Analysis of Forest Land-use and Vegetation in a Part of Central Himalaya, Using Aerial Photographs
- 1 January 1987
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Environmental Conservation
- Vol. 14 (3), 233-244
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0376892900016441
Abstract
The forest canopy, biomass, and basal tree-trunk cover, of an area of about 200,000 ha, comprising 10 subcatchments in the Indian Central Himalaya, were mapped by employing aerial photographs and non-destructive field sampling. This method provides basic information on the current forest land-use and biomass for enlightened environmental planning and conservation. Regression equations developed to describe predictive relationships between crown-cover and basal tree-trunk cover; biomass and crown-cover; basal tree-trunk cover and bole biomass; and basal tree-trunk cover and total above-ground biomass, for different forests occurring in the area, should prove of value for future ecological studies in the Central Himalaya.Keywords
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