Biodiversity of forests over limestone in Southeast Asia with emphasis on the Philippines

PJ Tolentino, JRL Navidad, MD ANGELES… - Biodiversitas Journal of …, 2020 - smujo.id
Tolentino PJS, Navidad JRL, Angeles MD, Fernandez AP, Villanueva ELC, Obena RDR,
Buot Jr IE. 2020. Review: Biodiversity of forests over limestone in Southeast Asia with …

Twelve new species of Cyrtodactylus Gray (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from isolated limestone habitats in east-central and southern Myanmar demonstrate high …

LL Grismer, PL Wood Jr, MK Thura, T Zin… - Zoological Journal of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Twelve new karst-adapted species of the gekkonid genus Cyrtodactylus Gray are described
from the Shan Hills and Salween River Basin of Myanmar. Three species occur in rocky …

Evolution of habitat preference in 243 species of Bent‐toed geckos (Genus Cyrtodactylus Gray, 1827) with a discussion of karst habitat conservation

LL Grismer, PL Wood Jr, MD Le, ESH Quah… - Ecology and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the processes that underpin adaptive evolutionary shifts within major
taxonomic groups has long been a research directive among many evolutionary biologists …

Conservation as counterinsurgency: A case of ceasefire in a rebel forest in southeast Myanmar

KM Woods, J Naimark - Political Geography, 2020 - Elsevier
We demonstrate how international conservation practices in a rebel forest during ceasefire
are shaped by and contribute to legacies of racialized political violence. Nature conservation …

Conservation beyond the existing protected area network is required to improve species and habitat representation in a global biodiversity hotspot

JDT De Alban, BPI Leong, R Venegas-Li… - Biological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Adequate representation of species and habitats is a critical aspect of an effective protected
area (PA) network. Here, we evaluate the representation of focal wildlife species and forest …

New elephant crisis in Asia—Early warning signs from Myanmar

C Sampson, J McEvoy, ZM Oo, AM Chit, AN Chan… - PLoS …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
In the southern Bago Yoma mountain range in Myanmar, Asian elephants are being killed at
a disturbing rate. This emerging crisis was identified initially through a telemetry study when …

Three more new species of Cyrtodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Salween Basin of eastern Myanmar underscore the urgent need for the conservation of …

LL Grismer, PL Wood Jr, MK Thura… - Journal of Natural …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
An integrative phylogenetic taxonomic analysis recovers three additional new species of
karst-associated Cyrtodactylus Gray (Squamata: Gekkonidae)–C. bayinnyiensis sp. nov., C …

Oil palm concessions in southern Myanmar consist mostly of unconverted forest

K Nomura, ETA Mitchard, G Patenaude, J Bastide… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
The increased demand for palm oil has led to an expansion of oil palm concessions in the
tropics, and the clearing of abundant forest as a result. However, concessions are typically …

Land use and land cover changes along the China-Myanmar Oil and Gas pipelines–Monitoring infrastructure development in remote conflict-prone regions

TS Aung, TB Fischer, J Buchanan - PLoS One, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Energy infrastructures can have negative impacts on the environment. In remote and/or
sparsely populated as well as in conflict-prone regions, these can be difficult to assess, in …

[HTML][HTML] Filling the BINs of life: report of an amphibian and reptile survey of the Tanintharyi (Tenasserim) Region of Myanmar, with DNA barcode data

DG Mulcahy, JL Lee, AH Miller, M Chand, MK Thura… - ZooKeys, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Despite threats of species extinctions, taxonomic crises, and technological advances in
genomics and natural history database informatics, we are still distant from cataloguing all of …