January 2012 - Journal of Threatened Taxa

Jo u r n a l o f Th r e a t e n e d Ta x a
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Fo u n d e r & Ch i e f Ed i t o r
Dr. Sanjay Molur, Coimbatore, India
Ma n a g in g Ed i t o r
Mr. B. Ravichandran, Coimbatore, India
As s o c ia t e Ed i t o r s
Dr. B.A. Daniel, Coimbatore, India
Dr. Manju Siliwal, Dehra Dun, India
Dr. Meena Venkataraman, Mumbai, India
Ed i t o r ia l Ad v i s o r s
Ms. Sally Walker, Coimbatore, India
Dr. Robert C. Lacy, Minnesota, USA
Dr. Russel Mittermeier, Virginia, USA
Dr. Thomas Husband, Rhode Island, USA
Dr. Jacob V. Cheeran, Thrissur, India
Prof. Dr. Mewa Singh, Mysuru, India
Dr. Ulrich Streicher, Oudomsouk, Laos
Mr. Stephen D. Nash, Stony Brook, USA
Dr. Fred Pluthero, Toronto, Canada
Dr. Martin Fisher, Cambridge, UK
Dr. Ulf Gärdenfors, Uppsala, Sweden
Dr. John Fellowes, Hong Kong
Dr. Philip S. Miller, Minnesota, USA
Prof. Dr. Mirco Solé, Brazil
Ed i t o r ia l Bo a r d / Su b j e c t Ed i t o r s
Dr. M. Zornitza Aguilar, Ecuador
Prof. Wasim Ahmad, Aligarh, India
Dr. Giovanni Amori, Rome, Italy
Mr. Deepak Apte, Mumbai, India
Dr. M. Arunachalam, Alwarkurichi, India
Dr. Aziz Aslan, Antalya, Turkey
Prof. R.K. Avasthi, Rohtak, India
Dr. N.P. Balakrishnan, Coimbatore, India
Dr. Hari Balasubramanian, Arlington, USA
Dr. Maan Barua, Oxford OX , UK
Dr. Aaron M. Bauer, Villanova, USA
Dr. Gopalakrishna K. Bhat, Udupi, India
Dr. S. Bhupathy, Coimbatore, India
Dr. Anwar L. Bilgrami, New Jersey, USA
Dr. Renee M. Borges, Bengaluru, India
Dr. Gill Braulik, Fife, UK
Dr. Prem B. Budha, Kathmandu, Nepal
Mr. Ashok Captain, Pune, India
Dr. Cleofas R. Cervancia, Laguna , Philippines
Dr. Apurba Chakraborty, Guwahati, India
Dr. Kailash Chandra, Jabalpur, India
Dr. Anwaruddin Choudhury, Guwahati, India
Dr. Richard Thomas Corlett, Singapore
Dr. Gabor Csorba, Budapest, Hungary
Dr. Paula E. Cushing, Denver, USA
Dr. Neelesh Naresh Dahanukar, Pune, India
Dr. R.J. Ranjit Daniels, Chennai, India
Dr. A.K. Das, Kolkata, India
Dr. Indraneil Das, Sarawak, Malaysia
Dr. Rema Devi, Chennai, India
Dr. Nishith Dharaiya, Patan, India
Dr. Ansie Dippenaar-Schoeman, Queenswood, South
Africa
Dr. William Dundon, Legnaro, Italy
Dr. J.L. Ellis, Bengaluru, India
Dr. Susie Ellis, Florida, USA
Dr. Zdenek Faltynek Fric, Czech Republic
Dr. Carl Ferraris, NE Couch St., Portland
Dr. R. Ganesan, Bengaluru, India
Dr. Hemant Ghate, Pune, India
Dr. Dipankar Ghose, New Delhi, India
Dr. Gary A.P. Gibson, Ontario, USA
Dr. M. Gobi, Madurai, India
Dr. Stephan Gollasch, Hamburg, Germany
Dr. Michael J.B. Green, Norwich, UK
Dr. K. Gunathilagaraj, Coimbatore, India
Dr. K.V. Gururaja, Bengaluru, India
Dr. Mark S. Harvey,Welshpool, Australia
Dr. Mohammad Hayat, Aligarh, India
Prof. Harold F. Heatwole, Raleigh, USA
Dr. V.B. Hosagoudar, Thiruvananthapuram, India
Prof. Fritz Huchermeyer, Onderstepoort, South Africa
Dr. V. Irudayaraj, Tirunelveli, India
Dr. Rajah Jayapal, Bengaluru, India
Dr. Weihong Ji, Auckland, New Zealand
Prof. R. Jindal, Chandigarh, India
Dr. Pierre Jolivet, Bd Soult, France
Dr. Rajiv S. Kalsi, Haryana, India
Dr. Rahul Kaul, Noida,India
Dr. Werner Kaumanns, Eschenweg, Germany
Dr. Paul Pearce-Kelly, Regent’s Park, UK
Dr. P.B. Khare, Lucknow, India
Dr. Vinod Khanna, Dehra Dun, India
Dr. Cecilia Kierulff, São Paulo, Brazil
Dr. Ignacy Kitowski, Lublin, Poland
Dr. Krushnamegh Kunte, Cambridge, USA
Prof. Dr. Adriano Brilhante Kury, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Dr. P. Lakshminarasimhan, Howrah, India
Dr. Carlos Alberto S de Lucena, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Dr. Glauco Machado, São Paulo, Brazil
Dr. Gowri Mallapur, Mamallapuram, India
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