Control efforts against the vectors of such tropical diseases as malaria, dengue, Zika, along
with many others, have up to now relied heavily on the use of insecticides for both, vector …

Functional traits are ecologically relevant characteristics of species. They are relevant to
community structuring in face of environmental drivers (response traits) and to ecosystem …

Microplastic (MP) pollution has received increasing attention as a serious threat to aquatic
ecosystem. The River Ganga is one of the longest rivers in India and supports an enormous …

ABSTRACT Ram Kumar and Jiang-Shiou Hwang (2006) Larvicidal efficiency of aquatic
predators: a perspective for mosquito biocontrol. Zoological Studies 45 (4): 447-466 …

We conducted a pilot study in Hooghly River Estuary (HRE) at ten stations covering rural,
urban and tidally mixed stretches to the confluence to quantify levels of microplastic (MP) …

Jiang-Shiou Hwang, Ram Kumar, Chih-Wei Hsieh, Albert Y. Kuo, Sami Souissi, Ming-Hsi
Hsu, Jiunn-Tzong Wu, Wen-Cheng Liu, Chi-Fang Wang, and Qing-Chao Chen (2010) …

Understanding the factors that determine the strength of predator–prey interactions is
essential to understanding community structure and stability. Variation in the strength of …

Hooghly River, a~ 460 km long distributary of the Ganga River, passes through a highly
industrialized Metropolis-Kolkata in West Bengal, India, and eventually empties into the Bay …

Being chemically inert and morphologically similar (< 5 mm in size) to the natural prey of
copepods, microplastics (MPs) affect them through entanglement, ingestion, and …

The risks of Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus nuisance and vector‐borne diseases are
rising and the adverse effects of broad‐spectrum insecticide application have promoted …