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 […]

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, […]

Reintroduce Rural Wild Vegetables to Urban Food Basket

Harisha RP, Namratha Murali Deccan Herald | January 2, 2024 In cities, hypermarkets are swamped with produce sourced from distant corners of the world, transforming shopping aisles into a year-round harvest spectacle. Our diets are calorie-rich and nutrient-poor, as a repercussion of ease of access, globalisation, industrialisation, and commercialisation of our food systems.

A Field Guide to FISHES OF VEMBANAD

Anu Radhakrishnan, Maneeja Murali, Bibin Xavier, Priyadarsanan Dharma Rajan Vembanad estuarine system is one of the most beautiful and large humid tropical wetland ecosystems in the southwest coast of India. The veritable presence of numerous canals and streams along with the legendary backwaters, and the never- ending panorama of lush green paddy fields, towering coconut […]