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Ecology, Conservation, Policy and Controversy!
Think water when thinking carbon.
April 6, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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Interested in quantifying how surface water might affect water-borne and water-related infectious diseases in degraded tropical agro-forest landscapes? Optical remote sensing can miss small monsoon water-bodies where animal hosts, people and vectors hang out.... doi.org/10.1371/jour...
Radar versus optical: The impact of cloud cover when mapping seasonal surface water for health applications in monsoon-affected India
Surface water plays a vital role in the spread of infectious diseases. Information on the spatial and temporal dynamics of surface water availability is thus critical to understanding, monitoring and ...
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January 27, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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First field evidence that Kyasanur Forest Disease Virus can be transmitted from adult females to their eggs in both Haemaphysalis and Rhipicephalus ticks in India. Read more here: doi.org/10.1186/s130...
First evidence of transovarial transmission of Kyasanur Forest disease virus in Haemaphysalis and Rhipicephalus ticks in the wild - Parasites & Vectors
Background Kyasanur forest disease virus (KFDV) is a tick-borne flavivirus causing debilitating and potentially fatal disease in people in the Western Ghats region of India. The transmission cycle is ...
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January 17, 2025 at 2:11 PM
"Let the “bhediyas of Bahraich” and their innocent victims serve the needed warning: If people are not kept at the centre of conservation, then our living landscapes will turn into battlefields. And there will only be losers on both sides."

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November 18, 2024 at 5:13 AM
Slowly migrating links to articles etc. Hopefully build more organic engagement away from the troll farms.
An unscientific program, irresponsible feeders, the compassion industry, and an apathetic government = A dogged problem!
November 18, 2024 at 5:11 AM