Non-timber forest products in the Western Ghats of India: Floristic attributes, extraction and regeneration

Journal of Tropical Forest Science

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 243-257

  Muraleedharan, P K ^a   Sasidharan, N ^a   Kumar, B M ^b   Sreenivasan, M A ^a   Seethalakshmi, K K ^a  

^a KERALA FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^b KERALA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Indigenous knowledge; Regeneration; Species loss

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; FIRES; FRUITS; RESINS; TIMBER;

HARVESTING FRUITS; NON-TIMBER FOREST PRODUCTS (NTFP); NTFP MANAGEMENT; RESIN FLOW;

FORESTRY;

BIODIVERSITY; FIRES; FORESTRY; FORESTS; FRUITS; SYNTHETIC POLYMERS;

EID: 27544446096     PISSN: 01281283     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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