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BOOK CHAPTERS:

  1. Borges, R. M.  The behaviour and ecology of the Malabar Giant Squirrel Ratufa indica.  In: Mammals of South Asia: Ecology and Conservation.  (A. J. T. Johnsingh and N. Manjrekar, editors).  Permanent Black, New Delhi (in press)

  2. Borges, R. M.  Conservation of pollinator services in rain forests.  In ENVIS Bulletin: Wildlife & Protected Areas-Research Priorities in the Rainforests of India, A. K. Gupta, Ajith Kumar and V. Ramakantha (editors), Vol.1, No. 1 (in press)

  3. Borges, R. M.  2003.  The anatomy of ignorance or Ecology in a fragmented landscape: do we know what really counts?  Pages 56-85 in Battles Over Nature.  Science and the Politics of Conservation.  V. Saberwal and M. Rangarajan, editors.  Permanent Black, New Delhi.

  4. Borges, R. M.  1998.  Spatiotemporal heterogeneity of food availability and dietary variation between individuals of the Malabar Giant Squirrel Ratufa indica.  In:  Ecology and Evolutionary Biology of Tree Squirrels  (J. F. Merritt and D. A. Zegers, editors).  Special Publication, Virginia Museum of Natural History, USA.  Pp. 99-111. 

PAPERS PRESENTED AT CONFERENCE/SYMPOSIA:

  1. Prasad, B. R. G. and Borges, R. M.  2003.  The consequences of walking on a graph: the case of the Malabar Giant Squirrel, Ratufa indica.  1) Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical Biologists, Dundee, UK, and 2)  Second Alcala International Conference on Mathematical Ecology, Alcala, Spain. 

  2. Veena, C. P. and Borges, R. M.  2003.  Looking for cryptic species:  male response to female silks in ant-mimicking salticid spiders in India.  Annual meeting of Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation and Special Symposium of British Ecological Society, University of Aberdeen, UK. 

  3. Gaume, L., Zacharias, M. and Borges, R. M.  2002.  Castration parasitism in a plant ant and roles of morphological devices against plant-ant conflicts.  In Symposium entitled: Funktionelle Aspekte der Evolution der Pflanzen (Functional aspects of evolution in plants) in Botanikertagung: Conference of the Deutsche Botanische Gesellschaft (German Botanical Society), Freiburg i. Br. (Germany), September 2002.

  4. Borges, R. M., Zacharias, M. and Shenoy, M.  2002.  Ant diversity in two sites dominated by the myrmecophyte Humboldtia brunnonis in India.  Paper presented at:  International Conference on Tropical Forests: Past, Present and Future; Annual meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology, Panama City, Panama.

  5. Borges, R. M.  2001.  The biology of laughter.  Paper presented at:  International Conference on Science and Metaphysics, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore.

  6. Borges, R. M., Gowda, V. and Zacharias, M.  2001.  Effect of bract removal on visitation to the flowers of Mussaenda frondosa by the southern birdwing butterfly Troides minos.  Poster presented at: International Conference on Invertebrate Vision, Sweden, organized by University of Lund, Sweden.

  7. Borges, R. M., Talwar, M. and Zacharias, M.  2001.  Retreat or die: the perils of mimicry when the model preys on the mimic.  Paper presented at:  27th International Ethological Conference, Tuebingen, Germany. 

  8. Borges, R. M. and Mali, S.  2001.  Hotspots in nutrient landscapes and herbivory by giant squirrels in an Indian seasonal cloud forest.  Pages 485-488 in Tropical Ecosystems: Structure, Diversity and Human Welfare.  K.N. Ganeshaiah, R. Uma Shaanker and K. S. Bawa (eds).  Proceedings of the International Conference on Tropical Ecosystems.  Oxford-IBH, New Delhi.  

  9. Gowda, V., Zacharias, M. Vishveshwara, and Borges, R. M.  2001.  Do ‘pollinator flags’ aid in floral visitation in Mussaenda frondosa?  Pages 207-210 in Tropical Ecosystems: Structure, Diversity and Human Welfare.  K.N. Ganeshaiah, R. Uma Shaanker and K. S. Bawa (eds).  Proceedings of the International Conference on Tropical Ecosystems.  Oxford-IBH, New Delhi. 

  10. Shenoy, M. and Borges, R. M.  2001.  Is the trichome-rich leaf surface of the aggressive weed Broussonetia papyrifera (paper mulberry) a successful means of impeding herbivores?   Pages 473- 476 in Tropical Ecosystems: Structure, Diversity and Human Welfare.  K.N. Ganeshaiah, R. Uma Shaanker and K. S. Bawa (eds).  Proceedings of the International Conference on Tropical Ecosystems.  Oxford-IBH, New Delhi. 

