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Changing Faunal Ecology in the Thar Desert-dedicated to the fond memory of Professor Dr. Ishwar Prakash, the legendary rodntologist-is a unique melange of scientific investigations on diversified ecological subjects pertaining to defferent organism groups, from as tiny as protzoa to as authentic bio... More

The Great Indian or Thar Desert is characterized by extremely harsh climatic conditions. Nevertheless, this unique region, consisting of very different habitats ranging from grassland, sand dunes and rocky expanses to hilly wooded terrains, but also crop fields and abandoned human habitations, featu... More

Eutrophication and algal blooms are worldwide environmental issues in lakes. The eutrophication process and formation mechanisms of algal blooms are particularly complicated in shallow lakes due to the strong lakea "land, aira "water and watera "sediment interactions. This volume features papers pre... More

Medical Entomology has in course of time undergone a transformation from a mere traditional knowledge of the discipline to the one that stresses emphatically on harvesting a plethora of insects' infinite `biomedical' properties. Our familiarity with the medically important insects and other arthrop... More

The Invincible Deadly mosquitoes s a book with a difference, written in clear simple and lucid language, and directed both at rofessional as well as amateur readership. The book is in fact a tribute to all those great entomologists and doctors, examplified by a few chosen biogrpahical sketeches who ... More

Dragonflies (Odonata), represented by over 6000 known species, are unique insects. In more than one feature they differ, at the very first glance, from all other insect superorders including their nearest allies, the mayflies (Ephemeropteroidea). They probably evolved as early as in the Lower Devoni... More