Shifting Baselines on a Tropical Forest Frontier: Extirpations Drive Declines in Local Ecological Knowledge

• Zhang Kai,

  Affiliations Program for Field Studies in Tropical Asia (www.pfs-tropasia.org), Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mengla, China, Ecology, Conservation, and Environment Center (ECEC), State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China

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• Teoh Shu Woan,

  Affiliations Program for Field Studies in Tropical Asia (www.pfs-tropasia.org), Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mengla, China, Danau Girang Field Centre, Lower Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary, Sandakan, Malaysia

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• Li Jie,

  Affiliations Program for Field Studies in Tropical Asia (www.pfs-tropasia.org), Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mengla, China, Bulong Nature Reserve, Jinghong, China

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• Eben Goodale,

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mengla, China

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• Kaoru Kitajima,

  Affiliation Department of Botany, University of Florida, Gainesville, United States of America

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• Robert Bagchi,

  Affiliation Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich, Ecosystem Management Group, Institute of Terrestrial Ecosystems, Zürich, Switzerland

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• Rhett D. Harrison

  * E-mail: r.harrison@cgiar.org

  Affiliations Centre for Mountain Ecosystem Studies (CMES), Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China, World Agroforestry Centre, East Asia Node, Kunming, China

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