“…Although Sal is listed as a “least concern” species in the IUCN Red list (IUCN Species Survival Commission, ), recurrent anthropogenic disturbances such as overexploitation, deforestation, and encroachment combined with climate change, are major threats to Sal forests (Kushwaha & Nandy, ). Results from previous work suggest that the natural distribution of Sal has contracted very rapidly over the last few decades, and it is thus highly vulnerable to climate change (Chitale & Behera, ; Deb, Salman, Halim, Chowdhury, & Roy, ; Sarker, Deb, & Halim, ). Garjan is a “critically endangered” (IUCN Species Survival Commission, ) commercially important Dipterocarp tree naturally distributed in the tropical evergreen, semievergreen, and deciduous forests of Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam (Ashton, ).…”