Granite hill landscape near Dobarin village in Dumka district, Jharkhand, India, showing rocky outcrop terrain with sparse vegetation in the Santhal Pargana uplands, a habitat that supports specialized flora and fauna adapted to rocky microhabitats.

Granite outcrops in the Santhal Pargana uplands act as ecological islands supporting specialized flora and fauna. Yet these rocky ecosystems remain poorly documented in eastern India.

📍 Dobarin, Dumka, Jharkhand
24°36′32″N, 87°11′04″E

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“A field researcher standing in a rocky, scrub-covered upland landscape in Santhal Pargana. He is wearing a white shirt and binoculars around his neck, surrounded by dry-season vegetation, vines, and granite boulders in the background. Sunlight highlights the mixed sal–scrub habitat and the rugged terrain.”

Santhal Pargana’s granite uplands: stone, heat and quiet movement.
Ridges and scrub here shape every trail — langurs, civets, jackals, raptors, all crossing the same mosaic.
Biodiversity reveals itself only when you walk slow and watch closely.

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Life on the Rocks — Granite Outcrop Ecology (Eastern India)

Transect-based microhabitat sampling across granite ridges in Santhal Pargana. Thin (~4–5 cm) dark veins observed, suggesting micro-scale thermal variation.

Baseline faunal data collection underway.

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