scholarly journals Rejuvenation of Reserve Forest by Forest Interventions (Species and Different Plantations)

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 2055-2059
Author(s):  
K. Srinivas Reddy
Keyword(s):  
Action Plan ◽  
Forest Area ◽  
Ecosystem Functions ◽  
Moisture Regime ◽  
Deep Trench ◽  
Canopy Density ◽  
Rich Diversity ◽  
Canopy Soil ◽  
Reserve Forest ◽  
Forest Boundary

Abstract: Eco-restoration is a technique for rejuvenation of degraded ecosystem to their near original state. It also helps to control soil erosion, develop microbial ecology, enhance biomass production and socio-economic development. The present study was focused on a new approach called Rejuvenation Technology for less forest area. India is bestowed with the rich diversity of flora and fauna due to diverse environment. Global warming and consequent impending danger of climate changes has necessitated to arrest deforestation. The species diversity has also helped in the selection of appropriate native species to enhance the ecological functions of urbanizing landscapes. Adoption of monoculture plantations though the region appears green, but fulfilling the vital ecosystem functions such as groundwater recharge, food and fodder to dependent biota, etc. Forest Rejuvenation Action Plan was prepared for each Reserve Forest Block with forestry activities like Reserve Forest boundary deep trench, fencing, Plantations of Gacchakaya on trench mounds along the periphery of the Reserve Forest boundary having interface with Revenue Land to protect the forest from biotic interference. Further Soil & Moisture Conservation works were proposed to improve moisture regime. Silvicultural operations like Cultural operations & removal of invasive species were proposed for better natural regeneration & growth of existing root stock. It was further supplemented with plantations like Block plantations, fruit bearing plantations, Yadadri Model plantations, Grassland development in 0.0 - 0.10 canopy density forest area. Further plantation activities like Gap planting, Medicinal herbs & Shurbs, plantation inside and on the mounds of SCT, Bamboo plantations along nalas/Streams were proposed to improve three tier canopy in the Reserve Forest in 0.1 - 0.40. These Forestry Interventions help to improve the forest cover, biodiversity, Carbon sequestration, Water Argumentation etc to meet the required results as per National & Global Commitments. To demonstrate this technology, plantation of seedlings of 5 different canopy density. Block plantation. Yadadri Model Plantations, Grass lands, Forest Fruit bearing Plantations was carried out in a village community degraded land located in Medhal district in Telangana State. This study developed spatial definitions of the Rejuvenation of reserve forest. Keywords: Rejuvenation, Reserve forest, Plantation models, canopy, Soil & Moisture Conservation

scholarly journals Application of Forest Canopy Density (FCD) Model for the Hotspot Monitoring of Crown Fire in Tebo, Jambi Province

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Attorik Falensky ◽  
Anggieani Laras Sulti ◽  
Ranggas Dhuha Putra ◽  
Kuswantoro Marko
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Spatial Analysis ◽  
Forest Canopy ◽  
Remote Sensing Data ◽  
Forest Area ◽  
Landsat 8 ◽  
Crown Fire ◽  
Canopy Density ◽  
Sensing Data ◽  
Forest Canopy Density

<p><em>Indonesia is one of the owners of the 9th largest forest area in the world. Forest area in Indonesia reaches 884,950 km<sup>2</sup>. Tebo Regency is a regency in Jambi Province which has a wide forest area of 628,003 Ha. However, this forest area has been reduced due to the conversion of functions of Industrial Plantation Forests (HTI), oil palm plantations, and forest clearing activities for both settlements and plantations which led to the phenomenon of forest and land fires (karhutla). This study aims to get a better knowledge of crowns of fire potential locations in forest areas using remote sensing technology. Remote sensing data used in this study is from the satellite imagery </em><em>of </em><em>Landsat 8 OLI - TIRS in 2019. Remote sensing data is used to produce a Forest Canopy Density (FCD) model that can be overlap</em><em>ped with</em><em> a hotspot location, so the crown fire potential locations will be explored in the forest area of Tebo Regency, Jambi Province. Identification of hotspot patterns in Forest Areas was analyzed using spatial analysis. The results of this study are useful for the government as the information of the hotspot area as the cause of fires in the Forest Region of Tebo Regency Jambi Province.</em></p><strong><em>Keywords</em></strong><em>: Spatial Analysis, Forest Cover Density (FCD), Hotspots, Forest Areas, Remote Sensing</em>

scholarly journals Grand challenges in biodiversity–ecosystem functioning research in the era of science–policy platforms require explicit consideration of feedbacks

2021 ◽  
Vol 288 (1960) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary I. O'Connor ◽  
Akira S. Mori ◽  
Andrew Gonzalez ◽  
Laura E. Dee ◽  
Michel Loreau ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Activities ◽  
Essential Feature ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Ecosystem Functions ◽  
Science And Policy ◽  
Biodiversity Science ◽  
Explicit Consideration ◽  
Biodiversity Change ◽  
Future Policy ◽  
Effective Use

