Dr. Richard T Corlett
Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden
Professor, Environmental Sciences
China, People's Republic of
My co-authors include
Dr Julieta Benitez-Malvido
Professor Barry W. Brook
Kwek Yan Chong
My Publications
Designing an ecologically representative global network of protected areas requires coo...
Environmental Research Letters
November 2021
Do natural enemies mediate conspecific negative distance‐ and density‐dependence of tre...
Oikos
October 2021
Species diversity, morphometrics, and nesting biology of Chinese stingless bees (Hymeno...
Apidologie
October 2021
Characteristics of the complete chloroplast genome sequences of Stylidium debile and St...
Mitochondrial DNA Part B
October 2021
Taxonomic notes on the genus Dumasia (Fabaceae)
Phytotaxa
October 2021
The return of the elephants: How two groups of dispersing elephants attracted the atten...
Conservation Letters
August 2021
Are Terrestrial Biological Invasions Different in the Tropics?
Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics
August 2021
Plastid NDH Pseudogenization and Gene Loss in a Recently Derived Lineage from the Large...
Plant and Cell Physiology
May 2021
Corrigendum to “Identifying the mechanisms that shape fungal community and metacommunit...
Fungal Ecology
April 2021
Conservation planning on China's borders with Myanmar, Laos, and Vietnam
Conservation Biology
March 2021
How will climate change affect the wild species in Thailand's protected areas?
Sustainability
March 2021
Advice to foreign researchers working in the tropics.
Biological Conservation
March 2021
A multistakeholder exercise to identify research and conservation priorities for Asian ...
Global Ecology and Conservation
March 2021
What is China doing in biodiversity science?
National Science Review
February 2021
Plant-Animal Interactions
January 2021
How does seed predation change with altitude in the tropics?
Ecography
December 2020
Potential for application of biochar in rubber plantations
Biochar
November 2020
Conservation Biology: Finding Space for Both Crops and Nature
Current Biology
October 2020
Projected Impacts of Climate Change on the Protected Areas of Myanmar
Climate
August 2020
Ensuring tests of conservation interventions build on existing literature
Conservation Biology
August 2020
Contributions to the flora of Myanmar from 2000 to 2019
Plant Diversity
August 2020
Climate change promotes transitions to tall evergreen vegetation in tropical Asia
Global Change Biology
July 2020
Impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on biodiversity conservation
Biological Conservation
June 2020
Drivers of bird beta diversity in the Western Ghats–Sri Lanka biodiversity hotspot are ...
Oecologia
May 2020
What is biodiversity, why do we need it, and how can we protect it?
Plant Diversity
May 2020
Combining camera‐trap surveys and hunter interviews to determine the status of mammals ...
Animal Conservation
April 2020
Applications of environmental DNA (eDNA) in ecology and conservation: opportunities, ch...
Biodiversity and Conservation
April 2020
How much area do we need to protect to reduce extinction risk under climate change?
Ecography
February 2020
Reasons for the Survival of Tropical Forest Fragments in Xishuangbanna, Southwest China
Forests
January 2020
Chemical Composition and the Cytotoxic, Antimicrobial, and Anti-Inflammatory Activities...
Molecules
January 2020
The evolution of the hollies.
Journal of Systematics and Evolution
January 2020
Present-day drivers do not explain biodiversity patterns in mammals
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
January 2020
Climate Change and Edaphic Specialists: Irresistible Force Meets Immovable Object?
Trends in Ecology & Evolution
January 2020
Decoding the evolution and transmissions of the novel pneumonia coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2...
动物学研究
January 2020
Amplicon sequencing dataset of soil fungi and associated environmental variables collec...
Data in Brief
December 2019
Identifying the mechanisms that shape fungal community and metacommunity patterns in Yu...
Fungal Ecology
December 2019
How many plant species are globally rare?
Science Advances
November 2019
Exceptionally high rates of positive selection on the rbcL gene in the genus Ilex (Aqui...
BMC Evolutionary Biology
October 2019
Plastid phylogenomics improve phylogenetic resolution in the Lauraceae
Journal of Systematics and Evolution
October 2019
How will the decline in rubber price since 2012 affect biodiversity in Southwest China?
