ID: 58803
Title: Collection, Viability and Storage Behaviour of Pollen of Some Willow Species/Clones.
Author: Punit Choudhary, N B Singh.
Editor: B P Bhojvaid.
Year: 2013
Publisher: Indian Forester
Source: Centre for Ecological Sciences
Reference: Indian Forester Vol. 139(no. 8), pp. 706-713 (2013)
Subject: The Indian Forester
Keywords: Salix, Pollen viability, storage, Morphology, Pollinators.
Abstract: The genetic improvement of willows through traditional breeding can be facilitated by pollen collection and storage. The female flower receptivity need not be synchronized with pollen shed for breeding. Studies on collection, viability and storage of pollen of commercially important Salix spp. was carried out for implementation of successful breeding breeding program. The pollen size varied from 20.12 ?m to 40.49 ?m with clone 131/25 exhibiting maximum size whereas S. babyonica registered minimum size. Germination percentage of pollen extracted with toluene (Solvent method) was comparitively lower then that of untreated pollen., pollen germination percentage varied between 54.28 to 46.45 per cent in 2009 and 62.88 to 46.88 per cent in 2010. Maximum pollen viability has been recorded at the time of pollen collection. Pollen grains retained higher viability at -20?C even after nine months as compared to pollen stored at 4?C in both the years. Pollens stored at two different temperature revealed that there was a linear decrease in pollen viability with increase in storage period. The main pollinators found affecting cross pollination among willows were honey bees (Apies spp.), flies, wasps (Polister spp.) and Bumble bee (Bambus spp.).
Location: TE 15 New Biology Building
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ID: 58802
Title: An Analysis of Common Property Resources in Rural Areas of District Kangra
Author: M S Pathania, G D Vashist.
Editor: B P Bhojvaid.
Year: 2013
Publisher: Indian Forester
Source: Centre for Ecological Sciences
Reference: Indian Forester Vol. 139(no. 8), pp. 699-705 (2013)
Subject: The Indian Forester
Keywords: CPRs, Fodder, Grazing, Gini ratio, Livestock pressure.
Abstract: Average family size in Kangra district was 5.58. More than 80 per cent of the farmers were literate. The average land holdings of marginal and small farms were 0.93 and 1.33 ha respectively. Paddy in Kharif season and wheat in Rabi season was the most important crops of the study area. The average livestock hoding for marginal and small farmers in ACU was observed 3.55 and 4.98 units, respectively. Average quantity per household for fodder and fuel availed from CPR lands was 12 qtls and 13 qtls respectively.
Average quantity per household for fodder and fuel availed from CPR lands was ranged between Rs 4144 and Rs 4660 in different categories of households. The value of Gini ratio indicates that inclusion of income from CPR lands into total farm income reduces the gap of income between marginal and small farmers. The study suggested a need to involve local people in the management of these resources. There is a need to sustain and enhance the carrying capacity and productivity of CPRs.
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ID: 58801
Title: Genetic Variability and Association Analysis in Madhuca Indica Gmel.
Author: Mohd. Saleem Wani, Afaq Majid Wani.
Editor: B P Bhojvaid.
Year: 2013
Publisher: Indian Forester
Source: Centre for Ecological Sciences
Reference: Indian Forester Vol. 139(no. 8), pp. 692-698 (2013)
Subject: The Indian Forester
Keywords: Madhuca Indica, Genetic variability, Germination, Heritability.
Abstract: Twenty genotypes of Mahuca Indica Gmel. scattered over district Allahabad, and adjoining areas in Uttar Pradesh in their natural range were studied for the pattern of genetic variation. Higher values for phenotypic coefficient of variation as compared to genotypic coefficient of variation in germination and nursery growth parameters, indicate that they are greatly influenced by the environment. The heritability and expected genetic gain were also observed to be high for these characters, except for number of leaves per seedling, leaf area, shoot/root ratio and total biomass of seedling. the correlations between germination per cent, germination energy index per cent, mean daily germination, seedling height, seedling collar diameter and internodal length at phenotypic level were positive and significant. The families F15,F18,F19 and F20 showed good performance and are recommended for further genetic improvement programme in this species.
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ID: 58800
Title: Effect of Date of Collection and Pod Length on Germination and Initial Seedling Growth Albizia Lebbeck(Benth.)
Author: Suman Malla, Gopal Shukla, Sumit Chakravarthy.
