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Estimating abundance with sparse data: tigers in northern Myanmar
As part of a national strategy for recovering tiger populations, the Myanmar Government recently proposed its first and the world’s largest tiger...
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Artiodactyls from the Pondaung Formation (Myanmar): new data and reevaluation of the South Asian Faunal Province during the Middle Eocene
Although Asia is thought to have played a critical role in the radiation of artiodactyls, the fossil record of stem selenodonts (“dichobunoids”)...
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Pathologic and taxonomic analysis of leaf spot and tar spot diseases in a tropical dry to wet monsoon ecosystem of lowland Burma
Foliar diseases due to ascomycetes and/or their anamorphs are described comprising 158 leaf spot and 43 tar spot diseases across a spectrum of some...
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Aquaculture practices in Northeast India: Current status and future directions
The northeast region of India, comprised of the states of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, and Tripura, is...
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Ornithologist and Zoogeographer
At the AMNH, Mayr studied primarily the bird fauna of Oceania (Fig. 4.1), the island area bordered by and including New Guinea, Palau and Marianas...
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A New Generic Name for the Hoolock Gibbon (Hylobatidae)
Contrary to usual practice, the generic nomen Bunopithecus is not applicable to hoolock gibbons. We recount the history of its application and...
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Sacred groves of Manipur, northeast India:biodiversity value, status and strategies for their conservation
The people of Manipur, a state in northeast India, follow ancestral worship and animism in the form of deity worship, with the central focus on...
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Eodiaptomus indawgyi n. sp., a pelagic calanoid copepod presumed endemic to ancient Lake Indawgyi, Myanmar
The little-known prepleistocene Lake Indawgyi (Myanmar) is shown to harbour an endemic pelagic Eodiaptomus species, described herein. The area around...
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Migration of Knowledge Leads to Floristic Development in Myanmar
Those at the earth summit in Rio de Janeiro warned of the human impact and the effect of population growth on the natural environment of our planet....
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Asian Primate Classification
In the foreseeable future there is little likelihood of achieving consensus on the number of Asian primate genera and species, and their subspecific...
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BarredDanio species from the Irrawaddy River drainage (Teleostei, Cyprinidae)
The three barred Danio species known from the Irrawaddy River drainage are redescribed. Two species are known from southwestern Yunnan: Danio...
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Relative Ages of Eocene Primate-Bearing Deposits of Asia
Paleontologists have often looked to Asia as a center of origin for anthropoid primates (e.g., Pilgrim, 1927; Colbert, 1937, 1938; Ba Maw et al.,...
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Changing Patterns of Shifting Cultivation in Selected Countries in Southeast Asia and Their Effect on the Global Carbon Cycle
We studied the questions of whether shifting agriculture contributes significantly to the loading of the atmosphere with carbon dioxide and whether...
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Wetlands of South Asia
The paper reviews the available information on the distribution, vegetation, associated fauna, important ecological characteristics, use, management,...
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Cyprinids of South East Asia
South East Asia includes all of the Asian continent south-east of the Tibetan Plateau. Within this region are Burma, the Indo-Chinese and Malay...
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Muntiacidae
Muntjac and tufted deer are small-sized deer with small antlers, raised up on longpedicles which are prolonged forward onto the face as ridges and...
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Indian subcontinent and the aquatic habitats
The Indian subcontinent, the most populous region of the earth, is quite unique in its geological history, geomorphology, climate, biota, and also...
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Das Holzportrait Teak (Tectona grandis L. f., Familie Verbenaceen)
Teak is one of the first and technically most important tropical import timbers from South Asia. From the existing three botanical species only...
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Taxonomic studies on the fishes of the family Cyprinidae from lake Kolleru, Andhra Pradesh
The paper gives descriptions of 18 cyprinid species from lake Kolleru. These descriptions have been proved necessary because comparison of specimens...
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Biogeography of the Eastern Borderlands
Strictly speaking, the Eastern Borderlands include only Assam and northern Burma (see chapter II), in other words a part of the Trans-Gangetic...