Professor Serge Wich
Liverpool John Moores University
United Kingdom
My co-authors include
Dr marc ancrenaz
Dr Colin A Chapman
Dr Susan M Cheyne
My Publications
Saving the Tapanuli orangutan requires zero losses
Oryx
January 2021
Modelling landscape connectivity change for chimpanzee conservation in Tanzania
Biological Conservation
December 2020
The environmental impacts of palm oil in context
Nature Plants
December 2020
Corrigendum: A Severe Lack of Evidence Limits Effective Conservation of the World's Pri...
BioScience
November 2020
A Severe Lack of Evidence Limits Effective Conservation of the World's Primates
BioScience
August 2020
Tapanuli orangutan endangered by Sumatran hydropower scheme
Nature Ecology & Evolution
July 2020
Measuring disturbance at swift breeding colonies due to the visual aspects of a drone: ...
Current Zoology
July 2020
The global abundance of tree palms
Global Ecology and Biogeography
July 2020
DNA Barcoding of Nematodes Using the MinION
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
April 2020
Spatial and temporal overlaps between leopards ( Panthera pardus ...
Journal of Zoology
April 2020
Grouping behavior of Sumatran orangutans ( Pongo abelii ) and T...
American Journal of Primatology
March 2020
Scent-marking strategies of a solitary carnivore: boundary and road scent marking in th...
Animal Behaviour
March 2020
Palm fruit colours are linked to the broad-scale distribution and diversification of pr...
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
February 2020
Conservation and the social sciences: Beyond critique and co‐optation. A case study fro...
People and Nature
January 2020
Does biodiversity benefit when the logging stops? An analysis of conservation risks and...
Biological Conservation
January 2020
Tropical forest and peatland conservation in Indonesia: Challenges and directions
People and Nature
November 2019
Spatio‐temporal factors impacting encounter occurrences between leopards and other larg...
Journal of Zoology
November 2019
Oil Palm (Elaeis guineensis) Mapping with Details: Smallholder versus Industrial Planta...
Remote Sensing
November 2019
Effectiveness of unmanned aerial vehicles to detect Amazon dolphins
Oryx
October 2019
Requirements and Limitations of Thermal Drones for Effective Search and Rescue in Marin...
Drones
October 2019
Successful observation of orangutans in the wild with thermal-equipped drones
Journal of Unmanned Vehicle Systems
September 2019
Tourist photographs as a scalable framework for wildlife monitoring in protected areas
Current Biology
July 2019
Are We Capturing Faunal Intactness? A Comparison of Intact Forest Landscapes and the “L...
Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
June 2019
A global risk assessment of primates under climate and land use/cover scenarios
Global Change Biology
May 2019
Detecting ‘poachers’ with drones: Factors influencing the probability of detection with...
Biological Conservation
May 2019
The Tapanuli orangutan: Status, threats, and steps for improved conservation
Conservation Science and Practice
April 2019
Thermal Infrared Imaging from Drones Offers a Major Advance for Spider Monkey Surveys
Drones
April 2019
Thermal-Drones as a Safe and Reliable Method for Detecting Subterranean Peat Fires
Drones
February 2019
Optimizing observing strategies for monitoring animals using drone-mounted thermal infr...
International Journal of Remote Sensing
January 2019
Comparison of Plant Diversity and Phenology of Riverine and Mangrove Forests with Those...
January 2019
Orangutan populations are certainly not increasing in the wild
Current Biology
November 2018
Locating emergent trees in a tropical rainforest using data from an Unmanned Aerial Veh...
International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
October 2018
Conservation Drones
August 2018
Small room for compromise between oil palm cultivation and primate conservation in Africa
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
August 2018
Adapting thermal-infrared technology and astronomical techniques for use in conservatio...
July 2018
Addressing environmental and atmospheric challenges for capturing high-precision therma...
July 2018
Primates in peril: the significance of Brazil, Madagascar, Indonesia and the Democratic...
PeerJ
June 2018
Orangutans venture out of the rainforest and into the Anthropocene
Science Advances
June 2018
Assessment of Chimpanzee Nest Detectability in Drone-Acquired Images
Drones
April 2018
Building relationships: how zoos and other partners can contribute to the conservation ...
