M P Nayar
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Sasthamkotta Lake is the largest Fresh Water Lake in Kerala. The Lake is situated 30 Km North of Kollam. The area of the Lake is 3.73 Km2. It is a source of drinking water of Sasthamkotta, Kollam and adjoining areas. It is an internationally recognized wetland having the status of Ramsar Site from November 2002 onwards. The Sasthamkotta Lake is surrounded on three sides by hillocks and on the south by a bund which separated the Lake from the surrounding water ...
The first and the second volumes of the Red Data Book on Indian plants were published by the Botanical Survey of India in the years 1987 and 1988 and include 619 data sheets. The present volume deals with 195 threatened taxa of Indian flora. As in the Vols. 1 & 2, a number of line drawings (placed nearest to corresponding data sheets) and eight colour plates have been included here. Of these, data sheets on Cymbidium tigrinum Vol. 2, p. 168), Cymbidium ...
In this publication, a brief general introduction on the floristics of the different mangroves in India; identification keys to the families, genera and species; species-wise data-sheets with recent botanical names (in bold print; synonyms in italics), its family, local names, short botanical descriptions, notes on ecology, distribution and economic uses, etc. have been provided. Relevant commonly consulted floras have been given under references. At ...
Easy retrieval of scientific information is an important aid in any research activity, and particularly so, in floristic and taxonomic work where discoveries of new species, new records, nomen clatural changes and revisions are published in a variety of scientific literature scattered all over the world. To keep abreast with such work, bibliographies, check-lists and other reference systems prove very useful. The present bibliography will go a long way in meeting ...
The writing of this book stems from the authors longstanding interest in endemism, phytogeography and plant conservation. The authors have worked on the endemic plants of India and a series of papers on this subject have been published as noted in the list of references. After Chatterjee's (1940) publication of the endemic flora of India, the studies on endemism did not receive appropriate attention. Since then, due to major taxonomic revisions and new ...
In India, the problem on threatened plants was first discussed in the 11th Technical Meeting of the IUCN in 1969 in which important papers were presented on the subject. Subsequently, the Botanical Survey of India published a small book-let: Threatened plants of India--A state-of-the Art Report, in 1980. Following this, concerted efforts on the subject were made in the years 1980-85, through a programme: Project on study, Survey and Conservation of Endangered ...
