speak).

EDUCATION:
1970 Ph.D. in Botany, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
1968 M.S. in Botany, Rutgers University.
1966 B.S. in Biology Cum laude, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington.
1961 Diploma, Ephrata Senior High School, Ephrata, Washington.

EXPERIENCE:
Employment
1980-now Florida International University. Associate Professor 1983, Professor 1991.
1994-97 Florida International University. Chairperson of the Department of Environmental Studies,
1978-80 Self-employed as a carpenter and in operating a mail order business in Warwick, NY. Teaching at Upsala
College and Orange County Community College.
1977-78 Maître de Conférènce Associé (Visiting Professor) Institute Botanique, Université Montpellier II, France.
1973-76 Lecturer Department of Botany, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
1970-72 Post-doctoral Fellow, then Instructor and Research Associate, at the Ohio State University, Columbus.
In Microbiology, Botany, and the Institute of Polar Studies. Research
1997-now Everglades: functional ecology of wetlands plants
1989-99 Harvard Forest: dynamics of pigment change during leaf senescence; India; Operation Canopee, La Makande, Gabon: plant secondary chemistry in the canopy and understory
1988-now Tropical forest ecology, forest tree seedling development, functional ecology: Asia.
1980-now Evolution and adaptation in humid forest plants; environmental problems in developing
countries; agroforestry. Field research in Costa Rica, Panama, Honduras, Haiti, India and Malaysia.
1984-85 Indo-American Fellow. At Madurai Kamaraj University and Bhavan's College, Bombay.
Light environments and plant development in tropical forests; agro-forestry, germ plasm collections of multiple use trees.
1979-80 Honorary Research Associate, New York Botanical Garden.
1977-78 In France: tropical botany, tree architecture, field research in French Guyana.
1976-77 Travel and field research: India, Syria, Greece, Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, Spain, France, Switzerland,
England, United States.
1973-76 Malaysia and surrounding countries. Tropical botany: the biochemistry of seed proteins and leaf adaptations in tropical humid forest plants, extensive fieldwork.
1970-72 The Ohio State University: plant tissue culture, plant population biology, protein biochemistry and enzymology.
1966-70 Rutgers University. Protein biochemistry, immunology and plant systematics.

Education
1980-now Taught and developed courses in general biology, botany, economic botany, plant physiology, tropical
botany, plant morphology, The meaning of the garden, senior seminar, graduate level tropical botany, Photobiology, biochemical ecology, scientific method, functional ecology of tropical plants, teaching for Dade County Schools: laboratory methods and remedial biology, summer camp for gifted students, presentations to gifted students K-8.
1978-80. Taught general biology and anatomy and physiology for nurses at Orange Community College; taught
general biology and environmental science at Upsala College. Taught general science for 5th and 6th graders at the Amity School. Developed slide programs as teaching aids.
1977-78 Taught advanced tropical botany and senior botany in French.
1973-76 Taught morphology of pteridophytes and gymnosperms, general biology, experimental taxonomy, and honors seminar at the University of Malaya. Developed teaching aids for the Ministry of Education with a Ford Foundation Grant.
1970-72 Taught general botany, lectured in cell biology, and taught a graduate seminar for the Institute of Polar Studies. Developed three large multi-media educational presentations with the Teaching Aids Laboratory at OSU.
1966-70 Assisted in General Biology. Service University of Malaya. Board of Directors, Malayan Nature Society 1973-76, helped established Rimba Ilmu, the premier botanical garden in Malaysia.

Florida International University.
Departmental: Human Resources Committee, 1980-82, 1999-2001;
Graduate Committee, 1982-90, 93-92 (chair 82-84, established M.S. program);
Curriculum Committee Chair, 1985-87;
Alumni Affairs chair, 1989-94;
Awards, 89-92;
Glaser Committee 1991-93;
Chair, Department of Environmental Studies, 1994-97 (inaugurated department);
chaired search committees, 1982, 1992, 1998.