International Zoo Yearbook
March 2018
Global Demand for Natural Resources Eliminated More Than 100,000 Bornean Orangutans
Current Biology
March 2018
Phylogenetic classification of the world’s tropical forests
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
February 2018
Morphometric, Behavioral, and Genomic Evidence for a New Orangutan Species
Current Biology
November 2017
Morphometric, Behavioral, and Genomic Evidence for a New Orangutan Species
Current Biology
November 2017
Location, location, location: considerations when using lightweight drones in challengi...
Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation
August 2017
First integrative trend analysis for a great ape species in Borneo
Scientific Reports
July 2017
Proto-consonants were information-dense via identical bioacoustic tags to proto-vowels
Nature Human Behaviour
February 2017
Adapting astronomical source detection software to help detect animals in thermal image...
International Journal of Remote Sensing
February 2017
Mapping orangutan habitat and agricultural areas using Landsat OLI imagery augmented wi...
International Journal of Remote Sensing
January 2017
Denial of long-term issues with agriculture on tropical peatlands will have devastating...
Global Change Biology
January 2017
Impending extinction crisis of the world’s primates: Why primates matter
Science Advances
January 2017
Ebola in great apes - current knowledge, possibilities for vaccination, and implication...
Mammal Review
December 2016
Detecting industrial oil palm plantations on Landsat images with Google Earth Engine
Remote Sensing Applications Society and Environment
October 2016
The Good Drone
August 2016
Fresh strategies to save orangutans
Nature
July 2016
Integrating technologies for scalable ecology and conservation
Global Ecology and Conservation
July 2016
Vocal fold control beyond the species-specific repertoire in an orang-utan
Scientific Reports
July 2016
An Introduction to Primate Conservation
June 2016
Correction: Corrigendum: Alternative futures for Borneo show the value of integrating e...
Nature Communications
June 2016
Community motivations to engage in conservation behavior to conserve the Sumatran orang...
Conservation Biology
April 2016
New survey predicts steep declines for Sumatran orangutan
Science Advances
March 2016
Disparity in Onset Timing and Frequency of Flowering and Fruiting Events in Two Bornean...
Biotropica
October 2015
Locating chimpanzee nests and identifying fruiting trees with an unmanned aerial vehicle
American Journal of Primatology
July 2015
Correction for Slik et al., An estimate of the number of tropical tree species
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
July 2015
An estimate of the number of tropical tree species
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
June 2015
Alternative futures for Borneo show the value of integrating economic and conservation ...
Nature Communications
April 2015
Acoustic models of orangutan hand-assisted alarm calls
Journal of Experimental Biology
March 2015
Analysis of deforestation and protected area effectiveness in Indonesia: A comparison o...
Global Environmental Change
March 2015
Mapping perceptions of species' threats and population trends to inform conservation ef...
Diversity and Distributions
January 2015
Speech-Like Rhythm in a Voiced and Voiceless Orangutan Call
PLoS ONE
January 2015
Anticipated climate and land-cover changes reveal refuge areas for Borneo's orang-utans
Global Change Biology
January 2015
Nature Conservation Drones for Automatic Localization and Counting of Animals
January 2015
Food mechanical properties, feeding ecology, and the mandibular morphology of wild oran...
Journal of Human Evolution
October 2014
Effect of repeated exposures and sociality on novel food acceptance and consumption by ...
Primates
September 2014
Will Oil Palm’s Homecoming Spell Doom for Africa’s Great Apes?
Current Biology
July 2014
Small Drones for Community-Based Forest Monitoring: An Assessment of Their Feasibility ...
Forests
June 2014
Coming down from the trees: Is terrestrial activity in Bornean orangutans natural or di...
Scientific Reports
February 2014
Preliminary Data on the Highland Sumatran Orangutans (Pongo abelii) of Batang Toru
November 2013
Orangutan (Pongo spp.) whistling and implications for the emergence of an open-ended ca...
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
September 2013
Correction: Population-Specific Use of the Same Tool-Assisted Alarm Call between Two Wi...
PLoS ONE
August 2013
Reconciling Forest Conservation and Logging in Indonesian Borneo
PLoS ONE
August 2013
Large trees drive forest aboveground biomass variation in moist lowland forests across ...
