This book describes the outstanding features of the ecology and bio geography of the Indian region, comprising former British India, Nepal, Bhutan, Ceylon and Burma. It summarizes the results of nearly four decades' studies and field explorations and discussions with students on the distribution of plants and animals, practically throughout this vast area and on the underlying factors. A number of specialists in geology, meteorology, botany, zoology, ecology and anthropology have also actively collaborated with me and have contributed valuable chapters in their respective fields. India has an exceptionally rich and highly diversified flora and fauna, exhibiting complex composition, character and affinities. Although the fauna of the Indian region as a whole is less completely known than its flora, we are nevertheless fairly well acquainted with at least the salient features of its faunal characters to enable us to present a meaningful discussion on some of the outstanding peculiarities of the biogeography of India. A general synthesis of the available, though much scattered, information should prove useful to future students of biogeography throughout the world.

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St. John’s College, Agra, India

M. S. Mani

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Book Title: Ecology and Biogeography in India
Editors: M. S. Mani
Series Title: Monographiae Biologicae
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2331-3
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Dr. W. Junk b.v., Publishers, The Hague 1974
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-6193-075-4Published: 30 June 1974
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-2333-7Published: 03 November 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-2331-3Published: 06 December 2012
Series ISSN: 0077-0639
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1729
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 773
Topics: Applied Ecology, Ecology

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