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Nature Reserve Parks, Gardens and Streetscapes

Books by Hugh Tan

Hugh TAN Tiang Wah (Associate Professor) Contact Information: Dept of Biological Sciences National University of Singapore 14 Science Drive 4 Singapore 117543 Tel: 65162717 Fax: 67792486 email: hughtan@nus.edu.sg or dbsttw@nus.edu.sg

PhD NUS, BSc Hons Sing. BSc Sing

Research Areas:

Conservation Biology, Restoration Ecology, Plant Systematics

The main focus of research in my laboratory is biological conservation of the vascular plants, especially those of Singapore. Research pertains to a four-pronged approach to conservation such as studies into the theoretical and practical aspects of conservation biology, restoration ecology for implementation and conservation, public education to garner support and for their education, and biodiversity surveys and impact assessment studies as service to governmental agencies and for conservation on a larger scale

Current Projects:

• Human impacts on the genus Ficus: a historical, geographical and phylogenetic comparison
• Biofuels from organic waste materials
• The vegetation of the Central Catchment Area of Singapore
• Predicting the global distribution of threatened legumes
• Use of native plant species from local provenance for landscaping gardens, streetscapes and urban forest sites
• A biodiversity survey of Singapore's reservoirs
• Monitoring of the impacts on biodiversity at the Punggol and Serangoon River estuaries during development of these reservoirs
• Pollutant uptake by woody plants of Singapore

Selected Publications

1. Bradshaw, C.J.A., X. Giam, H.T.W. Tan, B.W. Brook and N.S. Sodhi. 2008. Threat or invasive status in legumes is related to opposite extremes of the same ecological and life-history attributes. Journal of Ecology 96: 869-883.

2. Sodhi, N.S., L.P. Koh, S.-H. Peh, H.T.W. Tan, R.L. Chazdon, R.T. Corlett, T.M. Lee, R.K. Colwell, B.W. Brook, C.H. Sekercioglu and C.J.A. Bradshaw. 2008. Correlates of extinction proneness in tropical angiosperms. Diversity and Distributions 14: 1-10.

3. Koh, L.P., H.T.W. Tan and N.S. Sodhi. 2008. Biofuels: Waste not, want not. Science 320: 1419.

4. Tan, H.T.W., B.C. Tan, K.-x., Tan, Ali bin Ibrahim, P.T. Chew, K.S. Chua, H. Duistermaat, S.K. Ganesan, M.W.K. Goh, A.T. Gwee, R. Kiew, S.M.L. Lee, P. Leong, J. Lim, A.F.S.L. Lok, A.H.B. Loo, S.K.Y. Lum, T. Morgany, Saifuddin bin Suran, S. Sim, Haji Samsuri bin Haji Ahmad, Y.C. Wee, K.F. Yap, C.K. Yeo and J.W.H. Yong. 2008. Checklists of threatened species: Seed plants. In: Davison, G W H, P K L Ng and H C Ho. 2008. The Singapore Red Data Book: Threatened Plants and Animals of Singapore. 2nd edition. Nature Society (Singapore), Singapore. Pp. 213-244.

5. Tan, H.T.W., L.M. Chou, D.C.J. Yeo and P.K.L. Ng. 2007. The Natural Heritage of Singapore. 2nd Edition. Prentice Hall/Pearson South Asia Pte Ltd, Singapore. 271 pp.

6. Pandit, M.K., H.T.W. Tan and M.S. Bishi. 2006. Polyploidy in invasive plant species of Singapore. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 151: 395-403

7. Tan, H.T.W. 2006. Nature Reserve Parks, Gardens and Streetscapes: Today Singapore, Tomorrow the World. 10 pp. http://www.dbs.nus.edu.sg/staff/details/NRPGardens_Streetscapes.pdf

8. Teo, D.H.L., H.T.W. Tan, R.T. Corlett, C.M. Wong and S.K.Y. Lum. 2003. Continental rain forest fragments in Singapore resist invasion by exotic plants. Journal of Biogeography 30: 305-310

9. Tan, H.T.W. and K.S. Chua. 2003. Growing at Your Doorstep: 35 Native Plants of Singapore. Times Publishing, Singapore. 99 pp.

10. Tan, H.T.W. and T. Morgany. 2001. A Guide to Growing the Native Plants of Singapore. Singapore Science Centre. 160 pp.

11. Turner, I.M., K.S. Chua, J.S.Y. Ong, B.C. Soong and H.T.W. Tan. 1996. A century of plant species loss from an isolated fragment of lowland tropical rain forest. Conservation Biology 10: 1229-1244

12. Tan, H.T.W. (editor). 1995. A Guide to the Threatened Plants of Singapore . Singapore Science Centre, Singapore. 158 pp.

13. Turner, I.M., H.T.W. Tan, Y.C. Wee, Ali Ibrahim, P.T. Chew and R.T. Corlett. 1994. A study of plant species extinction in Singapore: lessons for the conservation of tropical biodiversity. Conservation Biology 8: 705-712.