RESEARCH PAPERS

Scientific articles published in scientific peer-reviewed journals

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2022

• Oryx. Restoring the orangutan in a Whole- or Half-Earth context.

• Bioscience. Safeguarding imperiled biodiversity and evolutionary processes in the Wallacea center of endemism.

• Comm. Earth Env. Converting tropical forests to agriculture increases fire risk by fourfold.

• Biol. Cons. Orangutan killing and trade in Indonesia: Wildlife crime, enforcement, and deterrence patterns.

• Curr. Biol. Effectiveness of 20 years of conservation investments in protecting orangutans.

• Persp. Ecol. Cons. Deforestation projections imply range-wide population decline for critically endangered Bornean orangutan.

• PLOS ONE. Slowing oil palm expansion and deforestation in Indonesia coincide with low oil prices.

• Front. Nutrit. Dietary fats, human nutrition and the environment: balance and sustainability.

• Front. Nutrit. A need for a paradigm shift in healthy nutrition research.

• J. Biog. Expert range maps of global mammal distributions harmonised to three taxonomic authorities.

 

2021

• Earth Syst. Sc. Data. High-resolution global map of small and large-holder mature oil palm plantations.

• Landsc. Ecol. Orangutan movement and population dynamics across human-modified landscapes: implications of policy and management

• Cons. Biol. Testing a global standard for quantifying species recovery and assessing conservation impact

• Biol. Cons. Forest loss in Indonesian New Guinea: trends, drivers, and outlook.

• PLOS ONE. The historic range and drivers of decline of the Tapanuli orangutan.

• Earth Systems Science Data. First high-resolution global map of small and large-holder mature oil palm plantations

• Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. Importance of Small Forest Fragments in Agricultural Landscapes for Maintaining Orangutan Metapopulations

• Nature. Reshoring EU agriculture risks undermining SDGs

• Oryx. Saving the Tapanuli orangutan requires zero losses

• Raffles Bull Zool. Extreme ecological specialization in a rainforest mammal, the Bornean tufted ground squirrel, Rheithrosciurus macrotis Gray, 1857.

2020

• Nature Plants. The environmental impacts of palm oil in context.

• Nature Sustainability. Impact of palm oil sustainability certification on village well-being and poverty in Indonesia

• Curr. Biol. Coconut oil, conservation and the conscientious consumer. 

• Nature Ecol. Evol. Tapanuli orangutan endangered by Sumatran hydropower scheme

• Cons. Lett. How many bird and mammal extinctions have been prevented through recent conservation action?

• Cons. Lett. African Swine Fever threatens Southeast Asia’s endemic wild pig species

• Glob. Env. Ch. Interannual climate variation, land type and community effects on wildfires in Kalimantan, Indonesia.

• Env. Res. Lett. Compounding impact of deforestation on Borneo's climate during El Niño events.

• Bioscience. Severe lack of evidence limits effective conservation of the world’s primate

• Land Use Policy. Beyond the Community in Participatory Forest Management: A Governance Network Perspective.

• Science. Underestimating global biodiversity loss.

• Cons. Biol. Ex situ management as insurance against extinction of mammalian megafauna in an uncertain world.

• Cons. Biol. How amusing memes in social media can raise concern for an ugly species.

• Env. Res. Lett. Compounding impact of deforestation in Borneo's climate during El Nino events

• Cons. Sc. Prac. Toward improved impact evaluation of community forest management in Indonesia

• J. Nat. Cons. Memindahkan Kera: Hasil Konservasi dan kesejahteraan dari penyelamatan dan pelepasan orangutan Borneo di Kalimantan, Indonesia

• J. Nat. Cons. Shifting apes: Welfare and conservation outcomes of Bornean orangutan rescue and release in Kalimantan, Indonesia

• Biodiversitas. Envisioning a Future for Bornean Orangutans: Conservation Impacts of Action Plan Implementation and Recommendations for Improved Population Outcomes.

