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Vertebrate Pests in Agriculture
Vertebrate pests cause considerable damage to environment, agriculture and biodiversity apart from transmitting diseases. The problem is more pronounced in tropical Asia and Africa with non-human primates, elephants, several species of ungulates, rodents, frugivorous and grainivorous birds causing agricultural losses. In Europe and America the damage is due to carnivore predation on livestock, bird damage in cereal crops and rodent problem in urban and agricultural situations. Although there are several excellent books on rodent pest management both in India and at global level, there is a conspicuous lacuna of published books on vertebrate pest management. Even the few publications on the s...
Arthropod Diversity and Conservation in the Tropics and Sub-tropics
Arthropods are invertebrates that constitute over 90% of the animal kingdom, and their bio-ecology is closely linked with global functioning and survival. Arthropods play an important role in maintaining the health of ecosystems, provide livelihoods and nutrition to human communities, and are important indicators of environmental change. Yet the population trends of several arthropods species show them to be in decline. Arthropods constitute a dominant group with 1.2 million species influencing earth’s biodiversity. Among arthropods, insects are predominant, with ca. 1 million species and having evolved some 350 million years ago. Arthropods are closely associated with living and non-livin...
Readings in Behaviour
The Wide Spectrum Of Overt Responses To Intrinsic Urges And Extrinsic Stimuli By Human And Animal Populations Or Individuals Comprehensively Termed As Ethology Or Behaviour Contributes To Their Very Survival And Success Irrespective Of Their Level Of Organization. In This Compendium, Articles Reflecting A Wide Array Of Behavioural Manifestations Are Presented Function/Phenomenon-Wise Rather Than Evolutionary Group-Wise With A View To Provide The Reader An Opportunity To Look How Living Beings Ranging From Highly Placed Humans To Lowly Placed Invertebrates React To/Respond To/Tackle Similar Situations Such As Foraging, Social Life, Mating, Reproduction, Parental Care And Environmental Stresses. It Is Hoped The Book Would Provide Interesting Reading Material To Researchers And General Readers.
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MUSINGS AND MEMOIRS OF A VICE- CHANCELLOR: JOURNEY THROUGH SCIENCE, ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY
The book depicts the saga of a man who rose to a very high position of a Vice Chancellor, looked back into several decades of his life to be able to recollect experiences of varied nature and managed to put them together in the form of a memoir.
Songs, Roars, and Rituals
From the calling macaw and the roaring lion to the dancing lyrebird, animals all around us can be heard and seen communicating with each other and, occasionally, with us. Why they do so, what their utterances mean, and how much we know about them are the subject of Songs, Roars, and Rituals. This is a concise, yet comprehensive, introduction to the complexities of communication in animals. Rogers and Kaplan take us on an exciting journey through communication in the animal world, offering insights on how animals communicate by sight, sound, smell, touch, and even electrical signaling. They explore a wide variety of communication patterns in many species of mammals and birds and discuss in detail how communication signals evolved, how they are learned, and what song and mimicry may mean. An up-to-date account of the science of animal communication, this book also considers modern concepts (such as that of deceptive communication) and modern controversies, primarily those surrounding the evolution of human language and the use of symbolic language by apes. It concludes with a thought-provoking look at the future of communication between humans and animals.
CRC Handbook of Census Methods for Terrestrial Vertebrates
Learn how to start a census program for terrestrial vertebrates with this handbook. Whether the information you need is for managing a population, surveying environmental impact, or conducting research on a particular species, this handbook has it all. Principles, methods, and calculations are explained. The following information is given for each species: name; range; reasons for census; life history; items of importance, e.g., migration; methods of census; recent and pertinent references; and comments about the various methods.
Recent Trends in Animal Behaviour
Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of Ethological Society of India, held at Bangalore during 10-12 April 2007.
Women in Agriculture and Rural Development
Traditionally women's role in agriculture is staggering with nearly half of the population involved in agriculture and its related activities. Most of the agricultural activities are women specific but tragically worldwide women mostly end up as hired agricultural labourers with substantial gender disparity in wages earning far less than men in the same job. To add to her economic woes, inadequate education, less than satisfactory dissemination of technology, globalization, economic liberalization, commercialization, urbanization, political instability, natural disasters, mechanization of agriculture, decreased agriculture, migration of men to urban areas, and occupational health hazards suc...
