Includes index.

Introduction -- Exploring the link between climate change and biodiversity -- Regional perspectives and cross- cutting issues -- Issues in climate change and biodiversity in the region -- Climate change in the montane mainland Southeast Asia : reflections on water resources and livelihoods, and sustainability in Southeast Asia -- Country perspectives -- Animal genetic resource conservation and climate change in Cambodia : reducing livestock to decrease GHG emission? -- Malaysia's current policy and research initiatives toward climate change : impacts to biodiversity -- Anticipated impacts of climate change on marine biodiversity : using field situation that simulate climate change in Singapore -- Climate change and biodiversity in the Philippines : potential impacts and adaptation strategies -- Research initiatives on climate change impacts and adaptation in Thailand -- The Role of biodiversity in climate change mitigation in Vietnam : the red river estuary- ba lat case study -- Implications of the dutch- Philippines biodiversity research on the impacts, vulnerability, and adaptation to climate change : the coastal ecosystem -- Challenges and future actions -- Biodiversity and climate change : perspectives, research needs, and institutions.