Indian J. Ecol. (2015) 42(1)

CONTENTS

2221 Quantification of Greenhouse Gas Emission from Five Agroforestry Systems in Semi-arid Alfisols of India during Rainy Season

1

S.B. Chavan, G.R. Rao and A. Keerthika 2222 Indigenous Ethnomedicines and Victuals of Malayans: An Indigenous Population of Peechi-Vazhani 9

Wildlife Sanctuary, Western Ghats, India Muhammed Nizar K, Gopakumar S, Vikas Kumar and R. Ajeesh

2223 Rainfall Probabilities for Crop Planning in Ludhiana by Markov Chain Analysis 16 K.K. Gill, Rajan Aggarwal and Pallvi Goyal

2224 Impact of Catchment Land Use on Water Quality of Pong Wetland of Himachal Pradesh 21 Nancy Loria, K.S. Verma, S.K. Bhardwaj and M.K. Brahmi

2225 Comparative Assessment of Yield and Water Use Efficiency of Different Groundnut Varieties 27 (Arachishypogaea) of Semi-Arid Bundelkhand Region Reena Kumari, Babloo Sharma and Ramesh Singh

2226 Life Table and Population Parameters of Bihar Hairy Caterpillar, Spilarctia Obliqua Walker on Jute 31 K. Selvaraj, B.S. Gotyal, S. Satpathy and P.N. Meena

2227 Genetic Relatedness of Bacterial Species Isolated from Local Entomopathogenic Nematode Strains of Punjab

35

Rajwinder Kaur and Vikas Jindal 2228 Comparative Biology of Whitefly, Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius) on Bt Cotton hybrids in Punjab 40

Ravinder Singh Chandi and Jagdev Singh Kular 2229 Effect of Transgenic Bt Cotton Hybrids on Larval Mortality of Tobacco caterpillar, Spodoptera litura

(Fabricius) 44

H.S. Bhullar, R.S. Gill and Vijay Kumar 2230 Population Dynamics of Citrus Leaf Miner, Phyllocnistis Citrella Stainton on Kinnow and Rough Lemon 50

D.R. Sharma, Gurjeet Singh and Hijam S. Devi 2231 Bio-efficacy of Nomuraea rileyi against Helicoverpa armigera (Hubner) 54

Y.V. Ingle, R.M. Wadaskar and A.G. Gathe 2232 Distribution Fitting for the Pests and Natural Enemies of Soybean (Glycine max.) 59

Minakshi Mishra and S.T. Pavan Kumar 2233 Morphometric Analysis of Male and Female Rats Inhabiting South-West Region of Punjab in North India 65

Parkash Singh and Gurinder Kaur Sangha 2234 Effect of Sowing Dates and Abiotic Factors on Infestation of Yellow Mite, Polyphagotarsonemus latus

(Banks) In Jute 69

B.S. Gotyal, K. Selvaraj, P.N. Meena, R.K. Naik, V. Ramesh Babu and S. Satpathy 2235 Long Term Effect of Manure and Fertilizers on Depthwise Distribution of DTPA-extractable Zn, Cu, 73

Fe and Mn under Rice-Wheat System M.K. Dhaliwal, S.S. Dhaliwal, A.K. Shukla, R.K. Gupta and Rajeev Sikka

2236 Influence of Rice Establishment Methods and Varieties on Soil Properties 80 P. Suryavanshi , Y.V. Singh and R. Prasanna

2237 Weeds: An Uncommon Source of Nutrients Used by Tribal Community 86 Dashrath Bhati and Shashi Jain

2238 Effect of Irrigation Methods and Irrigation Regimes under Different Planting Methods on Crop Productivity in Sugarcane

90

Angrej Singh, K.G. Singh, Rajender Kumar and S.K. Uppal 2239 Weed Dynamics and Performance of Transplanted Rice (Oryza Sativa L.) under Different Water Regimes,

Plant Densities and Butachlor in Temperate Conditions 96

Rukhsana Jan, T. Ram, Purshotam Singh, D. Ram, K.N. Singh and Gurdeep Singh 2240 Growth and Yield of Happy Seeder Sown Wheat as Affected by Skip Row Planting and Split Nitrogen 103

Application in Rice-Wheat Cropping System Raminder Kaur Hundal, J.S. Kang and Avtar Singh

2241 Investigations on Growth, Fruit Yield and Physico-chemical Attributes of Aonla (Emblica officinalis Gaertn.) 108 H.S. Dhaliwal, Avneet Kaur and Anirudh Thakur

2242 Integrated Nutrient Management in Kinnow Mandarin (Citrus deliciosa Tenore) 113 Siddappa Madarakhandi, D.R. Patil, S.I. Madawal and B.R. Kumar

