19 articles in this issue
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National Biodiversity Authority
Win Sim Tan, Norazmi bin Amir Hamzah, Salman Saaban, Nurul Aida Zawakhir, Yugees Rao, Norolhuda Jamaluddin, Francis Cheong, Norhidayati binti Khalid, Nur Iadiah Mohd Saat, Eka Nadia binti Zaidee Ee, Azwan bin Hamdan, Mei Mei Chow, Chee Pheng Low, Mufeng Voon, Song Horng Liang, Martin Tyson, Melvin Terry Gumal
Camera trap data was used to study occurrence and daily activity patterns in the Endau Rompin Landscape of peninsular Malaysia during 2011, 2013 and 2015 to estimate Malayan Tiger Panthera tigris jacksoni population densities. By-catch data were als... see more
Tariq Mahmood, Konish Kanwal, Iftikhar-Uz Zaman
This study investigated records of distribution and population density of the Indian Pangolin Manis crassicaudata in Mansehra District, Pakistan. Field surveys were conducted from September 2015 to August 2016 to record direct and indirect signs of ... see more
Shivam Trivedi, Erach Bharucha, Rahul Mungikar
Sacred groves in the Western Ghats are culturally preserved patches of forests that are rich in diversity owing to protection by several generations of local people, providing excellent examples of community based conservation. Sacred groves harbour... see more
Mandar N. Datar, Aparna V. Watve
Vertical rocky cliffs, which consist of various types of rock, are widespread all over the world. India’s northern Western Ghats consisting of basaltic rocks form probably the largest cliff ecosystem globally, however, almost no studies are availabl... see more
Edward Debrah Wiafe
This study investigated species that are hunted in protected rainforest areas and the methods used to hunt them, using data obtained by recording items in the possession of 17 poachers arrested in Kakum Conservation Area in Ghana over a period of 12 month... see more
M. N. Harisha, B. B. Hosetti
This study was carried out to assess the status and conservation issues of migratory water birds in Komaranahalli Kere, a lake in Malebennur, Harihar Taluk, Davanagere District from November 2012 to October 2013. The dominant family was Ardeidae represent... see more
Vishal Kumar Prasad, Anjali Verma, Ghazala Shahabuddin
Rashtrapati Bhavan Estates is a large semi-natural area comprising significant patches of secondary forest, cultivation, wetlands and parks in the heart of Delhi, the capital city of India. An inventory of herpetofauna was undertaken from May 15 to ... see more
Tahsinur Rahman Shihan
This paper presents the record of Clausena heptaphylla (Roxburgh) Wright & Arn. (Rutaceae) as a new larval host plant for Papilio polytes Linnaeus, 1758 and Papilio demoleus Linnaeus, 1758 (Papilionidae). Ravenia spectabilis Engl. (Rutaceae) for Pap... see more
R. R. Rachana, R. Varatharajan
Caliothrips punctipennis (Hood) and the male of Western Flower Thrips Frankliniella occidentalis (Pergande) have been recorded for the first time from India. F. occidentalis was collected on the leaves of Erythrina indica from Ooty in the Nilgiris, ... see more
Aparna Sureshchandra Kalawate
The present study documented 50 species represented by 25 genera, 17 tribes, seven subfamilies belonging to Hybosoridae, Geotrupidae and Scarabaeidae of the superfamily Scarabaeoidea from the northern Western Ghats of Maharashtra. The identified spe... see more
Angsuman Chanda
Burkenroad created two subgenera of the genus Trachypenaeus viz., Trachypenaeus (Trachypenaeus) and Trachypenaeus (Trachysalambria) in 1934. These two subgenera were raised to the status of genus by Pérez Farfante and Kensley and simultaneously crea... see more
G. Lakshminarayana, A.J. Solomon Raju
Merremia tridentata is a twining and prostrate herb. The flowers are campanulate, bisexual, weakly protandrous, self-compatible and facultative autogamous. The forager guilds indicate that thripsophily, melittophily and psychophily are functio... see more
Gaurab Nandi Das, Subrata Gayen, Rohit Kumar Jaiswal
The present paper reports recent sightings of Drupadia scaeva cyara (Hewitson, 1878) for the first time in Arunachal Pradesh. It was previously known from Darjeeling and Sikkim. This current record confirms its distribution from Arunachal Pradesh and adds... see more
M. Divin Murukesh, Ajith Ashokan
Bentinckia condapanna a vulnerable palm distributed along the southern Western Ghats has a sparse distribution in Kerala and Tamil Nadu. A viable population of this palm is found in Arundel-Priya Estate, an abandoned tea plantation in Kollam Distric... see more
S. D. Pawar, S. V. Thite, A. S. Kadam, B. A. Kore
Uredinial and telial stages of rust pathogen Puccinia duthiae are described on a new host grass species, Dichanthium foveolatum, for the first time from a range of the Western Ghats in Satara District, Maharashtra, India.
S. Suresh Ramanan, T. K. Kunhamu
Response to the published article "A study on the density, population structure and regeneration of Red Sanders (Pterocarpus santalinus) (Fabales: Fabaceae) in a protected natural habitat of Sri Lankamalleswara Wildlife Sanctuary, Andhra Pradesh, India" b... see more
Chenchu Ankalaiah, Thondaladinne Mastan, Mullangi Sridhar Reddy
Reply to Response: Non-Inverse J - shaped population distribution.
K. A. Subramanian
Butterflies of Uttarakhand - A Field Guide-- Sanjay Sondhi & Krushnamegh Kunte Date of publication: 2018Published: M/s Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh (Dehradun), Titli Trust (Dehradun), National Centre for Biological Sciences (Bengaluru) & Indian Fo... see more