 

2019

• Front. For. Glob. Ch. The moral minefield of ethical oil palm and sustainable development

• Nature. A dam or an ape - Indonesia faces a stark choice

• People and Nature. Conservation and the social sciences: beyond critique and co-optation. A case study from orangutan conservation

• Nature Ecol. Evol. Rediscovery of the silver-backed chevrotain in Vietnam

• Nature Sustainability. Larger gains delivered by improved management over sparing-sharing for tropical forests

• World Development. Does oil palm alleviate rural poverty? Insight from a landscape-scale multidimensional assessment

• Remote Sensing. Oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) mapping with details: smallholder vs. industrial plantations and their extent in Riau, Sumatra

• Biol. Cons. Cost-benefit based prioritisation of orangutan conservation actions in Indonesian Borneo

• Land Use Policy. Changing landscapes, climate, livelihoods and human-wellbeing in the context of oil palm development

• People and Nature. Heterogeneous impacts of community forest management on multiple aspects of human-wellbeing

• Biol. Cons. Top 100 research questions for biodiversity conservation in Southeast Asia

 

2018

• Curr. Biol. Orangutan populations are certainly not increasing in the wild

• Nature. Create and empower lead authors from the global south

• Curr. Biol. Global demand for natural resources eliminated more than 100,000 Bornean orangutans

• Glob. Env. Ch. Offsetting the impacts of developments at a landscape scale reveals tough choices

• Env. Res. Lett. Evaluating the effectiveness of palm oil certification in delivering multiple sustainability objectives

• Science Adv. Orangutans venture out of the rainforest and into the Anthropocene

• Env. Res. Lett. Forest loss and Borneo's climate

• Tr. Ecol. Evol. Saving the world with satire

• Cons. Biol. Quantifying Species Recovery and Conservation Success: a practical framework for an IUCN Green List of Species

 

2017

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• Report. An impact analysis of RSPO certification on Borneo forest cover and Orangutan populations

• Strategic Rev. The trillion dollar gamble on Borneo

• Scientific Rep. First integrative trend analysis for a  great ape species in Borneo

• Curr. Biol. Morphometric, behavioural, and genomic evidence for a new orangutan species

• PNAS. Canopy structure drives orangutan habitat selection in disturbed Bornean forests 

• Strategic Review. Getting community forest reforms right

• Glob. Env. Ch. Community forest management in Indonesia: Avoided deforestation in the context of anthropogenic and climate complexities

• Glob. Ecol. Cons. Not more, but strategic collaboration needed to conserve Borneo's orangutan

• J. Appl. Ecol. Mixed policies give more options in multifunctional tropical forest landscapes

 

2016

• PLOS Biology. Conservation Research Is Not Happening Where It Is Most Needed

• Int. J. Natural Res. Ecol. Manag. Exploring Conservation Management in an Oil-palm Concession

• An Introduction to Primate Conservation. The role of multifunctional landscapes in primate conservation

• Mamm. Rev. Ebola in great apes – current knowledge, possibilities for vaccination, and implications for conservation and human health 

• Env. Res. Lett. Rising floodwaters: mapping impacts and perceptions of flooding in Indonesian Borneo

• J. Mamm. Book Review - “Phillipps’ Field Guide to the Mammals of Borneo and Their Ecology”

• Scientific Rep. Rapid conversions and avoided deforestation: examining four decades of industrial plantation expansion in Borneo

• Env. Sc. Policy. Enhancing feasibility: Incorporating a socio-ecological systems framework into restoration planning 

• Front. Ecol. Env. Charisma counts: the presence of great apes affects the allocation of research effort in the paleotropics

• American. J. Primatology. South to South Learning in Great Ape Conservation

 

2015

• Cons. Biol. Geographic bias in citation rates of conservation research

• Global. Ch. Biol. Anticipated climate and land-cover changes reveal refuge areas for Borneo’s orang-utans 

• Biol. Cons. Better land-use allocation outperforms land sparing and land sharing approaches to conservation in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia 

• Nature Comms. Alternative futures for Borneo show the value of integrating economic and conservation targets across borders 

