The Shola habitat on the high elevation sky islands of the Western Ghats in southern India is
a unique habitat. Although this habitat hosts a disproportionately high level of endemism …

Destruction of habitat due to urban sprawl, pollution, and deforestation has caused
population declines or even extinction of many of the world's approximately 2,600 snake …

We carried out a taxonomic revision of Ahaetulla species inhabiting Peninsular India, using
a multiple criteria approach (including genetics, morphology, and geography). Our work …

A long‐term survey (1990–2000) of pollination modes of 86 tree species was carried out at
Kakachi, a mid‐elevation wet forest site in southern Western Ghats, India. Observations …

Asian pit vipers belonging to the genus Craspedocephalus are a complex group of vipers,
distributed in South and Southeast Asia. Their taxonomy is unresolved in many lineages …

We sampled road-killed amphibians and reptiles from the highway segments passing
through rainforest fragments and tea gardens in the Anamalai hills in order to evaluate the …

We investigated the taxonomic status of the Indian forms of the Dendrelaphis pictus (Gmelin,
1789) group on the basis of multivariate analyses of morphological data taken from 176 …

Quantitative estimates of abundance for rare plants can be difficult, as the most widely used
sampling techniques are ill‐suited for rarity. Adaptive cluster sampling (ACS) can take …

Research in economics is anthropocentric. It only cares about the welfare of humans, and
usually does not concern itself with animals. When it does, animals are treated as resources …

The presence of roads in any landscape is known to negatively influence terrestrial and
aquatic ecosystems. Many tourist destinations and religious enclaves in developing …