Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1. Plant Composition of Worldwide Tropical Dry Forests
(G. N. Tanjina Hasnat – Institute of Forestry and Environmental Sciences, University of Chittagong, Chittagong, Bangladesh)
Chapter 2. Plant Diversity, Biomass Dynamics and Carbon Storage in Seasonally Dry Tropical Forest Ecosystems of Southern Haryana, India
(Vikram Singh and S. R. Gupta – Department of Botany, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, India)
Chapter 3. Late History of Tropical Dry Forests in Colombia: 45 Years of Anthropic Transformation
(Roy González-M. and Camila Pizano – Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos, Alexander von Humboldt, Bogotá, Colombia)
Chapter 4. Lichens Distribution Pattern in Tropical Dry Forest: A Case Study from Bhadra Wildlife Sanctuary, Central Western Ghats
(K. S. Vinayaka – Plant Biology Laboratory, Department of Botany, Sri Venkataramana Swamy College, Karnataka, India)
Chapter 5. Relevance of Tree Crown Architecture in Conservation and Management of Dry Tropical Forests
(Jacinta U. Ezenwenyi, Onyekachi Chukwu and Blessing C. Ojomah – Department of Forestry and Wildlife, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Nigeria)
Chapter 6. Effects of Forestry Management Practices on Floristic Biodiversity of Dry Deciduous Tropical Forests of Vindhyan Region, India
(Kumud Dubey and K. P. Dubey – Forestry Research Centre for Eco-Rehabilitation, Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India, et al.)
Chapter 7. Dry Forest Degradation and Traditional Land-use in the Context of Sustainable Forest Management in Sri Lanka
(W. W. M. Anuradha B. Medawatte, Sudheera M. W. Ranwala, Francis Q. Brearley and Mohamed C. M. Iqbal – Plant and Environmental Sciences, National Institute of Fundamental Studies, Kandy, Sri Lanka, et al.)
Chapter 8. Impact of Changing Environment on Carbon Dynamics in Tropics with Special Focus on Tropical Dry Forest Ecosystems: A Synthesis
(Pardeep Kumar, Abhishek Kumar, Deepika Antil, Meenu Patil and Anand Narain Singh – Soil Ecosystem and Restoration Ecology Lab, Department of Botany, Punjab University, Chandigarh, India)
Chapter 9. Estimating Ecosystem Services Using A Geospatial Approach at the Landscape Level: Experience from Chitwan Annapurna Landscape, Nepal
(Him Lal Shrestha and Kalpana Shrestha – UNIGIS Programme, Kathmandu Forestry College, Kathmandu, Nepal)
Chapter 10. Productivity and Carbon Accumulation in Tropical Dry Deciduous Forest Ecosystem
(Manoj Kumar Jhariya and Lalji Singh – Department of Farm Forestry, Sant Gahira Guru Vishwavidyalaya, Sarguja, India, et al.)
Chapter 11. Habitat Heterogeneity and its Impact on Organic Matter, Nutrient Pool and Nitrogen Mineralization in Tropical Dry Deciduous Forest
(Sajiwan Kumar and Lalji Singh – School of Studies in Forestry & Wildlife, Bastar, Vishwavidyalaya, Jagdalpur, India, et al.)
Chapter 12. Phosphorus and Litter Decomposability Traits in Tropical Forest Ecosystems Under Changing Environment: A Synthesis
(Abhishek Kumar, Meenu Patil, Pardeep Kumar and Anand Narain Singh – Soil Ecosystem and Restoration Ecology Lab, Department of Botany, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India)
Chapter 13. Improved Low-Input Tree Establishment with Focus on Direct Seeding Tree Legumes in Landscapes with Dry Forest
(Torsten Mandal – Freelance agronomist and tree-establishment adviser)
Chapter 14. Impact of Drought on Tropical Forests and Plant Mechanism to Mitigate Drought Stress
(K. K. Chandra, Atul Kumar Bhardwaj, Astha Singh and Rajesh Kumar – Department of Forestry, Wildlife and Environmental Sciences, Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya (A Central University), Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, India)
Chapter 15. Serotiny: An Adaptive Trait Related to Delayed Seed Dispersal
(Manish Mathur – ICAR-Central Arid Zone Research Institute, 342003, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India)
Chapter 16. Foraging Efficiency of Fine Roots in Relation to Carbon Dynamics in the Tropical Forest Ecosystems in a Changing Environment: A Synthesis
(Deepika Antil, Pardeep Kumar, Abhishek Kumar, Meenu Patil and Anand Narain Singh – Soil Ecosystem and Restoration Ecology Lab, Department of Botany, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India)
Index