Introduction: Investigation on the natural radionuclides 238U, 232Th, 40K and natural fallout radionuclide 210Po in the prominent plants species of Western Ghats tropical forest near Kotagiri have been carried out as a part of baseline background radiation studies in the forest environment. Materials and Methods: The prominent plants species of the region Evodia roxburghiana and Eleaocarpus obl...

A new cryptic species of bush frog Raorchestes honnametti sp. nov. is described from the south-eastern part of the Western Ghats, India. This newly described species belongs to the Charius clade and is morphologically similar to other clade members--R. charius and R. griet. Therefore, an integrative taxonomic approach based on molecular and bioacoustic analysis along with morphology was used to...

Studies of rainfall variation generally focus on large areas. For example, in India, the area average monsoon rainfall series of the whole country or meteorological subdivisions are used. This would be of no use for local agriculture, particularly in places where rainfall is very high or very low, especially for crops like small cardamom and vanilla which are very sensitive to soil moisture and...

Amboli region, consisting Amboli, Chaukul, Nene, and Parpoli villages is one of the biodiversity rich areas in northern Western Ghats. We opportunistically surveyed odonates from region prepared an annotated checklist 93 species belonging to 12 families. report 15 Ghats endemic six new records for State Maharashtra. further present updated Odonata Maharashtra state with a total 144 species.

A new species of Protosticta Selys, 1885 is described from Anamalai Hills southern Western Ghats in peninsular India. The distinguished its regional congeners by the posterior lobe prothorax being devoid spines; anterior 1/3rd S8 pale yellow, marking not connected dorsally; S9 completely black; caudal appendages short, sinuous, and only twice length S10, cerci with a small blunt basal tooth; ti...