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...
The Ranpur range is part of the Eastern Ghats and its forests are classified as “moist mixed deciduous” in the Champion and Seth (1968) classification, being dominated by Anogeissus latifolia, Aegle marmelos, and Dillenia pentagyna. Calcutta Bamboo (Dendrocalamus strictus) is also a 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...
Precipitation is in the form of rains mainly during rainy season and the area receives on an average 1000 mm annual rainfall. The forests of the division are pure and mixed stands of chir pine and mostly conform to Champion and Seth (1968) 9C1a - lower Shiwalik chir pine forests, lying...
The forest type is tropical thorny forest (Champion and Seth 1968). 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 (Chibbar 1985). Prosopis juliflora (Sw.) ...
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 ...
Carbon (C) sequestration through plantations is one of the important mitigation measures for rising levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in
of印度落叶India落叶林 系统标签: deciduousindia落叶forestcentraldhole INTRODUCTION Habitat loss and fra mentation are the main chal- len es in conservation and mana ement of lar e car- nivores worldwide (Peyton, 1999). Habitat fra men- tation can result in small, isolated populations which be ...
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...
some pockets of moist Tarai Sal - type 3c/C2c” (Champion and Seth 1968). The low density forest areas were clear felled in the past and were converted into plantations of high yielding spe- cies like poplar, eucalyptus, teak and other species. ...