To examine management options for biodiversity in agricultural landscapes, eight research
regions were classified into social-ecological domains, using a dataset of indicators of …

Forest-agricultural ecotones are defined as areas that adjoin forests and other natural
habitats and that lie between forests and zones of intensive agriculture. These ecotones are …

Although conservation and management of tropical ecosystems requires that we understand
the threats to these areas, there are no standardized methods to quantify threats to …

Many vegetation classification strategies in tropical ecosystems involving conventional
image processing of original satellite imagery bands require considerable prior site …

Enhancing incomes from the sustainable harvest of nontimber forest products can help to
maintain local livelihoods and provide local communities with economic incentives to …

Fifty years in the past, a Solega person might have readily volunteered,“Namma ka: ḍu
senda: gade”,“Our forest is beautiful”, when asked to describe their homelands in the Biligiri …

Birds figure prominently in the traditional knowledge systems of many cultures by virtue of
the diverse ways in which humans perceive these creatures, as religious totems, crop pests …

We describe a new species of small-sized (SVL 24.6–28.8 mm) rupicolous Cnemaspis from
the Biligirirangan Hills (BR Hills), Karnataka based on morphology and molecular …

Economic valuation of ecosystem benefits and their aggregation in a benefit–cost analysis
(BCA) framework is the norm in mainstream environmental economics. But valuation and …

A new cryptic species of bush frog Raorchestes honnametti sp. nov. is described from the
south-eastern part of the Western Ghats, India. This newly described species belongs to the …