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
ഉള്ളം (ULLAM)
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 […]
Testing the stillwaters
Garima Prasher Bangalore Mirror Bureau | January 8, 2022 The hard fact is Bengaluru’s lakes are choking from untreated sewage flowing in every day. The waterbodies are on the brink, often catching fire, frothing on the edges with dead fish floating on the surface, and suffocating the residents in the vicinity with unbearable stench.
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.
How India’s Unguided Quest for Solar Energy is Bringing About Ecological and Cultural Erasure
M.D. Madhusudan, Abi T. Vanak The Hindu | January 1, 2022 At the recently concluded COP26 in Glasgow, India proclaimed on the global stage that by 2030, it would elevate its renewable power capacity to 500 GW from 150 GW today, and that it would meet 50% of its energy requirements from renewable energy. Even […]
Testing the efficacy of hyperspectral (AVIRIS-NG), multispectral (Sentinel-2) and radar (Sentinel-1) remote sensing images to detect native and invasive non-native trees
M. Arasumani, Aditya Singh, Milind Bunyan & V. V. Robin Biological Invasions | April 27, 2021 Invasive alien species threaten tropical grasslands and native biodiversity across the globe, including in the natural mosaic of native grasslands and forests in the Shola Sky Islands of the Western Ghats. Here, grasslands have been lost to exotic tree […]
