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Asian elephants are associated with a more robust mammalian community in tropical forests

open access: yesJournal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
It's the first evidence that Asian elephants are positively associated with robustness of mammalian networks, increases ungulate/primate abundances and minimally disrupts activity patterns. Highlights elephants' overlooked role as keystone architects beyond vegetation engineering, urging conservation prioritization to safeguard ecosystem resilience ...
Li‐Li Li   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Demographic history of the Malayan tapirs (Tapirus indicus) in Southeast Asia

open access: yesEcological Research, EarlyView.
Malayan tapirs in Southeast Asia can be distinguished into 3 geographical groups, based on genetic structure analysis in 11 whole genomes. The effective population size (Ne) of tapirs shows a general decreasing trend, as suggested by the pairwise sequentially Markovian coalescent analysis, with population expansion or structuring during late Early ...
Qi Luan Lim   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fossiliferous Cretaceous Amber from Myanmar (Burma): Its Rediscovery, Biotic Diversity, and Paleontological Significance

open access: yes, 2002
Amber from Kachin, northern Burma, has been used in China for at least a millennium for carving decorative objects, but the only scientific collection of inclusion fossils, at the Natural History Museum, London (NHML), was made approximately 90 years ago.
D. Grimaldi   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Entwined Liberations: North Korean Democratic Women's Union and Third World Internationalism, 1945–1949

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research focuses on how the North Korean Democratic Women's Union (NKDWU), the umbrella women's organisation in North Korea formed soon after Korea's liberation from Japanese colonial rule in 1945, forged international leftist women's solidarity during the North Korean state's liminal, revolutionary period (1945–1949).
Taejin Hwang
wiley   +1 more source

A New Dynamical Index for India-Burma Trough

open access: yesAdvances in Meteorology, 2018
Based on the vertical velocity field of reanalysis datasets, this study defines a new dynamical index for the India-Burma trough and supports this index’s advantages by analyzing reanalysis and observational datasets.
Kui Liu   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Notes on Printing Press and Pali Literature in Burma

open access: yesKervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, 2017
Beginning with a general reflection on the meaning of “printing revolution”, this paper offers a series of meditations about the role of printing culture in Buddhist Burma.
Aleix Ruiz-Falqués
doaj   +1 more source

The Defence of Public Necessity

open access: yesThe Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
This article challenges the idea that public necessity must be a complete defence to trespass liability. It identifies and distinguishes three distinct categories of public necessity: two afford justifications for interfering with person or property, whereas the third is better understood as an excuse.
Samuel Beswick
wiley   +1 more source

Reproductive health in Burma: a priority for action [PDF]

open access: yesForced Migration Review, 2008
With per capita expenditure on health in Burma estimatedat less than $0.50 per year,1 it is not surprising thathealth status in Burma is lower than elsewhere in theregion. This is particularly true of reproductive health.
John Bercow
doaj  

Shaping of the Yunnan-Burma Frontier by Secret Societies since the End of the 17th Century

open access: yesMoussons, 2011
After the 1680s, Big Vehicle Religion gradually developed on the Yunnan-Burma frontier. It was banned by the Qing government and became a sect of Chinese secret societies.
Ma Jianxiong
doaj   +1 more source

SAND, PLANTATION URBANISM AND THE EXTENDED POLITICAL ECOLOGY OF INFRASTRUCTURES IN INDIA

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Recently, large parts of India and the global South have witnessed widespread sand extraction from rural sites for urban infrastructure projects, causing extensive environmental damage. Critical scholarship has theorized these sites as new extractive frontiers that facilitate the needs of green energy transitions and planetary urbanization. In
Siddharth Menon
wiley   +1 more source

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