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  1. Seasonal variation and crop diversity shape the composition of bird communities in agricultural landscapes in Nepal

    Article • Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, August 2022, Elsevier

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  2. How vulnerable are holoparasitic plants with obligate hosts to negative climate change impacts?

    Article • Ecological Informatics, July 2022, Elsevier

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  3. Viral Hyperparasitism in Bat Ectoparasites: Implications for Pathogen Maintenance and Transmission

    Article • Microorganisms, June 2022, MDPI AG

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  4. A collective statement in support of saving pangolins

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, June 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Nicholas S Jakubovics, alice hughes

  5. Mapping global conservation priorities and habitat vulnerabilities for cave-dwelling bats in a changing world

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, June 2022, Elsevier

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  6. Searching the web builds fuller picture of arachnid trade

    Article • Communications Biology, May 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

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  7. The Evolutionary History and Ancestral Biogeographic Range Estimation of Old-world Rhinolophidae and Hipposideridae (Chiroptera)

    Article • May 2022, Research Square

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  8. Pinpointing the animal origins of SARS-CoV-2: A genomic approach

    Article • Journal of Genetics and Genomics, May 2022, Elsevier

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  9. Can Thailand Protect 30% of Its Land Area for Biodiversity, and Will This Be Enough?

    Article • Diversity, April 2022, MDPI AG

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  10. First record of predation of a fruit bat by the Malabar Grey Hornbill (Ocyceros griseus) from southern Western Ghats, India

    Article • The Wilson Journal of Ornithology, April 2022, Wilson Ornithological Society

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  11. DarkCideS 1.0, a global database for bats in karsts and caves

    Article • Scientific Data, April 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    alice hughes, Manfredo Turcios

  12. Regreening: green is not always gold

    Article • Nature, April 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

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  13. Vulnerability to climate change of species in protected areas in Thailand

    Article • Scientific Reports, April 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

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  14. Understanding bat ecosystem services on a global scale requires caution and wider collaboration: a critical evaluation of Ramírez‐Fráncel et al . (2022)

    Article • Integrative Zoology, April 2022, Wiley

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  15. Including climate change to predict the global suitable area of an invasive pest: Bactrocera correcta (Diptera: Tephritidae)

    Article • Global Ecology and Conservation, April 2022, Elsevier

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  16. Brazilian cave heritage under siege

    Article • Science, March 2022, American Association for the Advancement of Science

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  17. Scaling debt for nature swaps – which nature, how much debt and who pays?

    Article • March 2022, Research Square

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  18. Ambio fit for the 2020s

    Article • AMBIO, February 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

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  19. Searching the Web Builds Fuller Picture of Arachnid Trade.

    Article • January 2022, Research Square

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  20. Dissecting the illegal pangolin trade in China: An insight from seizures data reports

    Article • Nature Conservation, January 2022, Pensoft Publishers

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  21. A horizon scan of global biological conservation issues for 2022

    Article • Trends in Ecology & Evolution, January 2022, Elsevier

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  22. Flight Mill Experiments and Computer Simulations Indicate Islands Recruit More Capable Flyers of Moths

    Article • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, December 2021, Frontiers

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  23. A solution scan of societal options to reduce transmission and spread of respiratory viruses: SARS-CoV-2 as a case study

    Article • Journal of Biosafety and Biosecurity, December 2021, Elsevier

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  24. Debt for nature swaps – which nature, how much and who pays?

    Article • November 2021, Research Square

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  25. Using bats as surrogates to effectively target global hotspots for subterranean conservation and monitoring

    Article • November 2021, Research Square

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  26. Complete mitochondrial genomes reveal robust phylogenetic signals and evidence of positive selection in horseshoe bats

    Article • BMC Ecology and Evolution, November 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

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  27. DarkCideS  1.0, a global database for  bats in karsts and caves

    Article • November 2021, Authorea, Inc.

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  28. Negative impacts of dominance on bee communities: Does the influence of invasive honey bees differ from native bees?

