Shrink-swell soils of Palakkad district, Kerala: Their characteristics and classification

Prasad, Jagdish; Kumar, K. S. Anil; Nair, K.M.; Dhanorkar, B.A.; Niranjan, K.V.; Mohekar, D. S.; Koyal, Arti

doi:10.5958/0974-0228.2021.00033.5

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“…Soils of the district were classified under orders Alfisols, Entisols, Inceptisols, Mollisols, Oxisols, Ultisols and Vertisols. Recently Jagdish Prasad et al (2021) have reported occurance of shrink-swell soils in Palakkad district of Kerala. The data obtained as raster was converted into vector using GIS software; the spatial data was generated using ArcMap to create different theme maps.…”

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Land Resource Inventory for Evaluation of Land Capability and Land Use Planning in Palakkad District of Kerala State using Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques

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Meena²,

Arya³

2019

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Land resource inventory was carried out in Palakkad District using remote sensing, GIS and GPS technologies. IRS- ID, LISS-III Satellite imageries were used to delineate different soil units based on image characteristics and was correlated with the different landforms. A standard soil survey methodology was followed to prepare soil resources map of the area. The inherent soil properties as an internal attributes and topography, physiographic unit, slope and climate as an external land feature of each mapping unit were evaluated for their capability occuring. It was found that soils developed on valleys and pediplain covered an area of 45.7 per cent under agriculture and plantation crops and have been classified in Land capability class II and III. Soils of foothill slope and pediment constituting 5.7 per cent of the area were classified in class III and IV and covered by plantation and open scrub. Soils of hill side slope covered an area of 8.8 per cent and classified under class VI and VII with plantation and open scrub. Reserve Forest area which constitutes 29.1 percent was not grouped as per capability classification criteria. The study indicated that Physical, chemical and biological phenomenon occur in natural habitat and conservation processes play a decisive role and should be considered for designing proper Land use planning aimed at the effective utilization of land according to their classes.

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Land Resource Inventory for Evaluation of Land Capability and Land Use Planning in Palakkad District of Kerala State using Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques

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Meena²,

Arya³

2019

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“…The locality is a rain shadow area dominated by dry zone vegetation interspersed with riparian vegetation. The mean annual rainfall in Palakkad district is 2135 mm (Prasad et al 2021). The holotype and the paratypes were found at night, actively foraging for insects.…”

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A new species of large-bodied Hemidactylus Goldfuss, 1820 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Western Ghats of India

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A new large (94–107mm SVL) species of gecko of the genus Hemidactylus is described from the drier parts of the Western Ghats of India. The new species is closely related to H. graniticolus, from which it can be distinguished based on dorsal pholidosis at mid-body, the structure of tubercles on the dorsum, dorsal pholidosis on the tail. The new species is also 6.6–7.2% divergent from H. graniticolus in the ND2 mitochondrial gene.

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Shrink-swell soils of Palakkad district, Kerala: Their characteristics and classification

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Land Resource Inventory for Evaluation of Land Capability and Land Use Planning in Palakkad District of Kerala State using Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques

Land Resource Inventory for Evaluation of Land Capability and Land Use Planning in Palakkad District of Kerala State using Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques

A new species of large-bodied Hemidactylus Goldfuss, 1820 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Western Ghats of India

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