Biodiversity assessment of trees in five inland tropical dry evergreen forests of peninsular India

Systematics and Biodiversity

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-12

  Mani, S ^a   Parthasarathy, N ^a  

^a PONDICHERRY UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Conservation; Human disturbance; Monodominance; Permanent plot; Sacred groves; Tree diversity; Tropical dry evergreen forest

Indexed keywords

BOS TAURUS; CAPRA HIRCUS; CHLOROXYLON SWIETENIA; EUPHORBIA; EUPHORBIACEAE; FABACEAE; MEMECYLON; MEMECYLON UMBELLATUM; PTEROSPERMUM; PTEROSPERMUM CANESCENS; RUBIACEAE; RUTACEAE; SAPINDACEAE; SWIETENIA;

EID: 19544383559     PISSN: 14772000     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1477200004001604     Document Type: Article

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