Advances in Forestry Research in India, Volume XVIII, 1998/edited by Ram Parkash. 1998, 267 p., $30.
Contents: Preface. 1. Constraints in the implementation of joint forest management/H.K. De and A. Ramesh Babu. 2. Economics of production of bamboo (Dendrocalamus strictus)/S.S. Marawar, J.S. Zope, A.M. Mukewar, Y.B. Taide and R.B. Atkar. 3. Environmental impact of fly ash and its management/S.K. Banerjee and M.K. Kashyap. 4. Air pollution/D.V. Sahani. 5. Effectiveness of compost towards increasing productivity of some medicinal plants in skeletal soil/A.K. Singh, S.S. Bisen, R.B. Singh and S.C. Biswas. 6. Effect of vermicompost as potting media mixture on growth and vigour of Neem seedlings (Azadirachta indica)/A.P. Biradar, S.B. Deveranavadagi, R.G. Teggelli, R.A. Balikai, J.M. Nidagundi and S.M. Vastrad. 7. Interrelationship of some erodibility indices in the soils of Kumaon Hills of Uttar Pradesh/G.R. Singh and O.M. Prakash. 8. Paper grade and high alpha-cellulose pulps from Hibiscus sabdariffa and Gmelina arborea: evaluation of their characteristic properties/F. Ali and C.N. Saikia. 9. Hill forests as rich repository of livestock fodders/Gaurav Misra. 10. Plant pesticides : their biological activities against forest insect pests/N. Kulkarni, K.C. Joshi and R.B. Lal. 11. Isozyme studies in clonal bank of sandal (Santalum album L.)/Manojkumar M. Reddy, Sukanya Subramanian and G. Kumaravelu. 12. Tribal impact assessment on biodiversity of Saranda and conservation strategy/S.M. Sulaiman Quli and M.H. Siddiqui. 13. Biochemical changes in constituents of volatile oil of Cymbopogon winterianus under leaf blight disease incidence/B.P. Misra, P. Boruah and M.G. Pathak. 14. Incidence of cercospora leaf spot disease of mulberry (Morus alba L.) in Upper Brahmaputra Valley (Assam)/P. Boruah, P.C. Sharma and S. Dutta. 15. Some boletoid fungal flora in the forests of Eastern Himalayas and adjoining hills/Kamaluddin Borah, P. Boruah and R.K. Adhikary.