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Forest Botany

 
S S Negi (Author)
Synopsis

Botany is a basic biological science that deals with the study of plants while forest botany is that branch of botany which covers the study of plants found in forests. India has rich and diverse forests whose study started with botanical explorations that were undertaken way back from the seventeenth century onwards. Knowledge of forest botany is as much relevant today as it was many centuries ago when forests began to be visited by scientists to unravel various facts which were at that time unknown to science. Even today botanical explorations in forests help in discovering species of plants which are new to science. Forest botany is of immense help to foresters students and various other groups.

This book on forest botany includes chapters on introductory botany medicines and drugs, foods systematic botany, forest tree seeds forest genetics and tree improvement forest ecology fungi important Indian trees, timbers bamboos and forest types of India. It is meant for students of forest botany at the under graduate and post graduate levels officer trainees of the Indian Forest Service and State Forest Service, forest officers scientists and the layman.

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About the author

S S Negi

Dr. S.S. Negi belongs to the Himachal Pradesh cadre of the Indian Forest Service. He has more than 100 books on forestry, environmental sciences and Himalayan studies to his credit. Dr. Negi has held important positions under the Central Government and Himachal Pradesh Government. These include Associate Professor, Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy, Dehradun; Assistant Director General, ICFRE; State Project Director, IWDP (World Bank-funded); and Member Secretary, H.P. State Pollution Control Board. He has been associated with many foreign universities including Munich University, Germany and Ballarat University, Australia, Presently, he is Director of the prestigious Forest Research Institute, Dehradun and also the ex-officio Vice Chancellor of the FRI Deemed University.

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Bibliographic information

Title Forest Botany
Author S S Negi
Format Hardcover
Date published: 20.02.2012
Edition 1st. ed.
Language: English
isbn 9788121108263
length iii+251p.