Diversity and ethnobotany of Fodder plants in the Himalayan rangelands:a case of the Uttarakhand Mountains,India
Introduction Himalayan rangelands are natural repositories of biodiversity.The vegetation is predominantly of forest communities with frequent interruption of scrub jungles,savanna,grassy localities and crop fields.Several environmental factors control the distribution of vegetation.Vegetation is demarcated on the basis of altitudinal gradients because edaphic,topographic,climatic and associated factors tend to be altered with altitude ( Gaur 1999).Utilisation of rangelands in the Himalayan region dominated by livestock-dependent communities is primarily for livestock production.A panorama of the biodiversity presented in this paper counts and characterizes the plant species that have some kind of fodder value.Ethnobotanical values associated with certain fodder plants have also been described.
Fodder plants ethnobotany rangelands
Vir Singh RD Gaur
Department of Environmental Science,College of Basic Sciences & Humanities,GB Pant University of gri Department of Botany,HNB Garhwal University,Srinagar-246174,Uttarakhand,India
国际会议
呼和浩特
英文
2008-06-29（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）