    Article • Ecology, October 2021, Wiley

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  29. Ecological redlines provide a mechanism to maximize conservation gains in Mainland Southeast Asia

    Article • One Earth, October 2021, Elsevier

    alice hughes, Dr. Zhou Fang

  30. Wildlife trade

    Article • Current Biology, October 2021, Elsevier

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  31. The Kinabalu Recorder, a new passive acoustic and environmental monitoring recorder

    Article • Methods in Ecology and Evolution, September 2021, Wiley

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  32. Tracing the origins of SARS-CoV-2: lessons learned from the past

    Article • Cell Research, September 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

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  33. The dangers of misrepresenting wildlife trade: response to Natusch et al. 2021

    Article • Conservation Biology, September 2021, Wiley

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  34. Regional scalable priorities for national biodiversity and carbon conservation planning in Asia

    Article • Science Advances, August 2021, American Association for the Advancement of Science

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  35. Gaps in global wildlife trade monitoring leave amphibians vulnerable

    Article • eLife, August 2021, eLife

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  36. Identification of novel bat coronaviruses sheds light on the evolutionary origins of SARS-CoV-2 and related viruses

    Article • Cell, August 2021, Elsevier

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  37. The potential of bat-watching tourism in raising public awareness towards bat conservation in the Philippines

    Article • Environmental Challenges, August 2021, Elsevier

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  38. On the origin of SARS-CoV-2—The blind watchmaker argument

    Article • Science China Life Sciences, July 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    alice hughes, Dr Zhaohui Qian

  39. Post COVID‐19 : a solution scan of options for preventing future zoonotic epidemics

    Article • Biological Reviews, July 2021, Wiley

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  40. Investigating seasonal habitat‐use of saltwater crocodiles in the Ayeyarwady Delta to identify potential conservation areas in Myanmar

    Article • Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, June 2021, Wiley

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  41. Sampling biases shape our view of the natural world

    Article • Ecography, June 2021, Wiley

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  42. Belt and Road Initiative in Central Asia: Anticipating socioecological challenges from large‐scale infrastructure in a global biodiversity hotspot

    Article • Conservation Letters, June 2021, Wiley

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  43. <p><strong>A new species of <em>Hemiphyllodactylus</em> Bleeker (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Yunnan, China and its phylogenetic relationship to other congeners</strong></p>

    Article • Zootaxa, May 2021, Magnolia Press

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  44. Gaps in global wildlife trade monitoring leave amphibians vulnerable

    Article • May 2021, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

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  45. A novel method for multi-trajectory reconstruction based on LoMcT for avian migration in population level

    Article • Ecological Informatics, May 2021, Elsevier

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  46. Effectively and accurately mapping global biodiversity patterns for different regions and taxa

    Article • Global Ecology and Biogeography, April 2021, Wiley

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  47. Southeast Asia as One of World’s Primary Sources of Biotic Recolonization Following Anthropocene Extinctions

    Article • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, March 2021, Frontiers

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  48. Identification of novel bat coronaviruses sheds light on the evolutionary origins of SARS-CoV-2 and related viruses

    Article • March 2021, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

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  49. How will climate change affect the wild species in Thailand's protected areas?

    Article • Sustainability, March 2021, MDPI AG

    Dr. Richard T Corlett, alice hughes

  50. Threatened bird species are concentrated in regions with less historical human impacts

    Article • Biological Conservation, March 2021, Elsevier

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  51. The Asia‐Pacific Biodiversity Observation Network: 10‐year achievements and new strategies to 2030

    Article • Ecological Research, February 2021, Wiley

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  52. What is China doing in biodiversity science?

