Biodiversity: Challenges and Measures

Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. Global climate change: consequences and future strategies/Shabir A Wani, Shabir A. Bhat, AK Tantray, ZI Buhroo, Shahina Nagoo and Masarat Bashir. 2. Plant genetic resources and strategies for their conservation/Shabir A Wani, Salib Shafi, Sanna Parvez and Auqib Hussain Ganie. 3. Exploration of locally available medicinal plants and their efficacy on silkworm diseases/Shabir A. Bhat, Ifat Bashir, F A Malik, M Y Khan, ZI Buhroo, S A Wani and S Ahmad. 4. Biodiversity :  a popular way of describing the diversity of life on earth/M A Bhat, ZI Buhroo, S Chanotra and Abdul Aziz. 5. Propagation and conservation strategies in Mulberry (Morus spp.)/ZI Buhroo. S A Nagoo, S Ashraf, S A Wani and Masarat Bashir. 6. Conservation strategies for Mulberry (Morus sp.) genetic resources/S A Nagoo, ZI Buhroo, S Ashraf, S A Wani and Marat Bashir. 7. Diversity, distribution and abundance of earthworms from Ashti region dist. Beed (MS)/V V Vaidya. 8. Karyo-systematic diversity and evolution of the Cyprinids of Kashmir Valley/F Ahmad Ganai, F Ahmad Mir, S Ahmad and Yasir Irfan. 9. Comparative study of seasonal changes of the protein in the tissues of freshwater males catfish mystus cavasius (Ham) from Bhadra River and Bhadra Reservoir; Karnataka State, India/H M Ashashree, H. A. Sayeswara, A.R. Shantha and K L Naik. 10. Phytoplankton diversity and pollution indicators of Hadadi Lake, Davangere, Karnataka/Nafeesa Begum and M. Shaila. 11. Distribution of Octochaetona species in the Hyderabad-Karnataka region of Karnataka, India/Heena Mubeen and Shankerappa S Hatti. 12. Spatial heterogeneity of phytoplankton communities in Tungabhandra impoundments, Hospet/C M Nagabhushan. 13. Preliminary study in Beetle diversity (Insecta: Coleoptera) from Ballari Taluk, Karnataka/Sneha Suma Hegde. 14. Comparative study of bacterial and fungal diversity in Paddy and Ginger fields of Chikkamagluru region, Karnataka/D.S. Somashekar, S H Majagi and Dhananjaya S G. 15. Catfish biodiversity of Tunga and Bhadra rivers of western Ghats, Karnataka, India/S Ahmad, M. Venkateshwaralu, F A Ganai and F Ahmad Mir. Index.