Shivani Jadeja
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Field work at Cedar Point Biological Station (CPBS), Keith County, Nebraska, USA (2014-16)
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Yucca glauca flowers ready for experimentation
Yucca moths (Tegeticula yuccasella) resting in a yucca flower during the day. Photo Credit: Anna Tatarko (http://www.annatatarko.com/)
Undergraduate student Tiffany Riffle readies a yucca inflorescence for the experiment
Undergraduate student Masiel Maza measuring the growth of a hand-pollinated yucca ovary
Flower-eating beetles damaging flowers of a protected yucca flowering stalk that was later discarded :(


Field work at the Blackbuck National Park, Velavadar, Gujarat, India (2009)
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Pods of mesquite, which is a woody invasive in semi-arid grasslands of India
Field assistant Haji Khan scans the grassland to count blackbuck
A female-dominated blackbuck group moving through the grassland
Territorial blackbuck male sitting on his dungpile in the middle of his solitary territory
Blackbuck male adding to his dungpile on a classical lek
From left to right: Intact blackbuck dung pellet, broken blackbuck dung pellet with mesquite seeds, and extracted mesquite seeds
A seedling of the invasive woody tree, mesquite, emerges from a blackbuck dung pellet on a grass-free blackbuck lek
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