Abstract
I present a brief synopsis of six key lessons provided by research on forest ecology and conservation, focusing particularly on the Malaysian state of Sabah in northeastern Borneo. These lessons are generalizable to other contexts, especially for tropical developing nations, where surviving forests are under growing pressures from a range of human activities.
Highlights
The forests of Borneo harbor exceptional biological diversity and endemism, and provide key ecosystem services such as large-scale carbon storage that would otherwise contribute to harmful climatic change [1,2]
Borneo’s forests have been rapidly cleared, fragmented, and degraded by a range of human activities, with industrial oil palm and wood-pulp plantations being among the greatest current threats, often following intensive industrial logging [3,4,5]
I provide a snapshot of key points from the perspective of maintaining the region’s remarkably rich terrestrial biodiversity, especially that in Sabah, Malaysia (Figure 1)
Summary
The forests of Borneo harbor exceptional biological diversity and endemism, and provide key ecosystem services such as large-scale carbon storage that would otherwise contribute to harmful climatic change [1,2]. Research in tropical ecology and conservation biology has provided important lessons for guiding forest conservation and development activities in Borneo (e.g., [6,7,8,9]). In this brief essay, I provide a snapshot of key points from the perspective of maintaining the region’s remarkably rich terrestrial biodiversity, especially that in Sabah, Malaysia (Figure 1). In pinkAreas havein had high rates native-forest loss (2000–2015), areas in red Indonesian state ofAreas.
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