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The Biodiversity Observation Network in the Asia-Pacific Region pp 21–25Cite as

Biodiversity Outlook in the Southeast Asia: Challenges and Prospects for the Next Decade

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Southeast Asia has one of the most biologically diverse ecosystems in the world. Although occupying only 3% of the earth’s surface, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) region boasts of globally significant terrestrial and marine biodiversity that is home to an astonishing 18% of all known species in the world. It has the most diverse coral reefs in the world, home to the mega-diverse countries of Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines. It spans several unique biogeographic units such as Indo-Burma, Malesia, Sundaland, Wallacea, and the Central Pacific.

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  • Ecosystem Service
  • Coral Reef
  • ASEAN Region
  • Biodiversity Loss
  • Invasive Alien Species

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    ASEAN region is comprised of the ten member states countries of Southeast Asia namely, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Viet Nam.

References

  • ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity (2010) ASEAN Biodiversity Outlook. Philippines, 208 pp

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  • Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (2002) Global Biodiversity Outlook 3. Montreal, 94 pp

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  1. ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity, Third Flr. ERDB Bldg. UP College of Forestry Campus College, Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines

    Rodrigo U. Fuentes, Rolando Inciong & Leslie Ann Jose-Castillo

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  1. Rodrigo U. Fuentes
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Correspondence to Rodrigo U. Fuentes .

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  1. Center for Ecological Research, Kyoto University, Otsu, Shiga, Japan

    Shin-ichi Nakano

  2. Department of Biology, Faculty of Scienc, Graduate School of Systems Life Sciences, Fukuoka, Japan

    Tetsukazu Yahara

  3. Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

    Tohru Nakashizuka

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Fuentes, R.U., Inciong, R., Jose-Castillo, L.A. (2012). Biodiversity Outlook in the Southeast Asia: Challenges and Prospects for the Next Decade. In: Nakano, Si., Yahara, T., Nakashizuka, T. (eds) The Biodiversity Observation Network in the Asia-Pacific Region. Ecological Research Monographs. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-54032-8_2

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