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16 col plates, figs, tables (illustrator). Contents Foreword Preface 1 Conservation status of flying mammal BatsJitendra Kumar and Amita Kanaujia 2 Estimating food sources for woolly spider monkeys Brachyteles spp using the forest structureWilson Marcelo da Silva-Junior Flavia Maria da Silva Carmo Fabiano Rodrigues de Melo and Joao Augusto Alves Meria-Neto 3 Distribution ecology and conservation of the gaur Bos gaurus H Smith 1824M Ashokkumar S Swaminathan R Nagarajan and Ajay A Desai 4 Patterns in the costs of lactation of body condition of free-ranging rocky mountain elk Cervus elaphus nelsoni PopulationsJessica R Piasecke and Louis C Bender 5 Elephants and polity in Ancient India as Exemplified by Kautilya?sArthasastra Science of Polity Conservation issues in Historical contextClem Tisdell 6 Antimicrobial resistant aeromonas isolated from Eurasian otters Lutra lutra Linnaeus 1758 in PortugalM Oliveria T Sales-Luis T Semedo-Lemsaddek T Ribeiro NM Pedroso L Tavares and CL Vilela 7 Aquatic Avifauna of Aravalli Hills Rajasthan IndiaSarita Mehra Satya Prakash Mehra and Krishan Kumar Sharma 8 Studies on the nesting and foraging behaviour of lesser golden backed woodpecker dinopium benghalense LinnaeusK Saravanan and P Sivabakiyam 9 Conservation of adjutant storks ciconidae Leptoptilos dubius and L javanicus in south and Southeast AsiaPK Saikia Malabika Kakati Saikia PC Bhattacharjee Malcolm C Coulter and DK Sharma 10 Avifaunal status of Koshi Tappu wildlife reserve Nepal after Koshi flood disaster 2008Kul Prasad Limbu and Bharat Raj Subba 11 Study of saltwater crocodile crocodiles porosus in mangrove forest at sundarban in West Bengal for conservation and ManagementMousumi Saha Agniswar Sarkar and B Bandyopadhyay 12 General reproductive biology of horse mackerel trachurus mediterraneus in the Bulgarian black sea coastMaria Hristova Yankova 13 Molecular markers for the analysis of genetic biodiversity with special reference to Indian fish faunaMustafa A Kamal and Iqbal Parwez 14 Man-wildlife interaction A Case of wildlife utilization for food security in papua IndonesiaFreddy Pattiselanno 15 New Record of three scleractinian corals from Avis Island Andaman Archipelago IndiaTamal Mondal C Raghunathan and Ramakrishna 16 Predatory behaviour of aquatic Hemiptera A synoptic ReviewNabaneeta Saha Gautam Aditya and Goutam K Saha 17 Spider fauna of India A Biogeographic analysisAmbalaparambil Vasu Sudhikumar and Pothalil Antony Sebastian 19 Pollinator biodiversity and their conservationShahnawaz A Dar ZH Khan Akhtar Ali Khan and Sheikh Bilal Ahmad 20 Effect of edaphic factors in diversity of soil microarthropods A reviewHina Parwez Hohd Jalaluddin Abbas and Mohd Ilyas 21 Ecology and reproductive biology of freshwater Prawns of the genus macrobrachium bate 1868 of IndiaKV Jayachandran and B Indira 22 Taxo-Ecological Study of plychaetes of Subarnarekha Estuary Balasore OrissaSantanu Mitra and Mairti Bose Biswas 23 Life under ecological flux An Estuarine Case studyKauresh D Vachhrajani and Pranav J Pandya 24 Faunal Diversity in the rasik beel wetland complex Tufanganj IndiaDebashis Das Pinaki Mitra Apurba Sen and Prithwiraj Jha IndexThe present book Animal Diversity Natural History and Conservation Vol I comprises the vast body of research on the subject and includes twenty four original research and review chapters written by emeinet scientists and researchers form Australia Brazil Bulgaria India Indonesia Nepal Portugal and USA The volume ? I has been written in a lucid and easy to understand language dealing elaborately and includes a wide range of toics having a direct bearing on animal diversity and conservation The book provides diversified information regarding diversity of spider fauna aquatic hemipterans soil micro-arthropods polychaetes prawns and also the fish fauna on one hand besides focusing on molecular markers for the anlysis of genetic biodiversity with special referenfe to indin fish fauna Chapters on pollinator biodiversity and their conservation conservation status.