A vegetation based approach to biodiversity gap analysis in the Agastyamalai region, Western Ghats, India

Ambio

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 529-536

  Ramesh, B R ^a,b   Menon, Shaily ^b   Bawa, Kamaljit S ^a  

^a FRENCH INSTITUTE OF PONDICHERRY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY GAP ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; GAP ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; PROTECTED AREA;

INDIA, WESTERN GHATS;

EID: 0031474293     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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25. This paper represents contribution # XX of a research program in Conservation of Biodiversity and the Environment jointly coordinated by the Tata Energy Research Institute and the University of Massachusetts at Boston. The program is supported in part by the MacArthur Foundation. Further funding was provided by a grant from the Pew Charitable Trust's Pew Scholar Program in Conservation and the Environment (KSB) and by a Fulbright Fellowship (BRR). We are grateful to the French Institute, Pondicherry, for providing unpublished data. Dario de Franceschi is especially acknowledged for his contribution during fieldwork for the vegetation maps of the French Institute and J. P. Pascal provided helpful comments on the manuscript. We thank the staff of the Forest Survey of India, Dehra Dun, for their assistance and cooperation. We thank George Powell for introducing us to CAMRIS and owe special thanks to Glenn Ford and Janet Casey, its creators, for their assistance with the software during various stages of the project.
26. First submitted 12 January 1996. Accepted for publication after revision 21 August 1996.