• Oryx. Of Pongo, palms and perceptions a multidisciplinary assessment of Bornean Orangutan in an oil palm context

• Diversity and Distributions. Mapping perceptions of species’ threats and population trends to inform conservation efforts: the Bornean orangutan case study 

• Curr. Biol. Targeted Conservation to Safeguard a Biodiversity Hotspot from Climate and Land-Cover Change

• Ecosystem Services. Spatially explicit perceptions of ecosystem services and land cover change in forested regions of Borneo

 

2014

• Nature. Conservation - focus on implementation

• Trends Ecol. Evol. Maintaining ecosystem function and services in logged tropical forests

• Ecol. Appl. Ecosystem services from a degraded peatland of Central Kalimantan: implications for policy, planning, and management 

• Env. Res. Lett. Restoring degraded tropical forests for carbon and biodiversity

• Curr. Zoology. Foraging site recursion by forest elephants Elephas maximus borneensis

• PLOS ONE. Conservation Strategies for Orangutans: Reintroduction versus Habitat Preservation and the Benefits of Sustainably Logged Forest

• Diversity and Distributions. Forecasts of habitat suitability improve habitat corridor efficacy in rapidly changing environments

• PLOS ONE. Four Decades of Forest Persistence, Clearance and Logging on Borneo

• Systematic Biology. Borneo and Indochina are Major Evolutionary Hotspots for Southeast Asian Biodiversity

• Biol. Cons. Secrecy considerations for conserving Lazarus species

• Scientific Rep. Coming down from the trees: Is terrestrial activity in Bornean orangutans natural or disturbance driven?

• PLOS ONE. Synergies for Improving Oil Palm Production and Forest Conservation in Floodplain Landscapes

• Ecosystem Services. What scope for certifying forest ecosystem services? 

• PLOS ONE. Through the Eyes of Children: Perceptions of Environmental Change in Tropical Forests

• PLOS ONE. People’s Perceptions about the Importance of Forests on Borneo

• Cons. Lett. Conservation in a wicked complex world; challenges and solutions

• J. Indonesian Nat. History. Think before you plan: Introducing preplanning considerations in conservation 

 

2013

• PNAS. Ten principles for a landscape approach to reconciling agriculture, conservation, and other competing land use

• PLOS ONE. It’s not Just Conflict That Motivates Killing of Orangutans

• PLOS ONE. Breaking the Link between Environmental Degradation and Oil Palm Expansion: A Method for Enabling Sustainable Oil Palm Expansion

• PLOS ONE. Reconciling Forest Conservation and Logging in Indonesian Borneo

 

2012

• Nature Climate Ch. A modular framework for management of complexity in international forest-carbon policy

• Ann. New York Acad. Sc. Not by science alone: why orangutan conservationists must think outside the box

• Cons. Lett. The dilemma of green business in tropical forests: how to protect what it cannot identify

• PLOS ONE. Understanding the Impacts of Land-Use Policies on a Threatened Species: Is There a Future for the Bornean Orang-utan

• PLOS ONE. Long-Term Field Data and Climate-Habitat Models Show That Orangutan Persistence Depends on Effective Forest Management and Greenhouse Gas Mitigation

 

2011

• Biotropica. A Modest Proposal for Wealthy Countries to Reforest Their Land for the Common Good

• Asian Primate J. First sighting of Bornean Orang Utan Twins in the wild

• PLOS ONE. Quantifying Killing of Orangutans and Human- Orangutan Conflict in Kalimantan, Indonesia

• PLOS ONE. Why Don’t We Ask? A Complementary Method for Assessing the Status of Great Apes

 

2010

• Ecol. Appl. Conserving biodiversity in production landscapes

• PLOS ONE. Recent Surveys in the Forests of Ulu Segama Malua, Sabah, Malaysia, Show That Orang-utans (P. p. morio) Can Be Maintained in Slightly Logged Forests

• BIotropica. Purity and Prejudice Deluding Ourselves About Biodiversity Conservation

• PLOS ONE. Declining orangutan encounter rates