[ECOLOG-L] Phoniscus jagorii Peters's trumpet-eared bat

2017-05-04 Thread Thilina Surasinghe 
I have been looking for morphological taxonomic details on southeast Asian
microbat species- *Phoniscus jagorii. *I've searched through online library
databases and browsed through several encyclopediae on mammals with no
success. I am looking for detailed external morphological features on fur
color/texture at different parts of the body, characteristics of the
patagium, uropatagium, ear, tragus, muzzle, tail characteristics, limb
morphology, etc.

Does anyone have these details of museum specimen records?



Thilina Dilan Surasinghe (Ph.D. in Wildlife and Fisheries Biology)
Assistant Professor in Ecology and Conservation Biology
Department of Biological Science
Bridgewater State University

Conant Science Building

24 Park Avenue
Bridgewater, MA 02325
USA

email: tsurasin...@bridgew.edu ,
thilina.surasin...@bridgew.edu,
tdi...@gmail.com, tsur...@g.clemson.edu
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[ECOLOG-L] Northeastern Natural History Conference 2017, Conservation Biology sessions.

2017-01-02 Thread Thilina Surasinghe 
Attention Conservation Ecology and Biodiversity Researchers--


My name is Thilina Surasinghe (Assistant Professor, Bridgewater State
University, MA), the host of the conservation biology sessions at
Northeastern Natural History Conference 2017. We are soliciting suitable
abstracts for conservation biology sessions. Please read the following
announcement for the session descriptions, deadlines, and contacts.


*Proposed Sessions for the 2017 Conference Conservation Lessons and
Ecological Research from Afar:*

*Global-scale Biodiversity Conservation *
This session will include oral presentations on ecological and conservation
research conducted both internationally and elsewhere in North America that
can inform research and management efforts within northeastern North
America. Conservation is a multidisciplinary science without political
borders. Applications of conservation actions, habitat and species
management plans, species status assessments, reserve designing, and many
other aspects of ecological research conducted across the world can shed
useful insights on regional or national conservation planning,
environmental policy and advocacy, and nature education in the northeastern
United States and vise versa. International treaties (Convention of
Biological Diversity, CITIES, Ramsar Convention), landscape-scale
conservation planning (Northern Appalachian/Acadian ecoregion-wide
conservation), and delineation of Transfrontier Conservation Areas provide
credence for the need for knowledge-sharing about conservation outside the
regional focus.

The Northeast Natural History Conference has a regional focus on ecological
research and conservation efforts related to the northeastern United
States. Therefore, when screening abstracts submitted to this session, we
will select those that are concerned with species, communities, habitats,
methodology, and conservation efforts that have direct application to or
explicitly provide insight for research and management efforts conducted in
the northeastern United States. Suitable themes are: tropical ecology,
natural history and autecology of understudied species, challenges and
opportunities in conservation in developing nations, landscape-scale
conservation planning, endangered species conservation, applications of GIS
and remote sensing in conservation, reserve design and habitat
connectivity, conservation outside protected areas, community-based
conservation, environmental and wildlife policies, and more ...


*Biodiversity Conservation in the Northeast *
This session will focus on ecological research and the practice and
principles of conservation biology in the northeastern North America.
Conservation biology has a strong scientific foundation, yet have evolved
into a multidisciplinary theme that converge biological and life sciences
with different aspects of environmental studies, natural resource
management, public policy, sustainability, environmental economics, and
human-wildlife conflicts. If we receive enough submissions on more-specific
conservation topics, we will organize into multiple separately themed
sessions.

Our intention with these 2 sessions is to deliver a powerful message to
conference attendees on the importance of global-scale biodiversity
conservation to researchers everywhere and to underscore the importance of
multilateral knowledge-sharing. We invite individuals and interest groups
in universities, not-for-profit organizations, and federal agencies to
participate in these sessions.

If you are interested, please contact the organizer, Dr. Thilina Surasinghe
(Bridgewater State University, MA) tsurasin...@bridgew.edu, with your
proposed presentation topic. If he deems it a good fit for one of the
sessions, then you will need to submit your abstract to kei...@eaglehill.us
no later than March 6, 2017. Guidelines for conference presentations can be
found at
https://www.eaglehill.us/NENHC_2017/guidelines/oral-presentations.shtml. If
you have any questions about the sessions, please contact Dr. Thilina
Surasinghe (Bridgewater State University, MA) tsurasin...@bridgew.edu. For
information about the conference, please visit
https://eaglehill.us/NENHC_2017/NENHC2017.shtml.




