International trade of swiftlet nests has affected wild populations of edible-nest swiftlets
throughout their range. The white-nest swiftlet Aerodramus fuciphagus of the Andaman and …

Remote Sensing and GIS techniques were used to study the landuse and landcover change
in the South Andaman Island. The study assesses the spatial-temporal land use and land …

The last quarter of the 19th Century marked an important watershed in the history of the
Andaman Islands. The establishment of a penal settlement and an Imperial forestry service …

Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) changes play an important role while planning for
sustainable development of an area. Present study examines the spatial and temporal …

We report here a year-round baseline assessment on phytoplankton diversity and
abundance from the pristine coastal waters of the Andaman Islands (September 2011 …

Species composition, abundance and distribution of phytoplankton dynamics were studied
from the coastal waters of South Andaman Islands during December 2015 to February 2016 …

Abstract The Andaman and Nicobar Islands have a rich variety of flora and fauna with many
rare and endemic species. Realising the importance of the need for conservation of the …

Since the time of Darwin and Wallace, oceanic islands have been recognized to be of great
significance in studies of organismic diversity, biogeography and evolution. Isolated from the …

Threat sensitivity hypothesis states that prey species assess the intensity of threat (s) from
predator species and respond accordingly. An underlying assumption of the hypothesis is …

The history of the British rule in Andaman Islands began in 1789 when Lord Cornwallis, the
then Governor General of India, thought of colonizing these islands. On the basis of the …