Global Ecology and Biogeography
July 2013
Population-Specific Use of the Same Tool-Assisted Alarm Call between Two Wild Orangutan...
PLoS ONE
July 2013
Predator guild does not influence orangutan alarm call rates and combinations
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
December 2012
Socioecological correlates of inter-individual variation in orangutan diets at Ketambe,...
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
December 2012
Understanding the Impacts of Land-Use Policies on a Threatened Species: Is There a Futu...
PLoS ONE
November 2012
Marked Population Structure and Recent Migration in the Critically Endangered Sumatran ...
Journal of Heredity
October 2012
Dawn of Drone Ecology: Low-Cost Autonomous Aerial Vehicles for Conservation
Tropical Conservation Science
June 2012
SEASONAL MORTALITY PATTERNS IN NON-HUMAN PRIMATES: IMPLICATIONS FOR VARIATION IN SELECT...
Evolution
May 2012
Call Cultures in Orang-Utans?
PLoS ONE
May 2012
Effects of logging on orangutan behavior
Biological Conservation
February 2012
Hunting of Sumatran orang-utans and its importance in determining distribution and density
Biological Conservation
February 2012
Behavioral, Ecological, and Evolutionary Aspects of Meat-Eating by Sumatran Orangutans ...
International Journal of Primatology
January 2012
Not by science alone: why orangutan conservationists must think outside the box
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
December 2011
Orangutan Instrumental Gesture-Calls: Reconciling Acoustic and Gestural Speech Evolutio...
Evolutionary Biology
December 2011
Soils on exposed Sunda Shelf shaped biogeographic patterns in the equatorial forests of...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
July 2011
Forest Fruit Production Is Higher on Sumatra Than on Borneo
PLoS ONE
June 2011
Why Don't We Ask? A Complementary Method for Assessing the Status of Great Apes
PLoS ONE
March 2011
Which Factors Determine Orangutan Nests' Detection Probability along Transects?
Tropical Conservation Science
March 2011
Sex-Biased Dispersal and Volcanic Activities Shaped Phylogeographic Patterns of Extant ...
Molecular Biology and Evolution
February 2011
Review of geographic variation in terrestrial mammalian acoustic signals: Human speech ...
Journal of Evolutionary Psychology
December 2010
Declining Orangutan Encounter Rates from Wallace to the Present Suggest the Species Was...
PLoS ONE
August 2010
Metabolic adaptation for low energy throughput in orangutans
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
August 2010
Estimating Orangutan Densities Using the Standing Crop and Marked Nest Count Methods: L...
Biotropica
May 2010
Diet traditions in wild orangutans
American Journal of Physical Anthropology
May 2010
Acoustic Properties of Long Calls Given by Flanged Male Orang-Utans (Pongo pygmaeus wur...
Ethology
May 2010
Social learning of diet and foraging skills by wild immature Bornean orangutans: implic...
American Journal of Primatology
January 2010
Primates in Peril: The World's 25 Most Endangered Primates 2008–2010
Primate Conservation
November 2009
Decline of the Endangered Barbary macaque Macaca sylvanus in the cedar forest of the Mi...
Oryx
October 2009
The future of forests and orangutans ( Pongo abelii ...
Environmental Research Letters
September 2009
Tool use in wild orang-utans modifies sound production: a functionally deceptive innova...
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
August 2009
Captive and wild orangutan (Pongosp.) survivorship: a comparison and the influence of m...
American Journal of Primatology
August 2009
Nest building in orangutans
December 2008
Orangutan life history variation
December 2008
Orangutan distribution, density, abundance and impacts of disturbance
December 2008
Orangutan population biology, life history, and conservation
December 2008
A description of the orangutan's vocal and sound repertoire, with a focus on geographic...
December 2008
The effects of forest phenology and floristics on populations of Bornean and Sumatran o...
