ជួរភ្នំក្រវាញ: បរិស្ថានវិទ្យា

បរិស្ថានវិទ្យា
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These relatively isolated mountains now form an important tropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion, the Cardamom Mountains Moist Forests Ecoregion. One of the largest and still mostly unexplored forests in southeast Asia, it is separated from other rainforests in the region by the large Khorat Plateau to the north. The Vietnamese Phú Quốc island off the coast of Thailand has similar vegetation and is included in the ecoregion.

Most of the region is covered in evergreen rain forest with a different type of thick evergreens above 700m and areas of dwarf conifer Dacrydium elatum forest on the southern slopes of the Elephant Mountains and an area of Tenasserim Pine dominated forest on the Kirirom plateau. Hopea pierrei, an endangered canopy tree rare  elsewhere, is relatively abundant in the Cardamom Mountains. Other angiosperm tree species are Anisoptera costata, Anisoptera glabra, Dipterocarpus costatus, Hopea odorata, Shorea hypochra, Caryota urens and Oncosperma tigillarium. Other conifers include Pinus kesiya, Dacrycarpus imbricatus, Podocarpus neriifolius, P. pilgeri and Nageia wallichiana.

Fauna
The moist climate and undisturbed nature of the rocky mountainsides appears to have allowed a rich variety of wildlife to thrive, although the  Cardamom and Elephant Mountains are poorly researched and the wildlife that is assumed to be here still needs to be catalogued. They are thought to be home to over 100 mammals such as the Large Indian Civet and Banteng cattle, and most importantly the mountains are thought to shelter at least 62 globally threatened animal species and 17 globally threatened trees, many of them endemic to Cambodia.BBC News, "New cryptic gecko species is discovered in Cambodia ", 24 March 2010: accessed 24 March 2010. Among the animals are fourteen endangered and threatened mammal species, including the largest population of Asian elephant in Cambodia and possibly the whole of Indochina although this still needs proving by research. Other mammals, many of which are threatened, include Indochinese Tiger, Clouded Leopard (Pardofelis nebulosa), Dhole (a wild dog) (Cuon alpinus), Gaur (Bos gaurus), Banteng (Bos javanicus), the disputed Kting Voar (Pseudonovibos spiralis), Malayan Sun Bear, Pileated Gibbon (Hylobates pileatus), Sumatran Serow (Capricornis sumatraensis), Sunda Pangolin and the Tenasserim White-bellied Rat.CeroPath - Niviventer tenaster Thomas, 1916 There are at least 34 species of amphibians, three of them described as new species to science from here.

The rivers are home to both Irrawaddy and humpback dolphins and are home to some of the last populations on earth of the very rare Siamese crocodiles and the only nearly extinct batagur baska, or Royal turtle remaining in Cambodia. While the forests are habitat for more than 450 bird species, half of Cambodia’s total of which four, the Chestnut-headed Partridge, Lewis's Silver Pheasant (Lophura nycthemera lewisi), the Cardamom Peafowl (Pavo bokorensis) and the Siamese Partridge (Arborophila diversa) are endemic to these mountains. A reptile and amphibian survey led in June 2007 by Dr Lee Grismer of La Sierra University in Riverside, California, US and the conservation organisation Fauna and Flora International uncovered new species, such as a new Cnemaspis gecko, C.  neangthyi.

តំបន់ការពារ
The human population of the Cardamom Mountain Range although very small is extremely poor and threats to the biological diversity of the region include habitat loss due to illegal logging, wildlife poaching, and forest fires caused by slash-and-burn agriculture. While the Cambodian forests are fairly intact, the section in Thailand has been badly affected. 

About a third of the ecoregion has been designated as protected areas, but the level of active protection in all parks in the mountains has been criticised. 
កម្ពុជា
ដែនជម្រកសត្វព្រៃភ្នំសំកុស
Phnom Aural
Preah Monivong National Park
ឧទ្យានជាតិបុទុម-សាគរ
Samlaut Multiple Use Area

ប្រទេសថៃ
ឧទ្យានជាតិ ណាំតុក ខងកែវ
Khao Khitchakut National Park
Namtok Phlio National Park
Khao Chamao Khao Wong National Park
Khao Soi Dao Wildlife SanctuaryKhao Soi Dao Wildlife Sanctuary
Klong Kruewai Chalerm Prakiat Wildlife Sanctuary
Khao Ang Rue Nai Wildlife Sanctuary.