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. Bacterial biofilms impact on aquatic ecosystems/Carla Mottola, Rui Seixas, Luis Tavares and Manuela Oliveira. 2. Effects of Edaphic factors on population dynamics of soil and plant parasitic nematodes of banana in West Bengal, India/Viswa Venkat Gantait. 3. Arthropod natural enemy: pesticide interaction/Akhtar Ali Khan, Mohd. Abas Shah and Somina Majid. 4. Sensory structures on caudal Lamellae and tergites of Damsel Fly Larva Ischnura senegalensis (Zygoptera: odonata) as revealed by scanning electron microscopy/Susmita Gupta. 5. Synergistic effect of NPV, Azadirachtin and Titanium dioxide (Nanoparticale) on the Larvicidal and Pupicidal effect of Helicoverpa Armigera/T. Nataraj, K. Murugan, P. Madhiyazhagan, A. Nareshkumar, J. Subramaniam, P. Mahesh Kumar, Jiang-Shiou Hwang, R. Chandresekar, P. Sakthivel and O.P. Sharma. 6. Present status and prospects of black tiger shrimp farming: a case study in maritime state of West Bengal, India/Basudev Mandal and Sourabh Kumar Dubey. 7. Breeding, larval biology and seed production of Indian river Prawn, Macrobrachium malcolmsonii (H. Milne Edwards)/Rubu Mukherjee, D.R. Kanaujia and A.K. Pandey. 8. Shift in foot protrusion frequency, Cholinergic impairment in pedal Ganglia and histopathology of Labial Palp in freshwater Mussel exposed to Cypermethrin/Krishnendu Das, Mitali Ray and Sajal Ray. 9. Feeding acceptability of non-crop plants by the invasive giant African Snail, Achatina fulica (Bowdich) (Stylommatophora: Achatinidae)/M. Jayashankar, V. Sridhar and Abraham Verghese. 10. Sublethal waterborne Nickel toxicity in an Indian major carp Cirrhinus mrigala: Hematological and Biochemical responses/M. Ramesh, B. Sathyavathy, R.K. Poopal and V. Maruthappan. 11. An overview on the Caspian white fish biology, ecology and reproduction/Peiman Zandi, Saikat Kumar Basu and Shahram Khademi Chalaras. 12. Herb-Feed supplements for health and disease of fish/Govind Pandey. 13. Effect of Starvation and refeeding on certain biochemical and Haematological parameters of the Climbing Perch, Anabas testudineus/Kuldeep Kumar and A.K. Pandey. 14. Dietary 17x methyltestosterone supplementation enhances growth in fry of Indian major carps under hatchery conditions/A.K. Pandey, P.K. Arvindakshan and B.N. Singh. 15. Metallothioneins of fishes as a biomarker of heavy metal pollution/K.M. Arunkumar, Lazar V. Kottickal and Balu T. Kuzhivelil. 16. Forest game and habitat disturbances in Southwest Ghana: A 1993-1995 survey/Lars H. Holbech. 17. Bushmeat production, hunting and utilisation of forest game in southwest Ghana: a 1993-1995 survey/Lars H. Holbech. 18. The effects of vitamin E on genistein induced oxidative damage on TM3 Leydig cells/Simge Kara-Ertekin, Yasemin Tunaly and Melike Erkan. 19. Testicular development of Male offsprings exposed to acrylamide and ascorbic acid during gestation and lactation/Esra Yazicioglu and Melike Erkan. 20. Mating behaviour of striped Hyena (Hyaena hyaena) in captivity/Rajesh Kumar Mohapatra, Sarat Kumar Sahu and Sudarsan Panda. 21. Mobile telephony, an invisible environmental pollution and its role in rising male infertility: a review/Mukesh Kumar and M.S. Srinivas. 22. Development of female birth control technologies: an update/Mukesh Kumar. 23. Tripterygium wilfordii: possible male birth control Pill? An assessment study in Langur Monkey/Mukesh Kumar. Index. The present volume of the series, "Perspectives in Animal Ecology and Reproduction Vol. 10" with 23 chapters has been compiled and the important contributions include: Bacterial biofilms: impact on aquatic ecosystems Effects of Edaphic factors on population dynamics of soil and plant parasitic Nematodes Arthropod natural enemy-pesticide interaction Synergistic effect of NPV, Azadirachtin and Titanium Dioxide (Nanoparticale) on the larvicidal and pupicidal effect of Helicoverpaaarmigera Breeding, larval biology and seed production of Indian river Prawn, Macrobrachium malcolmsonii Feeding.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. Review on diversity and distribution of phytoparasitic nematodes of Banana in West Bengal/Viswa Venkat Gantait. 