Herpetofaunal Diversity and Conservation Status in Amchang
Wildlife Sanctuary of Assam, India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Jayaditya Purkayastha, Shubhadeep Roychoudhury, Bhim B. Biswa,
Madhurima Das and Saibal Sengupta
A Preliminary Checklist of Herpetofauna Occurring in Rowa
Wildlife Sanctuary, Tripura, India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Jayaditya Purkayastha, Nazruddin Khan and Shubhadeep Roychoudhury
Biology, Uses and Conservation of Trillium govanianum . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
Harsh K. Chauhan, Indra D. Bhatt and Anil K. Bisht
Assessment of Different Aspects of Elephant Depredation
at a Rural Society-Protected Area Interface in Northeast India
Based on Public Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
Himangshu Dutta and Animekh Hazarika
Exploring Synergistic Inter Linkages Among Three Ecological
Issues in the Aquatic Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
Himangshu Dutta
Wildlife Conservation Perspective of Fringe Villagers
and Their Socio-economic Dependency: A Case Study
from Borail Wildlife Sanctuary, Assam, India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
Simmee Das, Shubhadeep Roychoudhury, Madhurima Das,
Hilloljyoti Singha, Abhijit Das, Niranjan Roy and Sunil Nautiyal
Carbon Sequestration Potential of Trees in Kuvempu University
Campus Forest Area, Western Ghats, Karnataka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303
Jogattappa Narayana, Shashidhar, Appaji Nanda
and Malve Sathisha Savinaya
Biodiversity and Conservation: India’s Panoramic View . . . . . . . . . . . . 313
Leepica Kapoor and S. Usha
Impact of Weather Shock on Food Insecurity: A Study on India . . . . . 333
Raju Mandal and Munmi Sarma
Statistical Modelling and Variable Selection in Climate Science . . . . . . . 351
Shalabh and Subhra Sankar Dhar
Climate Change and Adaptation Strategies in the Gir Kesar Mango
Region of Gujarat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379
N. Lalitha
Spatial Shift in Chickpeas in India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399
B. Abirami and Parmod Kumar
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Wildlife Sanctuary of Assam, India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Jayaditya Purkayastha, Shubhadeep Roychoudhury, Bhim B. Biswa,
Madhurima Das and Saibal Sengupta
A Preliminary Checklist of Herpetofauna Occurring in Rowa
Wildlife Sanctuary, Tripura, India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Jayaditya Purkayastha, Nazruddin Khan and Shubhadeep Roychoudhury
Biology, Uses and Conservation of Trillium govanianum . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
Harsh K. Chauhan, Indra D. Bhatt and Anil K. Bisht
Assessment of Different Aspects of Elephant Depredation
at a Rural Society-Protected Area Interface in Northeast India
Based on Public Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
Himangshu Dutta and Animekh Hazarika
Exploring Synergistic Inter Linkages Among Three Ecological
Issues in the Aquatic Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
Himangshu Dutta
Wildlife Conservation Perspective of Fringe Villagers
and Their Socio-economic Dependency: A Case Study
from Borail Wildlife Sanctuary, Assam, India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
Simmee Das, Shubhadeep Roychoudhury, Madhurima Das,
Hilloljyoti Singha, Abhijit Das, Niranjan Roy and Sunil Nautiyal
Carbon Sequestration Potential of Trees in Kuvempu University
Campus Forest Area, Western Ghats, Karnataka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303
Jogattappa Narayana, Shashidhar, Appaji Nanda
and Malve Sathisha Savinaya
Biodiversity and Conservation: India’s Panoramic View . . . . . . . . . . . . 313
Leepica Kapoor and S. Usha
Impact of Weather Shock on Food Insecurity: A Study on India . . . . . 333
Raju Mandal and Munmi Sarma
Statistical Modelling and Variable Selection in Climate Science . . . . . . . 351
Shalabh and Subhra Sankar Dhar
Climate Change and Adaptation Strategies in the Gir Kesar Mango
Region of Gujarat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379
N. Lalitha
Spatial Shift in Chickpeas in India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399
B. Abirami and Parmod Kumar
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Contents