Thilina Dilan Surasinghe (Ph.D. in Wildlife and Fisheries Biology)
Assistant Professor in Ecology and Conservation Biology
Department of Biological Science
Bridgewater State University

Conant Science Building

24 Park Avenue
Bridgewater, MA 02325
USA

email: tsurasin...@bridgew.edu <tsurasin...@bridgew.edu>,
thilina.surasin...@bridgew.edu,
tdi...@gmail.com, tsur...@g.clemson.edu
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understanding the world.”  Richard Dawkins

"It's not so much religion per se, it's

[ECOLOG-L] Seeking popular science articles on Ecology

2016-08-09 Thread Thilina Surasinghe 
Folks,

I am teaching an introductory ecology (General Ecology) course to
sophomores majoring in biology. These students have a
very foundation-level background on genetics, evolution, and organismal
biology. But, are relatively new to fundamental concepts of ecology and
environmental sciences. I am highly interested in having in-class
discussions based on a few popular science articles or book chapters from
non-fiction books written for environmental/nature enthusiasts. I am very
familiar with work of EO Wilson and David Quamann- however, I feel that
most of their work are more in alignment with a conservation biology
or environmental management. Do you have any recommendations on popular
science-type readings that are more pertinent to ecology theory, biological
communities, ecosystems and biomes, etc?

The class period is 1 hr and 15 mins. Reading component is going to be
"homework" (shorter articles are preferred) but the discussions take place
in-class. So, any reading material that can drive a conservation/debate
would be ideal. I would love to heard those ideas too.

Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks...




Thilina Dilan Surasinghe (Ph.D. in Wildlife and Fisheries Biology)
Assistant Professor in Ecology and Conservation Biology
Department of Biological Science
Bridgewater State University

Conant Science Building

24 Park Avenue
Bridgewater, MA 02325
USA

email: tsurasin...@bridgew.edu ,
thilina.surasin...@bridgew.edu,
tdi...@gmail.com, tsur...@g.clemson.edu

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[ECOLOG-L] Research and Review papers on ecology for in-class (undergraduate) discussions

2015-06-01 Thread Thilina Surasinghe 
Folks,

I am teaching an introductory/intermediate level ecology course to
sophomores (undergraduates) that major in biology. These students have a
basic background on introductory cell and molecular biology, genetics and
evolution, and organismal biology. But, these students are relatively new
to fundamental concepts of ecology and environmental sciences. I am highly
interested in having in-class discussions based on peer-reviewed literature
with my students focusing on key ecological topics such as community
organization, population dynamics, ecosystem processes, and environment 
adaptations.

The class period is 1 hr and 15 mins. Reading component is going to be
homework but the discussions take place in-class. My primary focus is on
research and review papers. If you have any alternative suggestions on
popular science articles or chapters of non-fiction books (such as work by
David Quammen or EO Wilson), I would love to heard those ideas too.

Publications from the recent couple of decades (2000 to now) might be ideal
given the succinct nature of recent publications.

Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks...



Thilina Dilan Surasinghe (Ph.D. in Wildlife and Fisheries Biology)
Assistant Professor in Biological Sciences
Biology Department
Rhodes College
2000 N Parkway
Memphis TN 38112
USA

email: surasing...@rhodes.edu, tdi...@gmail.com, tsur...@g.clemson.edu
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[ECOLOG-L] Call for Papers: Special Issue Global Freshwater biodiversity - Diversity (ISSN 1424-2818) Deadline extended

2014-05-30 Thread Thilina Surasinghe 
The following Special Issue will be published in Diversity
(http://www.mdpi.com/journal/diversity/, ISSN 1424-2818),
and is open for submission of a comprehensive review article
or a full research paper for peer-review and possible publication:

Special Issue: Global Freshwater biodiversity
Website: 
http://www.mdpi.com/journal/diversity/special_issues/freshwater-biodiversity
Guest Editor: Dr. Thilina Surasinghe
Deadline for manuscript submissions extended: *30 October 2014*

You may send your manuscript now or up until the deadline.
Submitted papers should not have been published previously, nor be under
consideration for publication elsewhere.We also encourage authors to send
us their tentative title and short abstract by e-mail for approval to the
Editorial Office at divers...@mdpi.com or to the Guest editor at
tsura...@gustavus.edu.

