India’s forest cover was estimated to be about 67.701 million hectares or 22.8 percent of the country’s land area and other wooded lands comprise of 4.11 million ha (UNEP Report, 2000). The dense forests in almost all the major states has been reduced and forest degradation is a matter of serious concern now. Principal plantation species such as Acacia spp., Eucalyptus spp. and Tectona grandis ...

The moisture sorption behaviour of three coating thicknesses of shellac and polyurethane films on Dalbergia sissoo substrate is studied in this paper. The thin films of either coat failed to reduce the water vapour transmission significantly. However, the thick coats were able to reduce this rate illustrating the importance film thickness of coating used on surfaces of wood products. The increm...

We estimated the impact of striped bass (Morone saxatilis) pre­ dation on winter-run chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) with a Bayesian population dynamics model using striped bass and winter-run chinook salmon population abundance data. Winter-run chinook salmon ex­ tinction and recovery probabilities under different future striped bass abundance levels were estimated by simulating from...

East African Blackwood is the common name for Dalbergia melanoxylon, the most valuable timber growing in the Miombo woodlands of southern Tanzania, and a potential flagship species to justify conservation of this habitat. The population density, structure and exploitation of this economically and socially important species were studied in an area of southern Tanzania. Harvestable timber was fou...

24 The striped bass (Morone saxatilis) support a valuable recreational fishery, and are among the most 25 important piscivorous fish of the San Francisco Estuary. This species has suffered a significant 26 decline in numbers over the past decades and there is indication that contaminants are important 27 contributors. Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) and Polyhalogenated aromatic 28 hydro...

Parallel patterns of adaptive divergence and speciation are cited as powerful evidence for the role of selection driving these processes. However, it is often not clear whether parallel phenotypic divergence is underlain by parallel genetic changes. Here, we asked about the genetic basis of parallel divergence in the marine snail Littorina saxatilis, which has repeatedly evolved coexisting ecot...