Feedbacks are an essential feature of resilient socio-economic systems, yet the feedbacks between biodiversity, ecosystem services and human wellbeing are not fully accounted for in global policy efforts that consider future scenarios for human activities and their consequences for nature. Failure to integrate feedbacks in our knowledge frameworks exacerbates uncertainty in future projections and potentially prevents us from realizing the full benefits of actions we can take to enhance sustainability. We identify six scientific research challenges that, if addressed, could allow future policy, conservation and monitoring efforts to quantitatively account for ecosystem and societal consequences of biodiversity change. Placing feedbacks prominently in our frameworks would lead to (i) coordinated observation of biodiversity change, ecosystem functions and human actions, (ii) joint experiment and observation programmes, (iii) more effective use of emerging technologies in biodiversity science and policy, and (iv) a more inclusive and integrated global community of biodiversity observers. To meet these challenges, we outline a five-point action plan for collaboration and connection among scientists and policymakers that emphasizes diversity, inclusion and open access. Efforts to protect biodiversity require the best possible scientific understanding of human activities, biodiversity trends, ecosystem functions and—critically—the feedbacks among them.

scholarly journals Do Black-naped Hares Lepus nigricollis (Mammalia: Lagomorpha: Leporidae) have synanthropic association with wind farms?

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 11925 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Anoop ◽  
P.R. Arun ◽  
Rajah Jaypal
Keyword(s):  
Wind Energy ◽  
Wind Farm ◽  
Wind Farms ◽  
Positive Association ◽  
Noise Pollution ◽  
Clean Energy ◽  
Forest Area ◽  
Habitat Alterations ◽  
Reserve Forest ◽  
Scrub Forest

Wind energy is an upcoming major source of clean energy.  The unprecedented proliferation of wind farms across landscapes has raised concerns on the environmental impacts.  Generally reported direct impacts of wind farms include collision of birds and bats with turbines, habitat alterations, noise pollution from the turbines, aesthetic impact on landscapes and displacement of faunal species.  Here we report our preliminary results indicating an apparent positive association of Indian Hares Lepus nigricollis with a wind farm in a scrub forest area.  This study was conducted at Harada Reserve Forest near Harapanahalli of Davangere District, Karnataka, India.  The pellet count method was used for comparing the abundance of the species between areas.  The abundance of Indian Hares in wind farm area was significantly higher than in the surrounding forest area without turbines.  The factors that might be affecting this pattern of preferential use of wind farm area by the Indian Hare are discussed and the scope for further studies also highlighted. 

scholarly journals The Role of Stakeholders and Mechanism of Forest Area Gazettement of Gunung Birah Protected Area in KPHP Model Tanah Laut

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 44-49
Author(s):  
Ady Prasetya Nugraha
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Forest Area ◽  
Private Land ◽  
Regional Office ◽  
Human Errors ◽  
The Status ◽  
Forest Boundary

The gazettement of forest area is one of the significant aspects in forest designation that should be carried out to determine the legal framework regarding with the administrative and the physical status as well as forest boundaries. It is expected that the legal framework and precise forest area will support the powerful and purposeful forest management. The study aimed to find out the roles and the standpoints of stakeholders, to explore the mechanism, to identify and analyze the obstacles in the process, to formulate alternative effort in the process of forest area gazettement of Gunung Birah Protected Forest. It is expected that this study will enrich the concern on forestry policy especially regarding with the gazettement of the forest area, as well as provide the input to the ministry of forestry and local government in formulating strategies and policies in the implementation of forest area gazettement. The result indicated the stakeholders involved in the gazettement of Gunung Birah protected forest in KPHP Model Tanah Laut as well as their roles are the functionaries of KPHP Model Tanah Laut, local community adjacent to the forest area, regional office of forestry Planning (Balai Pemantapan Kawasan Hutan/BPKH), Local Government (The administration committee of forest boundary), and Central Government(the ministry of Environment and forestry). Constraints in the affirmation process of Gunung Birah protected forest areas in KPHP Tanah Laut can be divided into internal and external factors. Internal constraints include human errors in the compilation of Minute of Forest Boundary, incomplete implementation document thus the gazettement could not be processed, and the lack of socialization dealing with forest boundary to the local community adjacent to forest area. Meanwhile, the external constraints were the determination of forest boundaries stretch frequently intersects with settlement or other rights, the overlapping use of an area, the lack of public recognition on forest area boundary, the issuance of private land rights certificate in forest areas, and diverse interpretations on the status of forest area.

scholarly journals Soil Bacterial and Fungal Response to Wildfires in the Canadian Boreal Forest Across a Burn Severity Gradient