This Special Issue will be fully open access. Open access (unlimited and
free access by readers) increases publicity and promotes more frequent
citations as indicated by several studies. Open access is supported by
the authors and their institutes.
More information is available at http://www.mdpi.com/about/openaccess/.

Article Processing Charges (APC) are of 500 CHF for well prepared
manuscripts. An additional fee of 250 CHF may apply if English editing
or extensive revisions must be undertaken by the Editorial Office.
More information can be found at http://www.mdpi.com/about/apc/.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors before submitting a
manuscript:http://www.mdpi.com/journal/diversity/instructions/.
Manuscripts should be submitted through the online manuscript submission
and editorial system at http://www.mdpi.com/user/manuscripts/upload/.

Diversity (ISSN 1424-2818) is a new international, peer-reviewed, open
access journal, published quarterly by MDPI. It is a journal of Science and
Technology, concerning diversity concepts and applications, diversity
assessment and diversity preservation. Because it is an online journal,
papers published in Diversity will receive very high publicity.

MDPI publishes several peer-reviewed, open access journals listed
athttp://www.mdpi.com/. The Editorial Board members, including several
Nobel Laureates (http://www.mdpi.com/about/nobelists/), are all leading
active scholars. All MDPI journals maintain rapid, yet rigorous, peer-
review, manuscript handling and editorial processes. MDPI journals have
increased their impact factors, see 2011 Newly Released Impact
Factors,http://www.mdpi.com/about/announcements/235/.

In case of questions, please contact the Editorial Office
at:divers...@mdpi.com or the Guest editor at tsura...@gustavus.edu.

We are looking forward to hearing from you.


Dr. Thilina Surasinghe
Department of Biology
Gustavus Adolphus College
St. Peter, MN,
USA
E-Mail: tsura...@gustavus.edu
 tsura...@gustavus.edu




Thilina Dilan Surasinghe (Ph.D. in Wildlife and Fisheries Biology)
Visiting Assistant Professor in Biological Sciences
Biology Department
Gustavus Adolphus College
St. Peter, MN 56082
USA

[ECOLOG-L] Call for Papers: Special Issue Global Freshwater biodiversity - Diversity (ISSN 1424-2818)

2013-12-08 Thread Thilina Surasinghe 
The following Special Issue will be published in Diversity
(http://www.mdpi.com/journal/diversity/, ISSN 1424-2818),
and is open for submission of a comprehensive review article
or a full research paper for peer-review and possible publication:

Special Issue: Global Freshwater biodiversity
Website: 
http://www.mdpi.com/journal/diversity/special_issues/freshwater-biodiversity
Guest Editor: Dr. Thilina Surasinghe
Deadline for manuscript submissions extended: 30th of April, 2014

You may send your manuscript now or up until the deadline.
Submitted papers should not have been published previously, nor be under
consideration for publication elsewhere.We also encourage authors to send
us their tentative title and short abstract by e-mail for approval to the
Editorial Office at divers...@mdpi.com.

This Special Issue will be fully open access. Open access (unlimited and
free access by readers) increases publicity and promotes more frequent
citations as indicated by several studies. Open access is supported by
the authors and their institutes.
More information is available at http://www.mdpi.com/about/openaccess/.

Article Processing Charges (APC) are of 500 CHF for well prepared
manuscripts. An additional fee of 250 CHF may apply if English editing
or extensive revisions must be undertaken by the Editorial Office.
More information can be found at http://www.mdpi.com/about/apc/.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors before submitting a
manuscript:http://www.mdpi.com/journal/diversity/instructions/.
Manuscripts should be submitted through the online manuscript submission
and editorial system at http://www.mdpi.com/user/manuscripts/upload/.