2243 Studies on in vitro Regeneration and Acclimatization of Rough Lemon 117 H.S. Rattanpal and Om Prakash

2244 Intercropping Systems on Fruit Yield and Quality of Kinnow Mandarin in Aridisol 122 Yogesh Khokhar and Gobinder Singh

2245 Effect of Nitrogen Application on Growth of Potted Chrysanthemum in Cocopeat Amended Farm Yard Manure-based Media Mixtures

126

Simrat Singh, R.K. Dubey and S.S. Kukal 2246 Effect of Different Levels of NPK on Growth , Nutrient Uptake and Biomass Yield in Melia dubia Cav. 131

K. Prabaharan, A. Nandhagopalan and A. Sudarshan 2247 Do Fresh Water Swamps of the Central Western Ghats Differ in their Species Composition Across

Latitude? 135

Shrikant V. Gunaga and R. Vasudeva 2248 Evaluation of Management Practices for Rice -Wheat System Under On-farm Condition for Low Hill Zone

of Himachal Pradesh 139

S.K. Sharma, S.S. Rana, S.K. Subehia and S.C. Negi 2249 Growth, Yield Attributes and Yield of Rice (Oryza sativa L.) as Affected by Age of Seedling and 143

Time of Nitrogen Application under Temperate Conditions Rubia Rasool, Purshotam Singh and Sabia Akhter

2250 Pearlmillet Based Cropping Systems Involving Pulses, Oilseeds and Vegetables for Attaining 148 Sustainability and Economic Viability in Semi-Arid Regions of India Pawan Kumar and R.K. Nanwal

2251 Evaluation of Organic Farming Package for Rice - Groundnut Crop Sequence 152 L.J. Desai, J.D. Thanki, R.M. Pankhaniya and R.A. Dungarani

2252 Changes in Soil Microflora with Herbicides Application in Autumn Sugarcane Based Intercropping Systems 156 Navneet Kaur and M.S. Bhullar

2253 Induced Mutagenesis in Bread Wheat (Triticum aestivum L. CVS. PBW-373 and Raj-3765) through 160 Temperature and Hydroxyl Amine Kavita Jain, M.N. Mishra, Showkat A. Waza, Ramandev Sharma and Dilruba A. Bano

2254 Genetic Divergence Analysis in Germplasm of Indian Mustard [Brassica Juncea (L.) Czern & Coss.] 166 Baldeep Singh, Swarupa Nanda Mandal, S.K. Thakral and N.K. Thakral

2256 Influence of Bio-fertilizers in Conjunction with Organic and Inorganic Fertilizer on Soil Properties and 170 Productivity of Turmeric (Curcuma longa L.) Davinder Singh, Rajender Kumar, Avtar Singh, S.K. Gosal, S.S. Walia, Roopinder Singh and Amandeep Singh

Brar

2257 Potential of Rhiobium Species to Enhance Growth and Symbiosis in Berseem (Trifolium alexandrinum L.) 174 Madhurama Gangwar, Shivangi Dhaliya and Sukhjinder Kaur

2258 Effect of Cowpea Bradyrhizobium (RA-5) on Growth Parameters of Pigeonpea Plant under Various 179 Salt Concentrations at Different Time Intervals Dilruba A. Bano, R.K. Singh, N.P. Singh and Showkat A. Waza

2259 Growth, Yield and Quality of Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) as Influenced by Sulphur and Boron 183 Application and Rhizobium Inoculation M.P. Singh, Ripudaman Singh, M.A. Ansari, Amarpreet Singh, M. Saquib, M. H. Ansari, Brijesh Yadav, N.K. Katiyar and Kuldeep Singh

2260 Agro-Biodiversity Conservation for Sustainable Agriculture of Lateritic Region of West Bengal (India) 188 Anjan Kumar Sinha

2261 Standardization of Tamarind Ready-to-Serve and Syrup 192 Archana Pattar and Laxman Kukanoor

2262 Effect of Drying Methods on Organoleptic Evaluation of Peach Cultivars during Storage 197 Naseer Ahmed, Jagmohan Singh and Rajkumari Kaul

2263 Studies on Optimization of Ripening Techniques for Tomato 201 R.K. Dhall

2264 Development of Risk Assessment Index to Evaluate Cardiovascular Diseases Among Young Adult Males in Punjab

207

Kiran Grover, Anika Batra and Monika Choudhary 2265 Relationship of Personality Traits of Self Help Groups and Women Empowerment in Punjab 214

