Southeast Asian Biodiversity in Crisis

By N. Sodhi, Barry W. Brook. 2006

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1. N. Sodhi
2. Lian Pin Koh
3. K. Peh
4. Barry W. Brook
5. C. A. Peres
6. R. Clements
7. Ç. Şekercioğlu
8. Tigga Kingston

Citations in the corpus

• Biogeography and conservation in Southeast Asia: how 2.7 million years of repeated environmental fluctuations affect today’s patterns and the future of the remaining refugial-phase biodiversity (2010, background): “…growth, deforestation and habitat conversion, overexploitation (logging, hunting, fishing, collecting and trade of plants and animals, tissues and parts), invasive species, pollution, and climate change (Sodhi and Brook 2006; Sodhi et al. 2007; Nijman 2010; Peh 2010; Wilcove and Koh 2010).”
• Limestone Karsts of Southeast Asia: Imperiled Arks of Biodiversity (2006, background): “If the current pace of habitat loss continues, species extinctions in many areas may reach catastrophic levels (Sodhi and Brook 2006).”
• Unreported yet massive deforestation driving loss of endemic biodiversity in Indian Himalaya (2006, background): “…(Brooks et al. 1997, 1999a; Laurance 1999; Sala et al. 2000), few studies have investigated the impacts of deforestation in tropical biodiversity hotspots (Mittermeier et al. 1999; Myers et al. 2000; Conservation International 2005; for exception, see Brooks et al. 2002; Sodhi and Brook 2006).”
• Correlates of extinction proneness in tropical angiosperms (2008, background): “Over 40% of the primary forests of tropical Asia and Africa have been cut (Wright, 2005), and unabated deforestation in the tropics will result in catastrophic declines and extinctions of native biotas (Brook et al ., 2003; Brook et al ., 2006a; Sodhi & Brook, 2006).”
• Conserving Southeast Asian forest biodiversity in human-modified landscapes (2010, background): “Among tropical regions, Southeast Asia (Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Timor-Leste, Thailand, and Vietnam) has one of the highest rate of deforestation (Sodhi et al., 2004, in press a; Sodhi and Brook, 2006).”
• Trio under threat: can we secure the future of rhinos, elephants and tigers in Malaysia? (2010, background): “Southeast Asia has the highest rates deforestation among the tropics (Sodhi et al. 2004; Sodhi and Brook 2006) and the highest proportion of threatened mammal species (Sodhi et al. 2010).”
• Research priorities for bat conservation in Southeast Asia: a consensus approach (2008, background): “Relative deforestation rates in Southeast Asia are the highest of any tropical region (Achard et al. 2002; Sodhi et al. 2004; Sodhi and Brook 2006) and are expected to lead to extinction of many bat taxa.”
• The Impact of Hunting on the Mammalian Fauna of Tropical Asian Forests (2007, background): “HABITAT LOSS AND DEGRADATION are such massive and visible threats to biodiversity in tropical Asia that the impact of hunting is sometimes considered secondary, at least in comparison with Africa and the Neotropics (Primack & Corlett 2005, Sodhi & Brook 2006).”
• A Meta‐Analysis of the Impact of Anthropogenic Forest Disturbance on Southeast Asia's Biotas (2009, background): “Considering that natural disturbances, such as forest fires, have been rare in SE Asia (Sodhi & Brook 2006), the biotas of the region may be less adaptable to anthropogenic changes than for example in the boreal region.”
• Primate responses to anthropogenic habitat disturbance: A pantropical meta-analysis (2017, background): “Because of the recent disturbance history of Southeast Asian forests (Sodhi and Brook, 2006), this fauna may be less pre-adapted to habitat alterations than those elsewhere (Sodhi et al., 2009), which may explain the narrow variation in responses.”