Tahrcountry Musings

It is raining species in a new scholarly paper.  102 lichenologists from 37 countries took part in the venture that has no parallels. All ...

Detection of female mating status using chemical signals and cues   Melissa L. Thomas Journal Biological Reviews . Article first published ...

Here is a good paper on habitat model that I ran in to recently. It is a 2008 paper worth a read. The authors say even though researchers a...

In between my busy hopping I managed to read an excellent paper on flagships. There is lot of uncertainty in the academic literature about...

The other day, I read with great fascination, how scientists have been able to recognize the region from where Gibbons come from, from thei...

Hi guys,               My telephone line and internet connectivity went dead three weeks back and BSNL the provider is yet to repair it. Th...

Population decline assessment, historical baselines, and conservation Timothy C. Bonebrake ,   Jon Christensen ,   Carol L. Boggs ,   Paul ...

Conservation Biology for All, a 358 page book, edited by Navjot S. Sodhi of the National University of Singapore and Paul R. Ehrlich of ...

A three-year research by Spanish scientists in Caledonia has led to the discovery of two new herbivorous beetles – Arsipoda geographica an...

The other day I was discussing with my friend Ramesh the isolated populations of Nilgiri tahr. Naturally the subject turned to inbreeding de...

Beavers are fascinating animals. Even though this species lives in habitats thousands of kilometers away from where I live, they have always...

Sudan is passing through difficult times. Amidst all the talk of political cauldron people tend to forget about Sudan’s magnificent wildlife...

A new study of Red deer   by scientists at the Universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh in the Isle of Rum has shown that   the rutting and ...

I am a fruit buff. So any news regarding health benefits of fruits cheer me.  Here is something from scientists of UEA and Harvard. They hav...

Here is yet another example of benefits derived from nature . Scientists   from Blavatnik School of Computer Science and Sackler School of...

I have always been fascinated by Pandas and lay my hands on whatever I can get on them. The latest issue of Biology Letters , has an excelle...

Conservation is passing through a flux. Inexorable effects of globalisation and burgeoning population have added new dimensions to the threa...

Species of the Day was an initiative created by IUCN for the International Year of Biodiversity in 2010, aiming to raise awareness of the in...

Is translocation of stock-raiding leopards into a protected area with resident conspecifics an effective management tool? Maja Weilenmann  ...

Selecting focal species in ecological network planning following an expert-based approach: Italian reptiles as a case study Corrado Battist...