Dear Kishen, I think you should add Parag ,who done lots of work on Butterflies in goa.Inface he published a book on Goa butterflies. Warm Regards David
--- On Sat, 20/11/10, Kishen Das <[email protected]> wrote: From: Kishen Das <[email protected]> Subject: [ButterflyIndia] People working on Butterflies of India - Complete List To: "Admin" <[email protected]> Date: Saturday, 20 November, 2010, 1:50 PM I have compiled the complete list with all the inputs. If you have any additions/corrections to this list, please mail to [email protected] - Kishen Das ---------------------------------------- Contents: ------------------------------------------ States Union Territories General Work -------------------------------------------- State: Andhra Pradesh ------------------------- Dr. S. Tej Kumar President, Butterfly Conservation Society Extensive work on butterfly conservation and awareness in Andhra Pradesh ------------------------- S. Ashok Kumar Memmber, A.P. Wildlife Advisory Board Extensive field work on Butterflies of Eastern Ghats ------------------------- K. Subramanyam Field Work and Butterfly Photography in Eastern Ghats ------------------------- State: Arunachal Pradesh ------------------------- Arif Siddique Extensive Butterfly Photography in Arunachal Pradesh Flickr Photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/siddiqui/ ------------------------- ------------------------- State: Assam ------------------------- ------------------------- State: Bihar ------------------------- ------------------------- State: Chhattisgarh ------------------------- ------------------------- State: Goa ------------------------- Butterfly Conservatory http://www.bcogoa.org/ ------------------------- ------------------------- State: Gujarat ------------------------- ------------------------- State: Haryana ------------------------- ------------------------- State: Himachal Pradesh ------------------------- ------------------------- State: Jammu and Kashmir ------------------------- ------------------------- State: Jharkhand ------------------------- ------------------------- State: Karnataka ------------------------- Dr. K.Chandrashekar Work on Bannerghatta Butterfly Park ------------------------- Kishen Das Field Work on Butterflies of Karnataka ------------------------- ------------------------- State: Kerala ------------------------- Balakrishnan Valappil Life Cycles of Western Ghats Butterflies ------------------------- B.V.Premkrishnan(extensive field work and butterfly watching) ------------------------- Dr. Saji Kandoth Life Cycles of Western Ghats Butterflies ------------------------- Unni Krishnan Pulikkal Life cycle and Extensive Photography of Western Ghats Butterflies ------------------------- Dr. K.Gunathilakaraj Professor of Agricultural entomology, author of "Some South Indian Butterflies" T.N.A Perumal - Co-author of the same book; Extensive photo documentation, one of the senior-most nature photographer of the nation K.Jayaram - Co-author of the same book Extensive photo documentation, one of the senior-most nature photographer of the nation Dr.M.Ganeshkumar Co-author of the same book ------------------------- ------------------------- C. Susanth Extensive Butterfly Watching and Photography in Kerala ------------------------- Dr. George Mathew Extensive field work butterflies of Kerala List of publications at http://www.butterflygardens.in/about.html ------------------------- Dr. Jaffer Palot Field work and Book in Malayalam on Butterflies of Kerala ------------------------ Anoop Das Das K.S.A and Vijayan L. (2004). Butterfly Community of Silent Valley National Park: A preliminary Investigation. In Proc. of National Seminar on Butterfly diversity of Western Ghats, N.S.S College, Manjery. p 23 Das K.S.A and Vijayan L. (2005). Insect diversity as a function of altitudinal gradient in a tropical rain forest, Western Ghats, India”. In Proc. of International conference on biodiversity of insects: challenging issues in management and conservation. Bharathiar University, Coimbatore. p 73 Das K.S.A (2008). Responses of the butterflies to the natural tree fall gaps in a tropical evergreen forest in Western Ghats, India. In Proc. of Student Conference on Conservation Science, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom p 29. Das K.S.A (2008). "Evaluation of butterflies as ecological indicators in Western Ghats, India." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Congress for Conservation Biology, Convention Center, Chattanooga, TN Online 2010-06 06 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p239772_index.html Das K.S.A and Dhanya R (2009). Diversity of butterflies in the tropical rain forest canopy and understorey. In Proc. of 5th International Canopy Conference-2009 p 93 Das K.S.A (2009) Impact of natural tree fall gaps and shade on the butterfly fauna in a tropical evergreen forest in Western Ghats, India. In Proc. of Young Ecologists Talk and Interact. p 43. Das K.S.Aand Hill J.K. (2010). Responses of the Butterflies to the treefall gaps in a tropical rainforest of Western Ghats, India. (to be submitted to the Biodiversity and Conservation). ------------------------- Dr. Kalesh Life cycles of Western Ghats, Family: Hesperiidae Website: http://theskippersofkerala.blogspot.com/ ------------------------- E. Kunzhikrishnan Extensive Field work and photography on Western Ghats Butterflies ------------------------- Suresh Elamon Rediscovery of Travencore Evening Brown and Extensive photography in Western Ghats ------------------------- B.V.Premkrishnan Extensive field work and butterfly watching ------------------------- T.Varun Field work on Western Ghat butterflies Book titled "Flying Jewels of our Campus"(College of Engineering,Trivandrum) ------------------------- State: