India

Photos from the Field: Fruit Bat Seed Shadows and Agroforestry in India

Deshpande and Kelkar (2015). How Do Fruit Bat Seed Shadows Benefit Agroforestry? Insights from Local Perceptions in Kerala, India. Biotropica,… Read More »

Photos from the Field: Seed dispersal by gibbons and macaques

Pig-tailed macaques are also common dispersers of S. chinensis seeds. Photo by Kulpat Saralamba.

McConkey, K. R., Brockelman, W. Y. and Saralamba, C. (2014), Mammalian Frugivores With Different Foraging Behavior Can Show Similar Seed… Read More »

Photos from the Field. Sheshadri: Selective Logging & Frogs in India

Study conducted in the Agathyamalai Biosphere reserve Upper Kodayar Range (photo by K S Seshadri)

Seshadri, K. S. (2014), Effects of Historical Selective Logging on Anuran Communities in a Wet Evergreen Forest, South India. Biotropica,… Read More »

Frogs affected by logging even after 40 years

Raorchestes chalazodes on a slide caliper (photo by K S Seshadri)

— PRESS RELEASE — Frogs affected by logging even after 40 years Additional photos available here on September 26th 11… Read More »

Photos from the Field: Wilson et al. 2014. Plant invasions & elephants

Wilson et al. 2014. In this study a trunksful of grass was defined as the number of trunksful of grass or browse that the focal elephant gathered with its trunk and put into its mouth. Here, a herd of elephants is seen feeding on grass in a Lantana camara-free area of Mudumalai Tiger Reserve. (Photo credit: Gaius Wilson).

Gaius Wilson, Monica A. Gruber, and Philip J. Lester. 2014. Foraging Relationships Between Elephants and Lantana camara Invasion in Mudumalai Tiger Reserve, India. Biotropica 46(2):194-201 … Read More »