Publications of staff and associates

Here is a list of scientific publications of the staff and associates of WRCT. Some of these are downloadable as pdf files. For reprints or pdfs not available for download, please contact individual authors. 

• Balakrishnan, P. 2011. Breeding biology of the Grey-headed Bulbul Pycnonotus priocephalus (Aves: Pycnonotidae) in the Western Ghats, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 3(1): 1415-1424. PDF

• Balakrishnan, P. 2010. Breeding biology of the Hill Swallow (Hirundo domicola) in the Western Ghats, India. Journal of Bombay Natural History Society, In Press.

• Balakrishnan, P. 2010. Predation of eggs and nestlings of pigeons (Columbidae) by the lion-tailed macaque (Macaca silenus) in the Western Ghats, India. Indian BIRDS, 6(6): 167-168..

  Balakrishnan, P., T.V. Sajeev and T.N. Bindu. 2010. Artificial incubation, hatching and release of the Indian Rock Python Python molurus (Linnaeus, 1758), in Nilambur, Kerala. REPTILE RAP, 10: 24-27.  PDF

• Balakrishnan, P. 2010. An education programme and establishment of a citizen scientist network to reduce killing of non-venomous snakes in Malappuram district, Kerala, India. Conservation Evidence, 7: 7-15.  PDF

• Balakrishnan, P. 2010. Parental care strategies of grey-headed bulbul, Pycnonotus priocephalus in the Western Ghats, South India. Current Science, 98(5): 673-680.  PDF

• Balakrishnan, P. 2010. Reproductive biology of the Square-tailed Black Bulbul Hypsipetes ganeesa in the Western Ghats, India. Indian Birds, 5(5): 134-138.  PDF

• Chandra, R., K.A. Nishadh and P.A. Azeez. (in press). Monitoring water quality of Coimbatore wetlands, Tamil Nadu, India. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment.

• Dhanya, R and P.A. Azeez. 2010. The House Sparrow Passer domesticus population of Arakku township, Andra Pradesh, India. Indian Birds, 5(6): xxx-xxx.

• Manchi, S. and R Sankaran. (2010). Foraging habits and habitat requirements of the Edible-nest Swiftlet and the Glossy Swiftlet in the Andaman Islands. Wilson Journal of Ornithology, 122(2): 259-272.

• Murugesan, M. and V. Balasubramaniam. (In press). A checklist of endangered, rare and threatened plants in Velliangiri hills, Tamil Nadu, India with special reference to Peninsular Indian endemic plants. J. Non-Timber Forest Products.

• Murugesan, M. and V. Balasubramaniam. (In press). Relocation and extended distribution of some little known endangered plants from Velliangiri hills, the Western Ghats of Coimbatore District, Tamil Nadu, India. J. Non-Timber Forest Products.

• Murugesan, M. and V.Balasubramaniam. (In press). Notes on the occurrence of some rare, endangered and red listed endemic plants in Velliangiri hills, a part of Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, India. Indian Forester.

• Murugesan, M. and V.Balasubramaniam. (In press). Occurrence of two neo-endemic species from Velliangiri hills-Additions to the Flora of Tamil Nadu. Indian Journal of Forestry.

• Murugesan, M. and V.Balasubramaniam. (In press). Tripogon filiformis Nees ex & Steud. (Poaceae) a new record for the flora of Southern India. Indian Journal of Forestry.

• Murugesan, M., K. Amirthalingam and P. Balasubramanian. (In press). Addition of two genera Nothapodytes Blume and Fagraea Thunb. to the flora of Eastern Ghats, India. Indian Forester.

• Murugesan, M., Steven G Newmaster, Subramanyam Ragupathy, Velusamy Balasubramaniam and Nagarajan Nallasamy. (In press). Three new species of the genus Biophytum DC. (Oxalidaceae) from Velliangiri hills, Western Ghats -Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, India.  NOVON.

• Murugesan, M., V. Balasubramaniam and K. Arumugasamy. (In press). Ethno-medicinal diversity of Malasars in Velliangiri hills, a part of Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, Western Ghats, Tamil Nadu (India). Ethnobotany.

