Foreword Biodiversity and Management What Constrains the Conservation of Riverine Biodiversity in Asia? Fish Migrations and the Maintenance of Biodiversity in the Mekong River Basin Biodiversity and the Mekong Fish Database Biodiversity Conservation in National Parks and Protected Areas in Vietnam The Vegetation of Doi Phu :K:ha National Park, Northern Thailand, with Particular Emphasis on Conservation Studying Natural Resources with Indigenous Experts Plant Community Characteristics of Tropical Rain Forest Based on Topographic Gradients Thermal Active Surfaces of a Gap in a Tropical Secondary Forest, Xishuangbanna, SW China Sustainable Development Approaches and Tools for Sustainable Management of Fish Resources in the Mekong River Basin The Role of Giant Fish Species in Managing the Mekong Ecosystem Invertebrates, Biodiversity and the Upper Lancang-Mekong Navigation Project Riverbank Vegetable Cmpping in the Lower Mekong Basin: a highly sustainable farming system or an anachronism doomed to oblivion? Water Quality Monitoring in the Mekong Basin, Thailand Use of Biodegradable Dissolved Organic Carbon (BDOC) for Indicating rfreated Wastewater Quality in the Upper Mekong Basin Enhancing Community Capability in Natural Resource Management and the Restoration of Degraded Ecosystems in the Nan River Basin Relevant Papers of Case StudIes from Southeast AsIa