Gallery - Shivani Jadeja

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