Editor: B P Bhojvaid.
Year: 2013
Publisher: Indian Forester
Source: Centre for Ecological Sciences
Reference: Indian Forester Vol. 139(no. 8), pp. 688-691 (2013)
Subject: The Indian Forester
Keywords: Date of collection, Pod Length, Germination, Initial Seedling growth, Albizia Lebbeck.
Abstract: An experiment consisting of four dates of collection (9th February, 19th February, 1st March and 11th March) and three pod lengths (less than 10, 10-20 and more than 20cm) were analyzed to study the effect on germination and initial growth of seedlings of Albizia lebbeck (Benth). at Pundibari, West Bengal, India during February to July 2007. It was found that pods collected on 19th February having length 10-12 cm gave dignificantly higher germination and initial seedling growth.
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ID: 58799
Title: Energy Status and Consumption Pattern in Rural Temperate Zone of Western Himalayas: A Case Study
Author: R Banyal, M A Islam, T H Masoodi, S A Gangoo.
Editor: B P Bhojvaid.
Year: 2013
Publisher: Indian Forester
Source: Centre for Ecological Sciences
Reference: Indian Forester Vol. 139(no. 8), pp. 683-687 (2013)
Subject: The Indian Forester
Keywords: Energy, Fuel Wood, Landuse, Household , Charcoal, Agri-silviculture, Temperate.
Abstract: The study was conducted in Astingo village of Bandipora Forest Division in North Kashmir on a sample of 224 from 560 households (40%) with the help of combo pack of interview and observation methods. The observations on land utilization pattern revealed that 37.48 per cent of the land area is under agriculture followed by horticulture (20.16%), homestead farming (14.86%), agri-silviculture (12.92%), forestry (08.08%) and silvi-horticulture (06.50%), respectively. The inhabitants relied mainly upon fuel wood, charcoal, dung cake, LPG, kerosene and electricity to meet out their day to day energy demand. Fuel wood dominated among all the energy sources with charcoal at second and cow dung at third in ranking. The total requirement of fuel wood at study site was estimated 634 tonnes per annum against its availability 405 tonnes per annum. The almost half (50.20%) of total fuel wood is utilized for cooking and rest is being for other different applications. The strategies be framed to narrow the gap between demand and supply of energy sources by advocating the need to establish woodlots of suitable species on waste and fallow lands. There is significant potential for generation of power from small hydro projects as Kashmir has vast source of water, solar energy, etc.
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ID: 58798
Title: GIS Based Planning and Monitoring of JFM Treatment Areas Under JICA Assisted Odisha Forestry Sector Development Project
Author: A K Bansal, Vinod Kumar, Subhadarshi Mishra.
Editor: B P Bhojvaid.
Year: 2013
Publisher: Indian Forester
Source: Centre for Ecological Sciences
Reference: Indian Forester Vol. 139(no. 8), pp. 674-682 (2013)
Subject: The Indian Forester
Keywords: Remote sensing, Differential GPS, GIS based forest land information system, REDD+, Monitoring and evaluation of afforestation programs.
Abstract: Joint Forest Management (JFM) approach has been adopted by the Odisha Forestry as well as improvement of livelihood of the forest dependent population through formation of the Vana Samrakshana Samitis (VSS) facilitating community participation. the use of Remote Sensing, Differential GPS and GIS techniques helps in identification of degraded forests, generation of thematic data sets, data analysis and presentation of map based forestry information in scientific and contemprorary methods. The process facilitates geo-referencing of the data sets to provide accurate map feature reference to the earths coordinates with sub-meter level of accuracy. The geo-database along with the GIS based map information system were utilized by the JFM project for preparation of the micro plan and also tracking/monitoring of the implementation of forestry development programmes and can be evolved into a MRV system under REDD+. The system also facilitates periodic impact analysis through temporal analysis of the satellite images.
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ID: 58797
Title: Before the Mahadayi Water Disputes Tribunal, New Delhi.
Author: Cheif Engineer
Editor: Filed by Brijesh Kalappa- Advocate.
Year: 2013
Publisher: Cheif Engineer, Water Resources Department, Panaji-Goa.
Source: Centre for Ecological Sciences
Reference: G-1/C-3, pp 1-135 (02/01/2013)
Subject: Statement of Claims on behalf of The State of Karnataka.
Keywords: Environment, Impact Assessment, Mahadayi, Hydroelectric Project.
