Anthropogenic pressures in tropical forest ecosystem in Western Ghats, India: are they sustainable?
Several million of humans still thrive in the forest of tropics and use resources therein for their livelihood. It is believed that their harvesting patterns could represent a good model for sustainable use of forest resources. This paper reports the impact of Soligas indigenous community on the str...
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| author | Aravind, N.A. Rao,D. Vanaray, G. Poulsen, J. Shaanker, R.U. Ganeshaiah, K.N. |
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| description | Several million of humans still thrive in the forest of tropics and use resources therein for their livelihood. It is believed that their harvesting patterns could represent a good model for sustainable use of forest resources. This paper reports the impact of Soligas indigenous community on the structure and composition of the forest ecosystem using indicator species birds, butterflies (kremen, 1992, 1994) and vegetation of a wildlife sanctuary in South India. The impact of disturbance did not show any discernible pattern for birds and butterfly diversity. However, within scrub jungle and dry deciduous forest, less disturbed sites showed high diversity for butterflies. The study suggests that the pattern of resource use by Soligas affects the forest in and arround their settlements and the impact decreases with the distance from the settlements. (YS) |
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| spelling | CGSpace183802025-01-24T14:13:10Z Anthropogenic pressures in tropical forest ecosystem in Western Ghats, India: are they sustainable? Aravind, N.A. Rao,D. Vanaray, G. Poulsen, J. Shaanker, R.U. Ganeshaiah, K.N. biological indicators birds forest ecology conferences Several million of humans still thrive in the forest of tropics and use resources therein for their livelihood. It is believed that their harvesting patterns could represent a good model for sustainable use of forest resources. This paper reports the impact of Soligas indigenous community on the structure and composition of the forest ecosystem using indicator species birds, butterflies (kremen, 1992, 1994) and vegetation of a wildlife sanctuary in South India. The impact of disturbance did not show any discernible pattern for birds and butterfly diversity. However, within scrub jungle and dry deciduous forest, less disturbed sites showed high diversity for butterflies. The study suggests that the pattern of resource use by Soligas affects the forest in and arround their settlements and the impact decreases with the distance from the settlements. (YS) 2001 2012-06-04T09:06:24Z 2012-06-04T09:06:24Z Book Chapter https://hdl.handle.net/10568/18380 en Oxford-IBH Aravind, N.A., Rao,D., Vanaray, G., Poulsen, J., Shaanker, R.U., Ganeshaiah, K.N. 2001. Anthropogenic pressures in tropical forest ecosystem in Western Ghats, India: are they sustainable? . In: Ganeshaiah, K.N., Shaanker, R.U., Bawa, K.S. (eds.). Proceedings of the International Conference on Tropical Ecosystems: Structure, Diversity and Human Welfare, 15-18 July 2001, Bangalore. :125-128. New Delhi, New Delhi, Oxford-IBH. Oxford-IBH. ISBN: 81-204-1496-5.. |
| spellingShingle | biological indicators birds forest ecology conferences Aravind, N.A. Rao,D. Vanaray, G. Poulsen, J. Shaanker, R.U. Ganeshaiah, K.N. Anthropogenic pressures in tropical forest ecosystem in Western Ghats, India: are they sustainable? |
| title | Anthropogenic pressures in tropical forest ecosystem in Western Ghats, India: are they sustainable? |
| title_full | Anthropogenic pressures in tropical forest ecosystem in Western Ghats, India: are they sustainable? |
| title_fullStr | Anthropogenic pressures in tropical forest ecosystem in Western Ghats, India: are they sustainable? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Anthropogenic pressures in tropical forest ecosystem in Western Ghats, India: are they sustainable? |
| title_short | Anthropogenic pressures in tropical forest ecosystem in Western Ghats, India: are they sustainable? |
| title_sort | anthropogenic pressures in tropical forest ecosystem in western ghats india are they sustainable |
| topic | biological indicators birds forest ecology conferences |
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