Conservation Science and Policy

Understanding how to protect and manage biodiversity, ecosystems and natural resources through interdisciplinary scientific research and policy development. We aim to integrate ecology and environmental sciences, with social and political sciences. The goal is to translate research to practical action.

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2024

Sreekar R, Koh LP, Lamba A, Mammides C, Teo HC, Dwiputra A, Zeng Y (2024) Conservation opportunities through improved management of recently established protected areas in Southeast Asia. Current Biology 34: 3830–3835

2023

Zheng Q, Ha T, Prishchepov AV, Zeng Y, Yin H, Koh LP (2023) The neglected role of abandoned cropland in supporting both food security and climate change mitigation. Nature Communications 14: 6083

Zeng Y, Senior R, Crawford C, Wilcove DS (2023) Gaps and weaknesses in the global protected area network for safeguarding at-risk species. Science Advances 9: eadg0288

Lamba A, Teo HC, Sreekar R, Zeng Y, Carrasco LR, Koh LP (2023) Climate co-benefits of tiger conservation. Nature Ecology & Evolution 7: 1104–1113

Lin B, Zeng Y, Asner GP, Wilcove DS (2023) Coral reefs attract yet suffer from coastal tourism in Hawaii. Nature Sustainability 6: 254–258.

Chisholm RA, Kristensen NP, Rheindt FE, Chong KY, Ascher JS, Lim KKP, Yeo DCJ, Meier R, Tan HH, Giam X, Yeoh YS, Seah WW, Berman LM, Tan HZ, Sadanandan KR, Theng M, Jusoh WFA, Jain A, Huertas B, Tan DJX, Ng ACR, Teo A, Zeng Y, Cho TJY, Sin TCK (2023) Two centuries of biodiversity discovery and loss in Singapore. PNAS 120:e2309034120

2022

Zeng Y, Koh LP, Wilcove DS (2022) Gains in biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services from the expansion of the planet’s protected areas. Science Advances 8:eabl9885

Sarira TV, Zeng Y, Neugarten R, Chaplin-Kramer R, Koh LP (2022) Co-benefits of forest carbon projects in Southeast Asia. Nature Sustainability 5: 393–396.

Zheng Q, Siman K, Zeng Y, Teo HC, Sarira TV, Sreekar R, Koh LP (2022) Future land-use competition constrains natural climate solutions. Science of The Total Environment 838: 156409.

Sreekar R, Zeng Y, Zheng Q, Lamba A, Teo HC, Sarira TV, Koh LP (2022) Nature-based climate solutions for expanding the global protected area network. Biological Conservation 269: 109529