biodiversity
This paper emphasises wildlife biodiversity and the management techniques and drawbacks particularly in Bhawal National Park. The park was declared a National Park in 1982; there was a great diversity of animal species at Bhawal National Park especially peafowl and jungle fowl dating back to the British era as well as the Pakistani era. But unfortunately during and after 1971 there were...
Conservation and management of rangelands require clear understanding of species composition. The objective of this paper is to show the differences in species composition, abundance, mean cover and height between the grazed and ungrazed plots in a specific pasture of Lo Manthang VDC in Upper Mustang. Two seasons' data were collected during July (wet season) and November (dry season) 2005....
During September 2003, status and distribution of blue sheep, Tibetan argali and kiang was studied in Damodar Kunda area. A total of twelve days were expended in the field for data collection. Areas suspected for high faunal diversity were visited and searched out using binoculars and Nikon spotting scope. Altogether 395 blue sheep (N=21) were recorded. The percentage of female was...
The present communication is a part of survey being conducted to study the fresh water algal flora of Namchi, South Sikkim. Thirteen taxa of class Chlorophyceae, which include 8 genera, 10 species and 3 varieties, were identified from 6 samples. Spirogyra nitida (Dillw.) Link, Netrium digitus (Ehr.) Itzigs. and Roth. and Scenedesmus bijugatus (Turp.) Kuetz. were the...
In this paper the authors attempted to present a glimpse of linkage between the nomads living in the pasture of Upper Mustang and their role in biodiversity conservation. The nomadic rangeland in Upper Mustang region harbors endangered Trans-Himalayan species like snow leopard, lynx, brown bear, Tibetan wild ass, Tibetan argali etc. with a variety of birds. It also harbours various medicinal...
Tinjure Forest, one of the ecologically important regions, lies on the eastern mid-hills of the country at a distance of about 9 km. from Basantapur bazaar of Tehrathum district. Its altitude ranges between 2400-3010 m and covers 22 sq. km. lying in between Basantapur and Chauki (Rai 1998). Basantapur is a small market located on the boarder of Sankhuvasabha and Terhathum district....
Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve was explored for butterflies in November, 1999. This was indeed little late for lowland butterflies still brought a list of 54 species categorised under seven families out of 14 families occurring in Nepal. Most of the recorded species in this wetland were common to moderately common in status inhabiting open areas and visitors of water sources and flowers. The...
Bacillus thuringiensis strains were isolated from soil samples collected from Khumbu Base Camp of the Everest region and characterised by standard microbiological techniques viz. colonial and morphological characteristics, and biochemical tests. Insect bioassay of each isolate was performed by standard method using mosquito larva. Among ten randomly selected isolates, one...
Known as "Simsar" in Nepal, wetlands are those areas which lie between the land and deepwater and remian waterlogged or submerged under water, seasonally or throughout the year. Generally the land is so muddy that one cannot easily walk over it, and water is so deep that one can neither swim nor get drowned. River floodplains, shallow margins of lakes and reservoirs, shallow and seasonal ponds...
A total 36 taxa belonging to 7 genera of desmids have been described and illustrated from Bees-hazaar lake of which 11 taxa are recorded for the first time for Nepal. This is a preliminary work on the desmids from this lake.
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