Indo-Burma - Sources

Information about the Indo-Burma Hotspot was developed using our ecosystem profile (PDF - 34 MB) and the book "Hotspots Revisited."

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BirdLife International Vietnam Programme and FIPI. 2001. Sourcebook of Existing and Proposed Protected Areas in Vietnam. Hanoi: BirdLife International Vietnam Programme & the Forest Inventory and Planning Institute.

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Carew-Reid, J. (Ed.). 2002. Lessons Learned from Protected Areas Management Experience in Thailand: 1992-2001. Country lessons paper prepared for the Review of Protected Areas and their Role in the Socio-economic Development in the Four Countries of the Lower Mekong River Region. Online. Available: http://www.mekong-protected-areas.org

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Dijk, P.P.v., Ashton, P. & Ma, J. 1999. Indo-Burma. In R.A. Mittermeier, N. Myers, P. Robles-Gil, & C.G. Mittermeier. (Eds.), Hotspots. pp. 319-334. Mexico City: CEMEX.

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Giao, P.M., Tuoc, D., Dung, V.V., Wikramanayake, E.D., Amato, G., Arctander, P. & MacKinnon, J.R. 1998. Description of Muntiacus truongsonensis, a new species of muntjac (Artiodactyla: Muntiacidae) from central Vietnam, and implications for conservation. Animal Conservation 1:61-68

Gray, D., Piprell, C. & Graham, M. 1994. National Parks of Thailand. 2nd edition. Bangkok: Industrial Finance Corp. Ltd.

Hughes, J. B., Round, P. D. & Woodruff, D. S. 2003. The Indochinese–Sundaic faunal transition at the Isthmus of Kra: An analysis of resident forest bird species distributions. Journal of Biogeography 30:569-580.

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Mackinnon, J. (Ed.). 1997. Protected Areas Systems Review of the Indo-Malayan Realm. Asian Bureau of Conservation and World Conservation Monitoring Centre for the World Bank.

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Mittermeier, R. A., Konstant, W. R., Rylands, A. B., Ganzhorn, J., Oates, J. F., Butynski, T. M., Nadler, T., Supriatna, J., Padua, C. V. & Rambaldi, D. 2002. Primates in Peril: The World's Top 25 Most Endangered Primates. Washington, D.C.: Conservation International, Margot Marsh Biodiversity Foundation, IUCN-SSC Primate Specialist Group and International Primatological Society.

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Tordoff, A.W., Tran, Q.B., Nguyen, D.T. & Le Manh, H. (Eds.). 2004. Sourcebook of Existing and Proposed Protected Areas in Vietnam. 2nd edition. Hanoi: BirdLife International in Indochina and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

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Wikramanayake, E.D., Dinerstein, E., Loucks, C., Olson, D., Morrison, J., Lamoreux, J., McKnight, M., & Hedao, P. (Eds.). 2002. Terrestrial Ecoregions of the Indo-Pacific: A Conservation Assessment. Washington, D.C.: Island Press.

Woodruff, D.S. 2003. Neogene marine transgressions, palaeogeography and biogeographic transitions on the Thai-Malay Peninsula. Journal of Biogeography 30:551-567.

Ziegler, T., Herrmann, H.W., David, P., Orlov, N.L. & Pauwels, O.S.G. 2000. Triceratolepidophis sieversorum, a new genus and species of pitviper (Reptilia: Serpentes: Viperidae: Crotalinae) from Vietnam. Russian Journal of Herpetology 7:199-214