Grant M. Connette

TL;DR: This study determines the landscape and ecological factors affecting gene flow in the western slimy salamander and demonstrates that composite representations of ecologically explicit processes can provide novel insight and can better explain genetic differentiation than ecologically implicit landscape resistance surfaces.

TL;DR: It is found that forests cover 42,365,729 ha or 63% of Myanmar, making it one of the most forested countries in the region, but severe logging, expanding plantations, and degradation pose increasing threats.

TL;DR: Analysis of combined Landsat and L-band SAR data provides an improved understanding of the associated drivers of agricultural plantation expansion and the dynamics of land use/cover change in tropical forest landscapes.

TL;DR: A horizon-scanning approach was used to assess the 40 emerging issues most affecting Myanmar's forests, including internal conflict, land-tenure insecurity, large-scale agricultural development, demise of state timber enterprises, shortfalls in government revenue and capacity, and opening of new deforestation frontiers with new roads, mines, and hydroelectric dams.

TL;DR: It is found that mean adult body size of salamanders can be highly sensitive to survey conditions, particularly rainfall, and considerable variability in body size distributions among years is identified.