Biodiversity Challenges: A Way Forward

Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. Cropping systems: a comparative account/Naveena Nazim, Mushtaq Rasool Mir and Mehreen Manzoor. 2. A Review on Lasiaspinosa: Ethnobotany, phytochemistry, pharmacology and Karyomorphology/D Das, Bijoy Neog, A B Das and S Agarwalla. 3. Frequency of filamentous fungi on woody litter of mangroves along North Malabar, Kerala, India/R Nambiar Gayatri and K. Shilpa. 4. Impact of urbanization in Kengeri region of Bangalore Urban: a case study/K. Harisha. 5. Biodiversity and its conservation approaches/Iqra Rafiq, Z I Buhroo and K A Sahaf. 6. Biodiversity of drosophilidae in Dharwad district/B.S. Srinath and N. Shivanna. 7. Pteriodophytic composition in Koppa Taluk, Central Western Ghats, South India/TR Parashurama, J. Deepa, K G Girish and P Kariyajjanavar. 8. Occurrence of Malcofaunal pest complex in agro fields of Chikkamagluru region, Karnataka/D.S. Somashekar, S H Majagi, M. Ventateshwarlu and Dhananjaya S G. 9. Ichthyofauna diversity in relation to water quality of lakes of Bangalore, Karnataka/V. Sincy, R, Jaishanker, K S Asulabha and T V Ramachanndra. 10. Diversity oif pohytoplankton in lkes of Bangalore, Karnataka, India/K S. Asulaha, R, Jaishanker, V. Sincy and T V Ramachandra. 11. Biodiversity management of most impacted soil earthworms and their Karyotypes/Jayashree M. Wodeyar and Shankerappa Hatti. 12. Impact of human activity on environment/Arunkumar Lagashetty. 13. The intersectionality of cultural diversity of indigenous people and local biodiversity: Perspective of biodiversity management/Mrinal Mukherjee. 14. Diversity of spiders in different urban gradients of Kalaburagi city, Karnataka, India/T Supriya, S H Majagi and K. Vijaykumar. 15. An efficient in vitro approach for callogenesis mediated from the plants Tabernaemontana heyneana wall/D.J. Manasa, K.R. Chandrashekar, N. Bhagya, D.J. Madhu Kumar, M.D. Reshma and M. Govindappa. Index.