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08 Apr 2021 | Aditya, V., Sumashini P. S, Aravind N. A, Ravikanth G, Chandrashekara K and Uma Shaanker R, 2020. Reconciling biodiversity conservation with agricultural intensification: challenges and opportunities for India. Current Science 118 (12): 1870-1873
The challenges posed by the skyrocketing population to India’s food security, already under strain from land shortages and the agricultural crisis, are enormous. Climate change…
08 Apr 2021 | Aditya, V., Sumashini P. S, Aravind N. A, Ravikanth G, Chandrashekara K and Uma Shaanker R,.
The challenges posed by the skyrocketing population to India’s food security, already under strain from land shortages and the agricultural crisis, are enormous. Climate change…
08 Apr 2021 | Vikram Aditya., Sumashini P. S, Aravind N. A, Ravikanth G, Chandrashekara K, and R. Uma Shaanker
The challenges posed by the skyrocketing population to India’s food security, already under strain from land shortages and the agricultural crisis, are enormous. Climate change…
08 Apr 2021 | Vikram Aditya and Ravikanth G
According to some estimates, up to 17% of India’s landmass is classified as being covered with grasslands. The grasslands of India form a savanna – semi-arid grassland system that…
08 Apr 2021 | Vikram Aditya and Ravikanth G
Members of the Koya tribe inhabiting the foothills of the northern Eastern Ghats in Andhra Pradesh are worried. Their lives have been in disarray since India’s nationwide lockdown…
08 Apr 2021 | Vikram Aditya, Aravind N.A, and Sumashini P.S.
Bats evoke awe and aversion in equal measure from humans. They are the only mammals capable of true flight and have a unique sonar-based echolocation mechanism to capture prey at…
08 Apr 2021 | Vikram Aditya
India’s forest-dwelling communities have since antiquity utilised various biodiversity elements in forests to augment their livelihoods and fortify their nutritional security.…
19 Apr 2021 | Bawa, K. S., Nawn, N., Chellam, R., Krishnaswamy J., Mathur, V. B., Olsson, S. B, Pandit, N., Prabhakar, R., Sankaran, M., Shaanker R. U., Shankar, D., Ramakrishnan, U., Vanak, A. T., Quader, S.
Contemporary losses of biodiversity, sometimes referred to as the sixth mass extinction, continue to mount (1, 2). A recent assessment by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy…
19 Apr 2021 | Bawa, K., Sengupta, A., Chavan, V., Chellam, R., Ganesan, R., Krishnaswamy, J., Mathur, V.B., Nawn, N., Olsson, S.B., Pandit, N., Quader, S., Rajagopal, P., Ramakrishnan, U., Ravikanth, G., Sankaran, M., Shankar, D., Seidler, R, Uma Shaanker, R. and Vanak
Highly populated tropical countries face tremendous pressures in reconciling the needs for improved economic security and the protection of declining biodiversity. India is no…
19 Apr 2021 | Bindra, P. S., Gajjar, C., Ghosh, A., Kumar, M., Lobo, C., Mukherjee, D., Nair, P., Olsson, S., Pandit, N., Patrao, T., Ramakrishnan, U., Ramanathan, U., Shah, Shyamsundar, P. and Srinivas, P. N.
The ongoing global pandemic and its health and economic effects have aggravated multiple existing systemic vulnerabilities linked to human and environmental systems, both in India…