Animal Diversity Natural History and Conservation : Vol. I

Contents: Foreword. Preface/ 1. Conservation status of flying mammal: Bats/Jitendra Kumar and Amita Kanaujia. 2. Estimating food sources for woolly spider monkeys (Brachyteles spp.) using the forest structure/Wilson 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, 1824)/M. 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) Populations/Jessica R. Piasecke and Louis C. Bender. 5. Elephants and polity in Ancient India as Exemplified by Kautilya’s/Arthasastra (Science of Polity): Conservation issues in Historical context/Clem Tisdell. 6. Antimicrobial resistant aeromonas isolated from Eurasian otters (Lutra lutra Linnaeus, 1758) in Portugal/M. Oliveria, T. Sales-Luis, T. Semedo-Lemsaddek, T. Ribeiro, N.M. Pedroso, L. Tavares and C.L. Vilela. 7. Aquatic Avifauna of Aravalli Hills Rajasthan, India/Sarita Mehra, Satya Prakash Mehra and Krishan Kumar Sharma. 8. Studies on the nesting and foraging behaviour of lesser golden backed woodpecker, dinopium benghalense (Linnaeus)/K. Saravanan and P. Sivabakiyam. 9. Conservation of adjutant storks (ciconidae: Leptoptilos dubius and L. javanicus) in south and Southeast Asia/P.K. Saikia, Malabika Kakati Saikia, P.C. Bhattacharjee, Malcolm C. Coulter and D.K. Sharma. 10. Avifaunal status of Koshi Tappu wildlife reserve, Nepal after Koshi flood disaster 2008/Kul Prasad Limbu and Bharat Raj Subba. 11. Study of saltwater crocodile (crocodiles porosus) in mangrove forest at sundarban in West Bengal for conservation and Management/Mousumi Saha, Agniswar Sarkar and B. Bandyopadhyay. 12. General reproductive biology of horse mackerel trachurus mediterraneus in the Bulgarian black sea coast/Maria Hristova Yankova. 13. Molecular markers for the analysis of genetic biodiversity with special reference to Indian fish fauna/Mustafa A. Kamal and Iqbal Parwez. 14. Man-wildlife interaction: A Case of wildlife utilization for food security in papua, Indonesia/Freddy Pattiselanno. 15. New Record of three scleractinian corals from Avis Island, Andaman Archipelago, India/Tamal Mondal, C. Raghunathan and Ramakrishna. 16. Predatory behaviour of aquatic Hemiptera: A synoptic Review/Nabaneeta Saha, Gautam Aditya and Goutam K. Saha. 17. Spider fauna of India: A Biogeographic analysis/Ambalaparambil Vasu Sudhikumar and Pothalil Antony Sebastian. 19. Pollinator biodiversity and their conservation/Shahnawaz A. Dar, Z.H. Khan, Akhtar Ali Khan and Sheikh Bilal Ahmad. 20. Effect of edaphic factors in diversity of soil microarthropods: A review/Hina Parwez, Hohd. Jalaluddin Abbas and Mohd. Ilyas. 21. Ecology and reproductive biology of freshwater Prawns of the genus macrobrachium bate, 1868 of India/K.V. Jayachandran and B. Indira. 22. Taxo-Ecological Study of plychaetes of Subarnarekha Estuary (Balasore: Orissa)/Santanu Mitra and Mairti Bose (Biswas). 23. Life under ecological flux: An Estuarine Case study/Kauresh D. Vachhrajani and Pranav J. Pandya. 24. Faunal Diversity in the rasik beel wetland complex (Tufanganj, India)/Debashis Das, Pinaki Mitra, Apurba Sen and Prithwiraj Jha. Index.

The 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 of flying mammals, gaur adjutant storks, saltwater crocodiles and the conservation issues of elephants in ancient India will attract attention of the readers. Avifaunal status of wildlife reservoir in Nepal, aquatic avifauna of Aravali hills and the faunal diversity in the Rasik Beel Wetland Complex are the other notable contributions. An exhaustive subject index has been appended to the text, making reference hunting easier.

The book will be a landmark and shall hopefully be very useful for those workers and planners who are involved in the studies related to the diversified animals and also throw light on their present status in the context the threats and need for their future conservation.