New records of lichens from the State of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan corroborated by ITS sequences

Nova Hedwigia ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 109 (3) ◽  
pp. 457-473
Author(s):  
Kamran Habib ◽  
Abdul Nasir Khalid
Keyword(s):  
New Records ◽  
Phylogenetic Analyses ◽  
Test Methods ◽  
Spot Test ◽  
The State ◽  
Its Sequences ◽  
Jammu And Kashmir ◽  
Punctelia Rudecta

During a survey of the lichens in the state of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, many specimens were collected from Peer Chinasi, district Muzaffarabad and characterized using morpho-anatomical, molecular and spot test methods. This yielded two new records for Pakistan, namely Acarospora badiofusca, and Peltigera didactyla, while Punctelia ruderata is taxonomically corrected as it was previously misidentified from Pakistan as Punctelia rudecta. Brief descriptions and phylogenetic analyses of the taxa are given.

Environmental Scanning for Organisational Effectiveness: A Study of Select MSMEs of Jammu and Kashmir, India

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vinay Chauhan ◽  
Sushma Kaushal
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Effectiveness ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
Political Environment ◽  
Environmental Scanning ◽  
Jammu And Kashmir ◽  
Economic Dimension ◽  
The Impact

Environmental scanning yields greater anticipatory management that provides important inputs for aquitision and use of information for planning and designing organization strategies. Apart from this, effective environmental scanning activities are likely to deal with threats and grasp the opportunities to finally link with enhancing organizational effectiveness. In fact this relationship matrix has led the researchers to conduct an environmental scanning through an examination of the existing status the components of the macro-environment vis-a-vis their relationship with the organizational effectiveness. There are a number of approaches, which describe the macro-environment, of which PEST analysis is regarded as the most common approach for considering the external business environment. Thus, the present study applies PEST analysis to scan the existing business environment. Jammu and Kashmir due to its peculiar political, geographical, economic, and socio-cultural features, had led its cost mountain economy become a distinctive identity. Despite the fact that the state has rich endowments, international relations with its neighbours vis-a-vis its impact on political environment also pose developmental challenges for the business units operating in the state. This has provided valid rationale for conducting the present. The environmental scanning is done through the perception of the select entrepreneurs operating MSMEs in the state of J & K. An impact analysis of environmental factors (PEST) on the organizational effectiveness is also done in the study. The findings of the study show that the political environment of the state that is not favourable for entrepreneural development whereas the rest of the other drivers of PEST i.e. economic environment, socio-cultural environment, and technological environment show a favourable response of the entrepreneurs. In terms of cause and effect relationship, it is found that the first two drivers of the PEST i.e. political and economic dimension impacts OE positively whereas the other two dimensions namely socio-cultural and technological impacts OE negatively but it is pertinent to mention that the impact is very less and is insigninificant. The study also suggests some of strategic options for developing and creating an enabling environment for successful entrepreneurial development to achieve integrated development of the state.

Two new records of Lichens for India from Maharashtra

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 380-382
Author(s):  
Pushpi Singh ◽  
◽  
K.P. Singh ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New Records ◽  
The State ◽  
Lichen Biota

Malmidea subgranifera (Kalb & Elix) Kalb & Elix and Thelotrema porinaceum Müll.Arg. are discovered as new records for Indian lichen biota from the state of Maharashtra. Brief descriptions are provided for the species with ecology, distribution and illustrations to facilitate their identification.

A Remarkable New Species of the Habenaria nuda Complex (Orchidaceae) from the Espinhaço Range of Eastern Brazil

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jo&#227o A. N. Batista ◽  
Pablo B. Meyer ◽  
Gabriela Cruz-Lustre ◽  
Antonio L. V. Toscano de Brito
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Phylogenetic Analyses ◽  
Plastid Dna ◽  
The State ◽  
Chapada Diamantina ◽  
Espinhaço Range ◽  
Area Of Occupancy ◽  
Eastern Brazil ◽  
Quadrilátero Ferrífero ◽  
Nuclear Its

Habenaria longissima, a new species from the H. nuda species complex, is described and illustrated. It is remarkable for the exceptionally long lateral segments of the petals and labellum, which are the longest among Neotropical Habenaria, both in absolute and inproportional terms. Despite the morphological similarity, Bayesian and parsimony phylogenetic analyses based on nuclear (ITS) and plastid DNA markers (matK), revealed that H. longissima is distantly related to other species of the complex, and constitutes an independent lineage. Its distribution is unusual in that it is the only species of Orchidaceae restricted to the Quadrilátero Ferrífero in the State of Minas Gerais and to Chapada Diamantina, in the central part of the Espinhaço range in the State of Bahia, with the populations 1000 km from each other. Habenaria longissima is a rare species, known only from three localities and four populations and informally proposed as Endangered due to the small area of occupancy and small number of known populations.

