Peh, Kelvin - University of Southampton - Discipline of Biological Sciences

个人简介

Dr Kelvin Peh joined Biological Sciences and the Institute for Life Sciences in February 2013 as a Research Career Track Lecturer. He is also a Visiting Fellow at the Department of Zoology, Cambridge University. Having spent most of his career pursuing his life-long interest in conservation ecology–mostly in the tropics, Dr Peh’s education benefitted from the direct input and experience of top academics, such as the late Navjot Sodhi from the National University of Singapore, Johnny de Jong of the Swedish Biodiversity Centre, Simon Lewis from Leeds University, and Andrew Balmford from Cambridge University. Now at the faculty, he takes a particular pleasure in one aspect of academic life: mentoring research students. And he hopes to give them the same wide, if speedy, grounding that covers a broad range of conservation science.

研究领域

Kelvin Peh’s interests range from forest ecology to urban wildlife in respect to diversity and distribution. He is interested in all areas of wildlife-human conflict and wildlife ecology in human-dominated landscapes, and in the application of his research results to the conservation/management of biological resources. Tropical Forest Ecology – Kelvin’s work on monodominance in tropical tree-dominated systems - has helped rekindle scientific interest in this fascinating, yet relatively unexplored phenomenon in tropical forests. He has completed editing – as a principal editor – a “Routledge Handbook of Forest Ecology” that was published by Routledge under its “Earthscan” imprint. Ecosystem Services – Kelvin is best known for his leading role in the development of TESSA (Toolkit for Ecosystem Service Site-based Assessment; http://tessa.tools/). He continues working on this ecosystem service assessment project to develop and test novel tools for rapidly assessing the net impact of site-based conservation on the provision of ecosystem services. This project runs in collaboration with the University of Cambridge, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, BirdLife International, Tropical Biology Association, Anglia Ruskin University and UNEP-World Conservation Monitoring Centre. Biodiversity and Conservation – Kelvin has a strong interest in topics such as invasive alien species and environmental governance. Also he proposes to continue developing the theme of diversity-functioning relationship in the tropics. He plans to initiate new projects that involve large spatial data sets, in Southeast Asia and central Africa where issues such as species habitat loss and environmental degradation are becoming very pressing. HIs future research plans also include initiating a project to investigate the environmental impact of China’s involvement in Africa. The purpose of this project is to analyse not the political or developmental implications of China’s policies, but their ecological and social-economic consequences on Africa.

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Synergies between biodiversity conservation and ecosystem service provision: lessons on integrated ecosystem service valuation from a Himalayan protected area, Nepal - Peh, Kelvin S.-H., Thapa, Ishana, Basnyat, Menuka, Balmford, Andrew, Bhattarai, Gopal Prakash, Bradbury, Richard B., Brown, Claire, Butchart, Stuart H.M., Dhakal, Maheshwar, Gurung, Hum, Hughes, Francine M.R., Mulligan, Mark, Pandeya, Bhopal, Stattersfield, Alison J., Thomas, David H.L., Walpole, Matt and Merriman, Jennifer C. Published:2016Publication:Ecosystem ServicesVolume:22, (Part B)Page Range:359-369doi:10.1016/j.ecoser.2016.05.003 A new valuation school: Integrating diverse values of nature in resource and land use decisions - Jacobs, Sander, Dendoncker, Nicolas, Martín-López, Berta, Barton, David Nicholas, Gomez-Baggethun, Erik, Boeraeve, Fanny, McGrath, L. Francesca, Vierikko, Kati, Geneletti, Davide, Sevecke, J. Katharina, Pipart, Nathalie, Primmer, Eeva, Mederly, Peter, Schmidt, Stefan, Aragão, Alexandra, Baral, Himlal, Bark, H. Rosalind, Briceno, Tania, Brogna, Delphine, Cabral, Pedro, De Vreese, Rik, Liquete, Camino, Mueller, Hannah, Peh, Kelvin S.-H., Phelan, Anna, Rincón, Ruiz Alexander, Rogers, H. Shannon, Turkelboom, Francis, Van Reeth, Wouter, van Zanten, Boris T., Wam, Hilde Karine and Washbourne, Carla-Leanne Published:2016Publication:Ecosystem ServicesVolume:22, (Part B)Page Range:213-220doi:10.1016/j.ecoser.2016.11.007