Lakhwinder Kaur and R.K. Kalra 2266 Pattern of Litter Fall in Pinus roxburghii Sarg. Forest in Kumaun Himalaya, India 219

Sanjay Kumar and Lalit M. Tewari 2267 Response of Soybean to Organics and Phosphorus Fertilization in Vertisols of Marathwada Region 224

of Parbhani (India) M.S. Waghmare, V.D. Patil, M.S.Deshmukh and V.A. Deshmukh

2268 Effect of Storage Temperature, Growth Regulators and Chemical Solutions on Seed Germination 227 in Chila (Wendlandia exserta Roxb.) Rajeev Dhiman, N.K. Gupta and Varun Attri

2269 Effect of Ridge and Furrow System on Growth Characters and Yield of Rainfed Soybean (Glycine Max) in Madhya Pradesh

230

S.S. Dhakad, A.K. Badaya, S.S. Chouhan and G.S. Gathiye 2270 Rationalizing Pest Management in Mustard-Through Emphasizing Under-Storey Repellent Crop and 233

Safer Insecticides S. Chakraborti, Prahlad Sarkar, Sagarika Bhowmik and Ambika Senapati

2271 Integrated Management of Meloidogyne incognita in Wilt Disease Complex of Muskmelon 237 Harjot Singh and N.K. Dhillon

2272 Synthesis and Antifungal Evaluation of N-benzylidenebenzene- sulfonamides 240 S. Jain, A. Garg , S. Kainth and V.K. Sharma

2273 Effect of Quinalphos Administration on Body Weight, Feed Intake and Cyclicity of Female Albino Rats 243 Jaspreet Kaur and K.S. Khera

2274 Quantitative and Qualitative Losses in Groundnut Varieties Caused by Caryedon serratus Olivier 246 (Bruchidae: Coleptera) S.R. Sharma and M.C. Bhargava

2275 Biology of Drumstick Pod Fly, Gitona distigma (Meigen) 249 Mahesh Math and Y.K. Kotikal

2276 Host Range and Survival of Cercospora canescens Ell. and Mart. under Temperate Region of Jammu and Kashmir

251

F.A. Bhat and F.A. Mohiddin 2277 Effect of Environmental Factors on Growth and Sporulation of Leaf Blight of Isabgol Pathogen 253

Rajesh Kumar Meena, S.S. Sharma and S.C. Meena 2278 Correlation and Path Coefficient Analysis Among in [Vigna umbellata (Thumb) Ohwi and Ohashi] in North

Western Hills 256

Neelam Bhardwaj and Parveen Sharma 2279 Assessment of Strength of Self-incompatibility in S-allele Lines of Cabbage (Brassica oleracea var. capitata

L.) 259

Saurabh Singh and Vidyasagar 2280 Evaluation of Turmeric (Curcuma longa L.) Cultivars under Hill Zone of Karnataka 262

Veena Hanchinamani, G. Raviraja Shetty, J. Venkatesha, L. Hanumantaraya and Arif A. Agasiamani 2281 Effect of Organic Sources of Nutrients on Yield and Quality of Onion (Allium Cepa L.) 266

Ramandeep Kaur Brar, Rakesh Sharma and Jashanjot Kaur 2282 Effect of Fertilizer Levels on Yield, Quality and Economics of Glory Lily (Gloriosa superba L.) 268

Rahul S. Phatak, Laxminarayan Hegde, N.K. Hegde, Vijaykumar Narayanpur 2283 Effect of Plant Growth Regulators on Dry Matter Accumulation, Partitioning and Fruit Retention of Bt

Cotton 270

Rajni and J.S. Deol 2284 Influence of Spray Technology on Control of Phalaris minor and its Effect on Economics of Wheat 273

(Triticum aestivum L.) at Farmers' Fields R.S. Ghuman, Gagandeep Singh, U.S. Walia and Surjit Singh

2285 Influence of Different Storage Methods on Storage Quality of Onion 276 E. Rekha, L. Kukanoor and K. Adarsh

2286 Seasonal Variation in Physico-Chemical & Microbiological Analysis of Sewage Water in Gwalior City, India 279 Ajay Kumar, Charu Singh and Pragati Saini

2287 Effect of Mineral Supplementation on Production Status of Buffaloes Fed on Forage Based Diet 282 Raminder Singh Ghuman and Aparana

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2289 DNA Barcoding-Applications in Insect Ecology 287 Mohd Abas Shah, Akhtar Ali Khan and Zakir Husain Khan

