Commercial harvesting and regeneration of epiphytic macrolichen communities in the Western Ghats, India

Environmental Conservation

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 334-341

  Molleman, Lucas ^a,b   Boeve, Sil ^a   Wolf, Jan ^a   Oostermeijer, Gerard ^a   Devy, Soubadra ^c   Ganesan, Rengaian ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

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

Author keywords

extractive reserves; lichens; non timber forest products; Paliyan tribes; Palni Hills; sustainable yield

Indexed keywords

EXTRACTIVE RESERVES; LICHENS; NON-TIMBER FOREST PRODUCTS; PALIYAN TRIBES; PALNI HILLS; SUSTAINABLE YIELDS;

ECOLOGY; REFORESTATION; TIMBER;

HARVESTING;

ABUNDANCE; BARK; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMERCIALIZATION; EPIPHYTE; HARVESTING; LICHEN; NONTIMBER FOREST PRODUCT; SAMPLING; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY; YIELD RESPONSE;

EXTRACTIVES; FOREST PRODUCTS; FORESTS; HARVESTING; INDIA; LICHENS; MOUNTAINS; REFORESTATION; RESERVES; YIELD;

INDIA; PALNI HILLS; TAMIL NADU; WESTERN GHATS;

EID: 84855604621     PISSN: 03768929     EISSN: 14694387     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0376892911000142     Document Type: Article

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