CONCLUSION

The above study was carried out to understand the linkages between LULC, forest fragmentation, rainfall and stream flow (seasonal and perennial). LU analysis revealed major presence of evergreen forests in sub basins 2, 3, 4, 5, 9 and 10 while semi-evergreen is dominating in sub basin 2, 6, 7 and 10. Major agricultural land was found in subbasin1 and 2 (47.54% and 13.93%). Sub basin 4 and 8 had 14.62 and 7.25% of area under water, which is highest among all the sub basins.   Subbasin1 had edge forest as the most dominating class (34.36%) while in all other sub basins the interior forest was the most dominating class. A positive relationship between surface runoff and various factors like rainfall, built-up, perforated forest was noticed. Also, infiltration and factors like rainfall, patch forest, perforated forest and the number of streams were positively correlated.