Hoolock Gibbon in an Indo-Burma hot spot region is facing numerous threats. Threats include habitat loss due to human encroachment, developmental projects and tea garden expansion. In Assam and Mizoram Hoolock Gibbons are now found in unfamiliar areas, such as private lands in fringe areas. Hoolock Gibbons are obligate brachiators who depend on the thick forest canopy for optimum niche exploitation. Habitat loss, in the form of fragmentation, has restricted and isolated their populations to smaller patches within the forests. No information is available on the status of Hoolock gibbon from...
Hoolock Gibbon in an Indo-Burma hot spot region is facing numerous threats. Threats include habitat loss due to human encroachment, developmental proj...
It is well known that air pollution, particularly particulates, originating from multiple sources (industries, vehicles, rocks, mining and quarry), represents a threat to environment as well as human health.Environmental contamination and human exposure with respect to dust pollution have dramatically increased during the past ten years.However, no systematic study has been done in ecologically sensitive hilly regions like Aizawl, Mizoram, North-East India which is also an integral part of extremely diverse Indo-Burma hot spot region. No comparative study has been done to study the impacts of...
It is well known that air pollution, particularly particulates, originating from multiple sources (industries, vehicles, rocks, mining and quarry), re...
North East India is an integral part of an Indo- Burma hot spot region and popularly known as paradise unexplored. Present book Environmental Issues and Sustainable Development of NE India discuss and review the works performed on multifaceted environmental issues like biodiversity of North East (NE) India with special reference to forestry/agroforestry, sacred groves/forests, shifting cultivation, impact of shifting cultivation on air quality, Bamboo flowering and its impact on soil, Agroforestry implications in sustainable development, Role of traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) in...
North East India is an integral part of an Indo- Burma hot spot region and popularly known as paradise unexplored. Present book Environmental Issues a...
Wetlands in current Anthropocene are facing severe water quality deterioration resulting from rapid industrialization and urbanization. Heavy metals emanating from diverse natural and anthropogenic sources are the most hazardous and toxic substance which may perturb the entire wetland ecosystem and concomitantly affect human health. Several limitations existing with chemical technologies paved the way for utilization of wetland plants as bio-resource through phytoremediation mechanism as cost effective, eco-friendly and sustainable technology for the removal of heavy metals. Present book...
Wetlands in current Anthropocene are facing severe water quality deterioration resulting from rapid industrialization and urbanization. Heavy metals e...
Horticulture and agroforestry systems are gaining much attention in view of rapidly expanding population and habitat fragmentation. At the outset it is worth to mention that North East India being an integral part of an Indo-Burma hotspot harbours immense diversity prevailing in agroforestry systems and home of horticulture crops including vegetables. First chapter deals with introduction to agroforestry and horticulture with special reference to North East India; its status and advances. The chapter deals with multipurpose trees (MPTs) and their role in agroforestry systems. Chapter 2 deals...
Horticulture and agroforestry systems are gaining much attention in view of rapidly expanding population and habitat fragmentation. At the outset it i...
