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Overview

Serge A. Wich is affiliated with Liverpool John Moores University in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with a specialization in Ecology and related subfields such as Social Psychology, Global and Planetary Change, Ecological Modeling, and Developmental Biology.

The main topics in Serge A. Wich's body of work include Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Primate Behavior and Ecology, Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior, Oil Palm Production and Sustainability, and Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Serge A. Wich include:

  • Erik Meijaard
  • Paul Fergus
  • Carl Chalmers
  • S. N. Longmore
  • Marc Ancrenaz

They have published in a variety of venues, notably in:

  • Remote Sensing
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • PLoS ONE
  • Preprints.org

Several of Serge A. Wich's recent papers include:

  • "The environmental impacts of palm oil in context", 2020, published in Nature Plants
  • "High-resolution global map of smallholder and industrial closed-canopy oil palm plantations", 2021, published in Earth system science data
  • "Where Might We Find Ecologically Intact Communities?", 2021, published in Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
  • "Conservation and the social sciences: Beyond critique and co-optation. A case study from orangutan conservation", 2020, published in People and Nature
  • "A Severe Lack of Evidence Limits Effective Conservation of the World's Primates", 2020, published in BioScience

Best Publications

  • Impending extinction crisis of the world's primates: why primates matter

    Alejandro Estrada;Paul A. Garber;Anthony B. Rylands;Christian Roos

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

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

  • Large trees drive forest aboveground biomass variation in moist lowland forests across the tropics

    J.W. Ferry Slik;Gary Paoli;Krista L. McGuire;Iêda Leão Amaral

  • An estimate of the number of tropical tree species

    J. W. Ferry Slik;Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez;Shin-Ichiro Aiba;Patricia Alvarez-Loayza

  • 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

  • The environmental impacts of palm oil in context

    Erik Meijaard;Erik Meijaard;Thomas M. Brooks;Thomas M. Brooks;Thomas M. Brooks;Kimberly M. Carlson;Eleanor M. Slade

  • Morphometric, Behavioral, and Genomic Evidence for a New Orangutan Species

    Alexander Nater;Alexander Nater;Maja Patricia Mattle-Greminger;Anton Nurcahyo;Matthew G Nowak

  • Life history of wild Sumatran orangutans (Pongo abelii).

    S.A. Wich;S.S. Utami-Atmoko;S.S. Utami-Atmoko;T. Mitra Setia;T. Mitra Setia;H.D. Rijksen

  • Distribution and conservation status of the orang-utan (Pongo spp.) on Borneo and Sumatra: how many remain?

    Serge A. Wich;Erik Meijaard;Andrew J. Marshall;Simon Husson

  • Orangutans : geographic variation in behavioral ecology and conservation

    Serge A Wich;S. Suci Utami Atmoko;Tatang Mitra Setia;Carel P. van Schaik

  • Social learning of diet and foraging skills by wild immature Bornean orangutans: implications for culture.

    Adrian V. Jaeggi;Lynda P. Dunkel;Maria A. Van Noordwijk;Serge A. Wich;Serge A. Wich

  • Location, location, location: considerations when using lightweight drones in challenging environments

    James P. Duffy;Andrew M. Cunliffe;Leon DeBell;Chris Sandbrook;Chris Sandbrook

  • Primates in peril: the significance of Brazil, Madagascar, Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo for global primate conservation

    Alejandro Estrada;Paul A. Garber;Russell A. Mittermeier;Serge Wich

  • Carbon payments as a safeguard for threatened tropical mammals

    Oscar Venter;Erik Meijaard;Hugh P. Possingham;Rona Dennis

  • A simple alternative to line transects of nests for estimating orangutan densities

    Carel P. van Schaik;Serge A. Wich;Sri Suci Utami;Kisar Odom

  • Reconciling forest conservation and logging in Indonesian Borneo

    David L. A. Gaveau;Mrigesh Kshatriya;Douglas Sheil;Douglas Sheil;Douglas Sheil;Sean Sloan

  • Integrating technologies for scalable ecology and conservation

    David C. Marvin;Lian Pin Koh;Antony J. Lynam;Serge Wich;Serge Wich

  • High-resolution global map of smallholder and industrial closed-canopy oil palm plantations

    Adrià Descals;Serge Wich;Erik Meijaard;Erik Meijaard;David L. A. Gaveau

  • Orangutan distribution, density, abundance and impacts of disturbance

    Simon J. Husson;Serge A. Wich;Serge A. Wich;Andrew J. Marshall;Rona D. Dennis

  • Do male "long-distance calls" function in mate defense? A comparative study of long-distance calls in primates

    Serge A. Wich;Charles L. Nunn

  • Phylogenetic classification of the world's tropical forests

    J. W.Ferry Slik;Janet Franklin;Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez;Richard Field

  • Distribution and conservation status of the orang-utan (Pongo spp.) on Borneo and Sumatra: how many remain? Serge A. Wich ,E rikMeijaard ,A ndrew J. Marshall ,S imonHusson MarcAncrenaz ,R obert C. Lacy ,C arel P. vanSchaik ,J itoSugardjito ToguSimorangkir ,K athyTraylor-Holzer ,M attDoughty JatnaSupriatna ,R onaDennis ,M elvinGumal ,C heryl D. Knott and IanSingleton

    Serge A. Wich;Erik Meijaard;J Andrew;Simon Husson

Frequent Co-Authors

Erik Meijaard
Erik Meijaard University of Queensland
Marc Ancrenaz
Marc Ancrenaz Sabah Wildlife Department
Carel P. van Schaik
Carel P. van Schaik University of Zurich
Andrew J. Marshall
Andrew J. Marshall University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Douglas Sheil
Douglas Sheil Wageningen University & Research
Elisabeth H. M. Sterck
Elisabeth H. M. Sterck Biomedical Primate Research Centre
Susan M. Cheyne
Susan M. Cheyne Oxford Brookes University
Lian Pin Koh
Lian Pin Koh National University of Singapore
Hjalmar S. Kühl
Hjalmar S. Kühl Max Planck Society

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