Contents: Editorial board. An appreciation. Foreword. Preface. I. Animal ecology: 1. Studies on the environmental correlates with the infra population of Hemicriconemoides Mangiferae infesting Mangifera Indica in Western Uttar Pradesh/Anita and A.K. Chaubey. 2. Ecological adaptive features of hunter reduviids (insecta : heteroptera : reduviidae Latreille 1807) and their biological control potential/K. Sahayaraj. 3. Interactions of Predaceous Ladybirds: a review/Omkar and Geetanjali Mishra. 4. A review on the honey: a by-product of bees (insecta: hymenoptera) nutritional and medicinal aspects/S.K. Gahlawat, Bhawana Chhabra, K.L. Jain, R.K. Gupta, Mukesh Dhillon and R.C. Sihag. 5. Study on biology of sheep body louse Damalina ovis Linn. (Mallophoga) in District Etah (U.P.)/R.K. Dubey and Anil Paliwal. 6. Latest scenario of fish diseases in India/S.K. Gahlawat, R.K. Gupta, R.C. Sihag and N.K. Yadava. 7. Industrial pollutant effects on fisheries: a review/K.L. Jain, R.K. Gupta and Mukta Sharma. 8. Impact of seasonal variation in physico-chemical features of water on inhabiting fish fauna/Md. Shamsul Haque, Kaulshalendra Kumar and Binay Kumar Singh. 9. Substrate specificity in relation to spawning and causes of egg/Larval Mortality in common carp, cyprinus carpio/Subash C. Gupta. 10. Ecology and natural history of Indian crocodilians with special reference to mugger crocodile/V. Vijaya Kumar. 11. Habitatic features, relative abundance, sex-ratio and population decline of peafowl Pavo cristatus in Channagiri Area of Karnataka, India/S. Basavarajappa. 12. Diversity, status and feeding ecology of Avifauna of Ramnagar Wildlife Sanctuary, Jammu/Deep N. Sahi and Bharti Sharma. 13. Studies on the daily activities of Rhesus monkeys, Macaca Mulatta (Zimmermann) in Saraswati and Veer Sonti Forests of Haryana/S.K. Gahlawat, R.K. Gupta, R.C. Sihag and R.C. Gupta. 14. Food and feeding habits of free-ranging Rhesus monkey in Jammu Region (J & K State)/Deep N. Sahi and Shubhra Sharma. II. Animal reproduction: 15. Space, prey feed modulation, reduviid predator and its prey densities on the reproductive potential of Acanthaspis pedestris stal (insecta: heteroptera: reduviidae)/K. Sahayaraj, G. Raju and J. Francis Borgio. 16. Effects of Mercury on reproductive physiology in freshwater Teleost Danio equipinatus/Kaushalendra Kumar, Binay Kumar Singh, Md. Shamsul Haque and Prerna Azad. 17. The annual female reproductive cycle in Brown River Turtle, Kachuga Smithi/V.K. Gupta. 18. Synopsis of reproductive characteristics of freshwater male Emydid turtles, Kachuga Tectum and Kachuga Smithi from Jammu, J & K State/Anil K. Verma. 19. The physiology of hypothalamic pituitary gonadal axis: the recent perspectives/Charanjit Kaur Dhanju. 20. Effect of some antifertility agents on the GSI in Albino Rats/Mangla Bhide and Angel Gupta. 21. Ciprofloxacin acts through oxidative stress generation in impairing spermatogenesis and steroidogenesis in testes of adult male rats/C. Anbalagan and G. Vanithakumari. Index.
"The present volume of the series "Perspectives in Animal Ecology and Reproduction" is a compendium of original articles and review papers comprising of 21 chapters, bifurcated into two sections in the area of animal ecology and reproduction. Section I provides a glimpse into the recent research on nematode ecology; ecological adaptation in bugs; fish diseases; reviews on pollutional and ecological problems of diverse aquatic habitats. It also includes a chapter on the ecology and natural history of Indian crocodile and an account on the population dynamics and status of peafowl in some habitats of India. Ecological parameters of avifauna of Ramnagar Wildlife Sanctuary, Jammu and the daily activities of Rhesus monkey have also been included in this section.
Section II on animal reproduction gives an insight into current research on the reproductive potential of diverse animals ranging from insects through mammals and also reviews the progress made in the field in past few years. An account of prey-feed modulation and reproductive potential of Reduviid bugs, reproductive potential of freshwater Emydid turtles and a review of the recent perspectives in the physiology of hypothalamic pituitary Gonadal Axis in animals emphasizes the relationship between organisms and their immediate environment. It is hoped that this volume providing recent information covering two major aspects on a large number of animals will be of great help to students, teachers, researchers, scientists and others interested in animal ecology and reproduction." (jacket)
