Ethnomedicinal plants used to treat bone fracture from North-Central Western Ghats of India

Forests of the Western---- Ghats are well known for their evergreenness and high endemism. The present study carried out in the Sharavathi River Basin in the central Western Ghats of India is to find the relationship between forest evergreenness and tree endemism. The study was carried out from 2000 to 2006 and the methodology followed is a combination of transect and quadrat method nested with smaller quadrats for shrub layer and herb layer. A total of 51 endemic tree species belonging to 20 families were recorded. The results reveal that the composition of endemic tree population is closely associated with the evergreenness of the forest. With the increase in evergreenness, endemism also increased and almost all the endemic trees of the region occurred in very high evergreen class. Many of them were exclusively found in very high evergreen forests and ground layer data support this observation. Such narrow distribution of endemics makes them most vulnerable to extinction. The present study will be helpful in understanding the association of endemic trees with evergreenness of forest and will be useful in conservation as well as restoration of these endemic trees in their natural habitats.

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A New Frog Species from the Central Western Ghats of India, and Its Phylogenetic Position

ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE ◽

10.2108/zsj.24.525 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 24 (5) ◽

pp. 525-534 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Kotambylu Vasudeva Gururaja ◽

Nilavara Anantharama Aravind ◽

Sameer Ali ◽

T. V. Ramachandra ◽

Thirumalaisamy Palanichamy Velavan ◽

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Keyword(s):

Western Ghats ◽

Phylogenetic Position ◽

Western Ghats Of India ◽

Frog Species ◽

Central Western Ghats

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Ambient air characteristics of biogenic volatile organic compounds at a tropical evergreen forest site in Central Western Ghats of India

Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry ◽

10.1007/s10874-021-09415-y ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Nidhi Tripathi ◽

L. K. Sahu ◽

Kashyap Patel ◽

Ashwini Kumar ◽

Ravi Yadav

Keyword(s):

Organic Compounds ◽

Western Ghats ◽

Ambient Air ◽

Evergreen Forest ◽

Forest Site ◽

Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds ◽

Tropical Evergreen Forest ◽

Western Ghats Of India ◽

Volatile Organic ◽

Central Western Ghats

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Ethnomedicinal plants to cure skin diseases—An account of the traditional knowledge in the coastal parts of Central Western Ghats, Karnataka, India

Journal of Ethnopharmacology ◽

10.1016/j.jep.2013.10.062 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 151 (1) ◽

pp. 493-502 ◽

Cited By ~ 30

Author(s):

Pradeep Bhat ◽

Ganesh R. Hegde ◽

Gurumurthi Hegde ◽

Gangadhar S. Mulgund

Keyword(s):

Traditional Knowledge ◽

Western Ghats ◽

Skin Diseases ◽

Ethnomedicinal Plants ◽

Central Western Ghats

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Status of the rare palm Bentinckia condapanna Berry in two habitats of Goodrical Reserve Forests; Western Ghats of India

Asia Pacific Journal of Environment Ecology and Sustainable Development ◽

10.3126/apjeesd.v1i1.9503 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 6-9

Author(s):

ES Abhilash ◽

Brijesh Sathian

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Western Ghats ◽

Evergreen Species ◽

Secondary Species ◽

Ecological Stress ◽

Lannea Coromandelica ◽

Western Ghats Of India

Bentinckia condapanna shows more IVI values and there by dominance and ecological stress in both the sites, that is, in sparsely distributed habitats as well as in dominated habitats (Site-II). Major associations /co dominance to Bentinckia condapanna in site -I were the evergreen species like Macaranga peltata, Elaeocarpus tuberculatus, Lannea coromandelica, Schefflera venulosa etc. and for site-II was the secondary species Chionanthus ramiflorus. Higher IVI values for Bentinckia condapanna in both the sites proves the capacity of this species to establish in mono-dominant and co- dominant communities. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/apjeesd.v1i1.9503Asia Pacific Journal of Environment Ecology and Sustainable Development 2013; 1: 6-9

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