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Sahyadri e-news is CES-ENVIS's quarterly newsletter, covering the issues related to Western Ghats biodiversity. Western Ghats is rich in diversity of life. Due to unplanned developmental activities, its ecological resource base is under threat, with extensive destruction of natural habitats, widespread degradation of ecosystems and a growing burden of air and water pollution. Simultaneously, knowledge base of uses of biodiversity is also being eroded, with the present generation becoming increasingly alienated from the natural world. |
We
need to carefully plan on conserving, sustainably using and restoring the biological
diversity of the Western Ghats. We also need to conserve and benefit from the
knowledge of uses and the traditions of conservation of this biological diversity.
Also, we must ensure that benefits flowing from our heritage of biodiversity
and related folk knowledge percolate down to the people at the grass-roots.
In this Isuue, Dr. Renee
M. Borges, discusses The Behavioural Ecology of
Species Interactions. Plant-pollinator/seed-disperser, ant-plant,
plant-herbivore, and model-mimic interactions give rise to many evolutionary (ultimate)
and mechanistic (proximate) perspectives. The empirical studies on these questions
(both in the laboratory and in the field) and theoretical modeling of the proximate
mechanisms of herbivore foraging strategies are summarized in this issue.