2009

• Aarif, K.M. and S.P. Narayanan. 2009. On the occurrence of certain uncommon bird species from Kadalundy Estuary, Kerala, South India. Biosystematica, 3 (1): 43-46. ABSTRACT

• Balakrishnan, P. 2009. Breeding biology and nest site selection of Yellow-browed Bulbul (Iole indica) in Western Ghats, India. Journal of Bombay Natural History Society, 106(2): 176-183.

  Jayson, E.A. and Jayahari, K.M. 2009. Distribution of spiny tree mouse (Platacanthomys lasiurus Blyth, 1859) in the Western Ghats of Kerala, India. Mammalia, 73(4): 331-337. ABSTRACT

• Madhuri, R. and S. Manchi. 2009. Ravi Sankaran's Circle. Current Conservation, 3.1: 21-22. PDF

• Manchi, S. and R. Sankaran, 2009. Predators of swiftlets and their nests in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Indian Birds, 5(4): 118-120. PDF

• Manchi, S. and R. Sankaran. 2009. Impact of the great earthquake of 2004 on limestone caves in North and Middle Andaman Islands, India. Current Science, 97:1230-1234. PDF

• Murugesan, M. and V. Balasubramaniam. 2009. Additions to the flora of Tamil Nadu, India with reference to rare, endemic, red-listed and endangered plants from Velliangiri hills, a part of Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, India.  Indian Journal of Forestry, 32(2): 323-326.

• Murugesan, M. and V.Balasubramaniam, 2009, Ambrosia artimissifolia L. (Asteraceae)-A new record for the flora of Southern India. Indian Journal of Forestry, 31(3): 461-462.

• Murugesan, M., P. Balasubramanian and K. Amirthalingam. 2009.  Extended distribution of three endemic plants- New records to the flora of Eastern Ghats. J. Econ. Tax. Bot,. 33(3): 552-556.

• Murugesan, M., V. Balasubramaniam and K. Arumugasamy. 2009. Notes on the occurrence and new distributional records of some little known rare and endemic grasses from Velliangiri hills, a part of Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, India. J. Econ. Tax.  Bot., 33(1): 216-231.

• Paulsamy, S., K.K. Vijayakumar., M. Murugesan., P. Senthilkumar and D. Suresh. 2009. Medicinal and other economically important plants in the shola understories of Nilgiris, the Western Ghats. International Book Distributors, Dehra Dun, India.

• Ragupathy, S., S.G. Newmaster, B. Velusamy, M. Murugesan, 2009. A two locus DNA barcoding discriminates ethnotaxa evidence from recently discovered and described two new species (Biophytum DC. and Tripogon Roem. & Schult.) with their respective allied. Molecular Ecology Resources, 9 (Suppl. 1): 164-171. PDF

2008

• Mazumdar, K., Soud, R. and Gupta, A. 2008. Assessment of Anthropogenic threats faced by Phayre's Leaf-Monkey (Trachypithecus phayrei) in the degraded forest habitat in and around Assam University Campus, Cachar District, Assam. pp. 135-140. In: B. Raghvendra Rao, S. Narendra Prasad, C. Srinivasulu and P. Judson (eds.), Biodiversity Conservation and Human Wel-being, Department of Zoology, Osmania University, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh. xviii+137.

• Murugesan, M. and V.Balasubramaniam, 2008. A survey on the orchids of Velliangiri hills, a part of Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, India, with special reference to Indian endemics. J. Sci. Trans. Environ. Technov., 1(4): 186-200. PDF

• Murugesan, M. and V.Balasubramaniam. 2008. Rare, endemic and threatened angiosperms of Velliangiri hills in Coimbatore District of Tamil Nadu. Indian Journal of Forestry, 31(2): 309-314.

• Murugesan, M. and V.Balasubramaniam. 2008. Tripogon velliangiriensis (Poaceae) - A new species from Tamil Nadu, India. Indian Journal of Forestry, 31(1): 109-111.

