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The world is in the midst of a biodiversity crisis, threatening essential goods and services on which humanity depends. While there is an urgent need globally for biodiversity research, growing obstacles are severely limiting biodiversity research throughout the developing world, particularly in southeast Asia. Facilities, funding, and expertise are often limited throughout this region, reducing the capacity for local biodiversity research. Although western scientists generally have more expertise and capacity, international research has sometimes been exploitative "parachute science," creating a culture of suspicion and mistrust. These issues, combined with misplaced fears of biopiracy, have resulted in severe roadblocks to biodiversity research in the very countries that need it the most. Here, we present an overview of challenges to biodiversity research and case studies that provide productive models for advancing biodiversity research in developing countries. Key to success is integration of research and education, a model that fosters sustained collaboration by focusing on the process of conducting biodiversity research as well as research results. This model simultaneously expands biodiversity research capacity while building trust across national borders. It is critical that developing countries enact policies that protect their biodiversity capital without shutting down international and local biodiversity research that is essential to achieve the long-term sustainability of biodiversity, promoting food security and economic development.

Pertiwi NPD, Nugraha B, Kartika R, Sulistyaningsih RK, Jatmiko I, Sembiring A, Mahardini A, Cahyani NKD, Anggoro AW, Madduppa HH, Ambariyanto A, Barber PH, Mahardika GN. 2017. Short Communication: Lack of differentiation within the bigeye tuna population of Indonesia. Biodiversitas 18: 1406-1413. All highly migratory tuna and tuna-like species have vast feeding grounds and spawning grounds. Indonesia’s tuna catch is the largest in the world. However, genetic diversity in the population structure within particular tuna species in Indonesia is very limited. Here we provide genetic data for bigeye tuna (Thunnus obesus) covering fishing grounds and local fish markets throughout Indonesia. A fragment of mitochondrial DNA in the D-loop control region was amplified from samples collected across Indonesia in the biennium 2012-2013. The results showed high haplotype diversity and low nucleotide diversity in our samples. Little differentiation occured between the eleven diverse sampling locations, nor was any separation detected between general regions of Indonesia, nor between samples from fishing grounds and samples from fish markets.

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High proportion of dead coral in coral reefs ecosystem are inhabited by a wide variety of associated organisms such as crustacean as a place to live. However, lack of study on the functional of dead corals in high diversity such Indonesian coral reefs. This study aimed to investigate the diversity and density of inhabitant decapod species from two different dead corals with different life form and complexity (Pocillopora verrucosa and Seriatopora histrix). A total of 235 individuals consisting of 7 families, 11 genera and 35 species was observed in P. verrucosa. While in S. histrix, a total of 74 individuals consisting of 5 families, 6 genera and 11 species were recorded. Index of diversity (H’) on dead coral P. verrucosa for decapods was higher than on S. histrix. Evenness index (E) in both types of dead coral was relatively steady. The domination index (D) for S. histrix was significantly higher than on P. verrucosa. The species density on P. verucosa was significantly higher (25 ± 11.34 ind/L) than on S. histrix (8 ±1.9 ind/L). This study is explaining the complexity of life form on the dead coral seems potentially inhabited by more and diverse decapods.