Diversity (ISSN 1424-2818) is a new international, peer-reviewed, open
access journal, published quarterly by MDPI. It is a journal of Science and
Technology, concerning diversity concepts and applications, diversity
assessment and diversity preservation. Because it is an online journal,
papers published in Diversity will receive very high publicity.

MDPI publishes several peer-reviewed, open access journals listed
athttp://www.mdpi.com/. The Editorial Board members, including several
Nobel Laureates (http://www.mdpi.com/about/nobelists/), are all leading
active scholars. All MDPI journals maintain rapid, yet rigorous, peer-
review, manuscript handling and editorial processes. MDPI journals have
increased their impact factors, see 2011 Newly Released Impact
Factors,http://www.mdpi.com/about/announcements/235/.

In case of questions, please contact the Editorial Office at:divers...@mdpi.com

We are looking forward to hearing from you.

Kind regards,
Le Zhang, Ph.D.
Managing Editor
Diversity（http://www.mdpi.com/journal/diversity）

On behalf of the Guest Editor

Dr. Thilina Surasinghe
Department of Biology
Gustavus Adolphus College
St. Peter, MN,
USA
E-Mail: tsura...@gustavus.edu
 tsura...@gustavus.edu


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Thilina Dilan Surasinghe (BS in Zoology Colombo, Sri Lanka)
Teaching Assistant in Biological Sciences
Co-Instructor in Undergraduate Research

PhD Candidate in Wildlife and Fisheries Biology
School of Agricultural, Forest, and Environmental Sciences
261, Lehotsky Hall
Clemson University
Clemson, SC 29634-0317
USA

email:  tsura...@gustavus.edutdi...@gmail.com,
tsur...@g.clemson.edu, thil...@g.clemson.edu

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[ECOLOG-L] Call for Papers: Special Issue Global Freshwater biodiversity - Diversity (ISSN 1424-2818)

2013-09-29 Thread Thilina Surasinghe 
The following Special Issue will be published in Diversity
(http://www.mdpi.com/journal/diversity/, ISSN 1424-2818),
and is open for submission of a comprehensive review article
or a full research paper for peer-review and possible publication:

Special Issue: Global Freshwater biodiversity
Website: 
http://www.mdpi.com/journal/diversity/special_issues/freshwater-biodiversity
Guest Editor: Dr. Thilina Surasinghe
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 December 2013

You may send your manuscript now or up until the deadline.
Submitted papers should not have been published previously, nor be under
consideration for publication elsewhere.We also encourage authors to send
us their tentative title and short abstract by e-mail for approval to the
Editorial Office at divers...@mdpi.com.

This Special Issue will be fully open access. Open access (unlimited and
free access by readers) increases publicity and promotes more frequent
citations as indicated by several studies. Open access is supported by
the authors and their institutes.
More information is available at http://www.mdpi.com/about/openaccess/.

Article Processing Charges (APC) are of 500 CHF for well prepared
manuscripts. An additional fee of 250 CHF may apply if English editing
or extensive revisions must be undertaken by the Editorial Office.
More information can be found at http://www.mdpi.com/about/apc/.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors before submitting a
manuscript:http://www.mdpi.com/journal/diversity/instructions/.
Manuscripts should be submitted through the online manuscript submission
and editorial system at http://www.mdpi.com/user/manuscripts/upload/.

Diversity (ISSN 1424-2818) is a new international, peer-reviewed, open
access journal, published quarterly by MDPI. It is a journal of Science and
Technology, concerning diversity concepts and applications, diversity
assessment and diversity preservation. Because it is an online journal,
papers published in Diversity will receive very high publicity.

MDPI publishes several peer-reviewed, open access journals listed
athttp://www.mdpi.com/. The Editorial Board members, including several
Nobel Laureates (http://www.mdpi.com/about/nobelists/), are all leading
active scholars. All MDPI journals maintain rapid, yet rigorous, peer-
review, manuscript handling and editorial processes. MDPI journals have
increased their impact factors, see 2011 Newly Released Impact
Factors,http://www.mdpi.com/about/announcements/235/.

In case of questions, please contact the Editorial Office at:divers...@mdpi.com

We are looking forward to hearing from you.

