Sahyadri Conservation Series 15 ENVIS Technical Report: 41,  March 2012
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ECOLOGY OF SACRED KAN FORESTS IN CENTRAL WESTERN GHATS
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Ramachandra T.V.           Subash Chandran M.D.           Joshi N.V.           Sooraj N.P.          Rao G.R.           Vishnu Mukri
Energy and Wetlands Research Group, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore – 560012, India.
*Corresponding author: cestvr@ces.iisc.ernet.in

Contents

  Summary 3
  1.   Introduction 4
2. Literature Review 11
3. Materials and Methods 20
4. Results and Discussion  
  4.1 Kathalekan- Glimpses of Ecological History 28
  4.2 Species composition of the kan forest 35
  4.3 Landscape elements and Vegetation 45
  4.4 Status of Endemism 58
  4.5 Myristica swamps 64
  4.6 Regeneration status of trees 69
  4.7 Rare, Endangered and Threatened species 78
5. Threats and Conservation 82
6. References 89
  Appendix-1   98  
  Discovery of two Critically Endangered tree species and issues related to relic forests Ecology of swampy Relic Forests (PDF)  

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