Gunung Penrissen. The Roof of Western Borneo. 2017. illus. 198 p. Paper bd.

The Borneo Highlands are both mysterious and magical. It is a livingmuseum of remarkable plants and animals. These forests harbor treesranging from the stunted to the towering, many with exquisite flowers,ferns, herbaceous flora, as well as uncountable endemic insects andvertebrate animals. There is a lack of information on the biodiversityof Gunung Penrissen. This book draws material from new research and areview of literature. This book assesses the biotic diversity of basinsof rivers arising in the mountains of western Sarawak, and traversethe plains and the coast by employing selected plant , invertebrate andvertebrate groups as surrogates of biodiversity, in order to estimatespecies turnover with stream orders, gradients and elevation of localhabitat diversity. Study of life histories of selected species ofconservation importance, including both plant and animal taxa. Analysisof lnadscape change effects, chiefly habitat fragmantation throughanthropogenic activities, on biodiversity, at both community andpopulation levels. Examination of human use of natural resources anddevelopment of an applicable environmnetal model on ecotourism from aholistic perspective.