Meet the editor

Mohd Nazip Suratman is Professor of Forestry, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), Malaysia. He obtained an MSc in Forest Biology from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA. He was then awarded a prestigious Canadian Commonwealth Scholarship to pursue a Ph.D. in Forest Resources Management at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He has been very active in conducting research, obtain-

ing national and international grants, and publishing hundreds of articles in books, journals, and conference proceedings. He was a recipient of UiTM's Best Researcher award in 2015 and the Top Talent Award (Science) in 2021. His research interests include forest carbon sequestration, forest modelling, climate change, applied remote sensing, and biodiversity conservation.

Contents

**Section 1**

**Section 2**

*by Teresa Mouga*

*by Binh V. Ngo and Ya-Fu Lee*

Communities: Indonesian Perspective

*by Paraskevi E. Mpeza*

*and Sukma Ridarwati*

**Section 3**

of Pahang National Park, Malaysia

Conservation Genetics for Managing Biodiversity

*by Nurul Izza Ab Ghani, Wardah Arifin and Ahmad Ismail*

Ecology of the Granular Spiny Frog *Quasipaa verrucospinosa* (Amphibia: Anura - Dicroglossidae) in Central Vietnam

Management and Sustainability of Greek Wetlands

*by Mohd Nazip Suratman*

**Preface XIII**

Introduction **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

Biodiversity and Genetic Resources **13**

**Chapter 2 15**

**Chapter 3 29**

**Chapter 4 55**

**Chapter 5 73**

Marine Protected Areas **91**

**Chapter 6 93**

The Role of Marine-Protected Areas as A Life Support for Fishery

*by Djumanto, Muhammad Erdi Lazuardi, Imam Musthofa Zainudin* 

Introductory Chapter: Tropical Biodiversity Research in Protected Area

Conserving Endemic Plant Species in Oceanic Island's Protected Areas