College/ University: Environmental Council 1980-93 (chaired program review 1991);
United Faculty of Florida, departmental steward 1985-91;
coordinated collaboration with Fairchild Tropical Garden 1985-1993 (established this);
Tenure and Promotion Committee 1987, 1996, 2000;
Faculty Senate 1989-92;
Chair of Sabbatical Leave Committee, 1991;
Landscape Advisory Committee 1986-94 (established and chaired, 1986-1988);
Environmental Management Advisory Committee 1995-97;
Athletic Council 1995-98 (chaired men’s basketball search 1995);
Environmental expert for Statewide Course Numbering System, 1995-98;
Affiliated Faculty in Religious Studies 1996-;
Arts and Sciences Research Awards Committee 1989-91;
TIP and PEP Awards Committee (college and university) 1996.

Professional.
Botanical Society of America 1966-: symposium chair 1992, 2001;
Tropical Botany Section Treasurer 1997-2000;
Tropical Botany chair for Botany for the Millenium 1997-98.
Frequent reviewer for: Journal of Tropical Ecology, Biotropica,
Oecologia, American Journal of Botany, Canadian Journal of
Botany, Plant Cell and Environment, International Journal of
Plant Science.

Awards
Elected to Sigma Xi 1969.
Indo-American Fellowship Award 1984;
Bullard Fellowship award at Harvard Forest 1998;
University Award for Service 1993;
University Award for Research 1995;
TIP recipient (teaching incentive program) award for state system in 1993;
recipient of PEP (professional enhancement program, for senior faculty) award for state system in 2000.

FUNDING:
Lectins in Southeast Asian Legumes, NIH $8700, 1974-76.
Filmstrips for Biology Education in Malaysian Schools, Ford Foundation $15,000, 1975-76.
The growth of shade plants in tropical humid forests, FIU Foundation $4900, 9/81-9/82.
Leaf structure and function in tropical humid forest shade, Whitehall Foundation $31,970, 9/83-5/86.
Biology of Indian forest plants, CIES Indo-American Fellowship Program appr. $35,000, 9/84-8/85.
Growth chambers: instrumentation for botanical research, NSF $54,212, 1988-90, co-PI with KR Downum. Improving experimental laboratories in undergraduate plant sciences, NSF $62,002, co-PI with JH Richards. 1988-90.
Heteroblasty in tropical forest vines, Provost's Summer Award $7948, 1988.
Blue iridescence in tropical rainforest plants, American Philosophical Society $1950, 9/88-8/89.
The function of anthocyanins in leaves of tropical forest understory plants, Provost's Summer Award $9971, 1991. Effects of light quality and quantity on the developmental ecology of Malaysian forest trees, NSF BSR-9020137, $113,000, 5/91 to 8/94, REU supplement 1993, $8400, travel supplement 1994, $1800, 3M materials donation appr. $12,000. Effects of light quality and quantity on the developmental ecology of Indian forest trees, NSF International Programs travel grant to India, appr. $2,000, 7/92.
The Miami Tree Puzzle, Pearce Foundation and FIU/FAU Joint Center, $5,000 + $6960, 9/91 to 6/93.
Effect of Light Quality and Quantity on the developmental ecology of Indian Forest Trees, NSF International Programs 7/97-6/2000, Rupees 1.2 million and US $28,800. No cost
Extension to 9/01
Numerical Interpretation of Class III Narrative Nutrient Water Criteria for Everglades Wetlands, various federal
agencies, 1997-2002, macrophyte portion approx. $80,000/yr.
8/98-12/98, $11,000, Charles Bullard Fellowship, Harvard University. 2/99-3/99, $2500, Operation Canopée travel and field stipend. 1/98-12/01, $240,000, Royal Society Marsden Grant, Anthocyanin charactisation and function in leaves of native New Zealand plants (co-PI with Kevin Gould), 1998-2000.

GRADUATE STUDENTS
Allan Herndon, M.S. 1988; Daniel Buisson, M.S. 1991;
Rita Graham, M.S. 1992; Maureen Sullivan, M.S. 1997;
Wesley Rogers, M.S. 2000, Martin Roberts, M.S. 2000, Robert Kirby, M.S. Environmental Studies 2000. Current: Jimi Sadle, M.S.; Braulio Saenz, Ph.D.; Jai Sah, Ph.D.; Julissa Roncal, Ph.D., Robin Curry, Ph.D.

