Sahyadri Conservation Series - 10 ENVIS Technical Report: 34,  February 2012
http://www.iisc.ernet.in/
GREEN WALLS FOR KARNATAKA SEA COAST
(Honavar Forest Division - October 2010)
 http://wgbis.ces.iisc.ernet.in/energy/
Subash Chandran MD             G. R. Rao             Prakash Mesta              D.M. Vishnu              Ramachandra TV
Energy and Wetlands Research Group, Centre for Ecological Sciences,
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore – 560012, India.
*Corresponding author: cestvr@ces.iisc.ernet.in

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