----------------------------------------------------------------- NAME SUPERVISOR THESIS TOPIC ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ranjit Daniels, R.J. Madhav Gadgil A conservation strategy for the birds of the Uttara Kannada District. Chandrashekara, K. Raghavendra Social Biology of the tropical Gadagkar primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidia marginata (lep.) (Hymenoptera:Vespidae). Arun B. Venkataraman Raghavendra Studies on the mechanism of Gadagkar nestmate discrimination in a primitively eusocial wasp: implications for the evolution of eusociality. Murali, K.S. R Sukumar Vegetative and reproductive phenology of a tropical dry deciduous forest in Southern India. ----------------------------------------------------------------- The following students have submitted thesis for the award of Ph.D. degree: Silanjan Bhattacharyya Madhav Gadgil Ecological organization of Indian Rural Populations. Milind Watve R Sukumar Ecology of host-parasite inter- actions in a wild mammalian host community in Mudumalai, Southern India.