Assessing Resilience of Natural Treatment System to Variable Contaminant Loads in an Urbanizing Catchment
Anjali V Raja, Priyanka Jamwal Journal of Water Process Engineering | January 16, 2024 Constructed wetlands (CWs) offer solution to increasing wastewater concerns. Long term monitoring data (six years) provides information on robustness and life time of such systems. The CW system examined in this study was deployed to serve as a polishing stage for […]
Water, Air Pollution and Carbon Footprints of Conspicuous/luxury Consumption in India
Soumyajit Bhar , Sharachchandra Lele, Jihoon Min, Narasimha D. Rao Ecological Economics | January 12, 2024 The literature on the environmental impacts of household consumption in India focuses on carbon and ecological footprints of income groups. This article connects conspicuous/luxury (C/L) consumption in India to its local, regional and global environmental impacts. We evaluate carbon […]
Ecological Filtering Shapes The Impacts Of Agricultural Deforestation On Biodiversity
Ghazala Shahabuddin Nature Ecology And Evolution | January 8, 2024 The biodiversity impacts of agricultural deforestation vary widely across regions. Previous efforts to explain this variation have focused exclusively on the landscape features and management regimes of agricultural systems, neglecting the potentially critical role of ecological filtering in shaping deforestation tolerance of extant species assemblages […]
A Hook-Nosed Sea Snake, Hydrophis Schistosus (Daudin 1803), Dead Due To A Fish Stuck In Its Mouth
Harsh Singhal Reptiles & Amphibians | January 7, 2024 Hook-nosed Seasnakes are quite aggressive and frequently threaten fishermen. The species is generally encountered in shallow coastal waters, it will move into offshore waters in calm seas in search of prey. New paper reports a dead hook-nosed seasnake presumably killed trying to swallow a fish in […]
Dung Removal Increases Under Higher Dung Beetle Functional Diversity Regardless of Grazing Intensification
Jorge Ari Noriega, Joaquín Hortal, Indradatta deCastro-Arrazola, Fernanda Alves-Martins, Jean C. G. Ortega, Luis Mauricio Bini, Nigel R. Andrew, Lucrecia Arellano, Sarah Beynon, Adrian L. V. Davis, Mario E. Favila, Kevin D. Floate, Finbarr G. Horgan, Rosa Menéndez, Tanja Milotic, Beatrice Nervo, Claudia Palestrini, Antonio Rolando, Clarke H. Scholtz, Yakup Senyüz, Thomas Wassmer, Réka Ádam, […]
Mahamanalactone A, a new triterpenoid from Dysoxylum malabaricum bark: a case study for rapid identification of new metabolites via LC-HRMS profiling and database mining strategy
Nivedita Bhardwaj,Swathilakshmi S.,Nancy Tripathi,Sanjay Kumar,Uma Ranjan Lal, Ravikanth G.,… Natural Product Research | January 1, 2024 In this recent investigation, the focus centred on exploring the potential phytoconstituents within the bark of Dysoxylum malabaricum. A profiling strategy employing LC-HRMS (Liquid Chromatography-High Resolution Mass Spectrometry) was implemented for the rapid identification of compounds from the bark extract. […]
Hundreds of Millions of People in the Tropics Need Both Wild Harvests and Other Forms of Economic Development for Their Well-being
Geoff J. Wells, Casey M. Ryan , Anamika Das, Suman Attiwilli , Mahesh Poudyal , Sharachchandra Lele , Kate Schreckenberg , Brian E. Robinson , Aidan Keane , Katherine M. Homewood , Julia P.G. Jones , Carlos A. Torres-Vitolas , Janet A. Fisher , Sate Ahmad , Mark Mulligan , Terence P. Dawson , Helen […]
Forest carbon market-based mechanisms in India: Learnings from global design principles and domestic barriers to implementation
Anirban Roy, Manan Bhan Ecological Indicators | December 13, 2023 Forest carbon markets (FCMs) have emerged as a significant means to direct resources toward urgent climate action that can mobilize a large set of actors and catalyze funding toward reducing deforestation and promoting sustainable forest management. Here, we conduct a critical qualitative review of global […]
Mapping Invasive Alien Plants Through Citizen Science: Shortlisting Species of Concern for the Nilgiris
Shiny Mariam Rehel, R.S. Reshnu Raj, Samuel Thomas, Milind Bunyan, Anita Varghese & Ankila J. Hiremath Journal of Threatened Taxa | November 26, 2023 Species introduced from elsewhere are known as alien species. They may be introduced as crop plants or ornamental plants, or for timber. A small proportion of introduced species can become invasive thereby spreading […]
Tillage agriculture and afforestation threaten tropical savanna plant communities across a broad rainfall gradient in India
Ashish N. Nerlekar, Avishkar Munje, Pranav Mhaisalkar, Ankila J. Hiremath, Joseph W. Veldman Journal of Ecology | November 23, 2023 Across various land-use types—old-growth savannas, tree plantations, tillage agriculture, and agricultural fallows—consistent declines in native species richness and cover were observed, with tillage agriculture showing the most significant changes. The new study by Ashish Nerlekar […]