Abstract: None
Location: TE 12 New Biology Building
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ID: 58796
Title: Before Mahadayi Water Dispute Tribunal
Author: Cheif Engineer
Editor: None
Year: 2010
Publisher: Cheif Engineer, Water Resources Department, Panaji-Goa.
Source: Centre for Ecological Sciences
Reference: G-1/C-3
Subject: Statement of Case by The State of Goa.
Keywords: Environment, Impact Assessment, Mahadayi, Hydroelectric Project.
Abstract: None
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Literature cited 1: None
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ID: 58795
Title: Environmental Impact Assesment of Proposed Mahadayi Hydroelectric Project.
Author: P Khanna, Paramasivam, Er. Kelkar, PS.
Editor: P Khanna
Year: 1997
Publisher: NEERI, Karnataka Power Corporation Limited, Blore
Source: Centre for Ecological Sciences
Reference: Volume 2, September 1997
Subject: The Indian Forester.
Keywords: Environment, Impact Assessment, Mahadayi, Hydroelectric Project.
Abstract: The proposal for the generation of Hydro Power on Mahadayi river for construction of dams and diverting the river.
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ID: 58794
Title: Environmental Impact Assessment of Proposed Mahadayi Hydroelectric Project.
Author: P Khanna, Paramasivam, Er. Kelkar, PS.
Editor: P Khanna
Year: 1996
Publisher: NEERI, Karnataka Power Corporation Limited, Blore
Source: Centre for Ecological Sciences
Reference: Volume 1, September 1997
Subject: The Indian Forester.
Keywords: Environment, Impact Assessment, Mahadayi, Hydroelectric Project.
Abstract: The proposal for the generation of Hydro Power on Mahadayi river for construction of dams and diverting the river.
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ID: 58793
Title: Variation and Genetic Correlation in Growth and Branching Characters of Populus Deltoides BARTR. Clones.
Author: Bikram Singh, N B Singh.
Editor: B P Bhojvaid.
Year: 2013
Publisher: Indian Forester
Source: Centre for Ecological Sciences
Reference: Indian Forester Vol. 139(no. 8), pp. 667-673 (2013)
Subject: The Indian Forester.
Keywords: Clones, Proleptic branch, Sylleptic branch, Heritability, Genotypic correlation, Populus deltoides.
Abstract: The function of propleptic branch and early bud-break were observed for contributing diameter and height growth potentials for the Populus deltoides clones from 12 provinces of United States. The variance components, hertability estimates and genetic correlation for growth and branching traits were investigated at the age one and two for 100 best clones T43, T44,T33,T48 followed by T38 exhibited better performances for the traits like BRPD and dbh. Trends in genetic and phenotypic parameters for growth and branching traits during early stages to obtain information necessary to scrutinize and seek managable clones for early selection have been studied.
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Literature cited 1: None
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ID: 58792
Title: Moving code - Sharing geoprocessing logic on the Web.
Author: Mathias Miller, Lars Bernard, Daniel Kadner.
Editor: Derek Lichti.
Year: 2013
Publisher: Elsevier B V
Source: Centre for Ecological Sciences
Reference: ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing Vol. 83, pp. 193-203 (2013)
Subject: Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
Keywords: Geoprocessing, Software reuse, Interoperability, Spatial data Infrastructures, Standards.
Abstract: Efficient data processing is a long-standing challenge in remote sensing. Effective and efficient algorithms are required for product generation in ground processing systems, event-based or on-demand analysis, environmental monitoring, and data mining. Furthermore, the increasing number of survey missions and the exponentially growing data volume in recent years have created demand for better software reuse as well as an efficient use of scalable processing infrastructures. Solutions that address both demands simultaneously have begun to slowly appear, but they seldom consider the possibility to coordinate development and maintenance efforts across different institutions, community projects, and software vendors.
This paper presents a new approach to share, reuse, and possibly standardise geoprocessing logic in the field of remote sensing. Drawing from the principles of service-oriented design and distributed processing, this paper introduces moving-code packages as self-describing software components that contain algorithmic code and machine readable description of the provided functionality, platform, and infrastructure, as well as basic information about exploitation rights. Furthermore, the paper presents a lean publishing mechanism by which to distribute these packages on the Web and to integrate them in different processing environments ranging from monolithic workstations to elastic computational environments ranging from monolithic workstations to elastic computational environments or "clouds". The paper concludes with an outlook toward community repositories for reusable geoprocessing logic and their possible impact on data-driven science in general.