2. Community ecology and taxonomy of polychaetes from a tropical estuary, South West Coast of India/P.N. Geetha, S. Bijoy Nandan and T.A. Thasneem. 3. Distribution of Nymphalid butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) at different altitudinal ranges in Godavari Phulchoki mountain forest, Central Nepal/Bhaiya Khanal, Mukesh Kumar Chalise and Ghan Shyam Solanki. 4. A taxonomic review of the genus Cyrtolabulus van der vecht, 1969 (Hymenoptera: vespidae: Eumeninae) from India/P. Girish Kumar, J.M. Carpenter and P.M. Sureshan. 5. Community composition of termites (Isoptera) in different habitats and seasons in Kurukshetra, Haryana, India/Sanjeev K. Gupta and Nidhi Kakkar. 6. Web dynamics and estimation of capture area of the common signature spider, argiope pulchella Thorell (Araneae: Araneidae)/Rahi Soren. 7. Throwing more light on morphology of Cyrtophora bidenta Tikader 1970 (Araneidae: an endemic spider species of India, with Checklist of the Genus from southern Western Ghats/Elizabeth V. Mathew and .A. Sebastian. 8. Effect of insecticides on spiders of Kuttanad rice agroecosystem, Kerala/A.V. Sudhikumar. 9. Prediction of number of generations of American serpentine leaf miner, Liriomyza trifolii (Burgess) based on thermal degree-days requirement under climate change scenario/V. Sridhar, L.S. Vinesh and M. Jayashankar. 10. Breeding biology and mating strategies of coral reef shrimp Lysmata wurdemanni Gibbes (Decapoda: Caridea: Hippolytidae) from southeast coast of India/S. Prakash, T.T. Ajith Kumar and T. Subramoniam. 11. Checklist of the freshwater crabs of Indian Himalaya, its threats and conservation/Santanu Mitra. 12. Perspectives on fish diversity/Govind Pandey, A.B. Shrivastav and S. Madhuri. 13. DNA Fingerprinting in Conservational research on Ichtyofauna/Tanmay Mukhopadhyay and Soumen Bhattacharjee. 14. Aspects of dietary tactics and choices in little brown doves (Streptopelia senegalensis senegalensis) from Jammu (j & K), India/Deep Novel Kour and D.N. Sahi. 15. Conservation land: an integrated conceptual framework towards in situ biodiversity conservation programmes in India/Soumyajit Chowdhury. 16. Assessing management effectiveness and its conservation in Hadagarh wildlife Sanctuary, Odisha, India/S.D. Rout. 17. Biodiversity of Chakrashila Wildlife Sanctuary, Western Assam, India: Major issues in conservation/Bijita Barman and Susmita Gupta. 18. In situ and ex situ conservation of Red Panda in Darjeeling district, West Bengal, India/Jayanta Kumar Mallick. 19. Habitat characteristics and foraging ecology of common Babbler, Turdoides caudatus caudatus (Dumont)/Ashima Anthal and D.N. Sahi. 20. On the behavioural ecology of Sloth bear (Melursus ursinus Shaw 1791) in Mudumalai Wildlife Sanctuary, Western Ghats, India/N. Baskaran, S. Venkatesh, S.K. Srivasthava and Ajay A. Desai. 21. Ecological crisis vis-à-vis intraspecific conflict: a case study with Rhinos in Jaldapara and Gorumara National Parks, West Bengal, India/Jayanta Kumar Mallick. 22. State of the Asian Elephant (Elephas maximus Linnaeus 1758) and its Habitat in Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, Southern India/Nagarajan Baskaran and Raman Sukumar. 23. Perceptions on the incidence of the invasive Giant African Snail, Achatina fulica (Bowdich) in horticultural areas of Bangalore region/M. Jayashankar. 24. A comprehensive review on the eco-biology of the endemic fruit fly phorticella striata Sajjan and Krishnamurthy, 1975/D.S. Pranesh Sujaymeendra, S.N. Hedge, B.P. Harini and M. Jayashankar. Index.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. Assessment of Physico-chemical Parameters and Coliform Bacterial Distribution in Manakudy Estuary of Kanyakumari District, Southwest Coast of India/C. Shobana, M. Ramesh and A. Kumaraswamy. 2. Taxonomy and Systematics of Calanoid Copepods from Cochin Estuary, India/Neelima Vasu K. and S. BijoyNandan. 3. Taxonomic Account of Earthworm Species of India Suitable for Vermicomposting Purpose/Santanu Mitra and Amales Misra. 4. Biodiversity of Aquatic Insects/P. Venkatesan. 