  11. Somanathan, H., Mali, S. and Borges, R. M.  2001.  Effect of tree stratum on flowering synchrony in a seasonal cloud forest in the Bhimashankar Wildlife Sanctuary, India. Pages 750-753 in Tropical Ecosystems: Structure, Diversity and Human Welfare.  K.N. Ganeshaiah, R. Uma Shaanker and K. S. Bawa (eds).  Proceedings of the International Conference on Tropical Ecosystems.  Oxford-IBH, New Delhi.  

  12. Talwar, M., Zacharias, M., Gowda, V., Kapoor, V., Raychaudhuri, S., Sridhar, H., Lokhandwala, Z.and Borges, R. M.   2001. Understanding ant-avoidance behaviours in the myrmecomorphic spider Myrmarachne plataleoides, mimic of the weaver ant Oecophylla smaragdina.  Pages 649-653 in Tropical Ecosystems: Structure, Diversity and Human Welfare.  K.N. Ganeshaiah, R. Uma Shaanker and K. S. Bawa (eds).  Proceedings of the International Conference on Tropical Ecosystems.  Oxford-IBH, New Delhi.  

  13. Zacharias, M., Gaume, G, and Borges, R. M.   (2001).  How effective are ants in protecting the myrmecophyte Humboldtia brunonis (Fabaceae) against herbivory?  Pages 645-648 in Tropical Ecosystems: Structure, Diversity and Human Welfare.  K.N. Ganeshaiah, R. Uma Shaanker and K. S. Bawa (eds).  Proceedings of the International Conference on Tropical Ecosystems.  Oxford-IBH, New Delhi. 

  14. Somanathan, H. and Borges, R. M.  1998.  Effect of floral display and carpenter bee visitation and fruit set in Heterophragma quadriloculare (Bignoniaceae)  III Congress of the International Union for the Study of Social Insects (IUSSI, Indian Chapter) and National Symposium on Diversity of Social Insects and Other Arthropods and the Functioning of Ecosystems, at Mudigere, Dakshina Kannada.  

  15. Borges, R. M.  1997.  Ethics and evolution: Thomas Henry Huxley and the problem of evil.  In: Proceedings of the National Seminar on Bioethics.  Indian Perspectives.  Organised by the Indian Council of Philosophical Research and the Department of Philosophy, Goa University.  Pp. 61-66.

BOOK REVIEWS: 

  1. Borges, R. M. 2003.  Return of the Crazy Bird. C. Pinto-Correia.  Springer-Verlag, New York.  Current Science 85: 85:1090-1093 

  2. Borges, R. M.  2002.  Annual Review of Entomology.  Vol. 46 (2001).  M. R. Berenbaum, R. T. Cardé and G. E. Robinson (eds).  Current Science 82:97-99. 

  3. Borges, R. M. 2001.  Saving Wild Tigers.  1900-2000.  The Essential Writings.  Valmik Thapar (ed).  Permanent Black, New Delhi.  Deccan Herald, 2001. 

  4. Borges, R. M. 2001. Nature’s Spokesman. M. Krishnan and Indian Wildlife.  Ramachandra Guha (ed).  Oxford University Press, New Delhi.  Deccan Herald, 2001.

  5. Borges, R. M.  2000.  Level s of Selection in Evolution.  L. Keller (editor).  Princeton University Press, 1999.  Current Science 79:383-385.

  6. Borges, R. M.  2000.  Ecology – A Pocket Guide.  Ernest Callenbach.  Universities Press (India) Ltd, 1999.  Resonance 5:99-102.

  7. Borges, R. M.  1999.  The Ecology and Evolution of Inducible Defenses. Ralph Tollrian and C. Drew Harvell (editors).   Princeton University Press, 1999.  Current Science 77:825-826.

  8. Borges, R. M.  1998.  Evolutionary Ecology of Freshwater Animals: Concepts and Case Studies.  B. Streit, T. Städler and C. M. Lively (editors), Birkhäuser Verlag, 1997.   Current Science 75:628-630.

GENERAL ARTICLES:

  1.  Borges, R. M.  2002.  Stephen Jay Gould: a view of life.  Resonance 7:2-5.

  2.  Borges, R. M.  2002.  Warring ants: lessons from Lanchester’s laws of combat?  J.  Bisociences 27:75-78.

  3.  Borges, R. M.  2001.  Ant and human farmers face similar problems.  J. Biosciences 26:121-124.

  4.  Borges, R. M.  2001.  Why are chillies pungent?  J. Biosciences 26:289-291.

  5.  Borges, R. M.  2000.  Feverish honeybees.  J. Biosciences25:215-216   

  6.  Borges, R. M.  2000.  How asymmetrical before it’s asymmetrical?  J. Biosciences 25:121-122.

  7.  Borges, R. M.  1998.  Gender in plants.  Part I.  Why do plants change sex?  Resonance 3 (4):64-71.

  8.  Borges, R. M.  1998.  Gender in plants.  Part II.  More about why and how plants change sex.  Resonance 3 (11):30-39.

