Mapping Distinct Forest Types Improves Overall Forest Identification Based on Multi-Spectral Landsat Imagery for Myanmar’s Tanintharyi Region by Grant Connette, Patrick Oswald, Melissa Songer, Peter Leimgruber

“…We investigated the use of multi-spectral Landsat OLI imagery for delineating mangrove, lowland evergreen, upland evergreen and mixed deciduous forest types in Myanmar’s Tanintharyi Region and estimated the extent of degraded forest for each unique forest type. …”
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The ecology and distribution of Flying Foxes (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae: Pteropus) in Tanintharyi Region, Myanmar with a first mainland record of Pteropus hypomelanus geminorum from Myeik by Khin Swe Oo, Hsu Lae Win, Paul J.J. Bates, Malcolm Pearch

“…Roosting colonies of Pteropus spp. at Myeik and Nyaung-zin in Myanmar’s Tanintharyi Region were surveyed between March and October 2016.  …”
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Genetic characterization of the artisanal mud crab fishery in Myanmar. by Iris Segura-García, Thu Yain Tun, Stephen J Box

“…Toward this aim, tissue samples from mud crabs were collected from four fishing communities of the Mergui archipelago, in the Tanintharyi region of southern Myanmar. All crab samples were DNA barcoded for species identification through sequencing. …”
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Corrigendum: First record of the Malaysian Bridle Snake, Dryocalamus subannulatus (Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854), in Myanmar (Reptilia, Serpentes, Colubridae) by Justin Lee, Aryeh H. Miller, Grant M. Connette, Khin Swe Oo, George R. Zug, Daniel G. Mulcahy

“…The correct locality for USNM 581990 should be: Thayawthadangyi Island group; Daung (Don) Island; N side cove (12º 17’ 10” N, 98º 06’ 05” E, WGS84), Tanintharyi Region, Myanmar.…”
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First record of the Malaysian Bridle Snake, Dryocalamus subannulatus (Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854), in Myanmar (Reptilia, Serpentes, Colubridae) by Justin L. Lee, Aryeh H. Miller, Grant M. Connette, Khin Swe Oo, George R. Zug, Daniel G. Mulcahy

“…A single individual was found on the Thayawthadangyi Island Group in the Myeik Archipelago, Tanintharyi Region. Morphological features and a maximum likelihood analysis of the 16S mitochondrial gene confirm its identity. …”
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Anthropogenic pressure on large carnivores and their prey in the highly threatened forests of Tanintharyi, southern Myanmar by Nay Myo Shwe, Matthew Grainger, Dusit Ngoprasert, Saw Soe Aung, Mark Grindley, Tommaso Savini

“…The Tanintharyi Region in southern Myanmar is rich in biodiversity yet is facing threats from varying degrees of anthropogenic pressure. …”
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Integrating Pixels, People, and Political Economy to Understand the Role of Armed Conflict and Geopolitics in Driving Deforestation: The Case of Myanmar by Kevin M. Woods, Panshi Wang, Joseph O. Sexton, Peter Leimgruber, Jesse Wong, Qiongyu Huang

“…Remotely-sensed annual deforestation rates from 1989 to 2018 are presented at the national and (sub-) regional scales for Kachin State in the north of Myanmar and in Kayin State and Tanintharyi Region in the southeast. We pair our multiscaled remote sensing analysis with our multisited political ecology approach where we conducted field-based interviews in study sites between 2018 and 2020. …”
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Combined Landsat and L-Band SAR Data Improves Land Cover Classification and Change Detection in Dynamic Tropical Landscapes by Jose Don T. De Alban, Grant M. Connette, Patrick Oswald, Edward L. Webb

“…We classified Landsat and L-band SAR data, specifically Japan Earth Resources Satellite (JERS-1) and Advanced Land Observing Satellite-2 Phased Array L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar-2 (ALOS-2/PALSAR-2), using Random Forests classifier to map and quantify land use/cover change transitions between 1995 and 2015 in the Tanintharyi Region. We compared the classification accuracies of single versus combined sensor data, and assessed contributions of optical and radar layers to classification accuracy. …”
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Nutritional evaluation, fatty acid analysis and anticancer properties investigation of seeds from kan-zaw, a potential diet oil and medicinal plant by Moe Moe Lwin, Ye Jin, Xianpeng Yang, Hao Shen, Chao Qi, Yizhong Wang, Phyo Phyo Zin Oo, Za Khai Tuang, Shiyou Lü, Wannian Yang

“…(Kan-zaw), an endemic medicinal plant only found in Tanintharyi Region of Myanmar, is widely used in the treatment of various cancer and different ailments. …”
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