PUBLICATIONS:
Presentations:
1967. Serological and disc electrophoretic studies of North American Typha. Amer. J. Bot. 54:660.
1968a. Comparative protein investigations of the Typhaceae and other monocotyledons. Amer. J. Bot. 55:738. (with D.E. Fairbrothers)
1968b. Comparative protein studies of bryophytes using serological and electrophoretic techniques. American
Bryological Society-AIBS Meetings. (With D.E. Fairbrothers)
1969a. Comparisons of proteins in bryophytes. Bull N.J. Acad. Sci. 14:64. (With D.E. Fairbrothers)
1969b. Enzyme differences between closely related taxa. Proc. XI Int. Congr. Botany 1:124. (With D.E. Fairbrothers)
1969c. Enzyme differences between adjacent populations of Typha. Society for the Study of Evolution-AAAS, Boston. (With D.E. Fairbrothers)
1970. Serological analysis of seed proteins from the Typhales and other monocots. Amer. J. Bot. 57:753. (With D.E. Fairbrothers)
1971. Isozyme variation between Typha populations. Amer. J. Bot. 58:465.
1972a. Serological approaches to plant systematics. ASPT-AIBS Symposium, Biochemistry and the Taxonomist.
1972b. Multi-media approaches to biological education: theatre and workshop. 25th AIBS Meetings.
1975. Isoenzyme analysis and tissue culture research. Proceedings of a National Tissue Culture Symposium, Rubber
Research Institute of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur.
1976. Toxic substances in legume seeds and their relevance to crop improvement. Proceedings of the National Seed Symposium, Universiti Pertanian, Malaysia.
1982a. Unexploited plants with promising nutritional value. The Nutrition Foundation, Food and Nutrition Liaison Committee. Naples, Florida.
1982b. Optical refraction by leaf epidermal cells of extreme shade plants: quantitative analysis and implications for
photosynthesis. BSA-AIBS Meetings. (With R.A. Bone)
1982c. On the selective advantage of leaf flush in mango and cacao. Society for Tropical Biology-AIBS. (With S. Brammeier)
1985. Environmental controls on leaf morphology in Eichhornia crassipes Solms. Amer. J. Bot. 72:828. (With J. Richards)
1986. Developmental responses of three tropical vines to simulated foliage shade. Amer. J. Bot 73:632.
1987a. Understanding plants and shade. 17th National Tropical Foliage Short Course, Orlando (10 January).
1987b. The selective advantage of palisade parenchyma in bifacial leaves. Amer. J. Bot. 74:618-619.
1988a. The sacred forest. Conference on Tropical Rainforests: Strategies for Wise Management, Florida International University, 28-31 January.
1988a. Ultrastructural basis for blue leaf iridescence in two neotropical ferns. Amer. J. Bot. 75:56-57.
1988c. Canopy dynamics and light climate in a tropical moist deciduous forest. Association for Tropical Biology (AIBS Meeting)
1989. Leaf architecture and light interception, in symposium on Biophysical principles in plant development. Amer J. Bot. 76:19.
1990. Ultrastructural basis and ecological significance of blue fruit iridescence in Elaeocarpus. Amer. J. Bot. 77:181-182.
1992. Light quality and the development of forest tree seedlings. Amer. J. Bot. 79(6):181. (with M. Mansor and S.K.
Yap)
1993. Response of two Malaysian dipterocarp seedlings to simulated forest shade. 30th Meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology, San Juan Puerto, Rico, June 1-4. (with M.
Mansor, S.K. Yap, and H. Mohamed)
1994. Responses of eight Malaysian rainforest tree seedlings to simulated forest shade. American Institute of Biological Sciences/Ecological Society of America annual meeting in Knoxville, Tennessee, 8/9. (with Daniel Baskaran, Marzalina Mansor, Haris Mohomad and son Kheong Yap.
1994. Forest shade and seedling development in five dipterocarps. Fifth Roundtable of Dipterocarps meeting, sponsored by several International Organizations including FAO, Chang Mai, Thailand, 15 November. (with same authors as above, plus Steven Oberbauer)
1995. Red undersurface coloration in two rainforest understory herbs. Association for Tropical Biology/AIBS 46th Annual Meetings, San Diego, 9 August. (with K.S.Gould, D.N. Kuhn, and S.F. Oberbauer)
1995. Physical and ultrastructural basis of blue leaf iridescence in four Malaysian understory plants. Botanical Society of America/AIBS 46th Annual Meetings, San Diego, 9 August. (with K.S.Gould)
1996. Light effects on seedling development in Jelutong (Dyera costulata (Miq.) Hk. fl., Apocynaceae. Amer. J. Bot. 83(6):71.
