Assessment of Forest Fragmentation and Wildlife Corridor: A Case Study of Kanha-Pench and Nagzira-Navegaon Corridors of Central India - Softcover

Yadav, Pramod Kumar

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ISBN 10: 3659504106 ISBN 13: 9783659504105

Verlag: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2013

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Corridors are important geographic feature for biodiversity conservation and wildlife movement. Development of forest connectivity and corridors are critical for biodiversity conservation, and also ensure energy and genetic exchange across greater spatial extent. Increasing human population, demand for food, fodder and transportation have leads to natural land cover degradation, resulting a habitat degradation, biodiversity loss, and ecological instability. Thus, proper evaluation, investigation and change detections are required for conservation of biodiversity and their habitat at the broad landscape level. Establishment of corridors as protected area is necessary for promoting sustainable forest management and wildlife movement. This study deals with assessment of forest fragmentation, change detection, and corridor analysis of Kanha-Pench and Nagzira-Navegaon corridors of central India. Efforts were made to in the forest cover vis-à-vis status of corridors of the three periods i.e. 1990, 2001 and 2009 using remote sensing and GIS technique. The ERDAS Imagine, Arc GIS, Quantum GIS and FRAGSTATS software package were used for this purpose.

Biografía del autor:

P. K. Yadav is Project Associate (GIS) at Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, HNB Garhwal University Uttarakhand. He earned M.Sc. in Biodiversity and Conservation from GGSIP University, New Delhi. His expertise is in the applications of RS & GIS in various fields related to environment and biodiversity.

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• Verlag: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 3659504106
• ISBN 13: 9783659504105
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 104