PhD Theses (SACON)

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    Ecological, Morphological and Demographical Variations of Hanuman Langur (Semnopithecus spp.) Species complex in Peninsular India and their Implications to Taxonomy
    (SACON, 2011) Chetan Nak, K.S.; Pramod, P.
    To bring greater resolution in Hanuman langur taxonomy, current thesis attempted to map the congruence between some of the ecological, morphological, and demographical characters of Hanuman langurs of peninsular India. In doing so the thesis, ultimately aimed to correlate which of the existing classification scheme best explained the taxonomic position of these taxonomically challenged langurs. With this objective the study was conducted in peninsular India (8–21°N, 73–78°E), covering the states of Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala, and Tamilnadu in India, as well as some parts of northern Sri Lanka opportunistically. The study also included some Northern type Hanuman langurs as controls from parts of Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, and Orissa. As far as possible study included the type localities mentioned in various classification schemes
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    Ecological studies of insect communities in Anaikatty hills
    (SACON, 2006) Eswaran, R.; Pramod, P.
    Community studies are relatively less in ecological entomology. Documentation of the communities of insects itself is a challenging job because of the inherent weakness in taxonomical brevity at the special level. The present study aimed primarily at exploring the patterns of insect diversity of a dry deciduous forest of Anaikatty hills, Western Ghats. As the term insect holds a large spectrum of organisms with a great level of taxonomic ambiguity, new approaches are needed to face the problems related with its diversity and distribution. The new approach attempted in this study was to examine the dynamics of diversity and abundance at different levels. At the broadest level an attempt has been made to study the composition and changes of insect families within and between different microhabitats of the landscape. At the intermediate level, the species composition, diversity and dynamics of one selected group of insects, viz., butterflies and at a finer level the aggregation and dynamics of the individuals of the selected species of butterflies were studied. The abiotic and biotic influences of these family levels, species level and individual level patterns were also studied