Animal Diversity Natural History and Conservation: Vol. 5
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.