    Article • National Science Review, February 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr. Richard T Corlett, alice hughes

  53. Global Patterns and Drivers of Bee Distribution

    Article • Current Biology, February 2021, Elsevier

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  54. A 2021 Horizon Scan of Emerging Global Biological Conservation Issues

    Article • Trends in Ecology & Evolution, January 2021, Elsevier

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  55. Gaps in Wildlife Trade Monitoring Leave Amphibians Vulnerable

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2021, Elsevier

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  56. Extinction Targets Are Not SMART (Specific, Measurable, Ambitious, Realistic, and Time Bound)

    Article • BioScience, December 2020, Oxford University Press (OUP)

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  57. Integrating local perspectives into conservation could facilitate human–crocodile coexistence in the Ayeyarwady Delta, Myanmar

    Article • Oryx, December 2020, Cambridge University Press

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  58. A Middle Eocene lowland humid subtropical “Shangri-La” ecosystem in central Tibet

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, December 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Tao Su, alice hughes

  59. Echobank for the Bats of Western Ghats Biodiversity Hotspot, India

    Article • Acta Chiropterologica, December 2020, Museum and Institute of Zoology at the Polish Academy of Sciences

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  60. COVID-19 Highlights the Need for More Effective Wildlife Trade Legislation

    Article • Trends in Ecology & Evolution, December 2020, Elsevier

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  61. Estimating population status and site occupancy of saltwater crocodiles Crocodylus porosus in the Ayeyarwady delta, Myanmar: Inferences from spatial modeling techniques

    Article • Global Ecology and Conservation, December 2020, Elsevier

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  62. Insufficient native pollinators during artificially induced early flowering decrease yield and long‐term economic viability of a tropical fruit crop

    Article • Journal of Applied Ecology, November 2020, Wiley

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  63. Taxonomy must engage with new technologies and evolve to face future challenges

    Article • Nature Ecology & Evolution, November 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

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  64. Changes in Air Quality during the First-Level Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic in Shanghai Municipality, China

    Article • Sustainability, October 2020, MDPI AG

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  65. Working landscapes need at least 20% native habitat

    Article • Conservation Letters, October 2020, Wiley

    alice hughes, Dr. Marcelo Kuperman

  66. A Novel Bat Coronavirus Closely Related to SARS-CoV-2 Contains Natural Insertions at the S1/S2 Cleavage Site of the Spike Protein

    Article • Current Biology, October 2020, Elsevier

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  67. Thousands of reptile species threatened by under-regulated global trade

    Article • Nature Communications, September 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

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  68. Cascading implications of a single climate change event for fragile ecosystems on the Qinghai‐Tibetan Plateau

    Article • Ecosphere, September 2020, Wiley

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  69. The Belt and Road Initiative and the Sustainable Development Goals

    Article • One Earth, September 2020, Elsevier

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  70. The future for ATBC conservation declarations

    Article • Biotropica, August 2020, Wiley

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  71. The scale of biodiversity impacts of the Belt and Road Initiative in Southeast Asia

    Article • Biological Conservation, August 2020, Elsevier

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  72. Attacked from above and below: new ethological evidence on the predation strategies of corvid and varanid on a cave-roosting bat

    Article • Ethology Ecology & Evolution, July 2020, Taylor & Francis

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  73. Horizon Scan of the Belt and Road Initiative

    Article • Trends in Ecology & Evolution, July 2020, Elsevier

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  74. A Novel Bat Coronavirus Closely Related to SARS-CoV-2 Contains Natural Insertions at the S1/S2 Cleavage Site of the Spike Protein

    Article • Current Biology, June 2020, Elsevier

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  75. Latest Neogene monsoon of the Chotanagpur Plateau, eastern India, as revealed by fossil leaf architectural signatures

    Article • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, May 2020, Elsevier

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  76. Qaidam Basin leaf fossils show northeastern Tibet was high, wet and cool in the early Oligocene

    Article • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, May 2020, Elsevier

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  77. A novel bat coronavirus reveals natural insertions at the S1/S2 cleavage site of the Spike protein and a possible recombinant origin of HCoV-19

    Article • March 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

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  78. International scientists formulate a roadmap for insect conservation and recovery

    Article • Nature Ecology & Evolution, January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

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  79. A Horizon Scan of Emerging Global Biological Conservation Issues for 2020

    Article • Trends in Ecology & Evolution, January 2020, Elsevier

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  80. Automatic standardized processing and identification of tropical bat calls using deep learning approaches

