Research Options
Below are list of projects that could be carried out at ARRS. Except for the King cobra radio telemetry project and Bio diversity studies that are on-going, rest are possible options for interested researchers and students to pursue. Interested individuals may contact us for further details.
- King cobra studies
- Biodiversity Surveys
- River research
- Socio economic study
- Studies on medicinal plants Invasive species
- Amphibian study
- Climate change
- Ethno botany
- Ethno zoology
- Microbiology research
- Plantation research
- Mutualisms: symbiotic relationships between living organisms
- Photosynthesis
- Mutual altruism
- Forest fruit production
- Forest leaf litter production
- Forest timber production/biomass
- Ant (and other taxa) census (a million insects have been named but several
million more remain to be named in the tropics)
- Protozoan fauna of termite intestinal tract
- Territoriality and mating patterns in frogs
- Identifying and counting arthropods on tree epiphytes
- Determining right or left-handedness in monkeys
- Miniature bar codes on bees to track their comings and goings from the hive
- Colouring wing spots of male damselflies to make them appear female to determine
if females responded to males' appearance or to some other cue
- Mixed species bird assemblages "Connections", such as between fruiting,
population changes, rainfall and animal behaviour
- Canopy (which accounts for 95% of the entire forest biomass) studies on arboreal
mammals, insects, herpes and birds, chemistry of leaf tissue, mechanisms of
water transport and stress, comparison at different heights, how fast tall trees
grow, architectural variation in different strata and meaning of a tree's leaf
arrangements and branching pattern (determined by growth rate, photosynthetic
needs, soil quality, and the surrounding forest structure and climate).
- Seasonal rhythms of fruiting and leaf flush
- Establishment of a for identity of a leaf, flower or fruit there
- Measuring sex hormones in monkey urine and feces
- Capture, tag and recapture different species of bats
- Phylogeny, genetic diversity in bats using micro satellite analysis, DNA
- Latitudinal diversity gradient (Darwin's question)
- Convergent evolution: unrelated organisms independently develop similar
features in response to similar environmental challenges.
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