2290 Insect Biodiversity of Brinjal Crop in Kashmir 295 Showket A. Dar, Abdul R. Wani, T. A. Raja, Sajad. H. Mir

2291 Floristic Analysis of Peri-Urban Homegardens of Southern Kerala, India 300 R. Ajeesh, Vikas Kumar and T. K. Kunhamu

2292 Land Use and Land Cover Change Analysis of Hussainiwala Wetland Ecosystem Using Remote 306 Sensing and GIS Navaneet Kumar Das, V. K. Verma and Minakshi

2293 Carbon Mineralization in Soil Amended with FYM, Urea and DAP under Simulated Conditions of 311 Aerobic and Flooded Ecosystems J. Saralakumari, V. R. Ramakrishna Parama P. Veeranagappa and H. Mohamed Saqeebulla

2294 Response of Maize (Zea mays L.) + Mashbean (Vigna mungo L.) Intercropping System on Available 315 Soil Nutrients Status and Economics in North-Western Plain Zone of India Ashish Dwivedi, Adesh Singh, S. S. Tomar, Vineet Kumar, Roop Kishore1 and Rajveer Singh Yadav

2295 Evaluation of Prominent Bio-intensive Complementary Cropping Systems in Relation to Intensification 319 and Diversification Under Assured Input Conditions S. S. Walia, R. S. Gill, C. S. Aulakh, Jaspreet Kaur and A. Chaudhary

2296 Composition and Assessment Potential of Wild Ginger Oil and its Fractions as Stored Grain Protectants 326 K. K. Chahal, Manu Vashisht, Urvashi Bhardwaj, R. K. Saini and Amit Kumar

2297 Effect of Potassium Huamte in Conjugation with Inorganic Fertilizers on Different Forms of Carbon in 331 Soil Under Rice Crop Dileep Kumar, A. P. Singh, P. Raha and B. S. Rajput

2298 Comparative Studies on Synthesis of Amides by Using Environmentally Benign Methods 335 S. Sharma, T. Bansal and J. Gaba

2299 Effect of Temperature and Time of Incubation on Ammonical (NH4-), Nitrate (NO3

-) and Mineral Nitrogen 339 Accumulation in Soils Amended with FYM Z. A. Bhat and S. A Padder

2300 Influence of Integrated Nutrient Management on Growth and Yield of Babycorn (Zea mays L.) 346 Gurbrinder Singh and S. S. Walia

2301 Influence of Integrated Nutrient Management Practices on Post Harvest Soil Properties in 349 Sorghum-Barley Sequence M. K. Jat, H. S. Purohit, R. Singh and S. K. Choudhary

2302 Isolation and Characterization of Antibiotic Producing Actinomycetes from Soil and Effect of Various 354 Physical Parameters on Antibiotic Production Karmdeep Singh and Bhairav Prasad

2303 Effect of FYM Doses and Plant Spacing on Production of Oenothera biennis L. 359 Usha Thakur, Bhupender Dutt, S. Sarvade and Kulwant Rai Sharma

2304 Impact of Cadmium on Feeding Response and Growth of Filicaulis alte Ferussac and Macrochlamys 363 indica Godwin-Austen Avneet Kaur, Harjit Kaur and S. S. Hundal

2305 Effect of Incorporation of Defatted Flaxseed Flour on Functional and Proximate Composition of Crackers 366 Ritika Sharma, Monika Sood, Julie D. Bandral and Neelu Slathia

2306 Assessment of Forced Genetic Divergence in a Collection of Brassica Juncea L. Germplasm Grown 371 Under Varying Nitrogen Levels Shilpa Gupta, Hitesh Kumar and A. K. Atwal

2307 Combining Ability Studies in Bitter Gourd [Momordica charantia L.] in Relation to Line × Tester 377 Crossing System Sridhar and Ravindra Mulge

2308 Combining ability studies in ridge gourd [Luffa acutangula (L.) Roxb.] 382 Anand Narasannavar, V. D. Gasti, Sridhar, Sheela Malaghan and B. R. Kumara

2309 Genetic Architecture of Gladiolus (Gladiolus Hybridus Hort.) under Sub Tropical Condition of Punjab (India) 388 Zahoor Ahmed and K. K. Dhatt

2310 Effect of Pruning Intensity on Physiology and Quality of Red Globe Grapes in Summer Season 394 Harikanth Porika, R. M. Vijayakumar, M. Jagadeesha and C. Deepika

2311 Formulation of Crop Weather Disease Calendars of Mustard Crop for Different Agroclimatic Zones of Punjab

397

Baljeet Kaur and K. K. Gill 2312 Growth and Productivity of Wheat Varieties under Ceiba pentandra (L) based Agri-silvicultural System 405

