Thats Great, Welcome to Dr.Santhosh Kumar. best wishes Prashant
On 9/3/09, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear members, > I welcome him to 'Indiantreepix'. > He has been helping us with Ids with his expertise since joining. > > Pl. see details about him as below: > *Described 11 species and 4 varieties of plants as new to science. * > > *Published 58 research papers in various national and international > journals* > > *Developed a conservatory of over 300 lesser known or totally unknown wild > ornamental plants of the Western Ghats > > **Established a field gene bank of 100 rare endangered and threatened > medicinal plants of South India. > > Developed an Ethno Herbal Forest of over 650 species of medicinal plants > used in the classical, folk and tribal systems of medicines. * > > *Set up a Raw Drug museum of medicinal plants with their scientific > identities. > > **Prepared a check list on the flora of Peppara and Neyyar Wild Life > Sancturies of Kerala . > > Rediscovered 15 endangered or possibly extinct species of angiosperms from > the Western Ghats. * > > *Floristic study on the Sacred Groves in the Nedumangadu Taluk of > Thiruvananthapuram District, Kerala. * > *(MSc. Thesis. Submitted to the University of Mumbai). * > > *Floristic Study on the Sacred Groves of Thiruvananthapuram District, > Kerala. * > *(Ph. D. Thesis submitted to the University of Mumbai). * > > *Floristic study on Kalakkadu-Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve (KMTR), Tamil > Nadu, India. * > > *Collected and identified over 7500 accessions of herbarium specimens from > the Western Ghats * > > *Developed a gene pool of all Indian species of the genera like Biophytum, > Thottea, Adhatoda, Plumbago, Rauvolfia etc at TBGRI* > > *Conducted a pioneer field survey, mapping the vegetation, location of RET > species etc for proposing Gene Pool Conservation Areas (GPCAs) as the > in-situ conservation plots for the endangered species of the Western Ghats > of Kerala, India. > > **Completed the Taxonomic studies on the Indian species of genus > ThotteaRottboel (Aristolochiaceae) > * > > *Developed a Systematic Garden at TBGRI with over 88 angiosperm families. > > Conducted capacity building trainings in Taxonomy to University students > > Worked as a consultant for taxonomic identification of plants coming to > TBGRI for naming from colleges, universities etc. > > Worked as a research guide for M.SC <http://m.sc/> and B. Sc students. > *-- > With regards, > J.M.Garg ([email protected]) > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 > 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' > Image Resource of thousands of my images of Birds, Butterflies, Flora etc. > (arranged alphabetically & place-wise): > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg > For learning about Indian Flora, visit/ join Google e-group- Indiantreepix: > http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix?hl=en > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "indiantreepix" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
