Faunal Diversity in the Thar Desert Gaps in Research

About this book

The outcome of the expert's meeting that led to this book was to assess the status of faunal diversity in the Thar desert, a large desert that forms a natural boundary between India and Pakistan. The book identifies gaps in research and the future lines of work for creating a database. Every chapter provides a complete account of species occurrence, their status and gaps in research. Future lines of research for each chapter have been highlighted.

Realising the rapid deterioration of the quality of the environment, the issues of species loss, reduction in the number of genes and genotypes in agriculturally important species etc. has aroused great apprehension. During the meeting, it was urged that all countries should take every reasonable measure for long-term conservation of biological resources within their jurisdiction, and list all the biological species occurring in a country to claim intellectual property rights over them.

Contents

1. The Thar Desert Ecosystem – A.K. Ghosh
2. Protozoa in the Thar Desert – A.K. Das
3. Geographical Diversification of Human Plasmodia and Malaria syndrome in the Thar desert – B.K. Tyagi and R.C. Chaudhary
4. Freshwater Sponges in the Thar Desert – M.M. Sexena
5. Platyhelminthes and Acanthocephala of the Thar Desert – M. Hafeezullah
6. Faunal diversity of Nematoda in the Thar desert : Assessment and futuristic Approack – Qaiser H. Baqri
7. Annelid Diversity in the Thar desert – J.M. Julka
8. Leech fauna of the Thar desert – M.M. Saxena
9. Tick (Acarina : Metastigmata) Fauna in the Thar desert – A.K. Sanyal and S.K. De
10. Soil Mite (Acarina) Fauna in the Thar desert – A.K. Sanyal
11. Acarine Fauna in the Thar desert – S.K. Gupta
12. The Crustacean fauna of the Thar Desert – Tusharendu Roy
13. Branchiopod crustacea of Rajasthan desert – Krishna Kant Tiwari
14. Insect diversity in the Thar desert – S.K. Tandon
15. Odonata in the Thar desert - M. Prasad
16. Drylloid fauna of Thar desert – R.N. Bhargava
17. Species richness of Orthoptera and Coleoptera in the Thar desert – D.R. Parihar
18. Dictyoptera of the Thar desert – Padma Bohra and N.S. Rathore
19. Termites (Isoptera) of the Thar desert
20. Scale insects and Mealybugs in the Indian Thar desert – R.K. Varshney
21. Faunal diversity in Hemiptera of the Thar desert – L.K. Ghosh, b. Biswas and M. Ghosh
22. Insect Pests in Indira Gandhi Canal region of the Thar desert – H.K. Vyas
23. Stored grain pests in the Thar desert – Satya Vir
24. Aquatic Beetles of Thar desert – Neena Tak
25. Chronological and spatial distribution of Anopheline vectors of Malaria in the Thar desert – B.K. Tyagi
26. Diptera fauna of the Thar desert – Sanjeev Kumar and Seema Kumar
27. Lepidopteran Fauna of the Thar desert – R.K. Varshney and I.J. Gupta
28. Ant (Formicidae) fauna of the Thar desert – Neena Tak and N.S. Rathore
29. Molluscs in the Thar desert – N.V. Subha Rao
30. Fish diversity in the Thar desert – G.M. Yazdani
31. Herpetology of the Thar desert – R.C. Sharma
32. Changing Avifauna of the Thar desert – Asad R. Rahmani
33. Avian Diversity in the Thar desert – B.D. Rana, A.P. Jain and R.S. Tripathi
34. Some notes on Birds of Rann of Kutch – Himmatsinhji
35. The manual Diversity of the Indian desert – J.R.B. Alfred and V.C. Agarwal
36. Bats in Indian Thar desert – Y.P. Sinha
37. City dwelling Rhesus and Langurs – Reena Mathur
38.Jodhpur Langurs : Ecobehavioural diversity and survival strategies – S.M. Mohnot and Arun Sriwastava
39. Carnivores in the Thar desert – P.L. Kankane
40. Impact of ecological transformation on the Rodent Fauna of the Thar desert – A.P. Jain, R.S. Tripathi and B.D. Rana
41. Avenues of faunal research in the Thar desert – Ishwar Prakash

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