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Vegetation in the Sacred Groves across India: A Review
Sayantani Chanda*, T.V.Ramachandra |
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| Energy and Wetlands Research Group,Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, Karnataka, India. Tel: +91-080-22933099/23600985 (Ext. 215/232),Fax: 23601428/23600085/23600683 (CES – TVR) Email: tvr@iisc.ac.in, emram.ces@courses.iisc.ac.in, energy@ces.iisc.ernet.in, Web: http://ces.iisc.ernet.in/biodiversity, http://wgbis.ces.iisc.ernet.in/energy |
Study Area The country was divided into six broad geographical regions i.e. North-East India, Northern India, Eastern India, Western India, Central India and South India. The regions considered are: North-East India Sikkim, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, Maghalaya. Eastern India West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, Orissa. Northern India Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Haryana, Jammu & Kashmir. Western India Rajasthan, Gujarat Central India Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh (Figure A1) The Study Area of Five Zones There are 346 sacred groves all over five zones of different parts of India, which are marked on Google Earth as shown in Figure A2.
Fig A1: Five Zones of Study Area
Fig A2:Spatial Distribution of Sacred Groves |
| Citation:Sayantani Chanda, T.V.Ramachandra. Vegetation in the Sacred Groves across India: A Review. Research & Reviews: Journal of Ecology. 2019; 8(1): 29–38p. |
| *Corresponding Author Energy and Wetlands Research Group,Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, Karnataka, India. Email: isayantani.chanda@gmail.com |
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