Acknowledgments

My sincere thanks to the following people and organizations for their generosity in letting me use their photos: Dr. Kazuo Yamasaki (Teikyo Heisei University, Japan), Abdulrahman Alsirhan (www. alsirhan. com), Eric Winder (Biological Sciences, Michigan Technological University), Jack Bacheler (Department of Entomology, North Carolina State University), Dr. Alvin R. Diamond (Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Troy University), Piet Van Wyk and EcoPort, Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, Antoine van den Bos (Botanypictures), Forest and Kim Starr (USGS), Dr. Davison Shillingford (Dominica Academy of Arts and Sciences), Prof. Arne Anderberg (Swedish Museum of Natural History), Rolv Hjelmstad (Urtekilden), Peter Chen (College of DuPage), Josina Kimottho (ICRAF), Gernot Katzer (University of Graz), Prof. Gerald D. Carr (University of Hawaii, Botany Department), Barbara Simonsohn, Dr. Mike Kuhns (Utah State University), and Eugenio Arantes de Melo (Arvores do Brasil).