• Murugesan, M., V. Balasubramaniam and N. Nagarajan. 2008. Trtaditional medicinal knowledge on plants from Velliangiri hills of Coimbatore district, Tamil Nadu, J. Econ. Tax. Bot., 32 (Suppl.): 270-276.

• Narayanan, S.P. and Bhaskar, S. 2008. Herpetofauna of the Kuttanad wetlands: southern portion of Vembanad-Kol Ramsar site (Kerala), India. Pp: 51-62. In: Rao, B.R., Prasad, S.N., Srinivasulu, C. and Judson, P. (Eds.). Biodiversity Conservation and Human Well-being. Hyderabad, Department of Zoology, Osmania University. xviii+137.

• Narayanan, S.P. and Vijayan, L. 2008. Feeding rate and prey of diurnal ardeidae family birds at two selected paddy fields of Vembanad-Kol Ramsar site, India. Eco-Chronicle, 3(3): 187-194.

• Narayanan, S.P., Raju, D.V. and Manoj, P. 2008. Butterfly fauna of the Kuttanad wetlands of Kerala. Malabar Trogon, 6(1): 7-12.

• Narayanan, S.P., Sajith, K.M., Pillai, A.P., Narendran, M.M. and Sreekumar, B. 2008. Records of European roller Coracias garrulus from southern Peninsular India, including the first sighting from Kerala. Indian Birds, 4(1): 2-5. PDF

• Newmaster, S.G., B. Velusamy, M. Murugesan, and S. Ragupathy, 2008. Tripogon cope (Poaceae: Chloridoideae), a new species supported by Morphometric analysis and a synopsis of Tripogon in India. Systematic Botany, 33(4). 695-701. PDF

• Ragupathy, S., S.G. Newmaster, M. Murugesan, B. Velusamy and M.M. Ul-Huda. 2008. Consensus of the 'Malasars' traditional aboriginal knowledge of medicinal plants in the Velliangiri holy hills, India. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 4: 8. PDF

• Soud R., Mazumdar, K., Gupta, A. 2008. Preliminary observations on the amphibian assemblage within the forest and tea agroecosystem of Cachar district, Assam. Cobra, 2(4): 10-13.

• Thapanjith, T., Narayanan, S.P. and Thomas, A.P. 2008. A study on the icthyofaunal diversity of Aymanam Panchayath, in Vembanad wetland, Kerala. Pp: 205-213. In: Kumar, M.S.B. and Gopalakrishnan, P.K. (Eds). Biodiversity Conservation. Jodhpur: Scientific Publishers. Pp: 244.

2007

• Balakrishnan, P. 2007. Butterflies of the Muthikkulam Reserved Forest, Kerala, India. Malabar Trogon, 5(3): 2-5.

• Balakrishnan, P. 2007. Reptiles of Muthikkulam Reserved Forests, Kerala. Cobra, 1(4): 22-29.

• Javed, M.S.M., A. Waran and F. Tampal. 2007. On the Occurrence of Golden Gecko Calodactylus aureus (Beddome, 1870) in Papikond Hills, Eastern Ghats, Andhra Pradesh, India. Zoo's Print Journal, 22 (6): 2727-2729. PDF

• Murugesan, M. and V.Balasubramaniam, 2007. A New Species of Hedyotis L. (Rubiaceae) from the Velliangiri Hills, the Western Ghats, India. Rheedea, (1&2): 25-27.

• Murugesan, M. and V.Balasubramaniam. 2007. Ethno-Medico-Botanical diversity of Irulas in Velliangiri hills Coimbatore District, Tamil Nadu, India. Journal of Non-Timber forest products, 14(2): 105-110.

• Murugesan, M., V.Balasubramaniam and A.Subramanian. 2007. Notes on the occurrence of certain rare and endangered medicinal plants from Velliangiri hills Coimbatore District, Tamil Nadu, India. Journal of Non-Timber forest products, 14(2): 87-95.