  9.  Borges, R. M.  1998.  Clonal versus sexual fish – who wins?  J. Biosciences 23:166-167.

  10.  Borges, R. M.  1998.  One size does not fit all (caveats for conservation from the Bhimashankar Wildlife Sanctuary).  Seminar 466:31-36   (Special issue on Indian wildlife)

 

Books Added to CES Library (2004)

1. Joseph,George (2003 )
Fundamentals of remote sensing
Universities Press, Hyderabad
621.3678 P03(CES) CESNUMBER: 9246

2. Depommier,Denis; Ramakrishnsn,P.S. (2002 )
Traditional ecological knowledge, conservation of biodiversity and
sustainable development
French Institute of Pondicherry, Pondicherry
333.9511 P02(CES) CESNUMBER: 9247
French Institute of Pondicherry

3. Dhawan,S. (1990 )
Bird flight
Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore
598.218 N90(CES) CESNUMBER: 9248


4. Grover,Velma I.; Grover,Vaneeta Kaur; Hogland,William (2002 )
Recovering energy from waste: various aspects
Oxford and IBH Publishing, New Delhi
333.7938 P02(CES) CESNUMBER: 9231 Acc.No.: 173382

5. Barker,D.J.P. (1998 )
Mothers, babies and health in later life
Churchill Livingstone, London
612.6 N98(CES) CESNUMBER: 9232 Acc.No.: 173387

6. Kunz,Thomas H.; Fenton,Brock M. (2003 )
Bat ecology
Chicago University Press, Chicago
599.4045 P03(CES) CESNUMBER: 9233 Acc.No.: 173386

7. Boggs,Carol L.; Watt,Ward B.; Ehrlich,Paul R. (2003 )
Butterflies: ecology and evolution taking flight
Chicago University Press, Chicago
595.789 P03(CES) CESNUMBER: 9234 Acc.No.: 173385


8. Srinivasan,N.; Sahu,Satyabrata; Jain,S.K.; Sachdeva,Ajay (1998 )
ODS phase out: a guide for industry
Asian and Pacific Centre for Transfer of Technology (APCTT), New Delhi
628.5 N98(CES) CESNUMBER: 9235

9. CMIE (2004 )
Monthly review of Karnataka economy, April 2004
Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy Pvt. Ltd, Bangalore
333.70954 P04 CESNUMBER: 9236

10. Lindsey,Arthur Ward (1984 )
Science of animal life
International Books & Periodicals Supply Service, New Delhi
577 N84(CES) CESNUMBER: 9237


11. Stevens,F.L.
Fungi which cause plant disease
International Books & Periodicals Supply Service, New Delhi
598.2 (CES) CESNUMBER: 9238

12. Bentley,Robert (2004 )
Medicinal plants being descriptions with original figures of the principal
plants employed in medicine vol.1
Asiatic Publishing House, Delhi
581.634 P04.1(CES) CESNUMBER: 9239

13. Bentley,Robert (2004 )
Medicinal plants being descriptions with original figures of the principal
plants employed in medicine vol.2
Asiatic Publishing House, Delhi
581.634 P04.2(CES) CESNUMBER: 9240

14. Bentley,Robert (2002 )
Medicinal plants being descriptions with original figures of the principal
plants employed in medicine vol.3
Asiatic Publishing House, Delhi
581.634 P02.3(CES) CESNUMBER: 9241

15. Bentley,Robert (2002 )
Medicinal plants being descriptions with original figures of the principal
plants employed in medicine vol.4
Asiatic Publishing House, Delhi
581.634 P02.4(CES) CESNUMBER: 9242


16. Henfrey,Arthur (1985 )
Reports and papers on botany
International Books & Periodicals Supply Service, New Delhi
581 N85(CES) CESNUMBER: 9243


15. Jeffrey,Edward C. (1985 )
Anatomy of woody plants
International Books & Periodicals Supply Service, New Delhi
581.4 N85(CES) CESNUMBER: 9244


16. Goebel,K. (1984 )
Outlines of classification and special morphology of plants
International Books & Periodicals Supply Service, New Delhi
581.5247 N84 CESNUMBER: 9245

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