scholarly journals Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from an Amazonian fragmented landscape, Juara, Mato Grosso, Brazil, with new records of ant species

2018 ◽  
Vol 58 ◽  
pp. e20185840
Author(s):  
Ricardo Eduardo Vicente ◽  
Alexandre Casadei Ferreira ◽  
Rogério Conceição Lima dos Santos ◽  
Lívia Pires do Prado
Keyword(s):  
Transition Zone ◽  
New Records ◽  
The State ◽  
Fragmented Landscape ◽  
General Knowledge ◽  
Pitfall Traps ◽  
Mato Grosso ◽  
Brazilian State ◽  
First Time

The state of Mato Grosso is the 3rd largest Brazilian state, is covered with three major Brazilian biomes, including the Pantanal, Cerrado, and Amazonia. To date, 449 ant species are recorded in literature for the state. In the present work, we documented the ants sampled along a fragmented landscape, in the municipality of Juara, in the Cerrado-Amazon transition zone in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil. The ant species were captured with Pitfall traps installed in 20 trails with 10 traps in each (totaling 200). Our results show 151 species, belonging to 43 genera and eight subfamilies, of which 28 species were recorded for the first time in the state and five species recorded for the first time in Brazil. Most genera collected were Pheidole Westwood, 1839 (45 species) followed by Crematogaster Lund, 1831 (11 species). By highlighting species recorded for the first time in state of Mato Grosso and Brazil, we hope to encourage new discoveries and increase the general knowledge of the ant fauna of different biomes in the region.

scholarly journals New records of Monstrilloida Sars, 1901 (Crustacea, Copepoda) on the Brazilian northeastern coast

2007 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 281-285 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina de Oliveira Dias ◽  
Sérgio Luiz Costa Bonecker
Keyword(s):  
Coral Reef ◽  
New Records ◽  
Coastal Region ◽  
The State ◽  
Geographical Range ◽  
Nominal Species ◽  
Environmental Diversity ◽  
First Time ◽  
Reef Zones ◽  
Northeastern Coast

During a series of zooplankton surveys carried out from 2001 through 2005 off the coast of the state of Bahia, Brazil, 98 individuals of monstrilloid copepods were collected. These belong to five species (Monstrilla grandis, Cymbasoma cf. longispinosum, Cymbasoma cf. rigidum, Cymbasoma gracilis, and Cymbasoma quadridens). The first three are recorded for the first time in the Bahia coastal region. The geographical range of C. quadridens is expanded to the Brazilian northeastern coast. The results presented herein increase to nine the number of nominal species of Monstrilloida known from off Bahia; the environmental diversity of Caravelas Channel with highly productive areas and coral reef zones harbor an abundant and diverse monstrilloid fauna that should be surveyed in more detail.

scholarly journals Synopsis of the genus Peperomia Ruiz & Pav. (Piperaceae) in Roraima State, Brazil

Hoehnea ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aline Melo ◽  
Elsie F. Guimarães ◽  
Marccus Alves
Keyword(s):  
New Record ◽  
New Records ◽  
Brazilian Amazon ◽  
The State ◽  
Amazon Forest ◽  
Guayana Shield ◽  
Extreme North ◽  
Várzea Forests ◽  
Central South ◽  
Shape And Size

ABSTRACT Peperomia is the second most diverse genus of Piperaceae, with an estimated 1,600 species and a pantropical distribution. This work aims to present a taxonomic synopsis of the genus in the State of Roraima, in the extreme north of the Brazilian Amazon forest and belonging to the central-south portion of the Guayana Shield. Based on collecting expeditions and analysis of specimens in various herbaria, 23 taxa were recognized, with two new records for the State and one of them, a new record for Brazil. The taxa are differentiated mainly by phyllotaxis, shape and size of their leaves, in addition to habit and fruits. They have been found in areas of lowland, submontane, montane, tepui and floodplain (várzea) forests and mostly show a distribution restricted to the Neotropics. Some species in the state are presently known exclusively from Mount Roraima, and restricted to a few specimens.

scholarly journals New records of Chironomus Meigen (Diptera, Chironomidae) in the State of São Paulo, Brazil