Kind regards,
Le Zhang, Ph.D.
Managing Editor
Diversity（http://www.mdpi.com/journal/diversity）

On behalf of the Guest Editor

Dr. Thilina Surasinghe
Department of Biology
Gustavus Adolphus College
St. Peter, MN,
USA
E-Mail: tsura...@gustavus.edu





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Thilina Dilan Surasinghe (BS in Zoology Colombo, Sri Lanka)
Teaching Assistant in Biological Sciences
Co-Instructor in Undergraduate Research
PhD Candidate in Wildlife and Fisheries Biology
School of Agricultural, Forest, and Environmental Sciences
261, Lehotsky Hall
Clemson University
Clemson, SC 29634-0317
USA

email: tdi...@gmail.com, tsur...@g.clemson.edu, thil...@g.clemson.edu
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[ECOLOG-L] Call for Papers: Special Issue Global Freshwater biodiversity - Diversity (ISSN 1424-2818)

2013-08-12 Thread Thilina Surasinghe 
Dear Colleagues

The following Special Issue will be published in Diversity
(http://www.mdpi.com/journal/diversity/, ISSN 1424-2818), and is open
for submission of a comprehensive review article or a full research
paper for peer-review and possible publication:

Special Issue: Global Freshwater biodiversity
Website: 
http://www.mdpi.com/journal/diversity/special_issues/freshwater-biodiversity
Guest Editor: Dr. Thilina Surasinghe
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 December 2013

You may send your manuscript now or up until the deadline. Submitted
papers should not have been published previously, nor be under
consideration for publication elsewhere.We also encourage authors to
send us their tentative title and short abstract by e-mail for
approval to the Editorial Office at divers...@mdpi.com.

This Special Issue will be fully open access. Open access (unlimited
and free access by readers) increases publicity and promotes more
frequent citations as indicated by several studies. Open access is
supported by the authors and their institutes. More information is
available at http://www.mdpi.com/about/openaccess/.

Article Processing Charges (APC) are of 500 CHF for well prepared
manuscripts. An additional fee of 250 CHF may apply if English editing
or extensive revisions must be undertaken by the Editorial Office.
More information can be found at http://www.mdpi.com/about/apc/.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors before submitting a
manuscript: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/diversity/instructions/.
Manuscripts should be submitted through the online manuscript
submission and editorial system at
http://www.mdpi.com/user/manuscripts/upload/.

Diversity (ISSN 1424-2818) is a new international, peer-reviewed, open
access journal, published quarterly by MDPI. It is a journal of
Science and Technology, concerning diversity concepts and
applications, diversity assessment and diversity preservation. Because
it is an online journal, papers published in Diversity will receive
very high publicity.

MDPI publishes several peer-reviewed, open access journals listed at
http://www.mdpi.com/. The Editorial Board members, including several
Nobel Laureates (http://www.mdpi.com/about/nobelists/), are all
leading active scholars. All MDPI journals maintain rapid, yet
rigorous, peer-review, manuscript handling and editorial processes.
MDPI journals have increased their impact factors, see 2011 Newly
Released Impact Factors,
http://www.mdpi.com/about/announcements/235/.

In case of questions, please contact the Editorial Office at: divers...@mdpi.com

We are looking forward to hearing from you.

Kind regards,
Le Zhang, Ph.D.
Managing Editor
Diversity（http://www.mdpi.com/journal/diversity）

On behalf of the Guest Editor

Dr. Thilina Surasinghe
Biology Department
Gustavus Adolphus College
St. Peter, MN,
USA
E-Mail: tsura...@gustavus.edu

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Thilina Dilan Surasinghe (Ph.D. in Wildlife and Fisheries Biology)
Visiting Assistant Professor in Biological Sciences
Biology Department
Gustavus Adolphus College
St. Peter, MN 56082
USA

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Macro Invertebrates Sampling Protocol

2009-09-08 Thread Thilina Surasinghe 
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 4:12 PM, NadeemKazmi?= ravika...@yahoo.com wrote:

 I want to sample  macro invertebrate  and look for species that need high
 concentrations of DO , such as mayfly , stonefly and caddisfly and trout.
 My hypothesis is that stream reach below dam will have macro invertebarates
 that thrive in low DO and stream above the dam would have macro
 invertebrates that trive in high DO. My constriants are that 1) I have not
 done  done  macro invertabrate sampling, 2)  I will doing sampling by
 myself. 3) Surber sampler is quite expensive. Can you please guide me how I
 should do the macro invertabrates sampling? and from Where I can get a
 Surber sampler for cheap , my budget limit is $ 70.
 I will really appreicate your help
 Thanks
 Nadeem kazmi