    Article • Biological Conservation, January 2020, Elsevier

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  81. Using landscape connectivity tools to identify conservation priorities in forested areas and potential restoration priorities in rubber plantation in Xishuangbanna, Southwest China

    Article • Landscape Ecology, December 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

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  82. Body size and diet–related morphological variation of bats over the past 65 years in China

    Article • Journal of Mammalogy, December 2019, Oxford University Press (OUP)

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  83. Forest proximity and lowland mosaic increase robustness of tropical pollination networks in mixed fruit orchards

    Article • Landscape and Urban Planning, December 2019, Elsevier

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  84. The role of bats in pollination networks is influenced by landscape structure

    Article • Global Ecology and Conservation, October 2019, Elsevier

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  85. Building urgent intergenerational bridges: assessing early career researcher integration in global sustainability initiatives

    Article • Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, August 2019, Elsevier

    alice hughes, Dr Nibedita Mukherjee

  86. Mapping Biodiversity Patterns across Southeast Asia

    Article • Biodiversity Information Science and Standards, June 2019, Pensoft Publishers

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  87. Redlisting the redlist: a global analysis of species distributions and biodiversity

    Article • June 2019, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

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  88. Top 100 research questions for biodiversity conservation in Southeast Asia

    Article • Biological Conservation, June 2019, Elsevier

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  89. New insights into the thermal regime and hydrodynamics of the early Late Cretaceous Arctic

    Article • Geological Magazine, May 2019, Cambridge University Press

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  90. Correction: Mapping wader biodiversity along the East Asian—Australasian flyway

    Article • PLoS ONE, April 2019, PLOS

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  91. Understanding and minimizing environmental impacts of the Belt and Road Initiative

    Article • Conservation Biology, April 2019, Wiley

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  92. Attacked from above and below, new observations of cooperative and solitary predators on roosting cave bats

    Article • February 2019, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

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  93. Mapping wader biodiversity along the East Asian—Australasian flyway

    Article • PLoS ONE, January 2019, PLOS

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  94. Biological control of an agricultural pest protects tropical forests

    Article • Communications Biology, January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

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  95. Small Things Matter: The Value of Rapid Biodiversity Surveys to Understanding Local Bird Diversity Patterns in Southcentral Mindanao, Philippines

    Article • Tropical Conservation Science, January 2019, SAGE Publications

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  96. A Horizon Scan of Emerging Issues for Global Conservation in 2019

    Article • Trends in Ecology & Evolution, January 2019, Elsevier

    alice hughes, Professor Zhigang Jiang

  97. Biological control protects tropical forests

    Article • August 2018, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

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  98. Developing China’s Ecological Redline Policy using ecosystem services assessments for land use planning

    Article • Nature Communications, August 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

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  99. Bats of the Philippine Islands—A review of research directions and relevance to national-level priorities and targets

    Article • Mammalian Biology, July 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

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  100. Have Indo-Malaysian forests reached the end of the road?

    Article • Biological Conservation, July 2018, Elsevier

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  101. Bat cave vulnerability index (BCVI): A holistic rapid assessment tool to identify priorities for effective cave conservation in the tropics

    Article • Ecological Indicators, June 2018, Elsevier

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  102. The wildlife snaring crisis: an insidious and pervasive threat to biodiversity in Southeast Asia

    Article • Biodiversity and Conservation, October 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

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  103. Alien plant invasions of protected areas in Java, Indonesia

    Article • Scientific Reports, August 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Richard T Corlett, alice hughes

  104. The effect of altitude, patch size and disturbance on species richness and density of lianas in montane forest patches

    Article • Acta Oecologica, August 2017, Elsevier

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  105. Collection of voucher specimens for bat research: conservation, ethical implications, reduction, and alternatives

    Article • Mammal Review, July 2017, Wiley

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  106. On the ratio of intercellular to ambient CO2 (c i/c a) derived from ecosystem flux

    Article • International Journal of Biometeorology, July 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

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  107. Building conservation capacity in Southeast Asia: Outcomes of the ATBC 2015 Asia-Pacific Chapter meeting conservation education symposium

    Article • Applied Environmental Education & Communication, July 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Nicholas J Souter, alice hughes