• Murugesan, M., V.Balasubramaniam and S. Paulsamy, 2007. Rediscovery of Memecylon sisparense Gamble (Melastomataceae) and Swertia beddomei C.B. Clarke (Gentianaceae). Rheedea, (1&2): 33-34.

• Narayanan, S.P. and Shirish, M. 2007. Sighting of the Malabar Whistling-Thrush from the Deccan. Malabar Trogon, 5(3): 13.

• Narayanan, S.P. and Vijayan, L. 2007. Status of the colonial breeding waterbirds in Kumarakom heronry of Kerala, Southern India. Podoces, 2(1): 22-29. PDF

• Narayanan, S.P., Anitha, K. and Prasad, S.N. 2007. Water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) - management of an invasive weed, the Indian scenario. Sarovar Saurabh - ENVIS Newsletter on Wetland Ecosystem, 3(4): 3-7.

• Narayanan, S.P., Manoj, P. and Sreekumar, B. 2007. Avifauna of Kumarakom heronry, Kottayam, Kerala. Blackbuck, 23(2&3): 1-14.

• Paulsamy, S., K.K.Vijayakumar, M.Murugesan, S.Padmavathy and P.Senthilkumar. 2007. Ecological status of medicinal and other economically important plants in the shola understories of Nilgiris, The Western Ghats. Natural Product Radiance, 6(1): 55-61. ABSTRACT

• Soud, R. and K. Mazumdar. 2007. observation on the movement of a Red-necked Keelback Rnabdophix subminiatus (Schlegel, 1837). Cobra, 1(1): 10-11.

• Soud, R., K. Mazumdar, A. Gupta, S. Mahony, and S. Talukdar. 2007. Observation on the Courtship of Fejervarya Cf. limnocharis (Gravenhost, 1829) (Anura: Ranidae). Cobra, 1(3): 12-14.

• Soud, R., Mazumdar, K. and Gupta, A. 2007. Notes on the Feeding of White-Lipped Pit Viper Trimeresurus albolabris  Gray, 1842 Family: Viperidae Boie, 1827 in Captivity. Cobra, 1(2): 37-38.

• Sundar, K.S.G., Deomurari, A., Bhatia, S and Narayanan, S.P. 2007. Records of Black-necked stork Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus breeding pairs fledging four chicks. Forktail, 23: 161-163.

2006

• Das K.S.A. and D. Mukherjee. 2006. Sighting record of rare Indian Pangolin (Manis crassicaudata) at Anaikatty, Palakkad District, Kerala, Malabar Trogon, 4: 16.

• Das K.S.A. 2006. Record of Nasikabatrachus in Northern Western Ghats, Zoo's print Journal, 21(9): 2410. PDF

• Ghate, U., Patwardhan. A. and A. Waran. 2005. Reduced Urban Consumerism and enhanced rural bio enterprises for food, water and climatic security. Current Science, 88: 213-214. PDF

• Jayson, E.A. and Jayahari, K.M. 2006. Conservation status of rodents in India. In: Vertebrate Pests in Agriculture- The Indian Scenario (Sridhara S. Editor), Scientific Publishers (India), Jodhpur, India.

• Mukherjee, D., A.M.A. Nixon and S. Bhupathy. 2006. Observations on the Morphometry of two subspecies of Melanochelys trijuga from the Western Ghats, India. Turtle and Tortoise Newsletter, 9: 7-9.   

• Murugesan, M. and V.Balasubramaniam 2006. Rediscovery of Helichrysum perlanigerum Gamble (Asteraceae) from Velliangiri hills of Western Ghats, Coimbatore District, Tamilnadu. J. Econ. Taxon. Bot., 30(2): 429-430

• Murugesan, M. and V.Balasubramaniam. 2006. Additions to the Flora of Tamil Nadu, India- With particular reference to the endemic plants. My Forest, 42(4): 327-330.

• Murugesan, M. and V.Balasubramaniam. 2006. Some rare and endemic grasses new to the grass flora of Tamil Nadu, India. My Forest, 42(4): 379-383.

• Narayanan, S.P. 2006. Invasive alien species; a fish scenario from Kerala. Malabar Trogon, 3(4): 5-8.

