Key Biodiversity Areas in the Indo-Burma Hotspot: Process, Progress and Future Directions

Tordoff, Andrew W.; Baltzer, M.; Fellowes, J; Pilgrim, John D.; Langhammer, Penny F.

doi:10.11609/jott.o3000.2779-87

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“…However, the highest annual forest loss was recorded between 2010 and 2015 (1.8%)-just after the country established a new government and opened its markets to international trade (FAO 2015). Even though Myanmar has one of the highest rates of deforestation in SE Asia, the country has the most extensive forest cover remaining in Southern or Southeast Asia, from tropical to alpine forest, 11% of which represents a primary forest (FAO 2015), and is the core of the globally important and highly threatened Indo-Burma biodiversity hotspot (Tordoff et al 2012;Hughes 2017).…”

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Simulating the impact of Belt and Road initiative and other major developments in Myanmar on an ambassador felid, the clouded leopard, Neofelis nebulosa

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Context After decades of political and economic isolation, Myanmar is now the focus of large international investments, particularly from China, which raises questions of how to balance national development with safeguarding the Indo-Burma biodiversity hotspot. Objective To evaluate the impact of five major developments in Myanmar on forest ecosystems, using clouded leopard as a focal and umbrella species for wider biodiversity conservation.

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Simulating the impact of Belt and Road initiative and other major developments in Myanmar on an ambassador felid, the clouded leopard, Neofelis nebulosa

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“…More than 13,500 different vascular plant species, of which 7000 are endemic, have been detected in this hotspot (Tordoff et al, 2012). Ninety years ago, the Russian scientist Vavilov (1926) pointed to the richness of cultivated plant species and their crop wild relatives in certain areas around the world, of which the Tropical Asia Center was one of eight.…”

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Conservation of Indigenous Vegetables from a Hotspot in Tropical Asia: What Did We Learn from Vavilov?

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Chou

2017

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“…One must consider the concomitant situation concerning the biodiversity of certain other groups of this habitat, its biogeographic position, and the apparent ecological scenario. As has been mentioned, the wetland ecosystem of Deepor Beel belongs to the key biodiversity area of the Indo-Burma Hotspot, which is centred on the Indochinese Peninsula, and comprises Cambodia, Laos PDR, Myanmar (Burma), Thailand and Vietnam, plus parts of southern China and northeastern India (Tordoff et al, 2012). High species richness in two other groups of the zooplankton community of Deepor Beel has already been reported in year-round studies, e.g., 51 species of micro-crustaceans with a qualitative dominance of cladocerans (Sharma and Sharma, 2009) and 134 Table 1.…”

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Neodiaptomus prateek n. sp., a new freshwater copepod from Assam, India, with critical review of generic assignment of Neodiaptomus spp. and a note on diaptomid species richness (Calanoida: Diaptomidae)

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2013

Journal of Crustacean Biology

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A B S T R A C TNeodiaptomus prateek n. sp. is described based on a plankton sample collected from Deepor Beel, a floodplain lake in the north-eastern, Indian state of Assam, which falls within the key biodiversity area of the Indo-Burma Hotspot. The new species fulfils all the principal criteria of the genus Neodiaptomus Kiefer, 1932, as revised by Kiefer (1939). It has, however, a spectacular autapomorphic feature, which is perhaps unparalleled in Diaptomidae as a whole -a massive coxal plate ending in a thumb-like spinulose structure on the caudal surface of the male left P5. The new taxon also has two homoplastic characters that are hitherto unknown within the genus: the female fourth pediger has a prominent mid-dorsal process, and the third endopodal segment of P2-P4 has six instead of seven setae, the proximal outer seta being absent. The affinities of the new species with its congeners are discussed. Furthermore, the generic assignment of all the 13 species of Neodiaptomus listed in the latest World Copepoda database (Walter, 2012) is critically reviewed. Of these, five species are recognised as valid, six are relegated to species inquirendae, and one each is a nomen dubium and a synonym. Two lineage groups are recognised within the genus, one belonging to Southeast Asia and the other mostly confined to India. Surprisingly, the new species was accompanied by a record number of seven other diaptomid species in the same sample; the probable biogeographic and ecological implications of this high species richness are briefly discussed.

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Key Biodiversity Areas in the Indo-Burma Hotspot: Process, Progress and Future Directions

Cited by 66 publications

References 1 publication

Simulating the impact of Belt and Road initiative and other major developments in Myanmar on an ambassador felid, the clouded leopard, Neofelis nebulosa

Simulating the impact of Belt and Road initiative and other major developments in Myanmar on an ambassador felid, the clouded leopard, Neofelis nebulosa

Conservation of Indigenous Vegetables from a Hotspot in Tropical Asia: What Did We Learn from Vavilov?

Neodiaptomus prateek n. sp., a new freshwater copepod from Assam, India, with critical review of generic assignment of Neodiaptomus spp. and a note on diaptomid species richness (Calanoida: Diaptomidae)

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