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I. Books:

Ramachandra T.V., Ahalya N. and Rajasekara Murthy, (2005). Aquatic Ecosystems: Conservation, Restoration and Management, Capital Publishing Company, New Delhi  

Vivek Menon, Sandeep Kumar Tiwari, Easa, P.S. and Sukumar, R. (Eds.) (2005). Right of Passage: elephant corridors of India. Conservation Reference Series No.3. Wildlife Trust of India, New Delhi, 287 pp.  

Chapters in Books:  

Gadagkar,R. and Chandrashekara,K. (2005). Behavioral Diversity and its Apportionment in a Primitively Eusocial Wasp. In: Insect Phenotypic Plasticity – Diversity of Responses (Eds.) T.N.Ananthakrishnan and Douglas Whitman, Science Publishers, Inc., Enfield, USA and Plymouth, UK, pp.107-124. 

Gururaja K.V. and Ramachandra T.V., (2005). Integrated approaches to minimize ambiguities in anuran description, In: Proceedings – Integrating Science and Management of Biodiversity in Western Ghats, 2nd National Conference of the Western Ghats Forum, Organised by Salim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History, pp-26-29.  

Ramachandra T V and Rao G R, (2005). Inventorying, Mapping and Monitoring of Bioresources using GIS and Remote Sensing, In: Geospatial technologies for developmental planning, Ramaswamy S M, Kumanan C J, Palanivel K and Bhoop Singh (eds), pp 49-76  

Ramachandra T.V, (2005). Conservation, Restoration and Management of Aquatic Ecosystems, In: Aquatic Ecosytems – Conservation, Restoration and Management, Ramachandra, Ahalya N. and Rajasekara Murthy (ed), Capital Publishing Company, New Delhi.  

Ramachandra T V., (2005). Status of Wetland Ecosystems in India (Focus on Wetlands of Bangalore, Karnataka), In: TEQIP Workshop on Wetland Management, November 28, 2005. Department of Civil Engineering, Bangalore University, pp 36-55.  

Ramachandra T V., (2005). Remote sensing and GIS Application in Hydrology, In: Proceedings of the IVth DST-SERC School on Mathematical Modelling of Groundwater Quality and Pollution, 2-30 May 2005, Department of Mathematics, Bangalore University.  

Raushan Kumar and Ramachandra T.V. (2005). Water, soil and sediment investigations to explore the status and management options of aquatic ecosystems, In: Aquatic Ecosytems – Conservation, Restoration and Management, Ramachandra, Ahalya N. and Rajasekara Murthy (ed), Capital Publishing Company, New Delhi.  

Sukumar, R., Suresh, H.S., Dattaraja, H.S., Srinidhi, S. and Nath, C. (2005). The dynamics of a tropical dry forest in India: Climate, fire, elephants and the evolution of life-history strategies. In: D. Burslem, P. Michelle and S. Hartley (eds.). Biotic interactions in the tropics: their role in the maintenance of species diversity. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K. pp. 510-529.  

Vivek Menon, Sandeep Kumar Tiwari, Easa, P.S. and Sukumar, R. (2005). Elephant Corridors of India: an analysis. Chapter 9. In: Vivek Menon, Sandeep Kumar Tiwari, Easa, P.S. and Sukumar, R. (Eds.) (2005). Right of Passage: elephant corridors of India. Conservation Reference Series No.3. Wildlife Trust of India, New Delhi. pp.256-285. 

II. 
Technical Papers in Refereed Journals/Books: 

Ahalya N, Kanmadi R D and Ramachandra T V., (2005). Biosorption of Chromium (VI) using Cicer arientinum husk. Electronic journal of Biotechnology, 8 (3): Available from http://www.ejbiotechnology.info/content/vol8/issue3/full/3/index.html. ISSN 0717-3458.  

Ali, S., Gururaja K.V. and Ramachandra, T.V. (2005). Schistura nilgiriensis (Menon) in Sharavathi river basin, Western Ghats, Karnataka, ZOOS’ Print Journal, 20 (2): 1784-1785 Ramachandra T.V. and Uttam Kumar, 2006.  

Balakrishnan, R. (2005). Species concepts, species boundaries and species identification: a view from the tropics. Systematic Biology, 54: 689-693.  

Balakrishnan, R. Neurobiology and behaviour: a network of connections. (2005). Current Science, 89: 1147-1165.  

Borges, R. M. (2005). Do plants and animals differ in phenotypic plasticity? Journal of Biosciences, 30: 41-50. 

Dharmarajan, G., Raman, M. and John, M.C. (2005). Effect of season on helminth loads of wild herbivores and cattle in the Mudumalai Wildlife Sanctuary, southern India. Zoo’ Print Journal, 20, 1766-1769.  

Divya, B. U., Metrani, S. & Balakrishnan, R. (2005). Pitfall traps for arthropods: an evaluation of their efficiency, with special reference to field crickets (Gryllidae: Orthoptera). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 102: 38-43.  