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ID: 58791
Title: Semantic orchestration of image processing services for environmental analysis.
Author: Elisabeth Ranisavljevic, Florent Devin, Dominique Laffly, Yannick Le Nir.
Editor: Derek Lichti.
Year: 2013
Publisher: Elsevier B V
Source: Centre for Ecological Sciences
Reference: ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing Vol. 83, pp. 184-192 (2013)
Subject: Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
Keywords: Environment, Image processing, Snow ice, Web service, Orchestration, Semantic.
Abstract: In order to analyze environmental dymamics, a major process is the classifcation of the different phenomena of the site (e.g. ice and snow for a glacier). When using the in situ pictures, this classification requires data pre-proccessing. Not all the pictures need the same sequence of processes depending on the disturbances. Until now, these sequences have been done manually, which restricts the processing of large amount of data.
In this paper, we present how to realize a semantic orchestration to automate the sequencing for the analysis. It combines two advantages: solving the problem of the amont of processing and diversifying the possibilities in the data processing. We define a BPEL description to express the sequences. This BPEL uses some web services to run the data processing. The dynamic modification of the BPEL is done using SPARQL queries on these annotated web services. The results obtained by a prototype implementing this method validate the construction of the different workflows that can be applied to a large number of pictures.
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ID: 58790
Title: Adaptive geo-information processing service evolution: Reuse and local modification method.
Author: Haifeng Li, Bo Wu.
Editor: Derek Lichti.
Year: 2013
Publisher: Elsevier B V
Source: Centre for Ecological Sciences
Reference: ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing Vol. 83, pp. 165-183 (2013)
Subject: Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
Keywords: Geography information services, Services automated composition, Evolution, Reuse, Local modification.
Abstract: Geo-information (GI) service automated composition according to user demands is a crucial task in spatial data infrastructures. State-of-the-art GI service composition approaches face serious limitations in terms of effectiveness and stability as the general GI proccessing service chain (GIPSC) must be generated from individual user specifications from scratch. This paper presents a novel approach called an adaptive geo-information service evolution (AgiSE) method which overcomes these limitations by adaptively reusing and modifying previously generated GIPSC. In this method, an influence domain minimisation (IDM) criterion is employed to modify existing GIPSC to fit the new (changed) user demands through minimum revisions. The correction of local modification is ensured by process and integrity constraints. An innovative algorithm called influence domain pursuit is developed to find the optimised solution through a heuristic backward search based on the defined IDM. Experimental analysis shows the significant improvements of using AgiSE in GI services compared with existing traditional methods. The benefits of AgiSE are the improved efficiency of GI services compared with existing traditional methods. The benefits os AgiSE are the improved efficiency of GI service composition and the improved executing stability of GIPSC which were achieved by reducing the service provider load. The AgiSE presented in this paper is crucial in reusing a general unified framework for GI service composition.
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ID: 58789
Title: Intelligent services for discovery of complex geospatial features from remote sensing imagery.
Author: Peng Yue, Liping Di, Yaxing Wei, Weiguo Han.
Editor: Derek Lichti.
Year: 2013
Publisher: Elsevier B V
Source: Centre for Ecological Sciences
Reference: ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing Vol. 83, pp. 151-164 (2013)
Subject: Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
Keywords: Image mining, Geospatial services, Workflow Semantic, Feature discovery, GIS, Complex geospatial features.
Abstract: Remote sensing imagery has been commonly used by intelligence analysts to discover geospatial features, including complex ones. The overwhelming volume of routine image acquisition requires automated methods or systems for features such as buildings and roads from remote sensing imagery have been studied extensively. The discovery of complex geospatial features, however, is still rather understudied. A complex feature, such as a Weapon of Mass Destruction (WMD) proliferation facility is spatially composed of elementary features (e.g., buildings for hosting fuel concentration machines, cooling towers, transportation roads, and fences). Such spatial semantics and services. The elementary features extracted from imagery are archived in distributed Web Feature Services (WFSs) and dicoverable from a catalogue service. Using spatial semantics among elementary features and thematic semantics among feature types, workflow-based service chains can be constructed to locate semantically-related complex features in imagery. The workflows are reusable and can provide on-demand discovery of complex features in a distributed environment.
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