Anil Gawali, Sunil Puri and S. L. Swamy 2313 Growth and Yield of Soybean (Glycine max) Varieties as Influenced by Sowing Time 412

Harpreet Kaur, Guriqbal Singh, K. K. Gill and Poonam Sharma 2314 Performance of Spring Maize (Zea mays L.) under Different Drip Irrigation and Fertigation Levels 417

Baljinder Kaur, Sunil Garg, Rakesh Sharda, A. K. Jain and Kirandeep Kaur 2315 Impact of Joint Forest Management (JFM) Programme on Equality in Income Distribution in Nainital

District, Uttarakhand 422 Bishwa Bhaskar Choudhary and S. K. Srivastava

2316 Dietary and Physical Activity Pattern of Post Menopausal Women Belonging to Different Categories of Body Mass Index 426 Priyanka Prasad and Kiran Grover

2317 Assessment of Food and Nutrient Intake of University Resident Girls 431 Smita, Harpreet Kaur and Kiran Bains

2318 Nutritional Inputs and Awareness to Manage Seasonal Variation in Iron Status of Adolescent Girls 437 Anchal Singh and Kiran Grover

2319 MATLAB Toolbox for Mathematical Modelling of Drying Kinetics of Tomato 444 Aasima Rafiq, H. A. Makroo and M. K. Hazarika

2320 Simulating Phenology, Growth Parameters and Yield of Aerobic Rice Using ORYZA2000 Model 449 Arbind Kumar Gupta, G. Jayasree, K. Surekha, S. Hemlatha and Y. Sudha Rani

2321 Evaluation of Turmeric (Curcuma Longa L.) Cultivars for Growth and Yield in Southern Dry Zone of Karnataka

454

S. V. Salimath, J. Venkatesha, Y. K. Kotikal,G. Ravi Raja Shetty1 and M. Jhalegar 2322 Assessment of Ground Water Quality in Different Cropping Systems of Varanasi District, Uttar Pradesh,

India 456

Mahendra Prasad and Priyankar Raha 2323 Biology and Host Preference of Lemon Butterfly, Papilio demoleus Linnaeus on Citrus 459

Jhabar Mal, R. Nagar, B. M. Meena, R. S. Choudhary and A. Meena 2324 Biology of Leaf Eating Caterpillar, Noorda blitealis Walker on Drumstick 462

M. S. Brunda Kumari and Y. K. Kotikal 2325 Evaluation of Crude Euphorbiaceae Latex Against Black Slug, Filicaulis Alte Ferussac 466

H. K. Mangat and Harjit Kaur 2326 Characterisation of Cowpea Genotypes with Desirable QualitativeTraits 469

Basavaraj Makanur, Avinalappa H. Hotti and N. G. Chavan 2327 Cluster Analysis on Area of Major Crops across Different Agro-Climatic Zones of Karnataka 472

G. R. Halagundegowda, H. K. Meenakshi and M. S. Nagaraja 2328 Effect of Different Cropping Systems on Crop Productivity, Profitability and Soil Properties in Alluvial 476

Tract of Uttar Pradesh, India U. S. Tiwari, Naushad Khan, M. P. Yadav and Mayank Dubey

2329 Propagation of Hard to Root Biofuel Species of Himalayan Region- Wendlandia exserta Roxb. DC. 543 Rajeev Dhiman and N. K. Gupta

2330 Response of Fertility Levels and Spacing on Productivity of Pearl millet Hybrids (Pennisetum glaucum L.) under Dryland Condition 546 Chandra Prakash, J. P. Singh, Chetan Singh Panwar and Sandeep Kumar Tripathi

2331 Response of Oats to Cu Applied through Seed Priming, Foliar and Soil Application 549 Janpriya Kaur, D. S. Bhatti and J. S. Manchanda

2332 Screening of Soybean Varieties against Callosobruchus Chinensis Linnaeus under Storage Condition 552 Suman Choudhary, T. M. Bharpoda, Mamta Devi Choudhary and Sushma Deb

2333 Seasonal Incidence of Seed Midge, Systole albipennis Walker Infesting Fennel 555 Nema Ram, Ashok Sharma and V. K. Agrawal

2334 Role of Chemical Floral Preservatives on Vase Life of Cut Flowers of Gerbera cv. Shangria 557 R. Amith, Ravishankar M. Patil1, Prashant Paramagoudar and V. Chikkasubbanna

2335 Standardization of Drying Level and Time in Microwave Oven of Carnation (Dianthus caryophyllus L.) var. Soto

559

T. R. Anuroopa, H. P. Sudeep , Shivakumar, M. Chirag Reddy and B. Divya 2336 Radiation and Heat Use Efficiency in Brassica under Debranching and Defoliation Treatments 561

