Table 1 A summary of geoecological studies conducted on ultramafic outcrops in South and Southeast Asia

India

Bioremediation of chromite mines and nickel recovery by fungi

Acharya et al. (1998), Biswas et al. (2013), Bohidar et al. (2009), Ghosh and Paul (2015), Mishra et al. (2009)

Discovery of nickel hyperaccumulators

Datta et al. (2015)

Forest vegetation structure

Prasad et al. (2007)

Heavy metal leaching into groundwater

Dhakate and Singh (2008)

Heavy metal tolerance in ultramafic soil-associated microbes

Pal et al. (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007), Pal and Paul (2012)

Origin and serpentinization of ultramafic rocks in the Indo-Myanmar subduction zone

Ningthoujam et al. (2012), Soibam et al. (2015)

Phytoremediation of and bioaccumulation of metals from chromite mines

Mohanty et al. (2011, 2012)

Plant–soil elemental relations on a chromite mine

Samantaray et al. (2001)

Remote sensing for detecting and mapping ultramafic vegetation

Chaudhury et al. (2015)

Ultramafic geology, geochemisty, mineral prospecting

Banerjee (1972), Chakraborty and Chakraborty (1984), Bhatta and Ghosh (2014), Mandal et al. (2015), Mitra (1973)

Indonesia

Acidification of serpentinite-derived soils

Fujii et al. (2011)

Floristics and plant community structure

Proctor et al. (1994), van Balgooy and Tantra (1986)

Geochemistry, petrography and thermobarometry of the ultramafics

Linthout and Helmers (1994)

Nickel hyperaccumulators and phytotechnologies

Netty et al. (2012), van der Ent et al. (2013a)

Species discovery on ultramafic soils

Cheek (2015)

Malaysia

Copper accumulation in ultramafic plants

van der Ent and Reeves (2015)

Discovery of nickel hyperaccumulators

Hoffmann et al. (2003), van der Ent and Mulligan (2015), van der Ent et al. (2013b, 2016b, c)

Ecology of nickel hyperaccumulators: nickel insects

van der Ent et al. (2015f)

Floristics, plant–soil relations, ultramafic endemism

Chen et al. (2014), Fowlie (1985), Peng et al. (2015), Proctor et al. (1988a, b, 1989), Sugau and van der Ent (2016), van der Ent and Wood (2013), Wood and van der Ent (2012), Wong and van der Ent (2014), van der Ent and Wong (2015), van der Ent and Vanijajiva (2014)

Metal localization; nuclear microprobe imaging analyses

Mesjasz-Przybylowicz et al. (2015)

Ultramafic forest vegetation structure, plant ecology, community ecology

Adam (2002), Aiba et al. (2015), Aiba and Kitayama (1999), Brearley (2005), Bruijnzeel et al. (1993), Kitayama (1992), Proctor et al. (1988a, b), Sawada et al. (2015), Tashakor et al. (2013), van der Ent et al. (2015a, b, f, 2016a)

Ultramafic geochemistry

Tashakor et al. (2011, 2013)

Ultramafic plant–other biota interactions

Wells et al. (2011)

Ultramafic-associated insects and soil invertebrates

Chung et al. (2013), Hasegawa et al. (2006), Jones et al. (2010), Leakey and Proctor (1987)

Myanmar

Mineralogy of jadeitite and related rocks, including serpentinites

Shi et al. (2012)

Pakistan

Ultramafic geochemistry and soil–plant metal relations

Kfayatullah et al. (2001), Naseem et al. (2009), Shah et al. (2010, 2014)

Philippines

Discovery of Ni hyperaccumulators

Baker et al. (1992), Fernando et al. (2014), Gotera et al. (2014), Hoffmann et al. (2003), Quimado et al. (2015)

Herbivory on ultramafic soils

Proctor et al. (2000a)

Metal tolerance in mycorrhizal fungi of ultramafic soils

Aggangan et al. (1998)

Phytomining considerations

Fernando et al. (2013)

Species discovery on ultramafic soils

Argent et al. (2007), Fernando and Rodda (2013), Fleischmann et al. (2011)

Ultramafic forest vegetation structure and soil–plant relations

Bruijnzeel (1990), Proctor et al. (1997, 1998, 1999, 2000b)

Ultramafic soil and forest litter invertebrates

Thomas and Proctor (1997)

Sri Lanka

Antimicrobial activities of ultramafic-associated plants

Rajakaruna et al. (2002)

Ecotypic differentiation of ultramafic taxa

Chathuranga et al. (2015)

Phyto- and bio-remediation of ultramafic soils; soil remediation

Bandara et al. (2017), Herath et al. (2014), Kumarathilaka et al. (2016), Seneviratne et al. (2016a, b)

Soil–plant relations including floristics, soil–plant elemental relations, discovery of nickel and copper hyperaccumulators

Brooks (1987), Rajakaruna and Baker (2004), Rajakaruna and Bohm (2002), Samithri (2015), Senevirathne et al. (2000), Weerasinghe and Iqbal (2011)

Ultramafic geology and geochemistry

Dissanayaka (1982), Dissanayake and Van Riel (1978), Munasinghe and Dissanayake (1980), Hewawasam et al. (2014), Rajapaksha et al. (2012, 2013), Ranasinghe (1987), Tennakoon et al. (2007), Vithanage et al. (2014)

Southeast Asia: Regional Overviews

Floristics, plant–soil elemental relations, metal accumulators, quantitative bedrock (including ultramafic) geology of Southeast Asia

Brooks (1987), Brooks et al. (1977a, b), Brooks and Wither (1977), Peucker-Ehrenbrink and Miller (2004), Proctor (1992, 2003), Reeves (2003), van der Ent et al. (2015c, d), Wither and Brooks (1977)

Thailand

Petrography and geochemistry of ultramafic rocks

Hisada et al. (2004), Macdonald and Barr (1984), Orberger et al. (1995)

Vietnam

Heavy metal (Cr, Ni, Co) leaching from chromite mine

Kien et al. (2010)

Ultramafic geology

Thanh et al. (2014)