Regional Environmental Change
May 2019
The distribution of plants and seed dispersers in response to habitat fragmentation in ...
Journal of Biogeography
April 2019
How does habitat fragmentation affect biodiversity? A controversial question at the cor...
Biological Conservation
April 2019
The Xishuangbanna Declaration on Plant Conservation
Molecular Plant
February 2019
Fifty years of biological conservation
Biological Conservation
February 2019
The Xishuangbanna Declaration on Plant Conservation
Biodiversity Science
January 2019
Vertical gradient in bryophyte diversity and species composition in tropical and subtro...
Journal of Vegetation Science
December 2018
The floral transcriptome of Machilus yunnanensis, a tree in the magnoliid family Lauraceae
Computational Biology and Chemistry
December 2018
Prolonged milk provisioning in a jumping spider
Science
November 2018
Spatial scale changes the relationship between beta diversity, species richness and lat...
Royal Society Open Science
September 2018
Trees represent community composition of other plant life-forms, but not their diversit...
Scientific Reports
July 2018
Seasonal changes in the diversity and composition of the litter fauna in native forests...
Scientific Reports
July 2018
Road induced edge effects on a forest bird community in tropical Asia
Avian Research
June 2018
Environmental challenges for the Belt and Road Initiative
Nature Sustainability
May 2018
The cover uncovered: Bark control over wood decomposition
Journal of Ecology
April 2018
The biological, ecological and conservation significance of freshwater swamp forest ...
Gardens’ Bulletin Singapore
March 2018
Latitudinal effects on phenology near the northern limit of figs in China
Scientific Reports
March 2018
Biodiversity gains? The debate on changes in local- vs global-scale species richness
Biological Conservation
March 2018
The Hemiparasitic Plant Phtheirospermum (Orobanchaceae) Is Polyphyletic and Contains Cr...
Frontiers in Plant Science
February 2018
Tropical Rainforests and Climate Change
January 2018
Ecosystem services in China and Southeast Asia.
Biodiversity Science
January 2018
Complete plastid genome sequences of three tropical Alseodaphne trees in the family Lau...
Holzforschung
December 2017
Comparative analysis of complete chloroplast genome sequences of two subtropical trees,...
Tree Genetics & Genomes
October 2017
Evolutionary Comparisons of the Chloroplast Genome in Lauraceae and Insights into Loss ...
Genome Biology and Evolution
September 2017
Alien plant invasions of protected areas in Java, Indonesia
Scientific Reports
August 2017
What animal eats which fruits in the Asian tropics.
Global Ecology and Conservation
July 2017
China's biodiversity conservation research in progress
Biological Conservation
June 2017
Horizontal and vertical species turnover in tropical birds in habitats with differing l...
Biology Letters
May 2017
Scatter-hoarding rodents select different caching habitats for seeds with different traits
Ecosphere
April 2017
Editorial
Global Ecology and Conservation
April 2017
Conserving the World's Megafauna and Biodiversity: The Fierce Urgency of Now
BioScience
January 2017
A Bigger Toolbox: Biotechnology in Biodiversity Conservation
Trends in Biotechnology
January 2017
The complete chloroplast genome sequence ofHelwingia himalaica(Helwingiaceae, Aquifolia...
PeerJ
November 2016
The broad footprint of climate change from genes to biomes to people
Science
November 2016
Complete chloroplast genome sequence of the avocado: gene organization, comparative ana...
Canadian Journal of Forest Research
November 2016
Field work ethics in biological research
Biological Conservation
November 2016
Behavior of four species of honeybees in southwest China
Tropical Conservation Science
September 2016
Functional trait changes in the floras of 11 cities across the globe in response to urb...
Ecography
August 2016
The Role of Rewilding in Landscape Design for Conservation
Current Landscape Ecology Reports
August 2016
Saving the World's Terrestrial Megafauna
BioScience
July 2016
Chloroplast genome structure in Ilex (Aquifoliaceae)
Scientific Reports
July 2016
The Impacts of Droughts in Tropical Forests
Trends in Plant Science
July 2016
Restoration, Reintroduction, and Rewilding in a Changing World
Trends in Ecology & Evolution
June 2016
Increasing geographic diversity in the international conservation literature: A stalled...
