I. Books
 
1. Borges, R. (1997). Evolution – the story of life (Ed.) Bittu Sahgal, NCSTC – HORNBILL, Natural History Series, Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai. [Not included]
 
2. Gadagkar, R. (1997). Survival Strategies – Cooperation and Conflict in Animal Societies. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. [Not included]
 
3. Gadgil, M. (1997). Diversity - the cornerstone of life. NCSTC –HORNBILL, Natural History Series, Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai. [Not included]

 
II. Technical Papers in Refereed Journals/Books
 
4. Arathi, H.S., Shakarad, M. and Gadagkar, R. (1997). Factors  Affecting the Acceptance of Alien Conspecifics on Nests of the Primitively Eusocial Wasp, Ropalidia marginata. J.Insect Behaviour,  10, 343-353.
 
5. Arathi, H.S., Shakarad, M. and Gadagkar, R. (1997).  Social organisation in experimentally assembled colonies of Ropalidia marginata : comparison of introduced and natal wasps.  Insectes Sociaux,  44, 139-146.
 
6. Bawa, K.S. and Gadgil, M. (1997). Ecosystem services in subsistence economies and conservation of biodiversity. In:    G.C.  Daily (Ed.)  Nature's Services - Societal dependence on natural ecosystems, pp. 295-310.
 
7. Behra, N. and Nanjundaiah, V. (1997). Trans Gene Regulation in Adaptive Evolution: a Genetic Algorithm Model J.Theor. Biol. 188, 153-162.
 
8. Borges, R.M., Somnathan, H. and Mali, S. (1997). Alternations of sexes in a deciduous tree: temporal dioecy in Bridelia retusa.
Curr.Sci. 72, 940-944.
 
9. Borges, R.M. (1997). Ethics and Evolution: Thomas Henry Huxley and the Problem of Evil. In: National Seminar on Bioethics: Indian Perspectives organised by Indian Council of Philosophical Research, New Delhi and Dept. of Philosophy, Goa University, pp. 61-66.
 
10. Gadagkar, R. (1997). Social Evolution - has nature ever rewound the tape ? Curr. Sci., 72, 950-956.
 
11. Gadagkar, R. (1997). The evolution of communication and the communication of evolution: The case of the honey bee queen pheromone.  In: Orientation and Communication in Arthropods (Ed.) Miriam Lehrer, Birkhauser Verlag, Basel, pp. 375-395.
 
12. Gadagkar, R. (1997). The evolution of caste polymorphism in social insects: genetic release followed by diversifying evolution. J.Genetics, 76, 167-179.
 
13. Gadgil, M. (1997). A Framework for Managing India's Biodiversity Resources in the Context of CBD and  GATT. RIS Biotechnology and Development Review, 1(1), 1-14.
 
14. Gadgil, M., Hemam, N.S. and Reddy, B.M. (1997). People, refugia and resilience. In : Linking Social and Ecological Systems - Management practices and social mechanisms for building resilience, F.Berkes and C.Folke (Eds.) Cambridge University Press,  30-47.
 
15. Gupta, S. and Ravindranath, N.H. (1997). Financial analysis of Cooking Energy Options for India. Energy Convers. Mgmt. 38(18),  1869-1876.
 
16. Joshi, N.V., Suresh, H.S., Dattaraja, H.S. and Sukumar, R. (1997). The spatial organisation of plant communities in a deciduous forest: A computational-geometry-based analysis. J.Indian Inst. Sci., 77, 365-374.
 
17. Joshi, N.V. and Suresh, H.S. and Prabhakar,R. (1997). Hierarchical Partitioning of Tree Diversity Across Spatial Scales: A Case Study from the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, Southern India. International Journal of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, 23, 185-196.
 
18. Kadekodi, G.K. and Ravindranath, N.H. (1997). Analysis – Macro - economic analysis of forestry options on carbon sequesteration in India. Ecological Economics, 23,  201-223.
 
19. Nagendra, H. and Gadgil, M. (1997). Remote Sensing as a tool for Estimating Biodiversity. Journal of Spacecraft Technology, 7(2),  1-9.
 
20. Negi, H.R. and Gadgil, M. (1997). Conserving livestock genetic resources : A case study of Kinnaur in Himachal Pradesh. J.Hum.Ecol.Special Issue No.6, 317-324.
 
21. Pramod, P., Daniels, R.J.R., Joshi, N.V. and Gadgil, M. (1997). Evaluating bird communities of Western Ghats to plan for a biodiversity friendly development. Curr. Sci., 73, 156-162.
 
22. Pramod, P., Joshi, N.V., Ghate, U. and Gadgil, M. (1997). On the hospitality of Western Ghats habitats for bird communities. Curr. Sci., 73, 122-127.
 
23. Rajagopalan, G., Sukumar, R., Ramesh, R., Pant, R.K. and Rajagopalan, G. (1997). Late Quaternary vegetational and climatic changes from tropical peats in southern India – An extended record up to 40,000 years BP. Curr. Sci. 73, 60-63.
 
24. Ramachandra, T.V. and Subramanian, D.K. (1997). Potential and Prospects of Solar Energy in Uttara Kannada, District of Karnataka State, India. Energy Sources, 19, 945-988.
 
25. Rastogi, N., Nair, P., Kolatkar, M. and Gadagkar, R. (1997). Foraging Strategies in the Ants Myrmicaria brunnea and Diacamma ceylonense – Some Preliminary Observations. Entomon,  22, 79-81.
 
26. Rastogi, N., Nair, P., Kolatkar, M. and Gadagkar, R. (1997). Ant fauna of the Indian Institute of Science Campus – Survey   and some preliminary observations. J.Indian Inst. Sci., 77, 133-140.
 
27. Ravindranath, N.H. Somashekar, B.S. and Gadgil, M. (1997). Carbon flow in Indian forests. Climatic Change, 35, 297-320
 
28. Ravindranath, N. H. and Ramakrishna,J. (1997). Energy options for cooking in India. Energy policy, 25(1), 63-75.
 
29. Ravindranath, N.H. and Bhat, P.R. (1997). Monitoring of Carbon abatement in forestry projects – Case study of Western Ghat project. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 2, 217-230.
 
30. Shakarad, M. and Gadagkar, R. (1997). Do Social Wasps Choose Nesting Strategies Based on Their Brood Rearing Abilities?  Naturwissenschaften,  84, 79-82 .
 
31. Sunil Kumar, M., Srihari, K.T., Nair, P., Varghese, T. and Gadagkar, R. (1997). Ant species richness at selected localities of Bangalore. Insect Environment, 3 (1), 3-5.
 

III  General Articles
 
32. Gadgil, M. (1997). Bob Hasan's World, The Hindu, Sunday, April 13.
 
33. Gadgil, M. (1997). Biodiversity: Thinking differently. The Hindu, Sunday, April 20.
 
34. Gadgil, M. (1997). The emerging paradigm. The Hindu, Sunday, June 1st .
 
35. Gadgil, M.(1997). Teaching Biodiversity, Resonance – journal of science education, 2(6), 79-85.