22 articles in this issue
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National Biodiversity Authority
Muntasir Akash, Tania Khan, Sayam U. Chowdhury
Saccharum-Imperata grasslands in Bangladesh were once directly associated with 10 native extirpated birds and still harbor many diminutives. These habitats are now pocketed only in northeastern regions of the country due to intensive conversion, ove... see more
Sandeep Chouksey, Somesh Singh
Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve (BTR) is one of the famous tiger reserves in India, situated in Uamria District of Madhya Pradesh. Data on human-tiger conflict were collected from the forest record during the period from 2001 to 2011 and a questionnaire s... see more
Anna Sándor, Brandon P. Anthony
Illegal use of natural resources threatens biodiversity and often leads to conservation conflicts between affected parties. Such a conflict is emerging in the Batumi Bottleneck in the Republic of Georgia, where every autumn more than one million mig... see more
Kamlesh Kumar Yadav, Rani Dhanze
Assessment of length-weight relationship (LWR), length-length relationship (LLR) and condition factor was carried out for Bangana dero in northeastern India, mainly from the Brahmaputra and Irrawaddy (Manipur) River system. We report a value of ‘b’ ... see more
Neeraj Sharma, Suresh Kumar Rana, Pankaj Raina, Raja Amir, Muzaffar Ahmed Kichloo
Watershed avifaunal inventories are useful in devising management strategies appropriate to the habitat, as well as species conservation. The Chenab River basin forms one of the largest and most important river basins in Jammu & Kashmir. The u... see more
Mayur D. Nandikar, Priyanka T. Giranje, Durga C. Jadhav
The forts on hilltops of the Sahyadri (northern Western Ghats) have seen a turbulent historical past and are famous for their architectural style and cultural heritage. Besides this, these hilltops are home to an incredible plant diversity. On... see more
Nárjara Veras Grossmann, Anderson Silva de Sousa, Rebecca Martins Cardoso, Estevam Guilherme Lux Hoppe
Ex situ management of wildlife provides a possibility for species maintenance, research development and environmental education. But as captive facilities are usually much smaller than the area occupied by a species in the natural habitat, cleaning ... see more
N. Jayasree, Ch. Srilatha, N. Sailaja, R. Venu, W.L.N.V. Varaprasad
Five cases of hemangiosarcoma were documented in three tigers and two lions during post-mortem examinations. Grossly, reddish-black coloured elevated masses were noticed with metastasis to the spleen. In one tiger, an enlarged liver with sever... see more
V. Anoop, P.R. Arun, Rajah Jaypal
Wind energy is an upcoming major source of clean energy. The unprecedented proliferation of wind farms across landscapes has raised concerns on the environmental impacts. Generally reported direct impacts of wind farms include collision of bir... see more
Maral K. Chreiki, Mark D. Steer, Sami Ullah Majeed, Swamiti Kakembo, Steve Ross
We report the first records of the Indian Crested Porcupine (Hystrix indica; Kerr, 1792) in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), approximately 600km beyond its known range in Arabia. Images of H. indica were taken by camera traps at two locations in Wadi... see more
Deepika Mehra, Jagbir Singh Kirti, Avtar Kaur Sidhu
Characters of external genitalia are considered as one of the important criteria to understand the taxonomy of insects. In the present study, various taxonomic characters of the male and female external genitalia and wing venation of six species und... see more
Balasaheb V. Sarode, Swapnil S. Boyane, Hemant V. Ghate
The assassin bug, Neostaccia plebeja (Stål, 1866) (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Stenopodainae) is being reported for the first time from India. It is redescribed with many illustrations. Comparative photos of the salient characters of S... see more
Manoj Ramakant Borkar
Bastawade & Borkar in 2008 made a passing reference to the presence of a single uropygid species in Goa, though without much primary diagnostic data on the collected specimen of four females. The present study puts in place a definitive record of th... see more
P. A. Jose, Siju Tom Kuruvila, N. M. Binoy
An extensive survey and population analysis of the endemic and endangered tree Kingiodendron pinnatum, was carried out in the Kerala area of the Western Ghats. The aim was to assess the pattern of distribution, population size and natural regeneration of ... see more
Vatsavaya S. Raju, V. Sampath Kumar
Polytrias indica (Houtt.) Veldkamp is native to Java (Indonesia) but found outside its native range as a lawn grass or an escape. In India, it was first collected from Khasia (now Khasi) in Meghalaya and later reported as a garden escape in Indian B... see more
Prashant Wagh, Sudhakar Kurhade, Shrikant Jadhav, Deepa Jaiswal
Freshwater fish fauna of Nandur-Madhmeshwar wetland was studied during the period 2010–2012. A total of 39 species of freshwater fish belonging to 14 families and 30 genera were recorded. Out of the 39 species, 21 species are reported for the ... see more
A. B. Ruchin
Information is presented on incidence of the Clouded Apollo Parnassius mnemosyne in the Republic of Mordovia (Russia). Over the period 2006–2016, more than 30 sites of the species were identified. The main increase in the number from 2 to 22 s... see more
Shakha Sharma, Neeraj Sharma
The butterfly surveys were conducted across different regions of Jammu province right from southern alluvial plains of Chenab and Ravi to Great Himalayas through Shiwaliks and Pir-Panjal mountains during June 2016 to February 2018. The areas covered inclu... see more
Aparna Sureshchandra Kalawate, S. S. Patole
The present paper deals with the first record of Omorgus (Afromorgus) italicus (Reiche, 1853) from the Western Ghats, India. The morphological description, including that of male genitalia, illustration and distribution of the newly record... see more
J. Swamy, Pragada Venkata Ramana
Ipomoea rubens Choisy (Convolvulaceae) is a species originally described from India and native to the Old World. It was hitherto recorded in India only from the states of Assam and the northern part of West Bengal but is now reported for the first t... see more
K.J. Nandan Patel, M. Krishnappa, V. Krishna
In the present investigation, an interesting lignicolous ascomycetes belonging to the family Nitschkiaceae, having small stroma in clusters, attached weakly to the substratum, was collected. Based on the morphology and anatomical features, the fungu... see more