forest classification of Indiarevisiting forest typesclimate changeChampion and Seth undertook the pioneering work on classification of forests in India. Earlier Sir H.G. Champion had compiled his monumental work 鈥楶reliminary Survey of Forest Types of India and Burma鈥 in 1936. The original work...
Impact of anthropogenic disturbance on species diversity and vegetation structure of a lowland tropical rainforest was studied in the foothills of Eastern Himalaya, India. Tree species richness, density, basal area and the diversity indices were found si
The systematic literature review was carried out to gather and summarize information from different studies conducted on forest ecosystems and quantification methods used for biomass estimation and carbon stock in different forests types and states of India. In general, great variability occurs in abovegro...
The Reserve is the home of several vegetation types, namely bhabar dun sal, dry Siwalik sal, West Gangetic moist mixed deciduous, cane brakes, barringtonia swamps, eastern wet alluvial grasslands and khair sissoo (Acacia catechu) (Champion and Seth, 1968). Fig. 2 illustrates the major ...
Though for the most part wet deciduous type with Sal (Shorea robusta) as the dominant species in this region but mainly three types of forest categories are found over the regions (Champion and Seth 1968; Roy et al., 2015) i.e., Dry Peninsula Sal Forest (Shorea robusta (Sal), Tech...
tral India. Indirect evidences (pu mark, scrape, scats) of these three lar e sympatric carnivores were collected from carnivore si n survey (total effort 1162 km in winter and 1674 km in summer) in each samplin unit [i.e. forest beat (n=44) of the intensive study area (410 km²)...
roxburghii forest were common during the warm and dry months (from mid-April to mid-June) especially on the drier southern aspects. Table 1. General details of the forest types Mean temperature ranges (°C) FT Forest type* Type (Champion & Seth 1968) Altitude (m, a.s.l.) ...
(Champion and Seth1968). The vegetation is mainly dominated by middle storied thorny trees with open patches having scattered distribution. The soil type on the ridge has been reported as sandy loam to loam (Chibbar1985).Prosopis juliflora(Sw.) DC, an exotic species, is the dominant tree in...
Adj.1.deciduous- (of plants and shrubs) shedding foliage at the end of the growing season plant life,flora,plant- (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion evergreen- (of plants and shrubs) bearing foliage throughout the year ...
Moist and Dry Temperate forests of Western Himalaya are classified into17 and 11 subtypes, respectively (Champion and Seth 1968). In all 17 sites were selected randomly which covered 13 subtypes of Moist and 4 subtypes from the Dry Forest. A vegetation survey was conducted by laying ten quadra...