Bamboo is one of the most useful plants known to mankind, owing to its versatility and renewable ... more Bamboo is one of the most useful plants known to mankind, owing to its versatility and renewable nature. In addition of its wide uses in industrial applications, bamboo provides immense scope and opening towards livelihood options and rural economy promotion. Besides, it acts as an ideal species for water and soil conservation, restoration of degraded land, protector of land erosion and denudation, sequester carbon and brings many other ecosystem benefits. Human interventions including mining, shifting cultivation, massive deforestation etc. have led to land degradation problems in Meghalaya. In the current paper
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Fire and grazing are the two most common disturbances found in the grassland ecosystems ... more Abstract Fire and grazing are the two most common disturbances found in the grassland ecosystems of Cherrapunjee. There are many species that have attributes which enable them to tolerate disturbances. The present study was conducted to examine separately as well as in combination the effects of fire and grazing on grassland ecosystem of Cherrapunjee. The results of the study reveal that the impact of fire and grazing on vegetation structure of grassland ecosystem at Cherrapunjee are highly variable. While grazing tends to favour the diversity of perennial grasses, fire influences the richness of annual grasses and other monocots. However, the combined effect of grazing and fire tend to increase the diversity of forbs.
Bamboo is one of the most useful plants known to mankind, owing to its versatility and renewable ... more Bamboo is one of the most useful plants known to mankind, owing to its versatility and renewable nature. In addition of its wide uses in industrial applications, bamboo provides immense scope and opening towards livelihood options and rural economy promotion. Besides, it acts as an ideal species for water and soil conservation, restoration of degraded land, protector of land erosion and denudation, sequester carbon and brings many other ecosystem benefits. Human interventions including mining, shifting cultivation, massive deforestation etc. have led to land degradation problems in Meghalaya. In the current paper
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Fire and grazing are the two most common disturbances found in the grassland ecosystems ... more Abstract Fire and grazing are the two most common disturbances found in the grassland ecosystems of Cherrapunjee. There are many species that have attributes which enable them to tolerate disturbances. The present study was conducted to examine separately as well as in combination the effects of fire and grazing on grassland ecosystem of Cherrapunjee. The results of the study reveal that the impact of fire and grazing on vegetation structure of grassland ecosystem at Cherrapunjee are highly variable. While grazing tends to favour the diversity of perennial grasses, fire influences the richness of annual grasses and other monocots. However, the combined effect of grazing and fire tend to increase the diversity of forbs.
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Fire and grazing are the two most common disturbances found in the grassland ecosystems of Cherrapunjee.
There are many species that have attributes which enable them to tolerate disturbances. The present study was
conducted to examine separately as well as in combination the effects of fire and grazing on grassland ecosystem of
Cherrapunjee. The results of the study reveal that the impact of fire and grazing on vegetation structure of grassland
ecosystem at Cherrapunjee are highly variable. While grazing tends to favour the diversity of perennial grasses,
fire influences the richness of annual grasses and other monocots. However, the combined effect of grazing and fire
tend to increase the diversity of forbs.
Fire and grazing are the two most common disturbances found in the grassland ecosystems of Cherrapunjee.
There are many species that have attributes which enable them to tolerate disturbances. The present study was
conducted to examine separately as well as in combination the effects of fire and grazing on grassland ecosystem of
Cherrapunjee. The results of the study reveal that the impact of fire and grazing on vegetation structure of grassland
ecosystem at Cherrapunjee are highly variable. While grazing tends to favour the diversity of perennial grasses,
fire influences the richness of annual grasses and other monocots. However, the combined effect of grazing and fire
tend to increase the diversity of forbs.