The Department of Biology

Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences Universitas Indonesia

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Wildlife Biology and Sustainable Landscape (WILD)

This group is aimed to direct our collective expertise, experiences, and  interest to support the Government’s commitment to SDGs, particularly  Goals 13, 14, and 15. We believe that understanding the biology of wild  flora and fauna in a changing landscape and seascape is crucial to  ensure that development activities do not surpass nature’s carrying and  restoring capacity.

WILD
Research Focus:
  1. Conservation genetics of critically endangered mammals in fragmented landscapes of Sumatra and Java
  2. Metagenomics studies to detect positive selection under different landscape management systems.
  3. Assessments of landscapes’ carrying capacity using various parameters in relation to human – wildlife conflict, wildlife ecosystem, and sustainable development.
  4. Resilience of lifeforms, including invasive species, and emerging diseases in the process of urbanization and climate change.
  5. Behaviour interaction in endangered large mammals.
  6. Urban exotic and invasive species
  7. Biodiversity and ecosystem services
  8. Life cycle assessment
Aims:

For the next 20 years, we will build and strengthen our research interest and capacity on wildlife biology and sustainable landscape to meet the following objectives:

  1. Saving endangered and endemic wildlife
  2. Providing science-based recommendations to design and manage human-wildlife interphase in biodiversity rich landscapes.
  3. Developing climate resilience management tools to conserve wildlife.
  4. Understanding the landscape dynamics for the preservation of wildlife and sustainable development
  5. Finding the correlation from genes to ecosystem and adaptation to support resilience.
  6. Digital technology on conservation & predicting biodiversity trend.
  7. Bioprospecting and ecosystem services
  8. Building a Digital collection for urban wildlife diversity.
Field of Studies:
  1. Biodiversity and ecosystem services study for terrestrial and marine wildlife in Indonesia.
  2. Landscape genomics.
  3. Conservation genetics for big mammals conservation in Indonesia
  4. Urban exotic and invasive species
  5. Sustainable landscapes
  6. Climate change adaptation and mitigation
Principal Investigator (PI)

  1. Prof. Dr. Jatna Supriatna, M.Sc. (Professor)/
    Research area: Environmental Biology and Wildlife Conservation

  2. Prof. Dr. Luthfiralda Sjahfirdi, M.Biomed. (Professor)
    Research area: Reproductive Physiology and Behavior of Captive Mammals

  3. Dr. Mega Atria, S.Si., M.Si. (Assistant Professor) (Head of Research Group)
    Research area: Plant Systematics, Conservation, and Ethnobotany

  4. Dr. Noviar Andayani, M.Sc. (Assistant Professor)
    Research area : Wildlife Conservation

  5. Andi Eko Maryanto, M.Si. (Assistant Professor)
    Research area : Molecular Ecology and Conservation Genetics

  6. Afiatry Putrika, M.Si. (Assistant Professor)
    Research area: Urban Plant Ecology and Adaptation