Gaume, L., Zacharias, M. and Borges, R. M. (2005). Ant-plant conflicts and a novel case of castration parasitism in a myrmecophyte. Evolutionary Ecology Research 7:435-452  

Gaume, L., Zacharias, M., Grosbois, V. and Borges, R. M. (2005). The fitness consequences of bearing domatia and having the right ant partner: experiments with protective and non-protective ants in a semi-myrmecophyte. Oecologia 145:76-86  

Iyengar, A., Babu, N., Hedges, S., Venkataraman, A.B., Maclean, N. and Morin, P.A. (2005), Phylogeography, genetic structure, and diversity in the dhole (Cuon alpinus). Molecular Ecology, 14, 2281-2297.  

Metrani, S. & Balakrishnan, R. (2005). The utility of song and morphological characters in delineating species boundaries among sympatric tree crickets of the genus Oecanthus (Orthoptera: Gryllidae: Oecanthinae): a numerical taxonomic approach. Journal of Orthoptera Research, 14: 5-20.  

Murthy, I.K., Bhat, P.R., Ravindranath, N.H. and Sukumar, R. (2005). Financial valuation of non-timber forest product flows in Uttara Kannada district, Western Ghats, Karnataka. Current Science, 88: 1573-1579.  

Ramachandra T.V., Vamsee Krishna S. and Shruthi B V, (2005). Decision support system for regional domestic energy planning, Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research, 64 (March 2005): 163-174.  

Ramachandra T.V. and Shruthi B.V., (2005). Wind energy potential mapping in Karnataka using GIS, Energy Conversion and Management, 41(9-10):1561-1578.  

Ramachandra T.V., Rajeev Kumar Jha, Vamsee Krishna and Shruthi B.V. (2005). Solar energy decision support system, International Journal of Sustainable Energy, 24(4): 207-224.  

Ramachandra T.V., Rajeev K.J., Vamsee Krishna S and Shruthi B.V., (2005). WEPA: Wind energy potential assessment – spatial decision support system, Energy Education Science and Technology, 14(2):61-80.

Ramachandra T.V., Rajinikanth R. And Ranjini V.G. (2005). Economic valuation of wetlands, Journal of Environmental Biology, 26(3):439-447.  

Rao G.R., Subash Chandran M.D. and Ramachandra T.V., (2005). Habitat approach for conservation of herbs, shrubs and climbers in the Sharavathi River Basin, The Indian Forester, 131 (7): 885-900.  

Rasmussen, L.E.L., Krishnamurthy, V. and Sukumar, R. (2005). Behavioural and chemical confirmation of the preovulatory pheromone, (Z)-7-dodecenyl acetate, in wild Asian elephants: its relationship to musth. Behaviour, 142: 351-396.  

Sreekantha and Ramachandra T.V. (2005). Fish diversity in Linganamakki reservoir, Sharavathi river, Ecology, Environment and Conservation, 11(3-4): 337-348.  

Venkataraman, A.B., Saandeep, R., Baskaran, N., Roy, M., Madhivanan, A. and Sukumar, R. (2005). Using satellite telemetry to mitigate elephant-human conflict: an experiment in northern West Bengal, India. Current Science, 88: 1827-1831  

Venkataraman, M., Shanker, K. and Sukumar, R. (2005). Small mammal communities of tropical forest habitats in Mudumalai Wildlife Sanctuary, southern India. Mammalia, 69: 349-358.  

Vidya, T.N.C. and Sukumar, R. (2005). Amplification success and feasibility of using microsatellite loci amplified from dung to population genetic studies of the Asian elephant (Elephas maximus). Current Science, 88: 489-492  

Vidya, T.N.C. and Sukumar, R. (2005). Social organization of the Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) in southern India inferred from microsatellite DNA. Journal of Ethology, 23: 205-210.  

Vidya, T.N.C., Fernando, P., Melnick, D.J. and Sukumar, R. (2005). Population genetic structure and conservation of Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) across India. Animal Conservation, 8: 377-388.  

Vidya, T.N.C. and Sukumar, R. (2005). Social and reproductive behaviour in elephants. Current Science, 89: 1200-1207.

III. 
Technical Reports: 

Ramachandra T.V. and Kamakshi G., (2005). Bioresource Potential Of Karnataka [Talukwise Inventory With Management Options], CES Technical report No 109, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Bangalore.  

Sudhira H.S., Ramachandra, T. V., Andreas Wytzisk & C. Jeganathan, (2005). Framework for Integration of Agent-based and Cellular Automata Models for Dynamic Geospatial Simulations, CES Technical report No 100, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Bangalore.  

IV. 
General Articles: 

Borges, R. M. (2005). Ernst Mayr and evolutionary biology: polemics and synthesis. Current Science , 89, 947-954.  

Borges, R. M. (2005). Polemics and synthesis: Ernst Mayr and evolutionary biology. Resonance 10, 21-33.  

Gadagkar,R. (2005). Donald Griffin Strove to give Animals their Due. Resonance – journal of science education, 10(2), 3-5.  

Gadagkar, R. (2005). Obituary – Ernst Mayr (1904-2005). Journal of Genetics, 84(1), 87-89.  

Gadagkar, R. (2005). The Logic of Animal Conflict. Resonance – journal of science education, 10(11) p.5.  

Gadagkar, R. (2005). “Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution” – A Review of The Theory of Evolution by John Maynard Smith, Canto Edition, Cambridge University Press, (1993). Resonance – journal of science education,10 (11), 95-97.