... fortified, and has been styled, ever since, the 'Raj Ghat Fort'."Excavations have revealed this high plateau called ...
0000 - Gale Group | NCCO Photography
... 61.0±1.2% for wastewater samples from Raj Ghat. Negative correlation coefficients of Cu, Cd, Cr, Ni, ...
Tópico(s): Heavy Metal Pollution Remediation
2014 - Elsevier BV | Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety
... and March) a singing and dancing festival called 'Raj Mangal' is held here; boats laden with people attended by singing and dancing girls proceed from Asi Ghat and row about the river in front of ...
0000 - Gale Group | NCCO Photography
K.E. Rajpramukh, P.D.S. Palkumar,
Eastern Ghats are inhabited by numerous tribal groups. Prominent among them in the north coastal districts of Andhra Pradesh are: Bagathas, Konda Doras, Jatapus, Savaras, Gadabas, Porjas, Khonds and Valmikis. Tribals usually have to constantly cope up with different trying situations exacerbated by scarcity of food, poverty, ill-health, lack of information and illiteracy etc., and they face these challenges working out their own strategies which are naïve in some instances and innovative in others. ...
Tópico(s): Indian History and Philosophy
2005 - Kamla Raj Enterprises | The Anthropologist
... by Frederick Fiebig in 1851. Local ferry boat ghat (landing-stage) on the banks of the River ... the river were once the lifeline of the Raj's trade and commerce. Boats that plied along ...
0000 - Gale Group | NCCO Photography
Sudhansu Sekhar Dash, Malaya K. Misra,
AbstractThe paper reports the plant diversity available in and around three tribal village ecosystems of Phulbani district of Orissa and shows how the biodiversity resources essentially met the basic demand of the tribals for their sustenance. Of the total 249 plant species recorded in and around the villages, the tribals used 43 species for food. 16 for fuel, 61 for medicine, 18 for timber. 18 for other economic purpose, 3 as simulants and 17 as sacred plants. Besides. 13 species served as fodder ...
Tópico(s): Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies
1999 - Kamla Raj Enterprises | Journal of Human Ecology
Prudhvi Raj, Karthikeyan Vasudevan, V. Deepak, Richa Sharma, Shashi B. Singh, R. K. Aggarwal, Sushil Kumar Dutta,
The external, oral and buccopharyngeal morphologies of Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis tadpoles were studied using ste-reoscopic and scanning electron microscopy. Using DNA barcodes, taxonomic identity of the tadpoles was establishedand tadoples of N. sahyadrensis were reared in semi-natural conditions. Development in the species from hatching tometamorph was prolonged and it took about 100 days for the freshly hatched larvae to metamorphose. The tadpoles areexotrophic, torrent dwelling with a large ...
Tópico(s): Fish Biology and Ecology Studies
2012 - Q15088586 | Zootaxa
Smrithy Raj, Pranav Prakash, Rajesh Reghunath, Josin Tharian, Rajeev Raghavan, Appukuttannair Biju Kumar,
Abstract We present results of the first major attempt to record the distribution of aquatic alien species in the Western Ghats Biodiversity Hotspot using Geographical Information System. A total of 32 alien species, including four macrophytes (Salvinia molesta, Pistia stratiotes, Eichhornia crassipes and Cabomba furcata) and 28 fish were recorded from the southern part of the Western Ghats. Seven of these have established natural populations and are invasive, which includes Oreochromis mossambicus, ...
Tópico(s): Aquatic Ecosystems and Biodiversity
2021 - Taylor & Francis | Aquatic Ecosystem Health & Management
Christoph von Fürer‐Haimendorf,
... Andhra Pradesh forests, the farmers of the Eastern Ghats, and the nomadic Sherpas and Bhotias of the Himalayas. During the Raj, he also played a prominent role in preserving ...
Tópico(s): South Asian Studies and Conflicts
1991 - Association of College and Research Libraries | Choice Reviews Online
The present study provides data to decide on the most appropriate method for sampling of ground-dwelling arthropods measured in a moist-deciduous forest in the Western Ghats in South India. The abundance of ground-dwelling arthropods was compared among large numbers of samples obtained using pitfall trapping, Berlese and Winkler extraction methods. Highest abundance and frequency of most of the represented taxa indicated pitfall trapping as the ideal method for sampling of ground-dwelling arthropods. ...
