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Exponential rise in the discovery of endemic plants underscores the need to conserve the Indian savannas
Ganesan Rengaian Biotropica The scientific journal of the ATBC | January 22, 2022 Biodiversity of tropical grasslands and savannas (tropical grassy biomes, TGBs) remains poorly documented compared with tropical forests. This is in part due to the misplaced notion of TGBs being anthropogenic forest derivatives that support negligible biodiversity and endemism. For the Indian savannas, […]
Ministry’s Draft Changes To Act Undermine How India Protects Its Wildlife
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12th edition of Tamirabharani Waterbird Count to begin on Jan. 21
Mathivanan M The Hindu | January 17, 2022 The 12th edition of Tamirabharani Waterbird Count (TWC), an annual exercise jointly conducted by environmental outfits in Tirunelveli, Tenkasi and Thoothukudi district after the end of the northeast monsoon, will begin on January 21. Thanks to the active northeast monsoon, the brimming irrigation tanks, including Koonthankulam, Kazhuvurkulam […]
Kerevata Belokobylskij (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Rogadinae) is no longer a Papua New Guinean endemic with descriptions of three new species from the Indomalayan Region
A.P. RANJITH, DHARMA RAJAN PRIYADARSANAN Zootaxa | VOL. 5091 NO. 2 | 13 January, 2022 The rogadine genus Kerevata Belokobylskij is newly reported from the Indomalayan region. We describe and illustrate three new species, two from India (K. kethai sp. nov. and K. orientalia sp. nov.) and one from Vietnam (K. longi sp. nov.) and provide an illustrated key to the extant […]
Sustenance of Himalayan springs in an emerging water crisis
Ruchi Verma and Priyanka Jamwal Environmental Monitoring and Assessment | January 12, 2022 Springs are a significant source of high quality and perennial freshwater supply for remote communities and sustain rich biodiversity and ecosystems in the Himalayas. About 60–70% of the Himalayan population directly depends on springs to meet their domestic and livelihood needs. Despite that, […]
Characterization and Evaluation of Metarhizium spp. (Metsch.) Sorokin Isolates for Their Temperature Tolerance
Viswakethu Velavan, Rajendran Dhanapal, Govindaraju Ramkumar, Sengodan Karthi, Sengottayan Senthil-Nathan, Osmund A Ndomba, Eliningaya J Kweka J Fungi (Basel) | January 10, 2022
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Maneeja Murali, Priyadarsanan Dharma Rajan വേമ്പനാടിന്റെ ഹൃദയ ഭൂമിയിലൂടെ ‘ജനനി’ എന്ന കൊച്ചു പെൺകുട്ടി നടത്തുന്ന അന്വേക്ഷണമാണ് ഉള്ളം’ എന്ന ഈ സചിത്ര പുസ്തകത്തിലെ പ്രതിപാദ്യം. ജനനി ജനിച്ചതും വളര്ന്നതുമെല്ലാം വിദേശത്താണ്. എങ്കിലും അവൾ എല്ലാ വേനലവധിക്കാലത്തു മാതാപിതാക്കളുടെ ജന്മഭൂമിയായ വേമ്പനാടന് കായൽത്തീരത്തു എത്തിച്ചേരും. അമ്മയോടും അച്ഛനോടും മുത്തച്ഛനോടുമെല്ലാം ചോദിച്ച് അവള് വേമ്പനാടന് സംസ്കാരത്തെക്കുറിച്ചും കാർഷിക രീതികളെ കുറിച്ചും മനസ്സിലാക്കിയ കാര്യങ്ങള് ഡയറിയിൽ കുറിച്ചിടുന്നു. ജനനിയുടെ അന്വേഷണത്തിനിടയില് അവളുടെ അമ്മയും അച്ഛനും മുത്തശിയും മാത്രമല്ല അവളോട് […]
Forbidden fruits? Ecosystem services from seed dispersal by fruit bats in the context of latent zoonotic risk
Kadambari Deshpande, Abi T. Vanak, M. Soubadra Devy, Jagdish Krishnaswamy Oikos | 03 January 2022 Old world fruit bats are important seed dispersers of forest plants as well as of commercial fruit crops. Bats scatter seeds across landscapes and also aggregate (clump) seeds under feeding and roosting trees. In agroforestry landscapes, bat frugivory and seed dispersal can result […]
From sapling to supari: On the areca nut trail in semi-arid Karnataka
Tanvi Agrawal The News Minute | January 3, 2022 Over time, areca nut has become one of the key cash crops of Karnataka, and semi-arid and arid regions are digging increasingly deep borewells to sustain this water-guzzling crop.
