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Kelvin S.-H. Peh is affiliated with the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with particular attention to Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, and related subfields.

The scientist has contributed significantly to topics such as Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Plant and Animal Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics.

Recent papers by Kelvin S.-H. Peh include:

  • Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests, 2020, Nature
  • High aboveground carbon stock of African tropical montane forests, 2021, Nature
  • The economic consequences of conserving or restoring sites for nature, 2021, Nature Sustainability
  • Impacts of anthropogenic climate change on tropical montane forests: an appraisal of the evidence, 2023, Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • Impacts of climate change on tropical agroforestry systems: A systematic review for identifying future research priorities, 2022, Frontiers in Forests and Global Change

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers, including Martin Watts, Wannes Hubau, Simon L. Lewis, Oliver L. Phillips, and Trey Sunderland.

Kelvin S.-H. Peh has published multiple articles in venues such as Nature, People and Nature, Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, Ecosystem Services, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

Best Publications

  • Increasing carbon storage in intact African tropical forests

    Simon L. Lewis;Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez;Bonaventure Sonké;Kofi Affum-Baffoe

  • Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests

    Wannes Hubau;Wannes Hubau;Wannes Hubau;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis;Oliver L. Phillips;Kofi Affum-Baffoe

  • Global evidence that deforestation amplifies flood risk and severity in the developing world

    Corey J. A. Bradshaw;Navjot S. Sodhi;Kelvin S.-H. Peh;Kelvin S.-H. Peh;Barry W. Brook

  • Height-diameter allometry of tropical forest trees

    T.R. Feldpausch;L. Banin;O.L. Phillips;T.R. Baker

  • Drought–mortality relationships for tropical forests

    Oliver L. Phillips;Geertje van der Heijden;Simon L. Lewis;Gabriela López-González

  • Tree height integrated into pantropical forest biomass estimates

    T. R. Feldpausch;J. Lloyd;J. Lloyd;S. L. Lewis;S. L. Lewis;R. J. W. Brienen

  • A new valuation school : Integrating diverse values of nature in resource and land use decisions

    Sander Jacobs;Nicolas Dendoncker;Berta Martín-López;David Nicholas Barton

  • Above-ground biomass and structure of 260 African tropical forests.

    Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis;Bonaventure Sonké;Terry Sunderland;Serge K. Begne;Serge K. Begne

  • Global warming, elevational ranges and the vulnerability of tropical biota

    William F. Laurance;William F. Laurance;D. Carolina Useche;Luke P. Shoo;Sebastian K. Herzog

  • Conservation value of degraded habitats for forest birds in southern Peninsular Malaysia

    Kelvin S.‐H. Peh;Kelvin S.‐H. Peh;Navjot S. Sodhi;Johnny De Jong;Cagan H. Sekercioglu

  • What controls tropical forest architecture: testing environmental, structural and floristic drivers

    L. Banin;L. Banin;T. R. Feldpausch;O. L. Phillips;T. R. Baker

  • TESSA: A toolkit for rapid assessment of ecosystem services at sites of biodiversity conservation importance

    Kelvin S.-H. Peh;Andrew Balmford;Richard B. Bradbury;Claire Brown

  • Lowland rainforest avifauna and human disturbance: persistence of primary forest birds in selectively logged forests and mixed-rural habitats of southern Peninsular Malaysia

    Kelvin S.-H. Peh;Johnny de Jong;Navjot S. Sodhi;Susan L.-H. Lim

  • Mechanisms of monodominance in diverse tropical tree-dominated systems

    Kelvin S.‐H. Peh;Kelvin S.‐H. Peh;Simon L. Lewis;Jon Lloyd;Jon Lloyd

  • The odd man out? Might climate explain the lower tree α‐diversity of African rain forests relative to Amazonian rain forests?

    Ingrid Parmentier;Ingrid Parmentier;Yadvinder Malhi;Yadvinder Malhi;Bruno Senterre;Robert J. Whittaker

  • Global importance of vertebrate pollinators for plant reproductive success: a meta-analysis

    Fabrizia Ratto;Benno I. Simmons;Rebecca Spake;Veronica Zamora-Gutierrez;Veronica Zamora-Gutierrez

  • Taking the pulse of Earth's tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots

    Cecilia Blundo;Julieta Carilla;Ricardo Grau

  • Invasive species in Southeast Asia: the knowledge so far

    Kelvin S.-H. Peh

  • What benefits do community forests provide, and to whom? A rapid assessment of ecosystem services from a Himalayan forest, Nepal

    Jennifer C. Birch;Ishana Thapa;Andrew Balmford;Richard B. Bradbury

  • Denial of long-term issues with agriculture on tropical peatlands will have devastating consequences

    Lahiru S. Wijedasa;Jyrki Jauhiainen;Mari Könönen;Maija Lampela

  • Residence times of woody biomass in tropical forests

    David Galbraith;Yadvinder Malhi;Kofi Affum-Baffoe;Andrea D.A. Castanho

  • Routledge Handbook of Forest Ecology

    Kelvin S.-H. Peh;Richard T. Corlett;Yves Bergeron

Frequent Co-Authors

Simon L. Lewis
Simon L. Lewis University College London
Bonaventure Sonké
Bonaventure Sonké Université de Yaoundé I
Jon Lloyd
Jon Lloyd Imperial College London
Simon Willcock
Simon Willcock Rothamsted Research
Navjot S. Sodhi
Navjot S. Sodhi National University of Singapore
Stuart H. M. Butchart
Stuart H. M. Butchart BirdLife international, UK
Andrew Balmford
Andrew Balmford University of Cambridge
Richard B. Bradbury
Richard B. Bradbury University of Cambridge
Terry Sunderland
Terry Sunderland University of British Columbia
Oliver L. Phillips
Oliver L. Phillips University of Leeds

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