Tópico(s): Species Distribution and Climate Change
2010 - Oxford University Press | Journal of Insect Science
An attempt has been made to identify folklore medicinally important plants frequently used by rural communities of sacred groves and it environs of Kanyakumari district, Tamil Nadu. A total of 34 medicinal plants from 33 genera under 29 families were enumerated. Most of the plants are used for curing earache, skin diseases, fever, cold, headache, cough, urinary disorder, ulcer, etc. Of 29 families, 26 families were nonspecific. Plants of Rutaceae was largely represented (4 species), followed by Euphorbiaceae ...
Tópico(s): Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies
2010 - NISCAIR | Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge
Jeeva Susan Abraham, Sripoorna Somasundaram, Swati Maurya, Utkarsh Sood, Rup Lal, Ravi Toteja, Seema Makhija,
... Okhla Bird Sanctuary (OBS), Sanjay Lake (SL), and Raj Ghat pond (RJ). This study represents the first investigation ...
Tópico(s): Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
2024 - Oxford University Press | FEMS Microbes
Renjith Raj, Arfat Ahmad Sofi,
Due to climate change, erratic and extreme rainfall events are rising in Kerala, India. This, in turn, is triggering landslides and floods in the Western Ghats of Kerala. Accordingly, this study analyzes the assessment and distribution of household level vulnerability toward climate change among the occupational categories in the Western Ghats of Kerala. Based on landslide data of Kerala for the years 2018 and 2019, five villages from the Idukki district of Kerala that accounts for the highest number ...
Tópico(s): Flood Risk Assessment and Management
2023 - Elsevier BV | Land Use Policy
Sumeet Naidu, Malaya K. Mishra,
This paper reports the distribution of ABO blood groups among Suddha Saura and Lanjia Saura of five village ecosystems on Eastern Ghats of Orissa. The pattern of blood groups distribution in Suddha Saura and Lanjia Saura it different. However, the blood groups distribution pattern of Lanjia Saura of Arakhapada of Ganjam district and Biripadara and Sikkarpai of Rayagada district is similar The ethnohistory of the Saura tribe of Orissa is described.
Tópico(s): Hepatitis B Virus Studies
1995 - Kamla Raj Enterprises | Journal of Human Ecology
Kiran Raj M S, M. Sivadasan, Ahmed Alfarhan, Jan Frederik Veldkamp,
Dimeria raviana, a new species of Poaceae from the Southern Western Ghats of Kerala, India is described and illustrated. It closely resembles D. fuscescens, but strikingly differs in having a flattened and winged raceme rachis of 1.0–1.25 mm in width with smooth margins.
Tópico(s): Rice Cultivation and Yield Improvement
2015 - Q15088586 | Phytotaxa
Kumar Santhosh, Vijay Mohan Raj, Honnavalli N. Kumara,
The lion-tailed macaque (Macaca silenus) is one of the most threatened of the primates of the Western Ghats. Confirmation of its large metapopulation in a relatively unprotected area (a reserve forest) of Karnataka has marked an important step for the future of this population. The number of lion -tailed macaques estimated was 638 in 31 groups with an average group size of 20.6, excluding lone males. A review of the literature confirms that this is one of the larger known populations in the wild. This ...
Tópico(s): Amphibian and Reptile Biology
2013 - Conservation International | Primate Conservation
Smrithy Raj, Appukuttannair Biju Kumar, Peter K. L. Ng,
A new genus of freshwater crab, Rajathelphusa gen. nov., and two species, R. ala sp. nov. (type species) and R. muni sp. nov., are described from the Kerala part of the Western Ghats biodiversity hotspot, India. The new genus is superficially similar to Arcithelphusa and Cylindrotelphusa from the same hotspot, but can easily be distinguished by the following suite of carapace and gonopod characters: an inflated carapace with distinct epigastric and postorbital cristae; the third maxilliped exopod ...