Biological Conservation
June 2016
Humid Tropical Environments
April 2016
The utility of DNA metabarcoding for studying the response of arthropod diversity and c...
Scientific Reports
April 2016
A Regional Decision Support Scheme for Pest Risk Analysis in Southeast Asia
Risk Analysis
February 2016
Effects of forests, roads and mistletoe on bird diversity in monoculture rubber plantat...
Scientific Reports
February 2016
Plant diversity in a changing world: Status, trends, and conservation needs
Plant Diversity
February 2016
Applied Ecology of Tropical Forests
January 2016
Classifying Tropical Forests
January 2016
Ecological Roles of Animals in Tropical Forests
January 2016
Tropical Forest Ecology in the Anthropocene
January 2016
Tropical Forest Ecosystem Ecology: Water, Energy, Carbon, and Nutrients
January 2016
Frugivory and Seed Dispersal by Large Herbivores of Asia
January 2016
Erratum to: Habitat fragmentation and biodiversity conservation: key findings and futur...
Landscape Ecology
November 2015
Habitat fragmentation and biodiversity conservation: key findings and future challenges
Landscape Ecology
November 2015
Winter cropping in Ficus tinctoria: an alternative strategy
Scientific Reports
November 2015
Routledge Handbook of Forest Ecology
October 2015
Orchid conservation in the biodiversity hotspot of southwestern China
Conservation Biology
September 2015
Post-dispersal seed removal by ground-feeding rodents in tropical peatlands, Central Ka...
Scientific Reports
September 2015
Comparative analysis of complete chloroplast genome sequences of two tropical trees Mac...
Frontiers in Plant Science
August 2015
Global Ecology and Conservation
Global Ecology and Conservation
July 2015
Winners and losers among tree species in Xishuangbanna: which traits are most important?
Science Bulletin
May 2015
Assessing species vulnerability to climate change
Nature Climate Change
February 2015
The Anthropocene concept in ecology and conservation
Trends in Ecology & Evolution
January 2015
The use of species-area relationships to partition the effects of hunting and deforesta...
Diversity and Distributions
December 2014
Rewilding the tropics, and other conservation translocations strategies in the tropical...
Ecology and Evolution
October 2014
The Ecology of Tropical East Asia
August 2014
Energy and nutrients
August 2014
The ecology of animals: foods and feeding
August 2014
Minimizing Risks of Invasive Alien Plant Species in Tropical Production Forest Management
Forests
August 2014
Global Ecology and Conservation
Global Ecology and Conservation
August 2014
Natural regeneration in a degraded tropical peatland, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia: Im...
Forest Ecology and Management
July 2014
Factors influencing repeated seed movements by scatter-hoarding rodents in an alpine fo...
Scientific Reports
April 2014
New approaches to novel ecosystems
Trends in Ecology & Evolution
March 2014
Tropical Forest Ecology in the Anthropocene
January 2014
How to classify tropical forests
January 2014
Tropical Forest Ecosystem Ecology: Water, Energy, Carbon, and Nutrients
January 2014
What do animals do in tropical forests and why do the forests need them?
January 2014
Applied Ecology of Tropical Forests
January 2014
Becoming Europe: Southeast Asia in the Anthropocene
Elementa Science of the Anthropocene
December 2013
A short note on seed dispersal by colobines: the case of the proboscis monkey
Integrative Zoology
December 2013
Seed rain into a degraded tropical peatland in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia
Biological Conservation
November 2013
Economic and Environmental Impacts of Harmful Non-Indigenous Species in Southeast Asia
PLoS ONE
August 2013
Leaf litter depth as an important factor inhibiting seedling establishment of an exotic...
Biological Invasions
August 2013
Will plant movements keep up with climate change?
Trends in Ecology & Evolution
August 2013
Singapore
July 2013
The shifted baseline: Prehistoric defaunation in the tropics and its consequences for b...