Harinder Pal Singh, L. K. Dhaliwal and Manpreet Singh

2337 Studies on Food Consumption and Utilization Behaviour in Susceptible and Resistant Diamondback Moth, 564 Plutella Xylostella (Linnaeus) Anureet Kaur Chandi

Indian Journal of Ecology (2016) 43 (1) 2338 Impact of Ecological and Climatic Changes on Vectors of Malaria in Four North-Eastern States of India 1

Akhtar Nasreen, B.N. Nagpa, Neera Kapoor, Aruna Srivastava, H.P. Gupta, Rekha Saxena, A. Shamim, Vikram Kumar, S.K. Gupta, V.P. Singh, Vas Dev, Nutan Nanda and Neena Valecha

2329 Design and General Characteristics of Five Marine Gillnets of Mumbai Coast 16 Shabir A. Dar and Saly N. Thomas

2330 Temporal Variation of Phytoplankton in Idukki Reservoir, Kerala 22 Simimole Sebastian and Joice V. Thomas

2331 Plant Biodiversity of Major Forest Communities in Chail Wildlife Sanctuary of Himachal Pradesh 28 Rakesh Kumar and D.P. Sharma

2332 Evaluation of Site Suitability and Storage Capacity of Constructed Rainwater Harvesting Structure in Vindhyan Region, India

39

Sandeep Kumar Tripathi, Babloo Sharma and P. Raha 2333 Kinetics of Adsorption and Desorption of Boron in Major Soils of Lesser Himalayas 43

Shaista Nazir and Mushtaq A. Wani 2334 Calculation and Analysis of the Urban Ecological Footprint: A case Study of Ajmer City, India 50

Kriti Sharma, Sanjeev Kumar Sharmaand Praveen Mathur 2335 Waste Water: A Source of Multidrug Resistant Escherichia coli and Faecal streptococci Contamination 53

Kuljinder Kaurand R.S. Kahlon 2336 Surface Water Quality and Associated Aquatic Insect Fauna under Different Land-Uses in Solan 58

(District Solan), Himachal Pradesh Anchal Rana, S.K Bhardwaj and Meena Thakur

2337 Quantification of Water Loss Due to Unleveled Surface of Conventionally Puddled Wet Rice Fields 65 G. Kusuma, P. Lavanya, A. Naveen, G. Anitha, N. Naresh and S.A. Radha

2338 Performance of Direct-Seeded Rice in Relation to Water and Weed Management Scenarios in a Sandy Loam Soil 70 Mahesh Chand Singh, S.S. Kukal and Naveen Gupta

2339 Energy Requirement under Different Planting Methods of Sugarcane with and without Preparatory Tillage 75 Gurvinder Singh, Lalit Kumar, Subhash Chandra, Amit Bhatnagar and K.P. Raverkar

2340 Integration of Organic and Chemical Fertilizers as Affected by Growth and Yield of Wheat (Triticum aestivum) 80 Harwinder Singh, Mandeep Singh and Navtej Singh

2341 Chemical Partitioning and Distribution of Copper, Zinc and Nickel in Soils of Lesser Himalayas 84 Shazia Ramzan and M. Auyoub Bhat

2342 Influence of Silicon and Phosphorus on Growth, Yield and Nutrient Uptake by Maize (Zea Mays L.) in 89 Typic Ustochrepts Soils O.P. Meena, K.C. Patel and J.K. Malav

2343 Soil organic Carbon Stock under Different Land Use Systems in Mountainous Ecosystem 93 Bhalendra Singh Rajput, D.R. Bhardwaj, K.P. Dwivedi and Dileep Kumar

2344 Effect of Field Conditions and Different Growing Media on Seed Germination in Rheum australe D. Don 98 Ravi Bhardwaj and Meenu Sood

2345 Diversity, Anti-microbial and Plant Growth Promoting Activity of Endophytic Actinomycetes Isolated from 101 Azadirachta indica A. Juss Madhurama. Gangwar, Preeti Saini and Anu Kalia

2346 Effect of Superimposed Treatments of Long Term Fertilizer Experiment on Soil Biological Properties 111 Mallikarjuna Lingappa, R.C. Gowda and Eresha

2347 Influence of Nitrogen, Zinc And Iron Fertilizer on Growth Parameters and Yield of Parmal Rice in 115 Transplanted Condition Dipender Kumar, S.S. Dhaliwal, R.S. Uppaland Hari Ram

2348 Molecular Diversity of Bombyx mori Nuclear Polyhedrosis Virus (BmNPV) Isolates using AFLP Markers 119 A. Peter, P. Patil, P. Shamprasad, J. Chandramohan, J. Shantala, S.C. Venkateshand K.S.M. Gowda