5. Scoliid Fauna (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Scoliidae) of Rajasthan/P. Girish Kumar and Gaurav Sharma. 6. Diversity of Spiders Associated with Human Habitations in Kerala/A.V. Sudhikumar. 7. Literature Survey and Biblioliographic Analysis of Butterfly Fauna (Lepidoptera: Glossata) from West Bengal, India/Soumyajit Chowdhury. 8. Composition and Variation in Dung-beetle (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) Communities in Haryana, India/Nidhi Kakkar and Sanjeev K. Gupta. 9. Bauplan, Functional Characteristics and Ecotoxicological Threats of Freshwater Sponge: A Review/Soumalya Mukherjee, Mitali Ray and Sajal Ray. 10. Macro Benthic Faunal Composition in Karala River, a Tributary of the River Teesta/Amal Kumar Patra. 11. External Morphological Study of Horse Mackerel Trachurus mediterraneus ponticus Aleev, 1958 with Reference to Body Weight, Total Length and Condition Factor from the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast/Maria Yankova. 12. Low-Extraction Selective Logging and Avifaunal Recovery in the Bia Moist Forest of Southwest Ghana: A 1990-1991 Census/Lars H. Holbech. 13. Habitat Predictors of Two Sympatric Pheasant Species in the Indian Himalayas: A Conservation approach/Mohammad Shah Hussain and Aisha Sultana. 14. Population, Roosting, Food and Breeding Habits of Barn Owl (Tyto alba Scopoli, 1769) in Madurai District, Southern India/A. Mohamed Samsoor Ali and R. Santhanakrishnan. 15. Altitudinal Distribution of Avifauna in Kargil District of Jammu and Kashmir State/Tsewang Motup and D.N. Sahi. 16. Studies on the Feeding Ecology of Rose-ringed Parakeet Psittacula krameri in Jammu Region/Sakshi Koul and D.N. Sahi. 17. Vertebrate Faunal Diversity of Chhilchhila Wildlife Sanctuary of Haryana, India with Special Reference to Avifauna/Parmesh Kumar. 18. A Comparison on the Population Status of Captive Asian Elephant Elephas maximus in the Timber Camps of Tamil Nadu, India and its Implications for Long-term Conservation/Varadharajan Vanitha, Krishnamoorthy Thiyagesan and Nagarajan Baskaran. 19. Mugger Crocodile (Crocodylus palustris) in Similipal Tiger Reserve, Odisha, India/Sandeep Ranjan Mishra and Anup Ku Nayak 20. Natural History, Distribution and Status of Himalayan Yellow- Throated Marten (Martes flavigula) in Northern West Bengal, India/Jayanta Kumar Mallick. 21. Current Status and Conservation Initiatives of The Indian White Backed Vulture, Gyps bengalensis Gmelin in India/R.B. Singh, A.K. Chakravarthy and M. Jayashankar. Index.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Contents Editorial board Foreword Preface I Animal Ecology 1 Sodium fluoride induced toxicity in the eggs and larvae of Drosophila melanogasterHP Gurushankara M Shanthala and V Vasudev 2 Does predation affect the life style of freshwater copepodaHH Mohammed SD Salman and AAM Abdullah 3 Integration of botanicals and microbial pesticides for the control of dengue vector Aedes aegypti Insecta Diptera CulicidaeK Murugan A Naresh Kumar K Kovendan K Prasanna Kumar Jiang-Shiou Hwang and Donald R Barnard 4 Body metric variation in population of the giant African snail Achatina fulica Bowdich from two different environM Jayashankar MS Reddy P Marimuthu and Katre Shankuntala 5 Ionic variability of aquatic environment and osmoregulatory adaptations in teleost fishes an ecological perspectiveIqbal Parwez and Subuhi Abidi 6 Ecotoxicological risk assessment of pharmaceutical effluent on blood chemistry profiles of an Indian major carp labeo rohitaChokkalingam Kavitha Mathan Ramesh Annamalai Malarvizhi and Jayanthi Prabhu Naveena 7 Behavioural alterations of freshwater airbreathing teleost Channa punctatus Bloch in response to heavy metal exposureMohit Tiwari NS Nagpure DN Saksena and WS Lakra 8 Fisheries and aquaculture in India-Dimension towards development a reviewMeenakshi Jindal and Kavita Sharma 9 A critical review on certain aspects of anuran integumentPrahlad Dube 10 Human-plants interaction a case study on useful plants of dasigo tribe Mamberamo Papua IndonesiaAgustina YS Arobaya and Freddy Pattiselanno 11 Time budget activity pattern of behavioral displays of captive axis deer