Biodiversity of Forest Types (A Community Forestry Approach)/edited by R. Bawa and P.K. Khosla. 1998, xxiv, 218 p., tables, $33.
Contents: Foreword. 1. Forest diversity versus biodiversity conservation/J.B. Lal. 2. Role of biodiversity in community forestry development/A.N. Chaturvedi. 3. Conserving biodiversity through promotion of market-linked multipurpose tree species/N.G. Hegde. 4. Women and forest resources/K.K. Lakshmanan. 5. Fuelwood energy consumption in UP Himalayas vis-a-vis wasteland plantation with multipurpose tree species/G.C.S. Negi. 6. Biodiversity conservation vis-a-vis silvicultural techniques/D.R. Bhardwaj and N.K. Gupta. 7. Role of multipurpose tree species in social forestry/N.G. Hegde. 8. Conserving seabuckthorn biodiversity in cold deserts/L.R. Verma, H.P. Sankhyan and R. Bawa. 9. Biodiversity of vegetational complex in arid regions of India/L.N. Harsh and J.C. Tiwari. 10. Floristic diversity in Meghalaya/S. Gupta and A.B. Bhatt. 11. Need to conserve biodiversity in Western Himalayas/C.V. Saraswat and V. Thakur. 12. Biological diversity in Indian Arid Zone tree species/M. Singh and K.R. Solanki . 13. Community forestry and biodiversity--The Punjab experience/A.S. Dogra. 14. Conserving biodiversity of medicinal and aromatic plants in Himalayan region/N.S. Chauhan. 15. Biodiversity and gene conservation of Acacia catechu willd/K.C. Chauhan, K. Mahapatra and R. Bawa. 16. Phenotypic variations in natural populations of Dalbergia sissoo Roxb/K.S. Bangarva and V.P. Singh 17. Utilizing biodiversity in Leucaena Leucaena Leucaena Leucocephala for improving biomass production/P.S. Pathak and V.K. Gupta. 18. Bamboos for community forestry programme/P. Shanmughavel. 19. Genetic diversity in poplars for sustainable development/D.K. Khuran. 19. Author Index. 20. Subject Index.