Cultural drivers of reforestation in tropical forest groves of the Western Ghats of India

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 329, Issue , 2014, Pages 393-400

  Bhagwat, Shonil A ^a,b   Nogué, Sandra ^b,c   Willis, Katherine J ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Community based management; Cultural revitalization; Forest fragments; India; Refugia; Sacred groves

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; ECOLOGY; RESTORATION; TROPICS; VEGETATION;

COMMUNITY-BASED MANAGEMENT; CULTURAL REVITALIZATION; FOREST FRAGMENTS; INDIA; REFUGIA; SACRED GROVES;

REFORESTATION;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; COMMUNITY RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; CULTURAL LANDSCAPE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; LAND TENURE; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; REFORESTATION; REFUGIUM; RELIGION; TROPICAL FOREST;

CONSERVATION; ECOLOGY; FORESTS; INDIA; PLANTS; REFORESTATION; TROPICS;

INDIA; WESTERN GHATS;

EID: 84907142396     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2013.11.017     Document Type: Article

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