scholarly journals BIODIVERSITY AND HABITAT PREFERENCES OF LIVING SHARKS IN THE SOUTHEAST ASIAN REGION

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmad Bin Ali ◽  
Fahmi Fahmi ◽  
Dharmadi Dharmadi ◽  
Tassapon Krajangdara ◽  
Annie Lim Pek Khiok
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Fresh Water ◽  
Habitat Preferences ◽  
Deep Ocean ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Southeast Asian ◽  
Asian Region ◽  
Brunei Darussalam

This paper reviews the biodiversity and habitat preferences of living sharks in the Southeast Asian region accumulated from published literatures including journals, books, proceedings, unpublished technical papers, and technical reports as well as authors’ knowledge and experiences working in this field. A total of 196 species of sharks from nine orders and 30 families have been recorded inhabiting from fresh water to deep ocean in this region. Indonesia recorded the highest diversity with 114 species from 27 families followed by the Philippines with 96 species (27 families), Thailand 76 species (21 families), Vietnam 70 species (23 families), Malaysia 68 species (19 families), Myanmar 64 species (19 families), Brunei Darussalam 45 species (15 families), and Cambodia with 26 species from 10 families. Many species still need to be confirmed and are most probably new species. In term of habitat preferences, 83 species of sharks (42.3%) inhabit continental/insular shelves (SHL) followed by continental/insular slopes (SLO) with 48 species (24.5%), shelf to slope (SHS) with 26 species (13.3%), and shelf to oceanic (SHO) with 16 species (8.2%). Only nine species (4.6%) inhabit oceanic and six species (4%) obligate freshwater and euryhaline freshwater/shelves. 

Begonia balangcodiae sp. nov. from northern Luzon, the Philippines and its natural hybrid with B. crispipila, B. × kapangan nothosp. nov.

Phytotaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 407 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
SHIH-HUI LIU ◽  
YU-HSIN TSENG ◽  
DIAITI ZURE ◽  
ROSARIO RIVERA RUBITE ◽  
TEODORA D. BALANGCOD ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Field Survey ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Southeast Asian ◽  
Herbarium Specimens ◽  
Natural Hybrid ◽  
Paternal Genome ◽  
Molecular Analyses ◽  
Maternal Genome

The pantropically distributed Begonia (Begoniaceae) is one of the most species-rich genera. Philippines is one of the diversity centers of Southeast Asian Begonia. In our 2012 field survey, three species of Begonia section Petermannia were collected in Barangay Sagubo, Municipality of Kapangan, Province of Benguet in the northern Luzon Island, Philippines. Our study on literatures and herbarium specimens suggests that these collections consist of B. crispipila, an unknown new species hereby we named B. balangcodiae, and the natural hybrid between them. Molecular analyses confirm that the former contributed the maternal genome while the latter provided the paternal genome. We name the natural hybrid B. × kapangan, which is the first natural hybrid reported in sect. Petermannia.

Southeast Asian Americans

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chia Youyee Vang
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Asian Americans ◽  
Asian American ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Southeast Asian ◽  
Southeast Asian Americans ◽  
Socialist Republic ◽  
Brunei Darussalam

In geopolitical terms, the Asian sub-region Southeast Asia consists of ten countries that are organized under the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Current member nations include Brunei Darussalam, Kingdom of Cambodia, Republic of Indonesia, Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Laos), Malaysia, Republic of the Union of Myanmar (formerly Burma), Republic of the Philippines, Singapore, Kingdom of Thailand, and Socialist Republic of Vietnam. The term Southeast Asian Americans has been shaped largely by the flow of refugees from the American War in Vietnam’ however, Americans with origins in Southeast Asia have much more diverse migration and settlement experiences that are intricately tied to the complex histories of colonialism, imperialism, and war from the late 19th through the end of the 20th century. A commonality across Southeast Asian American groups today is that their immigration history resulted primarily from the political and military involvement of the United States in the region, aimed at building the United States as a global power. From Filipinos during the Spanish-American War in 1898 to Vietnamese, Cambodian, Lao, and Hmong refugees from the American War in Vietnam, military interventions generated migration flows that, once begun, became difficult to stop. Complicating this history is its role in supporting the international humanitarian apparatus by creating the possibility for displaced people to seek refuge in the United States. Additionally, the relationships between the United States, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Singapore are different from those of other SEA countries involved in the Vietnam War. Consequently, today’s Southeast Asian Americans are heterogeneous with varying levels of acculturation to U.S. society.