BSA/AIBS 47th annual meetings, Seattle, 5 August. (with S.F. Oberbauer, D. Baskaran, M. Mansor, H. Mohamad and S.K. Yap)
1997. Phylogenetic and ecological influences on the light responses of tropical asian rain forest tree seedlings. Amer.
J. Bot. 84:72. BSA/AIBS 48th annual meetings, Montreal, August. (with T. Turner and S. Dayanandan)
1998. Leaf colour in tropical plants: some progress and much mystery. The Stone Memorial Symposium, Malaysian nature Society/University Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, July.
1998. Red pigment distribution in leaves of tropical plants. Amer. J. Bot 85:13. BSA/AIBS 49th annual meetings, Baltimore.
August.1999. Seedling shade responses and functional ecology of Hopea helferei and H.odorata. 6th Round Table of the Dipterocarps, Bangalore, India, 12 February. (with S. F. Oberbauer, B. Krishnapilay and M. Mansor)
1999. Irradiance and spectral quality influence leaf structure and function in seedlings of two Hopea species. 84th ESA Meetings, Spokane, WA, August. (with S.F. Oberbauer)
2000. Structural fruit color in Delarbreamichieana (Araliaceae). American Journal of Botany 87:29. BSA 50th Annual
Meetings, Portland OR, August. (with G.T. Taylor and A.K. Irvine)
2001. Why leaves turn red: the function of anthocyanins in vegetative tissues. 1-day symposium at 51st BSA Meetings, Albuquerque, NM, August. (co-organizer with K. Gould and J. Wallace)
2001. Anthocyanins: history, developmental and phylogenetic constraints. 51st BSA Meetings, Albuquerque, NM, August.

General Articles and Books (not including reviews):
1973. Environmental problems in Malaysia: an overview. ITM Quarterly J. 5:24-30.
1974. New techniques in crop improvement. Planter (Kuala Lumpur) 50:295-306. (with K. Paranjothy)
1975. The mystery of the blue plants. The Straits Times Annual, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur, pp. 87-88.
1975. The economics of the durian. Malaysian Business, November, pp. 71-74.
1976. The natural history of Pulau Tioman. The Malayan naturalist 2(2):10-15.
1976. Modern biology: modern certificate guides. Oxford University Press, Kuala Lumpur. 160 p. (With C.N. Williams)
1977. Trips and tracks in Ulu Langat. The Malayan naturalist No. 3(2):32-48.
1977. The natural history of Pulau Tioman. Merlin Samudra Tioman, Kuala Lumpur. 69 p. (With B.C. Stone, M. Ratnasabapathy and T.T. Khoo)
1978. Ulangkaji kajihayat moden untok SPM. Penerbit Fajar Bakti, Kuala Lumpur. 174 p. (With C.N. Williams, Malay edition of the 1976 book)
1979. Begonia pavonina. The Begonian 46:210-213.
1979. Life out on a limb. Horticulture 57(12):30-35.
1980. The sinking ark: environmental problems in Southeast Asia. Heinemann Educational Books, Kuala Lumpur. 85 p.
1980. Durians. Horticulture 58(7):47-51.
1980. Padua. American Horticulturist 59(4):18-21.
1980. Iridescent blue plants. Horticulture 58(8):36-40.
1981. Montpellier: a thousand year plant heritage. American Horticulturist 60(4):28-33.
1982. Botanical education in South Florida. Fairchild Tropical Garden Bull. 37(1):6-15.
1983. Monster plants: a history. Fairchild Tropical Garden Bull. 38(3):6-11.
1984. The light environments in shade houses. Light and its measurement. Nurserymen's Digest 18(11):82-85. (With David Butler)
