Hello everybody, Thanks for forwarding the message Mr. Garg.
I have written and interacted with some of you before over butterfly checklists of tropical Indian cities (Trivandrum, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Pune, Mumbai and Nagpur). Suggestions of other cities are welcome:) For checklist of Pune, I am referring to Dr. Kunte's 2001 paper 'Butterfly diversity of Pune City along the human impact gradient' which says Pune district may harbour 170 species of which 103 are reported from Pune urban area within a 20km radius. Are there any updates after that? For Nagpur, I am referring to Ashish Tiple's 2009 Checklist of Nagpur city featuring 145 species. I hope we will be able to gather enough data to make a meaningful comparison with the rest of Asia. Thanks for helping out everyone. Regards, Anuj On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 1:43 PM, jmgarg1 <[email protected]> wrote: > Forwarding for any assistance in the matter pl. > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: anuj jain <[email protected]> > Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 22:35:10 +0800 > Subject: Butterflies of Hyderabad > To: "J.M. Garg" <[email protected]> > > Dear Mr. Garg, > > I am Anuj, a PhD candidate at the National Univ of Singapore. > > It was impressive looking through lots of nice butterfly pictures posted by > you on Butterflies of Hyderabad Wiki page. Wondering if you keep a > butterfly species checklist for Hyderabad city or could put me in touch > with someone who has one. > > I am writing an article to understand trends of butterfly diversity across > cities in Asia (including South India, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore) and > would love to include Hyderabad in the study. > > Without saying, all contributors will be duly acknowledged. Look forward to > hearing from you. > > Regards, > Anuj Jain > PhD student, National University of Singapore. > Nature Society (Singapore). > > > > -- > With regards, > J.M.Garg ([email protected]) > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 > 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' > The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a *thousand species* & > eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged > alphabetically & place-wise): > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. You can also use them > for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. > For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, > please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group: > http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 1820 members & > 1,10,000 messages on 29/2/12) or Efloraofindia website: > https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database > of more than 6000 species). > Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of > India'. > -- Enjoy