Orania zheae (Oranieae, Arecoideae, Arecaceae), a new species from the Philippines, with notes on another slender-stemmed species

Phytotaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 391 (1) ◽  
pp. 69
Author(s):  
JIRO T. ADORADOR ◽  
EDWINO S. FERNANDO
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Reproductive Strategies ◽  
Habitat Preferences ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Flower Morphology ◽  
Species Level ◽  
New Combination ◽  
Determination Key ◽  
A New Species

Orania zheae Adorador & Fernando, a new, slender-stemmed species is described from Samar Island, Philippines. The new combination Orania sibuyanensis (Becc.) Adorador & Fernando is also made, elevating this taxon from variety to species level. The latter species, endemic to Sibuyan Island, is segregated from Orania palindan (Blanco) Merr. (sensu Keim & Dransfield 2012). Both Orania zheae and Orania sibuyanensis are slender undergrowth palms with proportionately diminutive inflorescences borne on very slender peduncles and yellowish globose fruits. But the two species differ from each other in their habitat preferences, reproductive strategies, and in details of flower morphology. Complete descriptions with relevant notes are provided to these two taxa and a determination key to the five Philippine species of Orania is presented.

A revision of the taxonomy of Dendrelaphis caudolineatus (Gray, 1834) (Serpentes: Colubridae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 3272 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOHAN VAN ROOIJEN ◽  
GERNOT VOGEL
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Species Diversity ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Multivariate Analyses ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Southeast Asian ◽  
Monophyletic Group ◽  
Philippine Island ◽  
Isolated Populations ◽  
A New Species

The systematics of the wide-ranging southeast Asian colubrid snake Dendrelaphis caudolineatus (Gray, 1834) wasinvestigated on the basis of multivariate analyses of morphological and coloration data for 131 museum specimensrepresenting 28 geographically isolated populations. The results demonstrate that the current taxonomy of D.caudolineatus underestimates species diversity in the Philippines. The following revisions are implemented. 1)Populations from the Philippine island Palawan and adjacent islands currently referred to D. c. caudolineatus (Gray, 1834)are described as a new species, D. levitoni sp. nov. 2) Populations from the Philippine islands Negros, Panay, Mindoroand Masbate, currently assigned to D. c. terrificus (Peters, 1872) and D. c. luzonensis Leviton, 1961 are referred to D.fuliginosus Griffin 1909, which is revalidated. 3) Populations from the southern Philippine islands Basilan, Mindanao,Cebu, Bohol, Leyte, Samar, Polillo, Kalotkot, Catanduanes as well as Southeast Luzon currently referred to D. c. terrificus(Peters, 1872) are referred to D. philippinensis Günther, 1879 which is revalidated. 4) The population from Sulawesi isreferred to D. terrificus (Peters, 1872). Currently regarded as a polytypic species composed of five subspecies, D.caudolineatus is here considered to be a monophyletic group comprising eight species. The distributions of these eightspecies correspond largely with aggregate island complexes formed during periods of reduced sea level during the Pleistocene. However, some deviations indicate post-Pleistocene dispersals across sea barriers.

scholarly journals Women and Terrorism: A Sketch on Women and Transnational Terrorism in Southeast Asia and Indonesia

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-66
Author(s):  
Herdi Sahrasad ◽  
Dedy Tabrani ◽  
Muhammad Ridwan ◽  
Al Chaidar
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Southeast Asian ◽  
Asian Women ◽  
Transnational Terrorism ◽  
Terrorist Organizations ◽  
Asian Region

In Southeast Asia, many women in radical groups have extreme views and they are ready to join Jihadist movement to support her husband's actions as Jihad fi sabilillah.  In this context, experience in Southeast Asia shows the increasing involvement of women in terrorism by reason of following the husband's jihad to fight thogut regimes in the region. Meanwhile, there are a large number of Islamic terrorist organizations involving active women throughout the Southeast Asian region, from Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore to the Philippines.  In this regard, the emergence of ISIS has strengthened and institutionalized acts of terror and violence by Southeast Asian women following the ISIS declaration to establish a regional khilafah (Caliphate). 