2349 Influence of Biofertilizers on Growth, Yield, Quality and Nutrient Uptake in Onion (Allium cepa L.) 124 Dilpreet Talwar, Kulbir Singh, D.S. Khurana and Variendar Sardhana

2350 Bioutilization of Agro-Industrial Waste to Produce Biopigment using Monascus Purpureus MTCC 369 128 by Solid State Fermentation Rachna Sehrawat, Kumar Sandeep, Khalid Bashir, Kumar Satya Prakash, Tanya L Swer and Anit Kumar

2351 Extent of Natural Parasitisation of Cocoons of Cotesia marginiventris (CRESSON), A Larval Parasitoid on 134

Helicoverpa armigera (Hübner) G. Anitha and J. Vijay

2352 Monitoring of Alate Mustard Aphid, Lipaphis erysimi Kalt on Yellow Sticky Traps 137 Y. P. Singh and Rajendra Nagar

2353 Bio-Efficacy of Newer Insecticides and Biopesticides against Thrips, Thrips tabaci in Garlic 141 Ramgopal Dudwal, B.L. Jat, S. Ramesh Babu and Alka Kataria

2354 Role of Abiotic Factors in Population Fluctuation of Mango Hopper (Amritodus atkinsoni Leth.) 145 K.B. Patel, S.P. Saxena and K.M. Patel

2355 Effect of Water-Logging on Morphological Parameters and Yield in Maize Hybrids 149 Tufail Manzoor, K. Jayalalitha, Shahid B. Dar and R. Zahida

2356 Influence of Site-Specific Nutrient Management on Productivity, Nutrient Use Efficiency and Economics 154 in Rice-Rice Cropping System M. Ray, P. Haldar, N.B. Choudhuri, C. Majumder, P.K. Mani, S. Chatterjee, M. Pramanick and S.K. Mukhopadyay

2357 PGPR Mediated Induction of Systemic Resistance in Chickpea Against Fusarium Oxysporum and Growth 160 Promotion under Field Condition Poonam Kumari and Veena Khanna

2358 Dynamic Population of Macaca fascicularis due to Construction of Dam from 2010-2015 164 Pudji Astuti, Arif Setyawan, Asmarani Kusumawati, Luthfiralda Sjahfirdi and Hera Maheshwari

2359 Quaternary Quinolinium Salts as a New Antifungal Agentfor the Protection of Rice Crop 170 Shagun Kainth, Anita Garg, Manpreet Kaur, Divya and Jaspal Kaur

2360 Determining Genetic Architecture of Upland Rice (Oryza sativa L.) Genotypes under Suboptimal Rainfed Ecosystem 174 Prafull Kumar, Abhinav Sao, A.K. Thakur and D.P. Singh

2361 Character Association Studies in Ridge Gourd (Luffa Acutangula Roxb. L.) With Reference to Yield Attributes 178 Shivanand B. Koppad, Mukesh L. Chavan and Jyoti Patil

2362 Diallel analysis for Combining Ability in China aster (Callistephus chinensis [L.] Nees) 184 Anjali Kulkarni, Mukund Shiragur and Balaji S. Kulkarni

2363 Correlation and Path Coefficient Analysis of Yield Attributes in Okra (Abelmoschus esculentus (L.) Moench.) 188 Rekha Hallur, T. Shantappa, S.B. Koppad and R.C. Jagadeesha

2364 Assessment of Genetic Diversity of China aster (Callistephus chinensis [L.] Nees) Genotypes using SRAP Markers 192 Rachappa K. Kore, Mukund Shiragur, Ravi Pujari, Sandhyarani Nishani and G.H. Akshata

2365 Correlation and Path Analysis of Morpho-physiological Traits with Yield of Soybean (Glycine max L. Merrill) 197 Genotypes under Variable Photoperiods Anil Kumar Dogra, Ashutosh Srivastava, Jagmeet Kaur and Tilak Raj

2366 Tribal Fruits and Vegetable of Udaipur District of Rajasthan 202 Dashrath Bhati and Shashi Jain

2367 Comparative Analysis of Eco-zone; Great Himalayan National Park, India 211 Suneet Naithani and V.B. Mathur

2368 Effect of Lopping on Stand Structure and Tree Species Composition of Quercus glauca Thunb. Forests 218 of Himachal Pradesh, India T. Amare and D.R. Bhardwaj

2369 Distribution of Litsea floribunda (Lauraceae), A Dioecious Tree Endemic to Western Ghats of India 224 S.G. Srinivas and Y.L. Krishnamurthy