Biological Conservation
July 2013
Possible role of weaver ants,Oecophylla smaragdina, in shaping plant-pollinator interac...
Journal of Ecology
May 2013
Climate warming and the potential extinction of fig wasps, the obligate pollinators of ...
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
March 2013
Where are the Subtropics?
Biotropica
February 2013
Flowers attract weaver ants that deter less effective pollinators
Journal of Ecology
October 2012
Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas
Nature
July 2012
Climate change in the tropics: The end of the world as we know it?
Biological Conservation
July 2012
Herbarium records do not predict rediscovery of presumed nationally extinct species
Biodiversity and Conservation
June 2012
Seed dispersal in changing landscapes
Biological Conservation
February 2012
How to be a frugivore (in a changing world)
Acta Oecologica
November 2011
Impacts of warming on tropical lowland rainforests
Trends in Ecology & Evolution
November 2011
Seed dispersal in Hong Kong, China: past, present and possible futures
Integrative Zoology
June 2011
Asian Tapirs Are No Elephants When It Comes To Seed Dispersal
Biotropica
May 2011
Scavenging of dead invertebrates along an urbanisation gradient in Singapore
Insect Conservation and Diversity
March 2011
Tropical Rain Forests
February 2011
Plant traits and extinction in urban areas: a meta-analysis of 11 cities
Global Ecology and Biogeography
January 2011
Biodiversity and Conservation of Tropical Peat Swamp Forests
BioScience
January 2011
The Importance of Animals in the Forest
January 2011
Towards a global database of weed risk assessments: a test of transferability for the t...
Biological Invasions
December 2010
Honeybees in Natural Ecosystems
December 2010
Trouble with the Gray Literature
Biotropica
November 2010
Altered Ecologies (Terra Australis 32): Fire, climate and human influence on terrestria...
November 2010
Assessing avian habitat fragmentation in urban areas of Hong Kong (Kowloon) at high spa...
Landscape and Urban Planning
March 2010
Equatorial Cities as Novel Ecosystems
CITYGREEN Nature & Health in Cities
January 2010
A global synthesis of plant extinction rates in urban areas
Ecology Letters
November 2009
Seed consumption by small mammals from Borneo
Journal of Tropical Ecology
September 2009
Invasive aliens on tropical East Asian islands
Biodiversity and Conservation
March 2009
Seed Dispersal Distances and Plant Migration Potential in Tropical East Asia
Biotropica
March 2009
A conceptual framework for predicting the effects of urban environments on floras
Journal of Ecology
January 2009
Frugivory and seed dispersal by vertebrates in the Oriental (Indomalayan) Region
Biological Reviews
October 2008
Exotic plant invasion in the highly degraded upland landscape of Hong Kong, China
Biodiversity and Conservation
September 2008
Seasonality of a forest bird community in Hong Kong, South China
Ibis
June 2008
Seed rain and natural regeneration in Lophostemon confertus plantations in Hong Kong, C...
New Forests
September 2007
Correlates of extinction proneness in tropical angiosperms
Diversity and Distributions
July 2007
The Plight of Large Animals in Tropical Forests and the Consequences for Plant Regenera...
Biotropica
May 2007
The Impact of Hunting on the Mammalian Fauna of Tropical Asian Forests
Biotropica
May 2007
Effect of ingestion by two frugivorous bat species on the seed germination of Ficus rac...
Journal of Tropical Ecology
January 2007
Management of plant invasions mediated by frugivore interactions
Journal of Applied Ecology
August 2006
Rodent Diversity in a Highly Degraded Tropical Landscape: Hong Kong, South China
Biodiversity and Conservation
June 2006
How far do birds disperse seeds in the degraded tropical landscape of Hong Kong, China?