Part III Regional Regimes, Ch.23 Regional Refugee Regimes: Southeast Asia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muntarbhorn Vitit
Keyword(s):  
National Level ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Southeast Asian ◽  
Socialist Republic ◽  
Legal Structure ◽  
Refugee Protection ◽  
Brunei Darussalam ◽  
Durable Solutions ◽  
Local Integration ◽  
Southeast Asian Countries

This chapter focuses on the 10 States that form the Association of Southeast Asian Nations: Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Laos), Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines, and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. There has been a tendency by Southeast Asian States to avoid using the term ‘refugees’ at the national level, even though they have to deal with the term in international fora. Most States in the region do not have specific laws on refugee protection; their legal structure tends to classify people who seek refuge as ‘illegal immigrants’ under national immigration law. Occasionally, policies allowing asylum seekers to reside temporarily in the country pending durable solutions help to exempt them from the strictures of such law. Ultimately, two salient features emerge in the chapter’s discussion. First, most Southeast Asian countries are still not parties to the international refugee instruments. Secondly, however, there is an extensive practice within the region of affording temporary refuge to most people seeking asylum, even if local integration or settlement remains the exception rather than the rule.

Description of Coeliccia bhriulieci sp. nov. (Odonata: Zygoptera: Platycnemididae) from central Vietnam 

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4341 (2) ◽  
pp. 279 ◽  
Author(s):  
VAN QUANG TO ◽  
QUOC TOAN PHAN ◽  
VAN BANG TRAN
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Southeast Asian ◽  
Ho Chi Minh City ◽  
Apical Segment ◽  
Asian Region ◽  
Central Vietnam ◽  
Holotype Male

Coeliccia bhriulieci sp. nov. (holotype male from Tay Giang district, Quang Nam province, central Vietnam, deposited in the Zoological collection of the Southern Institute of Ecology, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam) is described based on male specimens. The new species is easily distinguished from other Coeliccia species in the Southeast Asian region by the combination of its blue abdominal tip, black anal appendages and structure of genital ligula with two long flagella extending from lateral corners of apical segment. 

scholarly journals Good Agricultural Practices in Australia and Southeast Asia

2006 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 552-555 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Premier ◽  
Scott Ledger
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Control Point ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Southeast Asian ◽  
Agricultural Practice ◽  
Developed Country ◽  
Critical Control Point ◽  
Brunei Darussalam ◽  
Good Agricultural Practice

Quality assurance (QA) in the horticultural industry has become well established in Australia; on-farm hazard analysis critical control point (HACCP)-based plans have been adopted due to pressures from supermarkets and other buyers, including fresh markets. Supermarkets' own systems and more general QA systems have been used by growers to meet these new requirements. Two QA systems, Freshcare and Safe Quality Food, have been introduced across the country with moderate success. A review of quality assurance parameters such as chemical residues and microbiological contaminants suggest that these QA systems have achieved some level of assurance. Local pressures, however, are not the only concern when it comes to QA. International demand for safe quality fruit and vegetables has meant that QA systems now need to be designed to satisfy export requirements. In addition to food safety, international demands must also address the environment and workers' health and safety. Many Southeast Asian governments have taken the initiative and developed country-specific QA systems to satisfy export markets and that are suitable for their farmers to use. Countries with schemes in place include Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, and Singapore, with other countries, such as the Philippines and Brunei Darussalam, in the process of introducing schemes. This presentation will discuss the status of QA systems in Australia and Southeast Asia, including the pressures behind their establishment, and the major differences between them. The presentation will also focus on the attempt by Southeast Asian governments to address a uniform standard through the development of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) good agricultural practice (GAP), a GAP standard suitable for use by all 10 ASEAN member countries.

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