Niche shift in invasive species: is it a case of “home away from home” or finding a “new home”

Aravind N.A, Maanya Uma Shaanker, Poorna Bhat H. N., Bipin Charles, Uma Shaanker R., Manzoor A. Shah, Ravikanth G
Windmill takes wind out of birds’ sails

The Indian Express
Dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) of Northeast India – Patterns and gaps in discovery

SNEHA HARIDAS, HARSHA MALHOTRA, SEENA NARAYANAN KARIMBUMKARA, DHARMA RAJAN PRIYADARSANAN
Native tree species richness enhances matrix functionality for soil arthropods in tropical plantation landscapes: A case study from the Himalayas

Annesha Chowdhury, Abhishek Samrat, Rathnavel Pandian, Soubadra Devy
The Impact of Anthropogenic Disturbance to the Canopy Microclimate of Tropical Forests in the Southern Western Ghats, India

Soubadra Devy Front. For. Glob. Change | 13 April 2022
New species of predatory parasitic wasp found

Ranjith AP Nature India | February 17, 2022
India falsely claims forestry progress in ‘skewed’ report, experts warn

Climate Home News | February 14, 2022 The Indian government is using flawed forest data to falsely claim that it is making progress towards its climate goals and curbing deforestation, experts have warned.
First description of the metopiine genus Trieces Townes, 1946 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) from the Indomalayan region with three new species from India

A.P. Ranjith, Dharma Rajan Priyadarsanan European Journal of Taxonomy | February 10, 2022
New gecko species discovered in Western Ghats at Attappadi

The Indian Express
A new species of large-bodied Hemidactylus Goldfuss, 1820 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Western Ghats of India

Sandeep Das, Saunak Pal, Sasidharan Siddharth, Muhamed Jafer Palot, Veerappan Deepak, Surya Narayanan Vertebrate Zoology | February 4, 2022 A new large (94–107mm SVL) species of gecko of the genus Hemidactylus is described from the drier parts of the Western Ghats of India. The new species is closely related to H. graniticolus, from which it can be distinguished based on dorsal pholidosis at mid-body, the structure […]