Ecology and Vegetation of Indian Desert
Author: David N. Sen
Publisher: Agro Botanical Publishers
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13:
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Faunal Ecology and Conservation of the Great Indian Desert
Author: C. Sivaperuman
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2008-11-01
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 3540874097
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Great Indian Desert is characterized by harsh climatic conditions and different habitats, from grassland to abandoned human habitations. This book examines the regional climate and microclimatic regime of this desert and its diverse faunal inhabitants.
Flora of the Indian Desert
Author: M. M. Bhandari
Publisher:
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 468
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKConservation of Threatened Desert Plants
Author: Suresh Kumar
Publisher: Scientific Publishers
Published: 2015-05-01
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9386102285
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book aims to fulfil this long felt need giving details of ex-situ conservation of 20 arid species. Each chapter has information on taxonomic citation, physiognomic description, uses of these species, threats faced and its regeneration protocols. The presentation with large number of coloured photographs is in question answer style to increase the readability so as to get across the wide spectrum of conservation fraternity. This book will be useful to the students, teachers and researchers engaged in conservation biology, forestry, horticulture, plant ecology, agroforestry and desertification control programmes.
Ecology And Environment
Author: P. D. Sharma
Publisher: Rastogi Publications
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 616
ISBN-13: 9788171339051
DOWNLOAD EBOOK1. Introduction 2. Climatic and Topographic Factors 3. Edaphic Factors (Soil Science)4. Biotic Factor 5. Ecological Adaptations 6. Autecology of Species 7. Population - Structure and Dynamics 8. Community-Structure and Classification 9. Community Dynamics (Ecological Succession)10. Ecosystem: Structure and Function 11. Habitat Ecology 12. Degradation of Natural Resources andthe Environmental Problems 13. Energy Crisis and Non-Conventional Sources 14. Biodiversity and Wildlife of India and its Conservation 15. Environment and Development-India's Viewpoint16. Global Warming and Climate Change 17.
Ecology of World Vegetation
Author: O.W. Archibold
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 520
ISBN-13: 9401100098
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe ecology of world vegetation is described in numer all of the drafting and photographic work. They have ous books and journals, but these are usually very spe spent many hours on this project and their care and skill cialized in their scope and treatment. This book provides is reflected in the consistently high quality of the illus a synthesis of this literature. A brief introductory chap trations throughout the book. Many friends and col ter outlines general ecological concepts and subsequent leagues have provided photographs. It has not been chapters examine the form and function of the major possible to include all of them, but the 'global' perspect biomes of the world. A similar organization has been ive of the book has been greatly enhanced in this way. used for each biome type. These chapters begin with a I wish to thank them all for the time and trouble they description of environmental conditions and a brief have taken to supply this material. I must also thank account of floristic diversity in a regional context. The Mary Dykes and the staff of the interlibrary loans de remaining pages describe characteristic adaptations and partment of the Library, University of Saskatchewan, ecosystem processes. for their unfailing ability to get even the most obscure Although there is a rapidly growing literature on eco references.
Ecology and Biogeography in India
Author: M.S. Mani
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 809
ISBN-13: 940102331X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book describes the outstanding features of the ecology and bio geography of the Indian region, comprising former British India, Nepal, Bhutan, Ceylon and Burma. It summarizes the results of nearly four decades' studies and field explorations and discussions with students on the distribution of plants and animals, practically throughout this vast area and on the underlying factors. A number of specialists in geology, meteorology, botany, zoology, ecology and anthropology have also actively collaborated with me and have contributed valuable chapters in their respective fields. India has an exceptionally rich and highly diversified flora and fauna, exhibiting complex composition, character and affinities. Although the fauna of the Indian region as a whole is less completely known than its flora, we are nevertheless fairly well acquainted with at least the salient features of its faunal characters to enable us to present a meaningful discussion on some of the outstanding peculiarities of the biogeography of India. A general synthesis of the available, though much scattered, information should prove useful to future students of biogeography throughout the world.
Desert Plants
Author: Kishan Gopal Ramawat
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2009-12-16
Total Pages: 508
ISBN-13: 3642025501
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDeserts appear very fascinating during our short visits. However, the lives of plants and animals are very dif?cult under the harsh climatic conditions of high tempe- ture and scant water supply in deserts, sometimes associated with high concent- tions of salt. The editor of this book was born and brought up in the Great Indian Desert, and has spent much of his life studying the growth and metabolism of desert plants. It is very charming on a cool summer evening to sit at the top of a sand dune listening only to blowing air and nothing else. It has been my dream to prepare a volume on desert plants encompassing various aspects of desert plant biology. In this book, I have tried to present functional and useful aspects of the vegetation resources of deserts along with scienti?c input aimed at understanding and impr- ing the utility of these plants. The scant vegetation of deserts supports animal life and provides many useful medicines, timber and fuel wood for humans. Therefore, there are chapters devoted to medicinal plants (Chap. 1), halophytes (Chaps. 13, 14), and fruit plants (Chaps. 17, 20). Desert plants have a unique reproductive biology (Chaps. 9–11), well-adapted eco-physiological and anatomical charact- istics (Chap. 7), and specialised metabolism and survival abilities. These plants are dif?cult to propagate and pose many problems to researchers developing biote- nological approaches for their amelioration (Chaps. 18–20).
Ecology And Vegetation Of Indian Desert
Author: David N. Sen
Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9788177540086
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEcology and management of aquatic vegetation in the Indian subcontinent
Author: B. Gopal
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9400919840
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLife originated and evolved in water. Later the The tropical countries where the need to under plants moved out of water, conquered the land and stand the natural ecosystems is far greater because became dominant over it. The evolution through they are under intensive pressure from develop the millennia resulted in enormous complexity of ment from a rapidly growing human population, form, tissue organisation, reproductive mechan have generally devoted much less attention to the isms and specialisation of taxa in different niches. studies of aquatic ecosystems. The Indian subconti At some stage during evolution, some plants devel nent is a well-recognised biogeographic region with oped appropriate morphological and physiological a distinct geological history, climate, soils and adaptations and reverted back to the aquatic and/ biota. It is also distinct in the history of human civilisation and cultures which have a profound bear or semi-aquatic habitat. These plants, perhaps with the exception of a few ing on the natural ecosystems. This book is in with beautiful flowers, have attracted little atten tended to provide the state of our knowledge of the tion from mankind. The fact that humans evolved aquatic and semi-aquatic vegetation in the inland in a tropical forest or savanna environment appears freshwaters of the subcontinent. The book covers responsible for a permanent bias in human atti only the herbaceous vegetation, since there is al tudes towards land and its biota.