• Narayanan, S.P. and Vijayan, L. 2006. Minor vertebrate fauna of mangrove dominated Kumarakom heronry, Kerala, India. Annals of Forestry, 14(2): 330-339.

• Narayanan, S.P., Boopal, A., Nanjan, S., Kurian, J., Dhanya, R., Gomathy, N., Dastidar, D. G., Rajamamannan, M. A., Venkitachalam, R., Mukherjee, D. and Eswaran, R. 2006. New site for the Yellow-throated Bulbul Pycnonotus xantholaemus from Tamil Nadu. Indian Birds, 2 (6): 153-154. PDF

• Narayanan, S.P., Raju, D.V., Unnikrishnan, N., Vasan, S. and Sreekumar, B. 2006. Do Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo displace other colonial nesting waterbirds at Kumarakom heronry (Kerala)? Indian Birds, 2(5): 138. PDF

• Narayanan, S.P., Sajith, K.M., Pillai, A. P., Sreekumar, B. Gopakumar, P.S. and Chandrasekharan, S. 2006. Sight record of Spotted Redshank Tringa erythropus from Kayal land division of Kuttanad Wetland. Malabar Trogon, 4: 29.

• Narayanan, S.P., Sreekumar, B. and Vijayan, L. 2006. Breeding of the Oriental White Ibis Threskiornis melanocephalus at Kumarakom heronry (Kerala, India). Indian Birds, 2 (6): 152-153. PDF

• Paulsamy,  S., K.K.Vijayakumar, M. Murugesan, P. Senthilkumar and  K. Muthukumar. 2006. Oil yield and genetic variability of the endemic medicinal shrub, Gaultheria fragrantissima Wallich in Nilgiris, Western Ghats. Plant Archives, 6(1): 281 -284.

• Paulsamy, S, S.Padmavathy, K.K.Vijayakumar and M.Murugesan. 2006. Ecology of   economically important plants in the understories of sholas at Manjur, the Nilgiris. Advances in biological sciences, 5: 57-65.

2005

• Balakrishnan, P. 2005. A survey report on the House Sparrow Passer domesticus in south India. Malabar Trogon, 3(2): 4-6.

• Balakrishnan, P. 2005. Recent sightings and habitat characteristics of the endemic Nilgiri Marten Martes gwatkinsii in Western Ghats, India. Small Carnivore Conservation, 33: 14-16. PDF

• Mukherjee, D., S. Bhupathy and A.M.A. Nixon.  2005. A new species of day gecko (Squamata, Gekkonidae, Cnemaspis) from the Anaikatti Hills, Western Ghats, Tamil Nadu, India. Current Science, 89: 1326-1328. PDF

• Murugesan, M., V.Balasubramaniam and H.Arthi. 2005. Ethnomedical knowledge of plants used by Irula tribes, Chengal Combai, The Nilgiris, Tamilnadu. Ancient Science of Life, 24 (4): 179-182. PDF

• Narayanan, S.P. 2005. A note on the Wild Boars (Sus scrofa) of Sabarimala. Malabar Trogon, 3 (2): 12.

• Narayanan, S.P., Dipu, S and Vijayan, L. 2005. Breeding of Black-winged Stilt in Kumarakom part of Vembanad Lake, Kerala. Indian Birds, 1 (5): 116. PDF

• Narayanan, S.P., Sajith, M.S., Dipu, S., Ajay and Sreekumar, B. 2005. Sightings of Mountain Imperial Pigeon Ducula badia from the Vembanad wetlands. Malabar Trogon, 3 (2): 13.

• Narayanan, S.P., Thapanjith, T. and Thomas, A.P. 2005. A study on the icthyofauna of Aymanam Panchayath, in Vembanad wetland, Kerala. Zoos Print Journal, 20(9): 1980-1982. PDF

• Sivakumar, A. and M.Murugesan. 2005. Ethnobotanical studies on the wild edible plants used by the tribals of the Anaimalai hills, the Western Ghats, India.  Ancient Science of Life, 25 (2): 69-73.