Biodiversity in Tropical Ecosystems
Contents: I. Introduction. 1. Biodiversity in India: an introduction/S.K. Tripathi. 2. Biodiversity information in India: Status and future scope/Arijit Roy and P.S. Roy. II. Plant diversity assessment and change. 3. Floristic diversity of Nagaland, northeast India – an overview/Sapu Changkija. 4. Rapid plant diversity assessment in Uttarakhand/Arijit Roy and Deepak Kushwaha. 5. Changes in liana diversity over a decade in Indian tropical dry evergreen forests/Swapna S. Khadanga, C. Muthumperumal and N. Parthasarathy. 6. Changes in plant diversity along disturbance gradient in a dry tropical region, India/Rup Narayan and Shachi Agrawal. 7. Plant diversity change along disturbance gradient in Mizoram, northeast India/Sh Bidyasagar Singh, B.P. Mishra, S.K. Tripathi. 8. Changes in plant species composition, biomass structure and allocation pattern in a peri-urban region in tropical India/Shachi Agrawal and Rup Narayan. III. Diversity of leaf and reproductive parts. 9. Diversity of pollen morphological characters in Acer Linnaeus (Sapindaceae) from Darjiling and Sikkim Himalayas/D. Lama, S. Moktan and A.P. Das. 10. Diversity in reproductive phenology of Indian dry tropical forest trees/C.P. Kushwaha, S.K. Tripathi and K.P. Singh. 11. Diversity of leaf deciduousness in important trees of dry tropical forest, India/ C.P. Kushwaha, S.K. Tripathi and K.P. Singh. 12. Regeneration status of Melocanna baccifera (Bambusaseae) after gregarious flowering in Assam, India/Pator Singnar, Dangerous Narzary, Arun Jyoti Nath and Ashesh Kumar Das. IV. Diversity of plant utilization. 13. Plant species diversity and its utilization pattern in homegardens of Mizo community, North-East India/U.K. Sahoo and L. Jeeceelee. 14. Diversity of medicinally important weeds in a sub-urban town of West Bengal, India/Santanu Saha. 15. Diversity of forest resource and its utilization in Balasore district of Odisha/Ranjan Kumar Kar. V. Soil and litter microbial diversity. 16. Microbial diversity in the lower belt of eastern Himalaya/S.R. Joshi, Kaushik Bhattacharjee, Aishiki Banerjee and Donald A. Bareh. 17. An overview on fungal diversity in North East India: options for research and development/Vineet Kumar Mishra and Bhim Pratap Singh. 18. Diversity of micro-fungi on decaying leaves of Alnus nepalensis and castanopsis hystrix in subtropical plantation forests of Manipur, North East India/A. Kayini, R.R. Pandey, G. Sharma. 19. Variations in soil physico-chemical properties of different traditional homegardens of Mizoram, Northeast India/U.K. Sahoo. VI. Biodiversity conservation. 20. The nature and function of traditional homegardens in Assam, Northeast India: a review/Tapasi Das and Ashesh Kumar Das. 21. Advancements in PCR based molecular markers and its application in biodiversity conservation/Subhajit Mukherjee, Souvik Ghatak, Ravi Prakash Yadav, Zothansanga, G. Gurusubramanian and N. Senthil Kumar. 22. Diversity of medicinal plants and their conservation in Darjeeling Hills, Eastern Himalayas, India/Santanu Saha. 23. Biodiversity conservation in agro-ecosystem for future food security/U.S. Nayak, S.K. Mohanty, R. Kar and G. Shial. 24. Mainstreaming traditional knowledge and ethno-veterinary practices among tribes of Chhattisgarh: Issues and challenges/Rabindra Nath Pati. 25. Conservation of threatened potential ethnic herbal species of Ericaceae from Naga hills, India/Subhasis Panda. 26. Biodiversity in India: a synthesis/S.K. Tripathi.
Over the years, our scientific understanding and technical skills on biodiversity researches have expanded in many terrestrial ecosystems with less information on various aspects of tropical forest biodiversity. This book has presented an overview on current state of biodiversity in different Indian tropical natural and modified ecosystems. Information presented in this book covered an overview on biodiversity, present status and future scope of biodiversity in India, floristic diversity of Nagaland, plant diversity assessment in Uttrakhand, decadal change in lianas in evergreen forest and changes in plant composition, biomass structure and allocation patterns along disturbance gradient in different tropical ecosystems in India. Further, it covered information on diversity of pollen morphology, diversity in leaf deciduousness and reproductive parts in tropical ecosystems, and regeneration in bamboo following gregarious flowering in Assam, northeast, India. It also contained information on plant diversity utilizations in tropical ecosystems of the country, and diversity of soil and litter microbes in northeast India. Finally, it emphasized conservation of tropical ecosystem, their plants and traditional practices, and in the last synthesis of information on biodiversity. This book will serve as a reference for policy makers and researchers working on biodiversity conservation issues in tropical regions.