Madhya Pradesh ------------------------- Satyendra & Kay Tiwari Field work on butterflies of Bandhavgarh region ------------------------- ------------------------- State: Maharashtra ------------------------- Ravi Bhambure Life cycle and Extensive Photography of Western Ghats Butterflies ------------------------- Dr. Jayant Wadatkar PhD on Butterflies of the Satpudas, Amravati. ------------------------- Dr. Ashish Tiple PhD on Butterflies of Nagpur ------------------------- Dr. Vilas Bardekar PhD on Butterflies of Chandrapur district ------------------------- State: Manipur ------------------------- ------------------------- State: Meghalaya ------------------------- ------------------------- State: Mizoram ------------------------- ------------------------- State: Nagaland ------------------------- ------------------------- State: Orissa ------------------------- Manoj V.Nair, IFS Butterfly-habitat interactions Butterflies as surrogates for rapid biodiversity assessements Biogeography of butterflies of the Eastern Ghats. ------------------------- ------------------------- State: Punjab ------------------------- ------------------------- State: Rajasthan ------------------------- Dr.M.M.Trigunayat Butterflies of Jaipur and Dholpur and guided a Ph.D on the butterflies of Keoladeo national park, Bharatpur ------------------------- Kazmi S. I, G. S. Arora, A. K. Bhattacharyya and M. Faisal (2003) On a collection of Butterflies (Lepidoptera) at the Desert Regional Station, Zoological Survey of India, Jodhpur. Records of the Zoological Survey of India 101 (Part 1 – 2): 161 – 177. ------------------------- ------------------------- State: Sikkim ------------------------- ------------------------- State: Tamil Nadu ------------------------- ------------------------- State: Tripura ------------------------- ------------------------- State: Uttar Pradesh ------------------------- ------------------------- State: Uttarakhand ------------------------- Bhumesh Bharti Contibution to the film "Chasing Butterflies" Extensive photography in Uttarakhand Flickr Photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bhumeshbharti/sets/72157604231059227/ ------------------------- State: West Bengal ------------------------- Rudraprasad Das Field work on Butterflies of West Bengal ------------------------- Arjan Basu Roy Creating and maintaining a number of butterfly gardens in West Bengal ------------------------- Professor Judajith Dasgupta Book titled "Paschimbanger Projapati" on Butterflies of West Bengal ------------------------- Mr Ujjal Ghosh, IFS Field work on Butterflies of West Bengal ------------------------- ------------------ Union Territories ------------------- Andaman and Nicobar Islands ------------ Dr. Soubadra Devi Field Work on butterflies of Andaman Islands ------------------------- ------------------------- Chandigarh ------------------------- ------------------------- Dadra and Nagar Haveli ------------------------- ------------------------- Daman Diu ------------------------- ------------------------- Lakshadweep ------------------------- ------------------------- Puducherry ------------------------- ------------------------- Delhi ------------------ Mohammad Faisal Work on Butterfly Park at Yamuna Diversity Park, Delhi Glimpses of Nature, 3 Motilal Nehru Place, Lutyens Delhi by S. K. Basak, A. Love, F. A. Khudsar, M. Faisal, S.Babu, B.C. Sabata. Second Edition 2008, 38 pp. Published by Department of Environment, Government of NCT of Delhi, India. ------------------ --------------------------------------- General Work ( In no particular order ) --------------------------------------- Dr. Harish Gaonkar Butterfly Bibliography and Field Work on South Indian Butterfly Diversity ------------------ Isaac Kehimkar Butterfly books Butterfly Tours and Extensive Photography Flickr Photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/26689...@n00/ ------------------ Karthikeyan S. Field Work and Butterfly Photography in India Online Blog: http://www.wildwanderer.com/journal/ ------------------ Dr. Krushnamegh Kunte Extensive Work on Indian Butterfly Diversity and Mimicry http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~kunte/index.htm ------------------ Meena Haribal Butterfly Book ------------------ Monsoon Jyoti Gogoi Extensive Butterfly Photography in North East Flickr Photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/monsoon_jyoti_gogoi/ ------------------ Peter Smetacek Extensive work on Moths and Butterflies of Himalayas http://www.himagni.com/research.htm ------------------ Sanjay Sondhi Extensive Butterfly Photography and Butterfly Tours ------------------ Dr. Soubadra Devi Field Work on Butterflies of Western Ghats and Andaman Islands Website: http://www.atree.org/sdevy ------------------ Dr. Varshney, R.K. Butterfly Book, Work on Butterfly Names and Statistics ------------------ Ullasa Kodandaramaiah Biogeography and evolution of Nymphalidae http://people.su.se/~ukoda/ ------------------ Vijay Barve Moderator, ButterflyIndia e-group ------------------ Yuwaraj Gurjar Extensive Macro Photography of Indian Butterflies http://yuwarajgurjar.com/wild_life_photography_india/index.php ------------------ J.M. Garg Wiki pages for Indian Butterflies http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg_Butterflies ------------------ Col. Ashwin Baindur, L. Shyamal, Wiki pages for Butterflies of India ------------------ Kishen Das Butterfly Migration in South India ------------------ Gurmeet Sapal and Husain Akbar A documentary on butterflies - "Chasing Butterflies" ------------------ Dr. Arun Pratap Singh (FRI) Extensive field work on Butterflies ------------------ Dr. Rose Harjinder Singh Extensive work on Butterflies of India ------------------ -- Enjoy