  108. Bioclimatic transect networks: Powerful observatories of ecological change

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, May 2017, Wiley

    Dr Maurizio Rossetto, alice hughes

  109. Mapping priorities for conservation in Southeast Asia

    Article • Biological Conservation, May 2017, Elsevier

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  110. Quantifying forest net primary production: combining eddy flux, inventory and metabolic theory

    Article • iForest - Biogeosciences and Forestry, April 2017, Italian Society of Sivilculture and Forest Ecology (SISEF)

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  111. Global roadless areas: Hidden roads

    Article • Science, March 2017, American Association for the Advancement of Science

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  112. Understanding the drivers of Southeast Asian biodiversity loss

    Article • Ecosphere, January 2017, Wiley

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  113. Fire dynamics under monsoonal climate in Yunnan, SW China: past, present and future

    Article • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, January 2017, Elsevier

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  114. Remotely Sensed Data Informs Red List Evaluations and Conservation Priorities in Southeast Asia

    Article • PLoS ONE, August 2016, PLOS

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  115. Flowering and Fruiting Patterns of Woody Species in the Tropical Montane Evergreen Forest of Southern India

    Article • Current Science, July 2016, Current Science Association

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  116. The utility of DNA metabarcoding for studying the response of arthropod diversity and composition to land-use change in the tropics

    Article • Scientific Reports, April 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Richard T Corlett, alice hughes

  117. Impact of Striped-Squirrel Nectar-Robbing Behaviour on Gender Fitness in Alpinia roxburghii Sweet (Zingiberaceae)

    Article • PLoS ONE, December 2015, PLOS

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  118. Erratum to: Habitat fragmentation and biodiversity conservation: key findings and future challenges

    Article • Landscape Ecology, November 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Xingfeng Si, Dr. Richard T Corlett, alice hughes

  119. Habitat fragmentation and biodiversity conservation: key findings and future challenges

    Article • Landscape Ecology, November 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Xingfeng Si, Dr. Richard T Corlett, alice hughes

  120. Diverse nectar robbers on Alpinia roxburghii Sweet (Zingiberaceae)

    Article • Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity, September 2015, Elsevier

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  121. The next generation ofaction ecology: novel approaches towards global ecological research

    Article • Ecosphere, August 2015, Wiley

    Mr Nalaka Geekiyanage, alice hughes

  122. Partial net primary production of a mixed dipterocarp forest: Spatial patterns and temporal dynamics

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences, March 2015, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

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  123. Environmental determinism of community structure across trophic levels: moth assemblages and substrate type in the rain forests of south-western China

    Article • Journal of Tropical Ecology, October 2014, Cambridge University Press

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  124. Effects of patch size on liana diversity and distributions in the tropical montane evergreen forests of the Nilgiri Mountains, southern India

    Article • Journal of Tropical Ecology, August 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Dharmalingam Mohandass, alice hughes

  125. Edge transition impacts on swamp plant communities in the Nilgiri mountains, Southern India

    Article • Applied Ecology and Environmental Research, August 2014, Applied Ecology and Environmental Research

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  126. Indicator Bats Program: A System for the Global Acoustic Monitoring of Bats

    Article • February 2013, Wiley

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  127. The projected effects of climatic and vegetation changes on the distribution and diversity of Southeast Asian bats

    Article • Global Change Biology, March 2012, Wiley

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  128. Using Echolocation Calls to Identify Thai Bat Species: Vespertilionidae, Emballonuridae, Nycteridae and Megadermatidae

    Article • Acta Chiropterologica, December 2011, Museum and Institute of Zoology at the Polish Academy of Sciences

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  129. Explaining the causes of the zoogeographic transition around the Isthmus of Kra: using bats as a case study

    Article • Journal of Biogeography, July 2011, Wiley

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  130. Echolocation Call Analysis and Presence-Only Modelling as Conservation Monitoring Tools for Rhinolophoid Bats in Thailand

    Article • Acta Chiropterologica, December 2010, Museum and Institute of Zoology at the Polish Academy of Sciences

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