Tópico(s): Fish biology, ecology, and behavior
2021 - Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica | Zoological studies
S. Gayathri, Vinu V. Dev, R. Shiny Raj, A. Krishnakumar, T. M. Vishnu Maya, K. Anoop Krishnan,
In India, Kerala state is considered as the "land of spices" and providing good quality spices to the world especially cardamom, ginger, clove, cinnamon, turmeric, nutmeg, vanilla, tamarind and pepper. To maintain consistency in better crops yield, planters are constantly using pesticides. Most of the time, over-usage causes environmental degradation in terms of water and soil pollution. Highlands of Southern Western Ghats, especially in the Idukki district of Kerala, is famous for cardamom plantations. ...
Tópico(s): Water Quality and Pollution Assessment
2021 - Elsevier BV | Environmental Nanotechnology Monitoring & Management
M. S. Kiran Raj, M. Sivadasan, J.F. Veldkamp, Ahmed Alfarhan, Jacob Thomas,
... Raj & Sivad. (Poaceae–Andropogoneae–Dimeriinae) from the southwestern Ghats in India is described and illustrated, and the new combination N. santapaui (M. R. Almeida) Kiran Raj & Sivad. is made. The genus is characterized by ...
Tópico(s): Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies
2013 - Wiley | Nordic Journal of Botany
M. S. Kiran Raj, M. Sivadasan,
Dimeria veldkampii Kiran Raj & Sivadasan, from north Goa of the northern Western Ghats, is illustrated and described as a new species of Poaceae belonging to the subtribe Dimeriinae of the tribe Andropogoneae. ...
Tópico(s): Ruminant Nutrition and Digestive Physiology
2008 - Missouri Botanical Garden Press | Novon A Journal for Botanical Nomenclature
P. G. Kavitha, A. G. Kiran, R. Dinesh Raj, M. Sabu, George Thomas,
Intraspecific genetic variation was assessed in cultivated ginger (Zingiber officinale) and its three wild congeners: Z. neesanum, Z. nimmonii and Z. zerumbet from Western Ghats, South India using 169 amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) markers generated by six primer combinations. Different genetic diversity estimates depicted a striking difference in the genetic diversity of the species studied. The very low level of genetic diversity recorded in ginger complies with its obligatory asexual ...
Tópico(s): Plant and Fungal Interactions Research
2010 - Indian Academy of Sciences | Current Science
R. Sakthivel, N. Jawahar Raj. V. Pugazhendi, Sankaran Rajendran, A. Alagappamoses,
In this present study, the soil erosion assessment and conservation measures in hill ecosystem is carried out in the Kalrayan hills, Part of Eastern ghats, Tamil Nadu using Remote Sensing and GIS techniques. The geocoded digital data of IRS P6 LISS ‐ III (P101-R65 of 2001) and Survey of India toposheets (1971) were interpreted and var ious thematic maps such as drainage, lineaments, geomorphology, land use/land cover and slope maps have been prepared. After assigning the weightage factors for each of ...
Tópico(s): Hydrological Forecasting Using AI
2011 - Scholars Research Library | Archives of applied science research
Sansar Raj Meena, Omid Ghorbanzadeh, C.J. van Westen, Thimmaiah Gudiyangada Nachappa, Thomas Blaschke, R. P. Singh, Raju Sarkar,
Abstract Rainfall-induced landslide inventories can be compiled using remote sensing and topographical data, gathered using either traditional or semi-automatic supervised methods. In this study, we used the PlanetScope imagery and deep learning convolution neural networks (CNNs) to map the 2018 rainfall-induced landslides in the Kodagu district of Karnataka state in the Western Ghats of India. We used a fourfold cross-validation (CV) to select the training and testing data to remove any random results ...
Tópico(s): Fire effects on ecosystems
2021 - Springer Science+Business Media | Landslides
S. Sukumaran, S. Jeeva, A. Raj,
Pteridophytes do not form dominant vegetation anywhere on the earth surface now, but have been replaced by the seed-bearing plants. Their occurrence in several small patches relays the message of richness. During the present study, 24 species of Pteridophytes were inventoried from Vilavancode, Kalkulam and Thovalai sacred groves of Kanyakumari district, Southern Western Ghats, India. Some of them are well known for their economic values. The species richness was more or less similar in the first ...
