Guest Research Scientist
Associate senior lecturer Cenderawasih University, Papua, Indonesia
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Ph.D. (Ecology and Nature Conservation), University of Göttingen, Germany
M.Sc. (Tropical Wildlife), Integrated Forestry and Agriculture Program, University of Göttingen, Germany
B.Sc. (Biology), University of Manado, Indonesia
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Current project/program
Integrating forest management with biodiversity education in Indonesia (DAAD University Partnership Program)
Ethnoecology of New Guinea Singing Dogs (NGHWDF USA, Cenderawasih University, PT Freeport)
Selected Publications:
Parsch C., Wagner B., Pangau-Adam M., Nitschke C., Kreft H., Schrader J. (2022). Papua at the crossroads: A plea for systematic conservation planning in one of the largest remaining areas of tropical rainforest. Frontiers in Forest and Global Change 5: 763131. https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2022.763131
Pangau-Adam M., Flassy M., Trei J.-N., Waltert M., Soofi M. (2022). The role of the introduced rusa deer Cervus timorensis for wildlife hunting in West Papua, Indonesia. Ecological Solutions and Evidence 3: e12118. https://doi.org/10.1002/2688-8319.12118
Pangau-Adam M, Slowik J, Waltert M (2021). Negative effects of logging on bird dispersed trees in northern Papuan lowland forest. Tropical Conservation Science 14:1-9 https://doi.org/10.1177/19400829211031171
Surbaktia S.,Parker H.G.,McIntyre J.K., Maurya H.K., Cairns K.M., Selvig M., Pangau-Adam M., Safonpo A., Numberi L., Runtuboi D.Y.P., Davis B.W., Ostrander E.A. (2020). New Guinea highland wild dogs are the original New Guinea singing dogs. PNAS 117: 24369–24376 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2007242117 Media Coverage: [Science Magazine]
Pangau-Adam M, Brodie JF (2019). Threats to the populations of two endemic brushturkey species in Indonesian New Guinea. Asian Journal of Conservation Biology 12 (4): 488-492. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.japb.2019.07.005
Brodie JF, Helmy O, Pangau-Adam M, Ugiek G, Froese G, Granados A, Mohd-Azlan J, Bernard H, Giordano AJ, Mustafa AH (2018). Crossing the (Wallace) line: local abundance and distribution of mammals across biogeographic barriers. Biotropica 50(1): 116–124 https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.12485
Pangau-Adam M., Mühlenberg M. and Waltert M. 2015. Rainforest disturbance affects population density of the northern cassowary (Casuarius unappendiculatus) in Papua, Indonesia. Oryx 49: 735-742. https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0030605313001464
Pangau-Adam M, Mühlenberg M (2014). Palm species in the diet of the northern cassowary Casuarius unappendiculatus in Jayapura region, Papua, Indonesia. PALMS 58: 19-26.
Pangau-Adam M, Noske R, Mühlenberg M, (2012). Wildmeat or Bushmeat? Subsistence hunting and commercial harvesting in Papua, Indonesia. Human Ecology 40: 611-621. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-012-9492-5
Pangau-Adam M, Noske R (2010). Wildlife Hunting and Bird Trade in Northern Papua. In: Ethno-ornithology: Global studies in Indigenous ornithology, culture, society and conservation, eds. Tidemann S, Gosler A, Gosford R. Earthscan, London, pp 73-85.
Pangau-Adam M, Burton JA (2010). Terrestrial mammal diversity in Sulawesi, Indonesia: Threats to endemic species. In Biological Diversity and Nature Conservation: theory and practice, Eds. Spellerberg I, Mühlenberg M, Dgebuadze Y, Slowik J). Pensof, Moscow, pp. 95-108.
Pangau-Adam M, Waltert M, Mühlenberg M (2006). Nest predation risk on ground and shrub nests in forest margin areas of Sulawesi, Indonesia. Biodiversity and Conservation 15: 4143-4158. DOI:10.1007/s10531-005-3370-z