1985. The durian. Fairchild Tropical Garden Bull. 40:18-27.
1985. Trees of Gurudev Siddha Peeth. Gurudev Siddha Peeth, Ganeshpuri, India. 87 p.
1986. How plants use light. The light environments in shade houses. Nurserymen's Digest 20(10):77-81.
1989. Digota: an Indian Village. Fairchild Tropical Garden Bulletin 44:6-17.
1990. The sacred forest. Darshan Magazine #36(March):68-75.
1991. The silent valley. Darshan Magazine #57(December):79-81.
1992. Dandaka forest. Darshan Magazine #68(October):14-18.
1994. Rudraksha. the Taj Magazine 23(2):56-60.
1995. The meaning of the garden. Fairchild Tropical Garden Bulletin 50(2):14.
1997. Iridescent blue plants. American Scientist 85:56-63.
1997. Iridescent blue fern. Biophotonics International 4(2):86-87.

Scholarly Articles:
1969. A serological and disc electrophoretic study of North American Typha. Brittonia 21:227-243. (With D.E.
Fairbrothers)
1971. The placement of the Typhales within the monocots: a preliminary serological investigation. Taxon 21:39-44. (With D.E. Fairbrothers)
1972. Visualization of glutamine synthetase in polyacrylamide gels. Anal. Biochem. 47:313-14. (With D.K. Dougall)
1973. Isozyme analysis of wild carrot cells cultured in the presence and absence of 2,4-D. In Vitro 8:337-342. (with D.K. Dougall)
1973. Enzyme differences between adjacent parent and hybrid cat-tail populations. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 100:3-11. (With D.E. Fairbrothers)
1973. Glutamate dehydrogenase isoenzymes in Ricinuscommunis seedlings. Phytochem. 22:2631-2634.
1973. Effect of drought on Mount Kinabalu. Malayan Nat. J. 26:178-179. (With J.B. Lowry and B.C. Stone)
1975. Population variation and introgression in North American Typha. Taxon 24:633-641.
1975. Iridescent blue plants: physical basis and ecological significance. nature 254:50-51. (With J.B. Lowry)
1975. Serological evidence on the distinctness of the monocot families Flagellariaceae, Hanguanaceae and Joinvilliaceae. Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 70:77-81. (With F.Y. Liew and K.P. Yap)
1975. Lectins in some Malaysian legume species. Malaysian J. Sci. 3(A):89-93. (With V. Yao and F.Y. Liew)
1975. Isozyme variation in Colobanthusquitensis (Kunth.) Bartl.: methods and preliminary analysis. Br. Antarct. Surv.
Bull. No. 41 & 42:133-137. (With R.L. Postle)
1976. Flavonols lacking 5-substituents in heartwood of some tropical Leguminosae. Biochem. System. Ecol. 4:177-180. (With J.B. Lowry, N. Ng. and T.M. Wong)
1977. Toxic substances in legume seeds and their relevance to crop improvement. In H.F. Chin, I.C. Enoch and R.M. Raja Harun, eds.: Seed technology in the tropics. Penerbit Universiti Pertanian malaysia, Serdang. Pp. 103-110.
1977. Lectins, legumes and botanical gardens. In B.C. Stone, ed.: The aims and goals of tropical botanic gardens.
University of Malaya Press, Kuala Lumpur. Pp. 151-157.
1977. On iridescent plants. Gardens Bull (Singapore) 30:21-29.
1977. A survey of lectins in Southeast Asian Leguminosae. Planta Medica 31:83-93. (With G.S. Tan and F.Y. Liew)
1977. Genetic variation in wild populations of rainforest trees. Nature 269:323-325. (With Y.Y. Gan, F.W. Robertson, P.S. Ashton, and E. Soepadmo)
1979. Biological activity of seed proteins in Malesian legumes. Biotropica 12:75-86.
1979. Abaxial anthocyanin layer in leaves of tropical rain forest plants: enhancer of light capture in deep shade.
Biotropica 11:70-77. (With J.B. Lowry and B.C. Stone)
1980. The origin of land plants: a new look at an old problem. Taxon 29:183-197. (With J.B. Lowry and C. Hebant)
1980. Young-leaf anthocyanin and solar ultraviolet. Biotropica 12:75-76. (With J.B. Lowry)
1980. Solar ultraviolet on tropical mountains: can it affect plant speciation? Amer. Natur. 115:880-883. (With J.B. Lowry)
1980. Plant speciation on tropical mountains: Leptospermum (Myrtaceae) on Mount Kinabalu, Borneo. Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 80:223-242. (With J.B. Lowry)
