Orvill Nazareth

National Centre for Biological Sciences · Wildlife Biology and Conservation Program

Tropical rainforest canopies harbor nearly half of the world’s biodiversity. Previous research on rainforest ecosystems has primarily focused on the terrestrial stratum, leading to a limited understanding of forest canopies. Camera traps have seen a wide application in the studies of terrestrial mammals, but their utility for documenting arboreal m...

Purpose of Review Biodiversity values frequently encounter challenges from developmental needs despite having strong forest and wildlife laws in developing countries like India. Landscape ecology offers the relevant scientific backstopping and sophisticated tools to support conservation of several species. To aid the future development of landscape...

Many of the Indian saurian faunal ecology it's fairly known. So the gap has to be filled periodically and most indeed for conservation measures. Here we’re taking the opportunity and generating some baseline data on ecology aspects especially activity pattern and habitat utilization of cryptic gecko Hemidactylus gleadowi.

First hand information on population status as well as the distribution of mammals. In order to identifying and mapping the distribution of mammals while also providing a comprehensive list of mammal species recorded from the Sahyadri Tiger Reserve (STR), Northern Western Ghats, India.