December 2008
Geographic variation in orangutan diets
December 2008
Geographic variation in orangutan behavior and biology
December 2008
Geographical variation in orangutan long calls
December 2008
Orangutan activity budgets and diet
December 2008
Orangutans
December 2008
Ranging behavior of orangutan females and social organization
December 2008
The ecology of female reproduction in wild orangutans
December 2008
A case of spontaneous acquisition of a human sound by an orangutan
Primates
December 2008
Erratum
Oryx
October 2008
Distribution and conservation status of the orang-utan ( Pongo spp.) on Borneo and Suma...
Oryx
July 2008
Orangutan Long Call Degradation and Individuality Over Distance: A Playback Approach
International Journal of Primatology
June 2008
Fishing in Macaca fascicularis: A Rarely Observed Innovative Behavior
International Journal of Primatology
April 2008
Geographic variation in Thomas langur (Presbytis thomasi) loud calls
American Journal of Primatology
January 2008
Reproductive Life History Traits of Female Orangutans (Pongo spp.)
January 2008
ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Mammals of Borneo - small size on a large island
Journal of Biogeography
December 2007
Putting orang-utan population trends into perspective
Current Biology
July 2007
Demography and life history of Thomas langurs (Presbytis thomasi)
American Journal of Primatology
June 2007
Intestinal Parasites of Free-ranging, Semicaptive,and Captive Pongo abelii in Sumatra, ...
International Journal of Primatology
April 2007
Familiarity and threat of opponents determine variation in Thomas langur (Presbytis tho...
Behaviour
January 2007
Dietary and Energetic Responses of Pongo abelii to Fruit Availability Fluctuations
International Journal of Primatology
December 2006
Frugivory in sun bears (Helarctos malayanus) is linked to El Niño-related fluctuations ...
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
October 2006
The development of wild immature Sumatran orangutans (Pongo abelii) at Ketambe
Primates
May 2006
Innovation in wild Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii)
Behaviour
January 2006
Male monkeys remember which group members have given alarm calls
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
December 2005
A simple alternative to line transects of nests for estimating orangutan densities
Primates
June 2005
Female dispersal, inbreeding avoidance and mate choice in Thomas langurs (Presbytis tho...
Behaviour
January 2005
Life history of wild Sumatran orangutans (Pongo abelii)
Journal of Human Evolution
December 2004
Mesoscale transect sampling of trees in the lomako–yekokora interfluvium, democratic re...
Biodiversity and Conservation
December 2004
A comparison of orang-utan density in a logged and unlogged forest on Sumatra
Biological Conservation
November 2004
Determinants of orangutan density in the dryland forests of the Leuser Ecosystem
Primates
April 2004
Thomas Langurs (Presbytis thomasi) Discriminate Between Calls of Young Solitary Versus ...
Behaviour
January 2004
Life-Phase Related Changes in Male Loud Call Characteristics and Testosterone Levels in...
International Journal of Primatology
December 2003
Possible audience effect in thomas langurs (primates;presbytis thomasi): An experimenta...
American Journal of Primatology
August 2003
The status of the Sumatran orang-utan Pongo abelii: an update
Oryx
January 2003
Individual and Contextual Variation in Thomas Langur Male Loud Calls
Ethology
December 2002
Do male "long-distance calls" function in mate defense? A comparative study of long-dis...
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
November 2002
Seasonal movements in the Sumatran orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus abelii) and consequences f...
Biological Conservation
September 2002
Measuring fruit patch size for three sympatric indonesian primate species
Primates
March 2002
PLAYBACKS OF LOUD CALLS TO WILD THOMAS LANGURS (PRIMATES; PRESBYTIS THOMASI): THE EFFEC...
Behaviour
January 2002
PLAYBACKS OF LOUD CALLS TO WILD THOMAS LANGURS (PRIMATES; PRESBYTIS THOMASI): THE EFFEC...
Behaviour
January 2002
The impact of El Niño on mast fruiting in Sumatra and elsewhere in Malesia
Journal of Tropical Ecology
July 2000
TENURE RELATED CHANGES IN WILD THOMAS'S LANGURS II: LOUD CALLS
Behaviour
January 1999
Are Orang-Utan Females as Solitary as Chimpanzee Females?
Folia Primatologica
January 1999
International Journal of Primatology
January 1997
Arthrokinetic and vestibular information enhance smooth ocular tracking during linear (...
Experimental Brain Research
September 1994