A systematic review of mangrove restoration studies in Southeast Asia: Challenges and opportunities for the United Nation's Decade on Ecosystem Restoration

MEB Gerona-Daga, SG Salmo III - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Mangroves provide valuable ecological and socio-economic services. The importance of
mangroves is particularly evident in Southeast (SE) Asia where the most extensive and …

Conservation translocations and post-release monitoring: Identifying trends in failures, biases, and challenges from around the world

CM Bubac, AC Johnson, JA Fox, CI Cullingham - Biological Conservation, 2019 - Elsevier
In an attempt to slow or reverse the loss of biodiversity, conservation translocations have
been implemented to restore wild populations of dwindling or extirpated species and have …

The future of Southeast Asia's forests

RC Estoque, M Ooba, V Avitabile, Y Hijioka… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Abstract While Southeast Asia's forests play important roles in biodiversity conservation and
global carbon (C) balance, the region is also a deforestation hotspot. Here, we consider the …

Ecological and socio-economic functions across tropical land use systems after rainforest conversion

J Drescher, K Rembold, K Allen… - … of the Royal …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Tropical lowland rainforests are increasingly threatened by the expansion of agriculture and
the extraction of natural resources. In Jambi Province, Indonesia, the interdisciplinary …

Comprehensive conservation assessments reveal high extinction risks across Atlantic Forest trees

RAF de Lima, G Dauby, AL de Gasper, EP Fernandez… - Science, 2024 - science.org
Biodiversity is declining globally, yet many biodiversity hotspots still lack comprehensive
species conservation assessments. Using multiple International Union for Conservation of …

[PDF][PDF] IPCC Fifth Assessment Report: Chapter 24 Asia

Y Hijioka, E Lin, JJ Pereira… - … : Part B: Regional …, 2014 - nagasaki-u.repo.nii.ac.jp
Warming trends and increasing temperature extremes have been observed across most of
the Asian region over the past century (high confidence).{24.3} Increasing numbers of warm …

Upward expansion and acceleration of forest clearance in the mountains of Southeast Asia

Y Feng, AD Ziegler, PR Elsen, Y Liu, X He… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Southeast Asia contains about half of all tropical mountain forests, which are rich in
biodiversity and carbon stocks, yet there is debate as to whether regional mountain forest …

Regulation of outdoor thermal comfort by trees in Hong Kong

L Kong, KKL Lau, C Yuan, Y Chen, Y Xu, C Ren… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Urbanization is transforming human society in many ways. Besides all the obvious benefits,
it also brings negative impacts such as the well-documented urban heat island (UHI) effect …

Global correlates of range contractions and expansions in terrestrial mammals

M Pacifici, C Rondinini, JR Rhodes… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Understanding changes in species distributions is essential to disentangle the mechanisms
that drive their responses to anthropogenic habitat modification. Here we analyse the past …

Biogeography of the Indo-Australian archipelago

DJ Lohman, M de Bruyn, T Page… - Annual Review of …, 2011 - annualreviews.org
The extraordinary species richness and endemism of the Indo-Australian Archipelago (IAA)
exists in one of the most geologically dynamic regions of the planet. The provenance of its …