1983. The origin of land plants: a reply to Swain. Taxon 32:101-103. (With J.B. Lowry and C. Hebant)
1984. Ultrastructural basis and developmental control of blue iridescence in Selaginella leaves. Amer. J. Bot.
71:216-219. (With C. Hebant)
1985. Duplicating foliage shade for research on plant development. HortScience 20:116-118.
1985. Epidermal cells function as lenses in leaves of tropical rainforest shade plants. Appl. Optics 24:1408-1412. (With R.A. Bone and J.M. Norman)
1986. Unusual strategies of light absorption in rainforest herbs. In T. Givnish, ed. The economics of plant form and
function. Cambridge University Press, New York. Pp. 105-131.
1986. Leaf optical properties of tropical forest extreme shade and sun plants. Amer. J. Bot. 73:1100-1108. (With R. Graham)
1986. Light environments and developmental control of leaf morphology in water hyacinth (Eichhorniacrassipes Solms.) mats. Amer. J. Bot. 73:1741-1777. (With J.H. Richards)
1986. Leaf optical properties of some Indian plants. Current Science (Bangalore) 55:923-925. (With K. Paliwal, K.A. Patel & D.N. Sen)
1987. The spectral distribution of radiation in two neotropical rain forests. Biotropica 19:161-166.
1987. The selective advantages of anthocyanins in developing leaves of mango and cacao. Biotropica 19:40-49. (With S. Brammeier and A.P. Smith)
1987. Leaf optical properties and spectral environments of five rabi crops in Maharashtra, India. Tropical Agriculture
64:329-332. (With S.L. Patel)
1988. The light climate of a South Indian tropical evergreen forest. GeoBios 15:3-6. (With K. Paliwal)
1988. Simulating forest shade to study the developmental ecology of tropical plants: juvenile growth in three vines. J.
Trop. Ecol. 4:281-292.
1989. Canopy dynamics and light climates in a tropical moist deciduous forest. J. Trop. Ecol. 5:65-79.
1990. Correlates of leaf optical properties in tropical forest
extreme shade and sun plants. Amer. J. Bot. 77:370-380. (with R. Bone, S. Tarsis and D. Storch)
1991. Heteroblastic development in vines. In H.A. Mooney and F.H. Putz, eds.: The biology of vines. Cambridge University Press, New York. (with J.H. Richards)
1991. The spectral distribution of biologically active solar radiation at Miami, Florida, USA. Int. J. Biometeorol. 35:48-54. (with K. Downum)
1991. Ultrastructural basis and function of iridescent blue colour of fruits in Eleocarpus. Nature 349:260-262.
1993. Physical and ultrastructural basis of blue leaf iridescence in two neotropical ferns. Amer. J. Bot. 80:198-
203. (with R. Graham and K. Norstog)
1993. The developmental responses of papaya leaves to simulated canopy shade. Amer. J. Bot. 80:947-952. (with D. Buisson)
1995. Why leaves are sometimes red. Nature 378:241-42. (with K. Gould, D. Kuhn and Steven Oberbauer)
1996. Physical and ultrastructural basis of blue leaf iridescence in four Malaysian understorey plants. American
Journal of Botany 83:45-50. (with Kevin Gould)
1996. Photosynthetic responses to contrasting light environments. In K. Winter and S. Mulkey and Robin Chazdon,
eds.: Tropical forest plant ecophysiology, pp. 5-55. Chapman and Hall, New York. (with R.L. Chazdon, R.W. Pearcy and N. Fetcher, Lee is 3rd author)
1996. Light intensity and spectral quality effects on Asian tropical rainforest tree seedling development. Ecology 77:568-580. (with K. Baskaran, M. Mansor, H. Mohamad and S.K. Yap)
1996. Seedling development of Gonostylusbancanus (Ramin Melawis) in response to light intensity and spectral quality. Journal of Tropical Forest Science 8:520-531. (with K. Baskaran, M. Mansor, H. Mohamad and S.K. Yap)
1996. Forest shade and seedling development in five dipterocarps. In S. Appahah and K.C. Khoo, eds.: Proceedings
of the Fifth round table on dipterocarps, pp. 102-116. Forest Research Institute of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur. (with Steven F. Oberbauer, K. Baskaran, M. Mansor, H. Mohamad and S.K. Yap)
1997. Effects of Irradiance and Spectral Quality on the development of two Hopea species. Oecologia 110:1-9. (with S. Oberbauer, K. Baskaran, M. Mansor, H. Mohamad and S.K. Yap)
