Changing Faunal Ecology in the Thar Desert 1st Edition

The Title "Changing Faunal Ecology in the Thar Desert 1st Edition" is written by B.K. Tyagi. This book was published in the year 2005. The ISBN number 8172334028|9788172334024 is assigned to the Hardback version of this title. This book has total of pp. xii + 367 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Scientific Publishers. We have about 808 other great books from this publisher. Changing Faunal Ecology in the Thar Desert 1st Edition is currently Available with us.

Indira Gandhi al Ecology in the Thar Desert - dedicated to the fond memory of Professor Dr. Ishwar Prakash, the legendary Rodentologist - is a unique melange of scientific investigations on diversified ecological subjects pertaining to different organism groups, from as tiny as protozoa to as giant as mammals. Altogether sixteen contributions, including an original, up-to-date and authentic bio-bibliography of Dr. I. Prakash, make this volume an exceptional treatise penned by 24 expert scientist authors many of whom have spent a life in arid ecosystems including the Thar Desert. The Book provides a crystal clear proof of the constantly changing behavioural ecology of Animals in the Thar Desert which has been under an ever increasing impact of, among several imminent factors, the Indira Gandhi Nahar Pariyojana (IGNP), one of the world's largest irrigation systems of its type in a xeric environment. The change is discernible not only in structure and distribution of animals but in their resting, feeding Breeding and, as evident in case of parasites, the extent of parasitism as well as pathogenecity. Finally, this book offers the first well documented evidence of immense behavioural transformation in various different animal groups in the Thar Desert -- a phenomenon of enormous significance for both conservation Management and diversity inventorization activities of its faunal wealth.

Foreword
Preface
List of Contributors

1. Dr. Ishwar Prakash : Polymath and Rodentologist - a bio-bibliography/B.K. Tyagi, Mohd. Idris and Q.H. Baqri
2. Some natural and anthropogenic specificities of the Thar/R.P. Dhir
3. Impact of introduction of IGNP canal irrigation on micro-and secular changes in climate of Thar desert region/A.S. Rao
4. Soil bioresources : a technical management in arid environment/B.M. Sharma
5. Impact of changing ecology on termite fauna in arid and semi-arid region of Rajasthan/N.S. Rathore and Madhumita Mandal
6. Insect diversity conservation status with special reference to Butterflies (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera)/H.S. Rose
7. Some new records of mosquitoes (culicidae) and haematophagous flies of Tabanidae and muscidae from the Thar desert Rajasthan, India/Shri Prakash, Vijay Veer, M.J. Mendki, G.P. Gupta and K.C. Verma
8. Dung beetles (Coleptera : Scarabaeidae; Coprinae) of the Thar desert of Rajasthan/Ram Sewak
9. Changing ecology and faunal diversity of Amphibians and reptiles in Thar Desert of Rajasthan, India/R.C. Sharma and Shalini Gaur
10. Evolution of fish hatcheries in India/Devendra Mohan
11. Diversity, abundance and dominance of avian species in the Thar desert of Rajasthan/C. Sivaperuman, Sumit Dookia, P.L. Kankane and Qaiser H. Baqri
12. Mammalian diversity in the Thar desert of Rajasthan/S. Chakraborthy, V.C. Agrawal and S.I. Kazmi
13. Significance of scent marking gland in desert rodents/Mohd. Idris
14. Reproduction in desert rodents/R.S. Tripathi
15. Scenario of clinical studies of cutaneous leishmaniasis of human and canines/Anil Ahuja
16. Thar desert's changing climate and the emergence/exacerbation of vector borne diseases : past, present and future/B.K. Tyagi