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Forests and Forestry of West Bengal

Survey and Analysis

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  • Analyses district-wise forest matrices and statistics
  • Explains numerous forest models and strategies
  • Discusses various human-wildlife conflict measures

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This book explains several basic concepts of forests and forestry research like social distancing of trees, solitary trees, green infrastructure of trees including typical forest stands like pocket forests, forgotten forests, community forests, and social forestry from one forest stand to another scattered in the districts of West Bengal. In the field of forest floors, depleting status of the forests stimulates to find out different models of afforestation programme like tree-island and rescue forest strategy through plantation programme. Huge loss of tree canopy ravaged by the series of cyclonic storms particularly in the districts of South Bengal seems to be recovered by bioeconomic model with the implementation of social forestry schemes. Thoughts of such models incited the author to go through statistical analysis on different matters and parameters of the forest stands. Determination of physico-chemical parameters of the forest soil are carried on hand in hand with the identification of Alfisol profile exposures in the forest floors. For finding out the present status of forests, district-wise review is worked out. Though scattered in the format of the forest patches, forest stands in the Jungle Mahal are remarkably interesting for any surveyor or tree-lover. Because of the reasons, surveys in the specific forest lands like Joypur and Beliatore of Bankura district and Garh Jangal and Aduria Forests under Bardhaman Forest Division are given special impetus for statistical measures, soil properties analysis, and identification of vegetation pattern. All these salient features inspire the author to take an attempt disseminating information and related characteristics of the forests and forestry of West Bengal. Researchers and students will get sufficient material from this book to enrich their knowledge on the forest environment and the author believes that this book will act as the pioneer work for the flourishment and amelioration of the forestry of West Bengal.

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Kolkata, India

    Gautam Kumar Das

About the author

Gautam Kumar Das, a researcher, is well known in the field of environmental assessment, monitoring, and modelling of forests and forestry related research works.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Forests and Forestry of West Bengal

  • Book Subtitle: Survey and Analysis

  • Authors: Gautam Kumar Das

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80706-1

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-80705-4Published: 02 November 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-80708-5Published: 03 November 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-80706-1Published: 01 November 2021

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIV, 248

  • Number of Illustrations: 21 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Forestry, Ecology, Conservation Biology/Ecology, Environmental Management, Environment, general

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