To verify and up scale promising cold tolerant rice genotypes in the western hills, participatory variety selection (PVS) activities viz; coordinated farmer’s field trials (CFFTs), FFTs prepared from Lumle , farmers’ acceptance tests (FATs), larger plot demonstrations, and upscaling activities were conducted during 2008 to 2009. Yield and yield related parameters considering farmers’ preference...

Functional Diversity is considered an important driver of community assembly in environmental and successional gradients. To understand tree assembly processes in a semideciduous tropical forest, we analyzed the variation of Functional Richness (FRic), Functional Divergence (FDiv), and Functional Evenness (FEve) of small vs. large trees in relation to fallow age after slash-and-burn agriculture...

The bill structures of different call types of red crossbills (Loxia curvirostra complex) in western North America usually approximate the predicted optima for foraging on single species of conifers. One clear exception is the call type in the South Hills, Idaho, that is coevolving in an evolutionary arms race with Rocky Mountain lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta ssp. latifolia). Although South Hi...

Introduction: Amman’s growth expansion was shaped by its topography (valleys and hills), which generated a special character patterns of the urban form. The city built on seven hills, are connected steep stairs that serve as pathways to downtown core. rapid urbanization caused uncontrolled population growth, well random unplanned formations were far from following any kind aesthetic, resulted i...

The unreported medicinal uses of these plants from kolli hills, Salem District of Tamil Nadu are presented in this paper.

Plants used for curdling of milk practiced by kollimalayalis, the tribes of kolli, hills, Salem District, Tamil Nadu are discussed.

Feldspar grains, as a significant provenance indicator, of two terrigenous formations from Central Iran, the Upper Red Formation, and Moghan area, Zivah Formation, are used for provenance determination and the study of transportation and depositional history. The Upper Red Formation (URF) is volumetrically the most important siliciclastic unit of the Central Iran and Zivah Formation (ZF) repres...

The present review describes the morphological, phytochemical and pharmacologyaspects of Cinnamomum tamala (Lauraceae). The plant grows wild in the tropical and subtropical Himalayas, the Khasi hills, the nilgiri hills and at the foot of the Sikkim Himalayas. There are many plantation of this species. Used as carminative, used in colic and diarrhoea. Bark is aromatic, stimulant, antigonorrhoeic...

We describe a new species of small-sized (SVL 24.6–28.8 mm) rupicolous Cnemaspis from the Biligirirangan Hills (BR Hills), Karnataka based on morphology and molecular (mitochondrial 16S ND2) data. The is nested within monticola , mysoriensis gracilis clades, where it basal to clades in Maximum Likelihood analysis clade Bayesian phylogenetic analysis.