Axis axisPradeep S Khanpara and Kauresh D Vachhrajani 12 Alleviation of obesity induced oxidative stress in heart by triphalaB Kalaivani and G Vanithakumari 13 Study of age related changes in the activity of some metabolic enzymes in Cyprinus carpio as biomarkersKL Jain Meenakshi Jindal and Simmi 14 Biopesticides - its prospects and limitations an overviewShahnawaz A Dar ZH Khan Akhtar Ali Khan and Sheikh Bilal Ahmad 15 Light microscopic as well as ultrastructural changes in adrenal cortex of Mus norvegicus induced by sub-lethal heroin administrationKaminidevi K Bhoir SA Suryawanshi and AK Pandey 16 Effect of neem seed alkaloid extract on the serum levels of sex hormones and pituitary Gonadotrophins in male albino ratsV Maruthappan M Ramesh and K Sakthi Shree II Animal Reproduction 17 Trypterygium wilfordii a new hope for male contraceptionMukesh Kumar and NK Lohiya 18 Mating behaviour of commercially important portunid crab portunus pelagicus Linnaeus 1758Anand T and P Soundarapandian 19 Leydig cell differentiation in adult amphibian Euphlyctis cyanophlyctis testisKatti Pancharatna 20 Biochemical changes in ovary and uterus of mice after exposure to indoxzacarbTY Mudaraddi and BB Kaliwal 21 Ethno-medicinal use of herbal drugs for enhancing male fertilityPallavi Gupta Amita Kanaujia and Poonam Singh 22 Comparative study on the induced spawing of clarias batrachus using three different hormones ovatide Ovaprim and pituitary extractKavita Sharma Meenakshi Jindal and NK Yadava 23 Reproductive potential of freshwater fish in fluoride contaminated waterAnand Kumar Sandeep Bajpai Nalini Tripathi and Madhu Tripathi 24 Sexual selection and mating systems across the animal world a reviewOmkar and Geetanjali Mishra Previous volumes Index The present volume of the book series Perspectives in Animal Ecology and Reproduction Vol 8 is an excellent compilation of twenty four research as well as review communications lucidly written by stalwarts from various research institutions and universities The authors have tried to analyse the ecological spectra vis a vis breeding strategies adopted by diverse group of animals in nature and under controlled conditions This volume shall generate further database and interest for the benefit of academicians researchers and scientists working on animal ecology breeding reproduction and other aspects in these fields who shall find the boo.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. The present volume, Animal Diversity, Natural History and Conservation- Vol. 3 with 22 chapters of the series has been compiled and the important contributions include: Bacterial Diversity in Faecal Microbiota of Badgers Meles meles Linnaeus (1758), in PortugalDiversity of Entomopathogenic Nematodes in India: An OverviewInvestigation of Termite Biodiversity in the Foot Hills of Maruthamalai, Western Ghats Region, Coimbatore, Tamil NaduBiodiversity of Spittle Bugs in the Foot Hills of Maruthamalai, Western Ghats Region, Coimbatore, Tamil NaduStatus, Diversity and Distribution of Freshwater Mollusca of IndiaDistribution and Conservation Status of Syngnathids Fish, Family Syngnathidae: A ReviewDiversity of Freshwater Turtles and Tortoise in Northeast IndiaA Glimpse of the Avifaunal Diversity of Jammu HimalayasEcology and Status of the Ganges Dolphin (Platanista gangetica gangetica): India's National Aquatic Animal, in Southern West Bengal Ecology of Spotted Owlet (Athene brama Temminck, 1821) in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, IndiaNatural History of the Little Known Endemic Mammal Herpestes palustris in Southern West Bengal, IndiaAnimal Diversity in Kuldiha Wildlife Santuary, Odisha, IndiaChanging Habitat Considerations for Conservation of the Asian Openbill (Anastomus oscitans) in the Raigang (Kulik) Bird Santuary, Raigang, IndiaHuman-Elephant Conflict: Case Studies from Karanjia and Suggested Measures for MitigationThe book with it's balanced approach will be a valuable and an important research compendium that shall stimulate interest and satisfy the need of the ecologists, environmentalist and the conservationists to some extent.