Ecology

Ecology (from Greek: οἶκος, "house" and -λογία, "study of") is a branch of biology concerning the spatial and temporal patterns of the distribution and abundance of organisms, including the causes and consequences. Topics of interest include the biodiversity, distribution, biomass, and populations of organisms, as well as cooperation and competition within and between species. Ecosystems are dynamically interacting systems of organisms, the communities they make up, and the non-living components of their environment. Ecosystem processes, such as primary production, pedogenesis, nutrient cycling, and niche construction, regulate the flux of energy and matter through an environment. These processes are sustained by …

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PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 18 May 2024 English

to each other through storm drains, the paper states. They have also proved important for local ecology and livelihoods. Other than this the water bodies also contribute to flood control, groundwater recharge correlations between increasing urbanisation, changing seasons and their effects on the geography and ecology of selected lakes.The lakes under study were selected from urban, peri-urban and rural areas: Bellandur


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 January 2024 English

Becoming a Young Farmer with the subtitle Young People’s Pathways into Farming: Canada, China, India and Indonesia is a collection of research papers published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2024 and …

development eco- nomics, peasant economics, political ecology and sustainable rural liveli- hoods, and food systems all applicable! It’s a long way away, different ecology, differ- ent climate …—Organic farmer from British


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 November 2023 English

First History Lessons is a series of books published by the Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata (IDSK). Aiming to simplify and explain important ideas of history, the series has been …

Brahmaputra and of Assam. In his book The Bengal Delta: Ecology, State and Social Change, 1840-1943, Iftekhar addition to these, Debjani Bhattacharya’s Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta: The Making of Empire, Kaustubh Blue Infrastructures: Natural History, Political Ecology and Urban Development in Kolkata are very important


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 November 2023 English

First History Lessons is a series of books published by the Institute of Development Studies Kolkata (IDSK). Aiming to simplify and explain important historical ideas, the series has been sponsored …

North East India, and Kaushik Roy’s Small Wars, Ecology, and Imperialism in Precolonial South Asia: A


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 November 2023 English

This paper has been published in the Journal of Environmental Management in November 2023. It has been written by researchers Lea S. Schroder, Amol K. Bhalerao, Khondokar H. Kabir, Jurgen …

Sustainable shifting cultivation using agro-ecology approach. In: Proceedings of the 3rd International


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 August 2023 English

each state and union territory to enable targeted action. Birds are grouped according to shared ecology, habitat, diet and behavior to understand driving factors of population change better...

species into different groups, based on shared ecology, habitat, diet, and behaviour. Comparing the abundance Yellownape, require field studies to understand their ecology and conservation requirements. For all woodpeckers


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 25 July 2023 English

as ‘wastelands’ in government records. Their rapidly growing presence is drastically changing the ecology and livelihoods

rapidly growing presence is drastically changing the ecology and livelihoods


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 24 June 2023 English

A film on the Van Gujjar community and their challenges in the hills and forests of Uttarakhand

also aggravates the condition of forests. “The ecology of the mountains is changing, whereby inedible


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 March 2023 English

This report was published in March 2023 by Common Cause, New Delhi, and Lokniti, a research programme at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi. It is …

becoming more like an aberration because the ecology of surveillance affects not just privacy but also


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 21 February 2023 English

On February 21, International Mother Language Day, PARI reaches out to migrant workers across India to understand the interplay between land, language and livelihoods in their lives

traditional knowledge about the animal world, ecology and more. PHOTO • Jaideep Hardikar PHOTO • Rajeeve


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