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Ecology and Evolution
Singapore
2026

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
81
Citations
28488
World Ranking
786
National Ranking
1

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Singapore Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Singapore Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Singapore Leader Award

Overview

Lian Pin Koh is affiliated with the National University of Singapore in Singapore. Their research focuses primarily on Environmental Science, with a total of 81 publications in this field. Within Environmental Science, they have contributed extensively to subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Ecological Modeling, Economics and Econometrics, and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law.

The scientist's recent papers cover a range of topics primarily centered on biodiversity conservation and environmental impacts. Notable recent works include:

  • "Impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on biodiversity conservation" (2020) published in Biological Conservation
  • "The environmental impacts of palm oil in context" (2020) published in Nature Plants
  • "Protecting irrecoverable carbon in Earth's ecosystems" (2020) published in Nature Climate Change
  • "A metric for spatially explicit contributions to science-based species targets" (2021) published in Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "Global potential and limits of mangrove blue carbon for climate change mitigation" (2021) published in Current Biology

Frequent coauthors of Lian Pin Koh include Yiwen Zeng, Tasya Vadya Sarira, Hoong Chen Teo, Rachakonda Sreekar, and Qiming Zheng. They have collaborated multiple times, indicating a sustained working relationship in related research areas.

The main topics explored in the scientist's work span several areas:

  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Economic and Environmental Valuation
  • Forest Management and Policy
  • Oil Palm Production and Sustainability

Lian Pin Koh has published frequently in various scientific journals and platforms, with the highest number of contributions to Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) with 12 publications, followed by five in Biological Conservation. Other publication venues with multiple contributions include Current Biology, Nature Communications, and Nature Sustainability.

Best Publications

  • Primary forests are irreplaceable for sustaining tropical biodiversity

    Luke Gibson;Tien Ming Lee;Tien Ming Lee;Lian Pin Koh;Lian Pin Koh;Barry W. Brook

  • Southeast Asian biodiversity: an impending disaster

    Navjot S. Sodhi;Lian Pin Koh;Lian Pin Koh;Barry W. Brook;Peter K.L. Ng

  • Is oil palm agriculture really destroying tropical biodiversity

    Lian Pin Koh;David S. Wilcove

  • Dawn of Drone Ecology: Low-Cost Autonomous Aerial Vehicles for Conservation:

    Lian Pin Koh;Lian Pin Koh;Serge A. Wich

  • Species coextinctions and the biodiversity crisis.

    Lian Pin Koh;Robert R. Dunn;Navjot S. Sodhi;Robert K. Colwell

  • The state and conservation of Southeast Asian biodiversity

    Navjot S. Sodhi;Mary Rose C. Posa;Tien Ming Lee;David Bickford

  • Biofuels, biodiversity, and people: Understanding the conflicts and finding opportunities

    Lian Pin Koh;Jaboury Ghazoul

  • Remotely sensed evidence of tropical peatland conversion to oil palm

    Lian Pin Koh;Jukka Miettinen;Soo Chin Liew;Jaboury Ghazoul

  • Measuring the Meltdown: Drivers of Global Amphibian Extinction and Decline

    Navjot S. Sodhi;David Bickford;Arvin C. Diesmos;Arvin C. Diesmos;Tien Ming Lee

  • The sixth mass coextinction: are most endangered species parasites and mutualists?

    Robert R. Dunn;Nyeema C. Harris;Robert K. Colwell;Lian Pin Koh

  • Navjot's nightmare revisited: logging, agriculture, and biodiversity in Southeast Asia

    David S. Wilcove;Xingli Giam;Xingli Giam;David P. Edwards;Brendan Fisher

  • Addressing the threats to biodiversity from oil-palm agriculture

    David S. Wilcove;Lian Pin Koh

  • Conserving Southeast Asian forest biodiversity in human-modified landscapes

    Navjot S. Sodhi;Lian Pin Koh;Reuben Clements;Thomas C. Wanger

  • Drones count wildlife more accurately and precisely than humans

    Jarrod C. Hodgson;Rowan Mott;Shane M. Baylis;Trung T. Pham

  • Relative Contributions of the Logging, Fiber, Oil Palm, and Mining Industries to Forest Loss in Indonesia

    Sinan A. Abood;Janice Ser Huay Lee;Zuzana Burivalova;John Garcia-Ulloa

  • Free and open-access satellite data are key to biodiversity conservation

    Woody Turner;Carlo Rondinini;Nathalie Pettorelli;Brice Mora

  • Impact of forest management on species richness: global meta-analysis and economic trade-offs

    Abhishek Chaudhary;Zuzana Burivalova;Lian Pin Koh;Stefanie Hellweg

  • Impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on biodiversity conservation.

    Richard T. Corlett;Richard B. Primack;Vincent Devictor;Bea Maas

  • Cashing in palm oil for conservation.

    Lian Pin Koh;David S. Wilcove

  • Small Drones for Community-Based Forest Monitoring: An Assessment of Their Feasibility and Potential in Tropical Areas

    Jaime Paneque-Gálvez;Michael K. McCall;Brian M. Napoletano;Serge A. Wich

Frequent Co-Authors

Navjot S. Sodhi
Navjot S. Sodhi National University of Singapore
Tien Ming Lee
Tien Ming Lee Sun Yat-sen University
Serge A. Wich
Serge A. Wich Liverpool John Moores University
Barry W. Brook
Barry W. Brook University of Tasmania
Corey J. A. Bradshaw
Corey J. A. Bradshaw Flinders University
Xingli Giam
Xingli Giam University of Tennessee at Knoxville
William F. Laurance
William F. Laurance James Cook University
David S. Wilcove
David S. Wilcove Princeton University
Richard T. Corlett
Richard T. Corlett Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden

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