(Rs) accounted for 70.9% of ecosystem respiration (Re) in MDF but only 44.6% in DDF. Probing deeper, Apaporn Bulsathaporn’s team also showed that Rs was strongly related to soil moisture and perhaps not surprisingly, to forest age or maturation. This work, like that of Phan Kieu Diem with teak forests, serves to highlight that further research on how climate change in terms of water and temperature dynamics, impacts on forest ecology grows in importance. Htet Eain Khant et al. provide a case study in active conservation stewardship development – a seven year determined effort – in the southern Rakhine Yoma region of Myanmar, which, once again, demonstrates that success in biodiversity conservation comes from bottom up. The study reports how the active elephant hunting Chin ethnic groups can become the key components of biodiver-sity stewardship when livelihood tools like ecologically based agroforestry are fully in focus. Biodiversity as a component of school curricula received the attention of two papers from Malaysia and one from Thailand. For Malaysia, Munirah Ghazali et al. emphasized the core role of teacher confidence in integrating thinking about biodiversity’s many faces into and across all subjects. Mohammad Zohir Ahmad and colleagues analysed where biodiversity as a cross-curriculum concept occurred. Both of these Malaysian teams showed that biodiversity was an ideal concept and very relevant for a country so well blessed with biological diversity. The Thai study by Suranid Ong-la was an ambitious school with community, all embracing thematic integration of biodiversity as the heart that drives life of Chiang Rai Municipality. Here, biodiversity embraced Thai language, maths, science, social studies, religion, culture, health, art and foreign language: truly an holistic approach. School became catalysts for community linkages. The paper entitled, “LEADearthShip” by Monmi Barua of the Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) based in Delhi, India takes the application of the sustainability concept completely down to earth. Monmi Barua’s approach is a heart-felt call to action for the youth to look sustainable behaviour firmly in the face and to devise ways of helping the poor of Delhi’s slums; to own solar-lamps and facilitate educational activity in their simple dwellings and build nesting habitats for birds. These are but two examples of how the energy of youth can become tools for a more pleasant and sustainable standard of living. Santosh Sutar et al. show how re- activated sacred groves can do much to enhance the wise use (conservation) of biodiversity. This case study is in phase with the paper by Bulia Pulu on the Apatani people of the Indian Himalayan region. Santosh Sutar and colleagues report that the site of their study, the Kodagu district in Karnataka (India) has over 1,214 sacred groves. All of these groves have demonstrated the positive potential of such pockets of biodiversity to become a TCCPC focus for a sustainable use of ecological resources: TCCPC represents, Teacher to child, Child to child, Child to parent and Parents to community. Although expressed in different terms, TCCPC broadly equates to people first multi-sectoral governance, as described by Huberto C. Zanoria et al. for Cebu in the Philippines. The papers by Phan Kieu Diem et al., Phongkhamphan et al. and Montri Sanwangsri et al. all take us to the forest ecosystems of northern Thailand. As mentioned, Phan Kieu Diem’s group show that the iconic timber tree, Teak is more responsive to temperature extremes than precipitation. Both Phongkhamphan’s and Montri Sanwangsri’s groups show us, using some impressively detailed microecology, that 350 Proceedings of the International Conference on Climate Change, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Policy and Practice 27-29 June 2016, Cha-am, Phetchaburi, Thailand
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