Identifying conservation priority zones for effective management of tropical forests in Eastern Ghats of India

Balaguru, B.; Britto, S. John; Nagamurugan, N.; Natarajan, D.; Soosairaj, S.

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“…All the community forests were categorized into low, medium and high priority according to the ranges of species richness, risk levels, endemism (irreplaceability) level and concentration of rare and threatened species (vulnerability level) by assigning appropriate scoring ( Margules et al., 2002 ; Samant et al., 2002 ; Balaguru et al., 2006 ; Pant and Samant, 2007 ). The number of species recorded per unit sampled area (0.5 ha) in each forest represents species richness.…”

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Assessing the effectiveness of community managed forests for plant diversity conservation in Meghalaya, Northeast India

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Assessing the effectiveness of community managed forests for plant diversity conservation in Meghalaya, Northeast India

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“…These hills are still rich in biodiversity, despite heavy exploitation, and they contain more than 960 species of angiosperm and gymnosperm. There are many endemic, endangered, and medicinally important species distributed within these hills [ 34 , 35 ].…”

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Critical Analysis of Forest Degradation in the Southern Eastern Ghats of India: Comparison of Satellite Imagery and Soil Quality Index

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India has one of the largest assemblages of tropical biodiversity, with its unique floristic composition of endemic species. However, current forest cover assessment is performed via satellite-based forest surveys, which have many limitations. The present study, which was performed in the Eastern Ghats, analysed the satellite-based inventory provided by forest surveys and inferred from the results that this process no longer provides adequate information for quantifying forest degradation in an empirical manner. The study analysed 21 soil properties and generated a forest soil quality index of the Eastern Ghats, using principal component analysis. Using matrix modules and geospatial technology, we compared the forest degradation status calculated from satellite-based forest surveys with the degradation status calculated from the forest soil quality index. The Forest Survey of India classified about 1.8% of the Eastern Ghats’ total area as degraded forests and the remainder (98.2%) as open, dense, and very dense forests, whereas the soil quality index results found that about 42.4% of the total area is degraded, with the remainder (57.6%) being non-degraded. Our ground truth verification analyses indicate that the forest soil quality index along with the forest cover density data from the Forest Survey of India are ideal tools for evaluating forest degradation.

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“…In case of Pueraria tuberosa , wide-spread harvesting for its tubers restricts its reproduction and regeneration. Due to such propagation diffi culties and overexploitation, species like C. paniculatus, P. Tuberose and Tinospora cordifolia are categorized under 'Nearly threatened' (Balaguru et al 2006 ), 'threatened' (Rathore and Shekhawat 2009 ) and enlistedas 'threatened plant species of India' (Bhat et al 2013 ), respectively. C. ternatea is included in the list of rare species by International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (Pandey et al 1993 ).…”

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Identifying conservation priority zones for effective management of tropical forests in Eastern Ghats of India

Cited by 5 publications

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Assessing the effectiveness of community managed forests for plant diversity conservation in Meghalaya, Northeast India

Assessing the effectiveness of community managed forests for plant diversity conservation in Meghalaya, Northeast India

Critical Analysis of Forest Degradation in the Southern Eastern Ghats of India: Comparison of Satellite Imagery and Soil Quality Index

Biodiversity of Lianas

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