Landscape Ecology
May 2006
Seed rain into upland plant communities in Hong Kong, China
Plant Ecology
February 2006
Tropical rainforests and the need for cross-continental comparisons
Trends in Ecology & Evolution
February 2006
Selecting small reserves in a human-dominated landscape: A case study of Hong Kong, China
Journal of Environmental Management
January 2006
Interactions between birds, fruit bats and exotic plants in urban Hong Kong, South China
Urban Ecosystems
December 2005
Reproductive biology of theIlexspecies (Aquifoliaceae) in Hong Kong, China
Canadian Journal of Botany
December 2005
Figs (Ficus, Moraceae) in Urban Hong Kong, South China1
Biotropica
November 2005
Natural regeneration in exotic tree plantations in Hong Kong, China
Forest Ecology and Management
July 2005
Beyond Singapore: Hong Kong and Asian biodiversity
Trends in Ecology & Evolution
June 2005
The persistence of ripe fleshy fruits in the presence and absence of frugivores
Oecologia
October 2004
Flower visitors and pollination in the Oriental (Indomalayan) Region
Biological Reviews
August 2004
A fine-scale gap analysis of the existing protected area system in Hong Kong, China
Biodiversity and Conservation
May 2004
Invasive birds in Hong Kong, China
ORNITHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
January 2004
Factors Affecting the Early Survival and Growth of Native Tree Seedlings Planted on a D...
Restoration Ecology
December 2003
Phytogeography of Hong Kong bryophytes
Journal of Biogeography
August 2003
Continental rain forest fragments in Singapore resist invasion by exotic plants
Journal of Biogeography
February 2003
Plant Ecology
January 2003
Seasonality of forest invertebrates in Hong Kong, South China
Journal of Tropical Ecology
July 2002
Pollination in a degraded tropical landscape: a Hong Kong case study
Journal of Tropical Ecology
January 2001
Genetic variation and structure in six Rhododendron species (Ericaceae) with contrastin...
Molecular Ecology
July 2000
The bird communities of a natural secondary forest and a Lophostemon confertus plantati...
Forest Ecology and Management
May 2000
Environmental forestry in Hong Kong: 1871–1997
Forest Ecology and Management
April 1999
The biological sustainability of biomass harvesting
Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment
June 1998
Sugar composition of wild fruits in Hong Kong, China
Journal of Tropical Ecology
May 1998
Effects of harvesting on the biomass of plant species
Forest Ecology and Management
April 1998
Seed dispersal by long-tailed macaques
American Journal of Primatology
January 1998
EccremidiumWils., a moss genus new to China from Hong Kong
Journal of Bryology
January 1998
Energy and nutrient flow through the storage and consumption of upland phytomass fuel
Forest Ecology and Management
June 1997
Tropical forest fragments are worth preserving.
Trends in Ecology & Evolution
December 1996
A Study of Plant Species Extinction in Singapore: Lessons for the Conservation of Tropi...
Conservation Biology
September 1994
What is secondary forest?
Journal of Tropical Ecology
August 1994
Reproductive phenology of Hong Kong shrubland
Journal of Tropical Ecology
November 1993
The Naturalized Flora of Hong Kong: A Comparison with Singapore
Journal of Biogeography
July 1992
The Ecological Transformation of Singapore, 1819-1990
Journal of Biogeography
July 1992
Alternative seed-handling strategies in primates: seed-spitting by long-tailed macaques...
Oecologia
February 1990
The Naturalized Flora of Singapore
Journal of Biogeography
July 1988
Bukit Timah: the History and Significance of a Small Rain-forest Reserve
Environmental Conservation
January 1988
Seed Germination in Hedyotis Species (Rubiaceae)
Biotropica
September 1987
The Phenology of Ficus fistulosa in Singapore
Biotropica
June 1987
Post-Fire Succession on Mt. Wilhelm, Papua New Guinea
Biotropica
June 1987
The mangrove understory: some additional observations
Journal of Tropical Ecology
February 1986
Sexual dimorphism of tooth size in anthropoids
Human Evolution
February 1986
Plio-pleistocene hominid diets: an approach combining masticatory and ecological analysis
Journal of Human Evolution
February 1985
PALYNOLOGICAL EVIDENCE FOR CHANGING SUBSISTENCE PATTERNS AROUND MT WILHELM, PAPUA NEW G...
Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography
December 1984
Are the Xeromorphic Trees of Tropical Upper Montane Rain Forests Drought- Resistant?
Biotropica
June 1980
Dietary analysis II: food chemistry
Asia