Michelle Hang Gi Wong

Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden · Kadoorie Conservation China

Eld's deer Rucervus eldii (McClelland, 1842) is an ungulate that lives in tropical lowland forests in several countries of Indochina and Hainan Island of China. Its remaining population is small and scattered, and the species is listed as an Endangered species on the IUCN Red List. The debate over the taxonomic status of the Hainan population has p...

The Eld’s deer Rucervus eldii (Cervidae, Mammalia) is a tropical Asian deer restricted to dry lowland forests in the Indo-Burma Biodiversity Hotspot. Despite a historical range stretching across seven countries, all extant populations are small and highly fragmented, and the species is categorized as globally Endangered on the IUCN Red List of Thre...

Eld’s deer (Rucervus eldii) is a medium-sized ungulate once widely distributed across lowland dry forests in tropical Southeast Asia. There are three subspecies currently recognized– R. e. eldii in India, R. e. thamin in Myanmar and Thailand, and R. e. siamensis in Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, China and Vietnam. The wild subpopulations in Thailand and...

Species–area relationship has been widely addressed on many plant communities, but very few have conducted on epiphytic communities. Epiphytic plants are plentiful on ancient tea trees (Camelia sinensis var. assamica) in the well-known Jingmai tea plantation area, Langcang region of Yunnan Province, SW China, and add to the plant community biodiver...

Targeted management actions informed by robust data are needed to conserve species of extreme rarity, and assessing the effectiveness of different field methods for detection and monitoring of such species is a conservation priority. Gibbons are typically detected by their daily song through passive listening surveys, but lone gibbon individuals an...

For Critically Endangered "species of extreme rarity," there is an urgent need to clarify the potential survival of remnant populations. Such populations can be difficult to detect using standard field methods. Local ecological knowledge (LEK) represents an important alternative source of information, but anecdotal reports of rare or possibly extin...

Conserving the world's rarest ape: action planning for the Hainan gibbon - Volume 49 Issue 3 - Jessica V. Bryant, Samuel T. Turvey, Michelle H.G. Wong, Kathy Traylor-Holzer

The Wenchuan earthquake caused tremendous damages to forests, which could increase tree mortality, disrupt forest carbon cycling, and pose serious challenge to sustainable forest management. In this study, we analyzed data from 871 permanent forest plots from the Sichuan forest inventory (SFI) system to quantify the impacts of 2008 Wenchuan earthqu...

Leaf nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) stoichiometry might reflect the biogeochemical features of ecosystems, yet the potential range of stoichiometric flexibility under geochemically P-enriched soils (GPES) is still unclear. Leaf N and P of 126 plant species in 70 vegetation plots in GPES were investigated in central Yunnan, southwestern China, and...

It is increasingly recognized that biotic interactions could play a significant role in species distribution modelling. To assess the conservation effectiveness of the giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) reserves in a changing climate, we combined both biotic variables (food availability) and abiotic (climatic and geographic) to project the potent...

AimConservation strategies must anticipate how climate change may alter the geographic distributions of limited food resources for highly specialized species. Here, we use bamboo as a case study to investigate climate change-induced changes in species diversity and discuss how to protect the critical food species for giant pandas.LocationGiant pand...

Phosphorus leakage from phosphorus-enriched soils (PES) is a major cause of water degradation worldwide, and phytoextraction is known to be an effective method of remediation. However, it is unclear whether phytoextraction is equally efficient in mountainous regions. We investigated the potential of P accumulation of major plant species in the Lake...

The changing recruitment rate of subalpine tree populations could indicate the effects of climate change on a mountain ecosystem. The population of the dominant tree species of the Baima Snow Mountains in northwestern Yunnan, Abies georgei Orr, was investigated with a vegetation survey and tree-ring analysis. Structural and age characteristics were...

In this study we used an improved approach to test the EKC hypothesis for carbon dioxide emissions by taking the first-order derivative of the traditional quadratic EKC equation. We found the long-term historical carbon dioxide emissions rarely supported the EKC theory at various scales (country to globe), but the short-term (especially the most re...

Toxicities were assessed for a pyrethroid (cypermethrin) and an organophosphate insecticide (chlorpyrifos) individually and in combination. A series of tests were conducted on different responses (acute, chronic, behavioral) of earthworms of species Eisenia fetida andrei in the ecological risk assessment of these pesticides. The results showed that...

A series of tests (lethal, sublethal, and behavioral) on earthworms were conducted as an eco-assessment of pesticides. In this study, the toxicity of cypermethrin-contaminating soil on adult and juvenile earthworms was assessed. Beside the acute and chronic tests, an avoidance response test was carried out. It was shown that the all-round toxicity...