Sacred groves in southern eastern ghats, india: Are they better managed than forest reserves?

Tropical Ecology

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 79-90

  Rao, B Ravi Prasad ^a   Babu, M V Suresh ^b   Reddy, M Sridhar ^a   Reddy, A Madhusudhana ^c   Rao, V Srinivasa ^b   Sunitha, S ^a   Ganeshaiah, K N ^d  

^a SRI KRISHNADEVARAYA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b ASHOKA TRUST FOR RESEARCH IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (India)

^c YOGI VEMANA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Eastern ghats; Population structure; Reserve forest; Sacred grove; Tree diversity; Tropical forest

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FOREST INVENTORY; INTEGRATED APPROACH; NATURE RESERVE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SHRUB; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STAND STRUCTURE; STATE ROLE; TROPICAL FOREST;

ANDHRA PRADESH; EASTERN GHATS; INDIA;

EID: 78149383254     PISSN: 05643295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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