2005 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 430-433 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leny Célia da Silva Correia ◽  
Susana Trivinho-Strixino
Keyword(s):  
New Records ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
The State ◽  
São Paulo

scholarly journals Flora vascular da Serra da Pedra Branca, Caldas, Minas Gerais e relações florísticas com áreas de altitude da Região Sudeste do Brasil

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 201-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Munike Gonçalves de Rezende ◽  
Ricardo Cunha Loyola Elias ◽  
Fátima Regina Gonçalves Salimena ◽  
Luiz Menini Neto
Keyword(s):  
New Records ◽  
Vascular Plant ◽  
Montane Forest ◽  
Minas Gerais ◽  
The State ◽  
Mountain Range ◽  
Floristic Similarity ◽  
Floristic Survey ◽  
Ombrophilous Forest ◽  
Southeastern Region

Serra da Pedra Branca (SPB) is a mountain range located in the Southwestern portion of the state Minas Gerais, in the municipality of Caldas (21°58′-21°55′S, 46°24′-46°22′W). It is a striking feature in the landscape, between 1100 and 1780 m.s.m., in a region that is part of the Atlantic Forest Domain and is considered as a priority area for conservation of the flora in Minas Gerais state. The vegetation is composed by a mosaic of “campo de altitude” (which occupy the greatest extension in the area), Seasonal Semidecidual Montane Forest, Dense Ombrophilous High-Montane Forest and Mixed Ombrophilous Forest. The aims of this study was the elaboration of a floristic survey of SPB added to the specimens collected by Anders Fredrik Regnell in the nineteenth century in Caldas and to analyze its floristic similarity with altitude areas of the Southeastern Region of Brazil. There were recorded 502 vascular plant species, distributed in 274 genera and 100 families. The majority of recorded species present herbaceous habit, terricolous, saxicolous and/or rupicolous (representing around 58% of recorded species), predominantly occurring in the “campo de altitude” (ca. 46%). The richest families were Polypodiaceae (20 spp.) and Dryopteridaceae (10 spp.) among the ferns, and Orchidaceae (56 spp.), Asteraceae (27 spp.) and Fabaceae (26 spp.) among the angiosperms. Just one species of gymnosperm was recorded, Araucaria angustifolia (Bertol.) Kuntze (Araucariaceae). Five new records were made for the Minas Gerais flora, 13 species are cited as threatened with extinction in the state and at least six are endemic to SPB. Amongst 127 species collected in XIX century in the region, only 29 collected again, while 375 new records were made for SPB. The analysis of floristic similarity performed between the flora of SPB and other altitude areas of Southeastern Region revealed isolation of SPB in relation to other areas, highlighting its floristic peculiarity, which can probably be explained by its location in a distinct hydrographic basin. The vegetation of the SPB must be considered as endangered since the presence of endemic species and/or threatened species, associated with local environmental conditions suffering accelerated rate of destruction, highlight the need for urgent actions to preserve local biodiversity.

scholarly journals Mantid (Insecta: Mantodea) fauna of Orissa with some new records for the state

2006 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 2539-2543
Author(s):  
P.M. Sureshan ◽  
T. Samanta ◽  
C. Radhakrishnan
Keyword(s):  
New Records ◽  
The State

scholarly journals COALITION REGIME AND INDUSTRIAL POLICY IN JAMMU AND KASHMIR: AGRO-BASED INDUSTRY IN BARAMULLA DISTRICT OF J&K STATE

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (6) ◽  
pp. 437-446
Author(s):  
GH MOHD SHEIKH
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Policy ◽  
Food Processing ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
The State ◽  
Special Importance ◽  
Jammu And Kashmir ◽  
Main Thrust ◽  
Development Policies ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Industry Policy

Since 2002 political structure of the state of Jammu and Kashmir underwent a paradigm shift. A coalition era has deepened its roots in the state politics. PDP and Congress joined the governance of the state as a coalition regime in the year 2002. This coalition regime has brought up the various development policies; one among them was the industry policy which was formulated in the year 2004. Under the policy, food processing including agro-based industry was one among the main thrust areas. Similarly, in the paper an attempt has been made to analyze the factors which were responsible for the formulation of industry policy. In particular, the paper explores the agro-based industry of the Baramulla district in terms of removal of regional disparities/imbalances which exists between three regions of the State. The research paper argues that Kashmir region has widely neglected in terms of industry development while the Jammu region has been given special importance before and after the coalition regime of PDP-Congress (2002-2008).

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