Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1. NTFP Marketing for Poverty Alleviation: A Case of Participatory Management in Northern India
Kaushalendra Kumar Jha1 and Abhay Kumar Patil2
1,2Former Professor, Indian Institute of Forest Management, Bhopal, India
1Former Principal Chief Conservator of Forests, Uttar Pradesh, Department of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, Lucknow, India
2Principal Chief Conservator of Forests, Madhya Pradesh Forest department, Bhopal, India
Chapter 2. Avifauna Composition, Dynamics, and Abundance Modelling in Ramsar Wetlands of Gangetic Plain, India
Kaushalendra Kumar Jha1, Craig Roy McKinley2 and Asha Khanna3
1Tropical Forest, Ecosystem and Environment Management Unit, Faculty Area of Technical Forestry, Indian Institute of Forest Management, Nehru Nagar, Bhopal, MP, India
2Oklahoma State University, Emeritus Professor Natural Resource Ecology and Management Department, Stillwater, OK, USA
3Faculty Area of Information Technology and Quantitative Techniques, Indian Institute of Forest Management, Nehru Nagar, Bhopal, MP, India
Chapter 3. The Impact of Urban and Agricultural Landcover Expansion on Eagles in North America
Michael O’Neal Campbell
Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada
Chapter 4. The Two Tigers: The Jaguar (‘El Tigre’) of the Americas and the Tiger of Asia
Michael O’Neal Campbell
Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada
Chapter 5. Landscape Ecology Towards Long-Term Management: A Case Study of Tigers (Panthera Tigris) in Terai Arc Landscape, India
K. Ramesh, N. Naveen, T. Mondal and A. J. T. Johnsingh
Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India
Chapter 6. The Impact of Hypoxia and Dead Zones on Marine Habitat Destruction and Fish Populations
Sanaa A. Mustafa1 and Awadhesh N. Jha2
1Department of Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Republic of Iraq
2School of Biological and Marine Sciences, University of Plymouth, Drake Circus, Plymouth PL4 8AA, UK
Chapter 7. Geodesy and Geophysical Applications for Large Raptor Ecological Research
Michael Campbell
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada
Chapter 8. Radio Detection and Ranging (RADAR)
Applications for Animal Ecological Research
Michael Campbell
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada
Chapter 9. Geophysical Techniques and Applications for Animal Ecological Research: The Case of Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR)
Michael Campbell
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada
Chapter 10. Floral Succession on Refractory Land: Emphasis on Bauxite Mine Spoils, India
Abhay Kumar Singh1,2 and Kaushalendra Kumar Jha2
1Ex-Director, Ministry of Mines, Government of India, New Delhi, India
2Former PCCF, Department of Forest, Environment and Climate Change, Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow, India
Chapter 11. Protected Areas to Landscapes: Changing Paradigm of Conservation in India
Aditi Bhardwaj1 and Anil Kumar Bhardwaj2
1Doctoral Researcher, School of Development Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India
2Retd. Principal Chief Conservator of Forest and Head of Forest Force, Kerala, India
Chapter 12. Ecotourism for Biodiversity Conservation and Community Development
Vineet K. Shrivastava1, Jagdish Kala2 and Arpita Srivastava3
1Assistant Professor, Amity Institute of Global Warming & Ecological Studies, Amity University,
Noida, India
2Former Director General of Forests & Secretary, MoEF & CC, Govt. of India, New Delhi, India
3Scientist, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Pusa, New Delhi, India
Chapter 13. Introduction of Forestry Species and Probiotics for Phytoremediation of Waterlogged Agriculture Landscape
Kumud Dubey1 and K. P. Dubey2
1Forestry Research Centre for Eco-Rehabilitation, 3/1 Lajpat Rai Road, Prayagraj -211002, U.P., India
2Principal Chief Conservator of Forest (Research and Training), Uttar Pradesh Environment,
Forest and Climate Change Department, Lucknow, UP, India
Chapter 14. Sustainable Solid Waste Management
Indushree Maharana
Project Associate I, Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, India
Chapter 15. Social Theory and Vulture Conservation in Africa
Michael Campbell
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada
Index