Conserving Southeast Asia’s imperiled biodiversity: scientific, management, and policy challenges

摘要: Southeast Asia was almost entirely covered by rainforest 8,000 years ago. Today, this region is experiencing the highest relative rates of deforestation and forest degradation in humid tropics. Every year, millions hectares tropical forests are destroyed degraded. Given rapid rate high concentration endemic species region, could lose 13–42% local populations turn next century, at least 50% which represent global extinction. In Special Issue, we discuss uniqueness Asian biodiversity, drivers destruction, threats to region’s unique ecosystems taxa, key conservation challenges provide a broad-based review science, management policy issues concerning biodiversity conservation. Overall, highlight need for an interdisciplinary multi-pronged strategy requiring all major stakeholders work together achieve ultimate goal reconciling human well-being region.