Climate-data records and reforestation efforts in the eighteenth and nineteenth century Coromandel region in peninsular India

International Journal of Ecology and Environmental Sciences

Volumn 35, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 281-287

  Raman, Anantanarayanan ^a  

^a CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate changes; E.G. Balfour; Eighteenth century; J.E. Geister; Nineteenth century; Peninsular India; Presidency of Madras; Reforestation; W. Roxburgh; Weather data

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CONDITIONS; EIGHTEENTH CENTURY; HUMAN ACTIVITY; NINETEENTH CENTURY; REFORESTATION; REVEGETATION; VEGETATION HISTORY;

INDIA;

EID: 73949107770     PISSN: 0377015X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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