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

Zaneta Kaszta; Samuel A. Cushman; Saw Htun; Hla Naing; Dawn Burnham; David W. Macdonald

doi:10.1007/s10980-020-00976-z

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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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Authors:

Zaneta Kaszta, Samuel A. Cushman, Saw Htun, Hla Naing, Dawn Burnham, David W. Macdonald

Year:

2020

Type:

Scientific Journal

Station:

Rocky Mountain Research Station

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-020-00976-z

Source:

Landscape Ecology. 35: 727-746.

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Abstract

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.

Keywords

cumulative resistant kernels, CDPOP, UNICOR, connectivity, development scenarios, resistance, population dynamics

Citation

Kaszta, Zaneta; Cushman, Samuel A.; Htun, Saw; Naing, Hla; Burnham, Dawn; Macdonald, David W. 2020. Simulating the impact of Belt and Road initiative and other major developments in Myanmar on an ambassador felid, the clouded leopard, Neofelis nebulosa. Landscape Ecology. 35: 727-746.