Useful Links & Study Material
Books: A very nice book about odonata of India.
It's useful as a field guide. It provides essential information about ecology
of Indian odonata. Written and compiled by Dr. K.A. Subramanian: India - A
Lifescape Dragonflies of India (a Field guide). http://www.ias.ac.in/initiat/sci_ed/lifescape/odonates-introduction.pdf
A nice book for understanding Biology of
Dragonflies: http://medusa.jcu.edu.au/odonata_digital_literature/Corbet/Corbet_1962_searchable.pdf
Blogs/Websites:
A nice web-blog for identification of Asian odonata
(although it's focused on Thai odonata!) It provides a lot of photographs to
study identification and talks well about different morphological forms of
odonata which are not easily seen/photographed http://thaiodonata.blogspot.com/
A site which gives you detailed information on Odonata in
general: http://www.windsofkansas.com/Bodonata/odonata.html
A good web-blog for identification help http://www.nerdybirders.com/html/dragonflies/dragonflies.html
A bunch of people at Lunds University, Sweden who are
working on genotypic variation in odonata. http://www.lu.se/phenotypic-evolution/projects
Another interesting site to go through, although it talks
about American species! http://southwestdragonflies.net/ The
kind of collection they have is really appreciable!
A good site for dragonfly photos http://www.dragonflypix.com/speciespages/orthetrum_taeniolatum.html
General information on Odonates: http://tolweb.org/Odonata
Odonata Life Cycle for beginners: http://www.odesforbeginners.com/bio_life_cycle/lifecycle.aspx
Papers/Research Articles:
1. Investigation into Dragonfly wing structure and
Composite Fabrication.(Texas A&M University) http://tiims.tamu.edu/2005summerREU/papers/McLendon.pdf
2. Dragonfly migration has always been a mystery.
Researchers have tried to solve it by using latest technology and following
odonates throughout their journey. Read this interesting paper by Wikelski
et al. (2006).
3. A TED talk by Charles Anderson on migrating Pantala
flavescens. http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/charles_anderson_discovers_dragonflies_that_cross_oceans.html
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