1998. The biology of rudraksha. Current Science (Bangalore) 75:26-30.
1999. Effects of irradiance and spectral quality on the development of jelutong seedlings. Journal of Tropical Forest
Science 11:132-147. (with S. Oberbauer, K. Baskaran, M. Mansor, H. Mohamad and S.K. Yap)
1999. Effects of light quantity and quality on early seedling development in the red mangrove, Rhizophora mangle L.
Bulletin of Marine Science 65:795-806. (S. M. Smith first author)
2000. A natural history of the Ramayana, pp. 245-268. In C. Chapple and A. Sharma, eds.: Hinduism and ecology. Harvard University Press, Cambridge.
2000. Effects of irradiance and spectral quality on leaf structure and function in seedlings of two Southeast Asian
Hopea species. American Journal of Botany 87:447-455. (with S. Oberbauer, P. Johnson, B. Krishnapilay, M. Mansor, H. Mohamad, and S.K. Yap)
2000. Structural fruit coloration in Delarbreamichieana (Araliaceae). International Journal of Plant Science 161:297-
300. (with G. Taylor and A. Irvine)
2000. Structural coloration in vascular plants. Photonics Science News 6:54-60.
2001. Phylogenetic and ontogenetic influences on the distribution of anthocyanins and betacyanins in leaves of
tropical plants. International Journal of Plant Science 162: 1141-1153. (with T.M Collins)
2001. Plant secondary compounds in the canopy and understorey of a tropical rainforest in Gabon. Journal of Tropical Ecology 17:477-481. (second author, with K.R. Downum, F. Hallé, M. Quirke and N. Towers)
2001. Anthocyanins and photoprotection in senescing autumn leaves of red-osier dogwood (Cornusstolonifera). Plant
Physiology 127:566-574. (2nd author, with T. Feild and M. Holbrook)
2001. Leaf colour in tropical plants: some progress and much mystery. In K.M. Wong, ed.: Proceedings of the Stone Memorial Symposium. Malayan Nature Journal 55:117-131.
2001. Seedling shade responses and functional ecology of Hopea helferei and H. odorata, pp. 170-175. In M. Cox and C. Elouard, eds.: Proceedings of the Sixth round-table of the dipterocarps. Curtin University of Technology, Perth. (with S. Oberbauer, B. Krishnapilay and M. Mansor)
2002. Quantifying the effects of low-level phosphorus additions on unenriched Everglades wetland with insitu flumes
and phosphorus dosing, pp. 126-152. In K. Porter and J. Porter, eds.: The Everglades hydroscape. St. Lucie Press, Delray Beach. (D. Childers and many co-authors)
2002. To see…heaven in a wildflower: teaching botany in the 21st century. American Journal of Botany 89:172-176. (2nd author of book review and essay, with J. Richards)
In Press. Light quantity controls thorn development in a tropical liana, Artabotryshexapatalus (Annonaceae).
International Journal of Plant Science. (With J. Fisher and U. Posluszny, 3rd author)
In Press. Short-term changes in phosphorus storage in an oligotrophic Everglades wetland ecosystem receiving
experimental nutrient enrichment. Biogeochemistry. (G. Noe and many co-authors)
In Press. In Praise of Plants (translation and forward for Éloge de la plante, by F. Hallé, Editions Seuil, Paris, 1999).
Timber Press, Portland, OR.
In Press. Why leaves turn red: the function of anthocyanins in vegetative organs. Advances in Botanical Research, Academic Press, London. (co-edited with Kevin Gould)
In Press. Anthocyanins in leaves: distribution, phylogeny and development. Chapter in above book.
In Press. Anthocyanins in leaves and other vegetative organs: anintroduction. Chapter in above book, co-written with Kevin Gould.

SUBMITTED
Tropical Asian rain forest tree seedlings: light responses and developmental plasticity. Biotropica. In revision. (with T.
Turner, B. Krishnapilay, M. Mansor, H. Mohamad, S.K. Yap and S. Dayanandan) – in revision
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