Forest Vegetation North-Western Part of the Lesser Caucasus

Life forms, a range of leaf sizes, ethnobotany and a description of the floristic features of plants common in the North-Western forests of the Lesser Caucasus are presented in the paper. The studies were carried out in 2018–2020 on the territory of the forests of the Dashkesan and Goygol districts of the Azerbaijan Republic, which are part of the Lesser Caucasus, biodiversity was studied and the population was interviewed using generally accepted methods. Data about various life forms of local plants and their leaf size spectra are presented. 125 plant species belonging to 40 families have been identified, of which the Rosaceae family (48 species) and Poaceae (20 species) are predominant. Some plants are used to make medicines, food, feed, fuel, furniture, and housing as shown results. For this reason, forests are used in an integrated manner and vegetation is rapidly declining due to deforestation. The data for the protection of the rich vegetation in this area was taken from primary sources. The terrestrial flora is dominated by megaphanerophytes, followed by therophytes. Hemicryptophytes, nanophanerophytes and geophytes are less common in local forests respectively. The vegetation cover is formed depending on the availability of trees. Microphylls and megaphylls dominate in the spectra of leaf sizes.

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Provincializing the International: Communist Print Worlds in Colonial India

History Workshop Journal ◽

10.1093/hwj/dbaa011 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 89 ◽

pp. 140-153

Author(s):

Ali Raza

Keyword(s):

Print Culture ◽

British India ◽

Colonial India ◽

Western Province ◽

The North ◽

Colonial Archive ◽

The Rich ◽

The One ◽

North Western ◽

Global Project

Abstract This paper charts communist print worlds in colonial India during the interwar period. Beginning in the early 1920s, self-declared ‘Communist’ and ‘Bolshevik’ publications began surfacing across India. Through the example of the Kirti Kisan Sabha (Workers and Peasants Party: a communist group in the north-western province of Punjab), and its associated publications, this paper will provide a glimpse into the rich, diverse and imaginative print worlds of Indian communism. From 1926 onwards, Kirti publications became a part of a thriving print culture in which a dizzying variety of revolutionary, socialist and communist publications competed and conversed with the equally prolific and rich print worlds of their political and ideological rivals. Removed on the one hand from the ivory towers of party intellectuals, dense treatises and officious theses, and on the other hand from the framing of sedition, rebellion and fanaticism in the colonial archive, Kirti publications show how the global project of communist internationalism became distinctly provincialized and vernacularized in British India.

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ʿAlidi in marcia lungo la via per la Cina

Eurasiatica - Armenia, Caucaso e Asia Centrale ◽

10.30687/978-88-6969-340-3/008 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Francesco Calzolaio

Keyword(s):

Twelfth Century ◽

Eastern China ◽

Western China ◽

Primary Sources ◽

Maritime Trade ◽

North West ◽

South Eastern ◽

The North ◽

North Western

The emergence of the first Islamic communities in China is still an elusive phenomenon. Primary sources are scanty, and mostly focus on Tang-Abbasid maritime trade. Thus, while the first days of Islam in south-eastern China are now quite well documented, much less is known about the arrival of Islam in the north-west. A twelfth-century Persian source, Sharaf al-Zamān Ṭāhir Marwazī’s Ṭabāʾiʿ al-ḥayawān, reports a legend concerning the settlement of a group of ʿAlid Muslim merchants somewhere in Tang China. An analysis of this anecdote could shed some light on the matter, providing new data on the very first Islamic communities of north-western China.

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Life forms, leaf size spectra, regeneration capacity and diversity of plant species grown in the Thandiani forests, district Abbottabad, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences ◽

10.1016/j.sjbs.2016.11.009 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 25 (1) ◽

pp. 94-100 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Waqas Khan ◽

Shujaul Mulk Khan ◽

Habib Ahmad ◽

Abdulaziz A. Alqarawi ◽

Ghulam Mujtaba Shah ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Plant Species ◽

Leaf Size ◽

Life Forms ◽

Regeneration Capacity ◽

Size Spectra ◽

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

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VIII.—The Lower Carboniferous Volcanic Rocks of East Lothian (Garlton Hills)

Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh ◽

10.1017/s0080456800032543 ◽

1895 ◽

Vol 37 (1) ◽

pp. 115-126 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Frederick H. Hatch

Keyword(s):

Volcanic Activity ◽

Volcanic Rocks ◽

Lower Carboniferous ◽

The North ◽

The Rich ◽

Firth Of Forth ◽

North Western

The rich agricultural tract of country that forms the north-western part of East Lothian, undulating uniformly from the foot of the chain of the Lammermuirs towards the Firth of Forth, swells near Haddington into the cluster of the Garlton Hills, and the neighbouring masses of Traprain Law and North Berwick Law.The rocks that build up this elevated ground are lavas and tuffs that were produced during the period of volcanic activity that characterised the deposition of the Lower Carboniferous beds of Scotland. In East Lothian their eruption followed close on the deposition of the sandstones and marls that constitute the base of the calciferous sandstone group.

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Floristic list and their ecological characteristics, of plants at village Derikot Selai Pattay district Malakand Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan

JOURNAL OF BOTANY ◽

10.33195/uochjb-v1i1362017 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 93-105

Author(s):

MUHAMMAD ISHAQ

Keyword(s):

Life Form ◽

Floristic Composition ◽

Leaf Size ◽

Life Forms ◽

Size Spectra ◽

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ◽

Ecological Characteristics ◽

Made In

Floristic composition and characteristics studies were made in of vallag Derikot selai pattay District Malakand Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.The floristic composition of present study comprised of 146 species and 41 genera which belong to 39 families. It included 115 dicots species, Monocot 24, Gymnosperm 2, Pteridophytes 5, species. Family Asteraceae (23 spp.)is dominant family in floristic table. In the present study, therophytes with 57 species (39.041%.) were the dominant life form in the study area. Nanophanerophytes with 22 species (15.06%). Microphanerophytes with 22 species (15.06 %). Hemicryptophytes with 19 species (13. 01%). Chamaephytes with 15 species (10. 27%). Geophytes with 5 specie (3.42%). and Megaphanerophytes with 2 species (1.36%) Mesophanerophytes with 4 species (2.73%) were least observed life forms. Leaf size spectra was dominant by microphylls with 61 species (41.78%) followed by mesophylls with 35 species (23.97%), Nanophylls with 26 species (17.80%),Leptophylls with 17 species (11.64%), Aphyllous with 4 species (2.73%).Megaphylls 2 species (1.36%).Macrophyll only 1species (0.66 %) of study area.

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