Tópico(s): Plant Parasitism and Resistance
2009 - Messrs Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh | Indian Journal of Forestry
T. Raja Swaminathan, Tina Kollannoor Johny, Sundar Raj Nithianantham, Arun Sudhagar, Pravata Kumar Pradhan, S. R. Krupesha Sharma, Reshma Nair, Neeraj Sood,
A large-scale mortality of pearlspot, Etroplus suratensis was reported from Peechi Dam, an artificial tropical lake made for irrigation and drinking water supply in Kerala, India during 2018. This dam is located in the premises of Western Ghats, recognized as one of the biodiversity hotspots of the world. The objective of this study was to identify the aetiological agent of this large-scale mortality of E. suratensis by systematic diagnostic investigation and identification of the pathogen. Virus ...
Tópico(s): Viral Infections and Vectors
2022 - Wiley | Transboundary and Emerging Diseases
Vadakkemuriyil Divya Nair, Rajan Pillai Dinesh Raj, R. Panneerselvam, R. Gopi,
Genetic, morphological and chemical variations of ten natural populations of Rauvolfia serpentina Benth. Ex. Kurtz. from Southern Western Ghats of India were assessed using RAPD markers reserpine content and morphological traits. An estimate of genetic diversity and differentiation between genotypes of breeding germplasm is of key importance for its improvement. Populations were collected from different geographical regions. Data obtained through three different methods were compared and the correlation ...
Tópico(s): Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies
2013 - Elsevier BV | Fitoterapia
Appukuttannair Biju Kumar, Smrithy Raj, Peter K. L. Ng,
A new genus and new species of tree crab is described from the Western Ghats biodiversity hotspot in Kerala, southern India. Kani maranjandun. gen., n. sp., is substantially different from all congeners in a suite of characters, notably the diagnostic carapace and male abdominal structure, as well as the conspicuously elongated ambulatory legs. The species is wholly arboreal, living in tree-hollows or the canopy.
Tópico(s): Fish biology, ecology, and behavior
2017 - Oxford University Press | Journal of Crustacean Biology
T. Raja Swaminathan, V. S. Basheer, A Gopalakrishnan, Gaurav Rathore, Dharmendra Kumar Chaudhary, Raj Kumar, J. K. Jena,
Two new cell lines, PFF and CFF were established from the caudal fin of the Puntius fasciatus, and Pristolepis fasciata respectively. Since their initiation, these cell lines (PFF and CFF) have been subcultured in L-15 medium with 10% fetal bovine serum for more than 35 passages at 28°C and both the cell lines were characterized. Karyotyping analysis of PFF and CFF cells at 25th passage indicated that the modal chromosome number was 2n=50 and 2n=48 respectively. The cell line was cryopreserved in ...
Tópico(s): Vibrio bacteria research studies
2013 - Elsevier BV | Acta Tropica
Kalpana Rani Sabat, Nirmal Chandra Das, Bijayalaxmi Das,
Kandhs. being the large it tribal group in Orissa. are mostly distributed id the mountain regions of Phulbani. Koraput. Gaujam. Kitia. Dangria and Desia are the three subsections of Kandh;; All the Kandhs of Ganjam belong to the Desia. The study highlights the habitat and nutritional sum of the Kandhs of Ganjam. Although these Kandhs stay in the close proximity of a city, the study shows that most of their activities are still connected with the forest ecosystem. They almost return their traditional ...
Tópico(s): Agricultural Science and Fertilization
1997 - Kamla Raj Enterprises | Journal of Human Ecology
Vipin T. Raj, Gayathri J.A., M. Vandana, K. Sreelash, K. Maya, D. Padmalal, K. Sajan,
Abstract Rock–water interactions and chemical weathering are critical factors that determine the quality and quantity of solute transport in river catchments. However, most studies in this field have been limited to temperate regions and data from the tropics and subtropics are scarce, particularly for small rivers that are more responsive to environmental and climate changes. In this study, we investigated chemical weathering, its causal mechanisms and controlling factors that determine changes ...
Tópico(s): Groundwater and Watershed Analysis
2023 - Wiley | Earth Surface Processes and Landforms