Elephants in the farm – changing temporal and seasonal patterns of human-elephant interactions in a forest-agriculture matrix in the Western Ghats, India
Anoop N.R, Siddhartha Krishnan, T. Ganesh Frontiers in Conservation Science | 24 May, 2023 Accelerating levels of human-elephant conflicts (HEC) have become a topic of major concern in conservation efforts of endangered Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) throughout their range. Wayanad plateau (WP) is a key summer habitat of Asian elephants in the Brahmagri-Nilgiri Eastern Ghats […]
A Daytime Observation of a Spotted Linsang Prionodon Pardicolor in Namdapha Tiger Reserve, Arunachal Pradesh, India
Yumlam Benjamin Bida & Aditya Pradhan Small Carnivore Conservation | vol. 61, 2023 A Spotted Linsang Prionodon pardicolor was sighted and photographed at an elevation of 533 m asl along the Namdapha River in Namdapha Tiger Reserve, Arunachal Pradesh, India. This is the first verifiable record of the species utilising an open space along riverine […]
Pattern and drivers of danaine butterfly migration in Southern India: implications for conservation
P. A. Vinayan, M. A. Yathumon, N. S. Sujin, B. N. Anjan Kumar, P. A. Ajayan, P. K. Muneer, N. M. Vishnu, C. S. Anwar & Anoop N.R Journal of Insect Conservation | 18 April, 2023 A huge number of danaine butterflies undertake seasonal migration between the eastern plains and the Western Ghats in Southern […]
Silvicultural practices in the management of Diospyros melanoxylon (Tendu) leaf production: options and trade‑offs
Anuja Anil Date , Ankila J. Hiremath, Atul Arvind Joshi and Sharachchandra Lele Economic Botany | 23 March 2023 Non-timber forest products (NTFPs) are known to provide livelihoods for forest-based communities across the world. While ensuring the sustainability of NTFP harvests is a key challenge, optimizing the production of NTFPs through appropriate silvicultural practices is […]
Riverine relations, affective labor and changing environmental subjectivity in Kerala, South India
R. K. Sony and Siddhartha K Geoforum | March 10, 2023 Recent works in political ecology draw attention to affective ecologies that focus on lived experiences and fluid/relational subjectivities. The attention to affect and materiality grounded in vitalist ontology helps imagine new sociological futures and re-envision humanistic notions of agency. In this paper, we build […]
Seasonal range fidelity of a megaherbivore in response to environmental change
Abi Tamim Vanak Scientific Report | December 22, 2022
How Social Considerations Improve the Equity and Effectiveness of Ecosystem Restoration
Sara Löfqvist, Fritz Kleinschroth, Adia Bey, Ariane de Bremond, Ruth DeFries, Jinwei Dong, Forrest Fleischman, Sharachchandra Lele, Dominic A Martin, Peter Messerli, Patrick Meyfroidt, Marion Pfeifer, Sarobidy O Rakotonarivo, Navin Ramankutty, Vijay Ramprasad, Pushpendra Rana, Jeanine M Rhemtulla, Casey M Ryan, Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira, Geoff J Wells, Rachael D Garrett BioScience | December 14, […]
Did Microhyla kodial (Anura: Microhylidae) disperse naturally or through humans?
N. A. ARAVIND, VINEETH K. KUMAR, K. V. GURURAJA, PRAVEEN KARANTH CURRENT SCIENCE, VOL. 123, NO. 10
Environmental surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in a rapidly developing catchment
Akash Ashwini, Priyanka Jamwal, Abi Tamim Vanak Environ Monit Assess | 21 October 2022. Development and spread of AMR from various sources such as hospitals, pharmaceutical industries, animal farms and human habitations is not well understood. We conducted a pilot study to assess the prevalence of AMR by taking a case of rapidly developing catchment in Western […]
Assessing catchment-scale performance of in-stream Provisional Green Infrastructure interventions for Dry Weather Flows
Daniel Philips, Priyanka Jamwal, Mark Lindquist, Andrew Gronewold Landscape and Urban Planning | October 2022