I think you should read the following:

http://www.epa.gov/bioiweb1/html/rbps.html

Here you get a protocol used by the Environmental Protection Agency. In this
website, I think you need only to read the link to the benthic
macroinvertebrate sampling:

http://www.epa.gov/owowwtr1/monitoring/rbp/ch07main.html

The procedure given here is pretty simple and does not demand expensive
instruments.


-- 
Thilina Dilan Surasinghe (BS in Zoology Colombo, Sri Lanka)
Teaching Assistant
Graduate Student in Ecology  Conservation Biology
Dept of Biological Sciences
132 Long Hall
Clemson University
Clemson, SC 29634-0314, USA

[ECOLOG-L] experimental design

2009-03-19 Thread Thilina Surasinghe 
Dr Inouye

I have a statistical question that I wish to post in the ecology list

What is the best experimental design and the statistical when you are
employing two surveying strategies in biodiversity survey?

I will sample amphibians in two tropical rainforest regions using two survey
techniques across four habitat types:

1. Transect survey during night sampling to sample arboreal species
2. Quadrate survey during day time to sample the litter dwelling species

My hypothesis is that the overall amphibian diversity (both litter dwelling
species and arboreal species, both diurnal and nocturnal species) would
differ among the four habitat types.

Afterwards, I need to pool the amphibian diversity for each species from
both survey techniques and I need to test my hypothesis.

What would be the statistical application (exp design) that suits for
pooling these comparing data from the two survey technique

Thank you

-- 
Thilina Dilan Surasinghe (BS in Zoology Colombo, Sri Lanka)
Teaching Assistant
Graduate Student in Ecology  Conservation Biology
Dept of Biological Sciences
132 Long Hall
Clemson University
Clemson, SC 29634-0314, USA

[ECOLOG-L] high diversity of amphibians in the tropical rainforests

2008-12-19 Thread Thilina Surasinghe 
Dear all

I am a Graduate Teaching assistant of Clemson University and I am teaching
herpetology for the undergraduates. With respect to teaching I wish to
address the following question:

What causes the high diversity of amphibians in tropical rainforests?
I have came across following hypothesis
1. Habitat/ niche specialization
2. Habitat heterogeneity in tropical rainforests
3. High resource availability
4. Favorable climatic conditions and climatic stability
5. Presence of rainforest refugia during the last ice age
6. interspecific competition

I am searching for literature to use in my teaching now. Please direct me to
suitable publications done on this topic. I am also interested in knowing
how did the above facts affected the high amphibian diversity in Sri Lanka,
which is one of the world richest herpetofaunal hotspot.

Your insights on these questions are highly appreciated.

-- 
Thilina Dilan Surasinghe (BS in Zoology Colombo, Sri Lanka)
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Dept of Biological Sciences
132 Long Hall
Clemson University
Clemson, SC 29634-0314, USA

[ECOLOG-L] Tempearature dependant sex determination

2008-10-27 Thread Thilina Surasinghe 
Hi all

I have a question on the temperature dependant sex determination of
reptiles. What is the evolutionary or ecological advantage of such a
phenomena, especially in reptiles when the females are produced under both
low and high temperature extremities?


-- 
Thilina Dilan Surasinghe (BS in Zoology Colombo, Sri Lanka)
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Dept of Biological Sciences
132 Long Hall
Clemson University
Clemson, SC 29634-0314, USA

[ECOLOG-L] western ghats

2008-06-16 Thread Thilina Surasinghe 
Hi everybody

I am interested in learning about the protected areas that are being
researched mostly on floral diversity and diversity of herpetofauna in the
western slopes of western ghats, India. in those, protected areas, what will
l be the elevation regime?
If there is a reliable web-based database to access information on these
information, please let me know.

-- 
Thilina Dilan Surasinghe (BS in Zoology Colombo, Sri Lanka)
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Dept of Biological Sciences
132 Long Hall
Clemson University
Clemson, SC 29634-0314, USA