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thea Whitman ◽  
Ellen Whitman ◽  
Jamie Woolet ◽  
Mike D Flannigan ◽  
Dan K Thompson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Boreal Forest ◽  
Microbial Communities ◽  
Community Composition ◽  
Soil Microbial Communities ◽  
Total Carbon ◽  
Burn Severity ◽  
Ecosystem Functions ◽  
Moisture Regime ◽  
Soil Microbial ◽  
Canadian Boreal Forest

Global fire regimes are changing, with increases in wildfire frequency and severity expected for many North American forests over the next 100 years. Fires can result in dramatic changes to C stocks and can restructure plant and microbial communities, which can have long-lasting effects on ecosystem functions. We investigated wildfire effects on soil microbial communities (bacteria and fungi) in an extreme fire season in the northwestern Canadian boreal forest, using field surveys, remote sensing, and high-throughput amplicon sequencing. We found that fire occurrence, along with vegetation community, moisture regime, pH, total carbon, and soil texture are all significant predictors of soil microbial community composition. Communities become increasingly dissimilar with increasingly severe burns, and the burn severity index (an index of the fractional area of consumed organic soils and exposed mineral soils) best predicted total bacterial community composition, while burned/unburned was the best predictor for fungi. Globally abundant taxa were identified as significant positive fire responders, including the bacteria Massilia sp. (64x more abundant with fire) and Arthrobacter sp. (35x), and the fungi Penicillium sp. (22x) and Fusicladium sp. (12x) Bacterial and fungal co-occurrence network modules were characterized by fire responsiveness as well as pH and moisture regime. Building on the efforts of previous studies, our results identify specific fire-responsive microbial taxa and suggest that accounting for burn severity improves our understanding of their response to fires, with potentially important implications for ecosystem functions.

scholarly journals Assessing Hydrological Impact of Forested Area Change: A Remote Sensing Case Study

Atmosphere ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 817
Author(s):  
Mugurel Raul Sidău ◽  
Csaba Horváth ◽  
Maria Cheveresan ◽  
Ionuț Șandric ◽  
Florin Stoica
Keyword(s):  
Forest Canopy ◽  
Vegetation Index ◽  
Forest Area ◽  
Runoff Generation ◽  
Canopy Density ◽  
Forest Canopy Density ◽  
Anthropic Influence ◽  
The One ◽  
The Impact

The interaction between precipitation and vegetation plays a significant role in the formation of runoff, and it is still a widely discussed issue in hydrology. The difficulty lies in estimating the degree to which a forest influences runoff generation, especially flood peaks, on the one hand, due to the small amount of information regarding the evolution of the forest area and density, and, on the other hand, the correlations between these indicators and the runoff and precipitation values. The analysis focuses on a small basin in the mountain region of Romania, the upper basin of the Ruscova River located in northwestern Romania. In this river basin, there is no significant anthropic influence, other than the intense deforestation and reforestation actions. Using satellite images captured by Landsat missions 5, 7 and 8 for the period 1985–2019, the forest canopy density vegetation index was extracted. Using a gridded precipitation dataset, a hydrological model was calibrated based on three scenarios to assess the impact of forest vegetation on the runoff. Analysis of the results of these models conducted on scenarios allowed us to deduce a simple equation for estimating the influence of forest area on maximum river flows. The analysis showed that even small differences in the forest surface area exert an influence on the peak flow, varying between −5.28% and 8.09%.

scholarly journals Efforts to resolve the problem of forest area conservation on the national park in the island of Sumatra

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 135
Author(s):  
NFN Desmiwati ◽  
NFN Surati
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
National Parks ◽  
Community Involvement ◽  
National Park ◽  
Outer Boundary ◽  
Forest Area ◽  
Legal Foundation ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Forest Boundary

In the frame of the implementation of good forest management, the certainty of the factually and legally forest area it is needed in order in order to have solid legal foundation. This means the stability on forest boundary areas it is required. This study aimed to carry out scrutiny of the stability of 11 national parks areas in Sumatra, and to recognize the development of stabilization of national parks. The study is conducted in 11 national parks in Sumatra consisting of 7 national parks as conservation forest management unit (CFMU) and 4 parks are not CFMU. The analysis approach used for the research was qualitative descriptive. The results showed that out of 11 national parks only 27.27% which has been structuring the outer boundary from end to end, meanwhile 72.72% have not done. This is because there are some boundaries areas that will be regulated still have problems with the community. Zonation structuring has been conducted by 10 National Park (90.91%) but 1 TN (9.09 have not done the zonation structuring yet). There are some national parks has not been define the boundary properly. Out of number of issues, some efforts  that need to be done are to clarify boundary markers on the national parks that can be recognized by all stakeholders, the the acceleration of zone marking and carried out in accordance with the interests of all stakeholders, as well as the need for community involvement in the management of national parks.

scholarly journals Ethnomedicinal study in reserve forest area of Jhunjhunu District, Rajasthan, India

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 379-387
Author(s):  
Anita Jeph ◽  
◽  
J. B. Khan ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Forest Area ◽  
Reserve Forest
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