2370 Effect of Chromium on Lantana camara L. Extract Treated Wood Species 229 Heena Gupta, K.R. Sharma, Shabir Ahmad Rather and Chander Lekha Sharma

2371 Effect of Pre-sowing Seed Treatment on Germination and Seedling Growth of Terminalia bellirica (Gaertn.) Roxb. 233 Vikas Kumar

2372 Rose Petal Meal as a Potential Natural Carotenoid Source for Pigmentation and Growth of Freshwater Ornamental Fish, Koi Carp, Cyprinus carpio (Linnaeus)

239

Abhinika Jain and Vaneet Inder Kaur 2373 Interactive Effect of Biofertilizers and Organic Potting Media on Growth and Flowering of Calendula 245

(Calendula officinalis Linn.) Rohini Thakur, R.K. Dubey, S.S. Kukal and Sammy Kapoor

2374 Influence of Substitution of Dietary Fish Oil with Different Vegetable Oils on Growth Performance, 249 Body and Fatty Acid Composition of Juvenile Common Carp, Cyprinus carpio (Linn.) Sonu Baweja and Bhupinder Kaur Babbar

2375 Degradation Status of Amarogentin on Storage in Different Solvents 257 Aruna Mehta, R.C. Rana, Y.P. Sharma and Vinod Kumar

2376 Influence of Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR) on Growth and Yield of Strawberry 262 (Fragaria x ananassa Duch.) cv. Chandler

K. Seema, Kuldeep Mehta and Wineet Chawla 2377 Occupational Health Hazards among Dyeing Workers in Karur Region of Tamilnadu, India 266

M. Velusamy, M. Ganesan and M.S. Dheenadhayalan 2378 Protective Clothing for the Pesticide Applicators 271

Rajdeep Kaur and Sandeep Bains 2379 Food Safety issues and Related Standards: Awareness and Knowledge of Home Food Makers in Ludhiana 276

Sonika Sharma and J.K. Sangha 2380 Interrelationship among Dietary Diversity, Socioeconomic Factors and Food Security in Rural Farm Households 280

Harleen Kaur, Kiran Bains and Amrit Kaur 2381 Study of Body Perception and Overweight Prevalence among Punjabi College Girls 286

Aprajita Ranjit, Renuka Aggarwal and Kiran Bains 2382 Antifungal Potential of Coriander Seed Essential Oil and its Constituents 292

K.K. Chahal, Ravinder Singh, Amit Kumar and Urvashi Bhardwaj 2383 Appraisal of Status of Metacognitive Skills, Emotional Intelligence and Achievement Motivation among

Adolescents 296

Parul Kalia and Sarita Saini 2384 Shift in Land Use Pattern and Constraints Faced by Farmers in Crop Diversification in Kashmir Valley 301

F. Sibat, I. Umar, M.A. Beigh, M.A. Dar, I.A. Bisati and Q.J.A. Peer 2385 Current Distribution of Invasive Alien Flora of Arookkutty Panchayath, Kerala, India 305

Swapna Vijayan and C.M. Joy 2386 Mangroves Species Composition in Rajpuri creek of Maharashtra, India 308

Ajit B. Telave and Shrikant D. Ghodake 2387 Effect of Coloured Shade Nets on Softwood Graft Success in Jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus Lam.) 311

N.P. Mamatha, G.S.K. Swamy, R.K. Mahesh, H.L. Priyanka and R.S. Vedavathi 2388 Effect of Tree Spacing and Organic Manures on the Seed Production of Calendula officinalis L. under 313

Grewia optiva Drummond. based Agroforestry System Prem Parkash, K.S. Pant and Rajeev Dhiman

2389 Karanj Extract as an Antimicrobial Textile Finish for Cotton Fabric 316 Puspa, P. Punia and V. Singh

2390 Biochemical Constituents of Different Mulberry Varieties Grown under Seri Suvarna Technology with 319 Protective Irrigation N.S. Mamatha, S. Fatima, N. Amarnatha, K.C. Narayanaswamy and Manjunath Gowda

2391 Effect of Phosphorus Levels on Nutrient Uptake and Yield in Rice bean 321 Sandeep Patidar, Siddarth Nayak, Pratik Sanodiya and Bhawana Saharan

2392 Effect of Spacing and NPK on Yield and Alkaloid Content of Solanum nigrum L. Under Hill Zone of Karnataka 323 G. Nagaraj, M. Ravikumar and P. Ravi

2394 Yield Attributes Yield and Quality of Soybean Influenced by Crop Varieties and Phosphorus 325 Kamalesh Kumar, Edwin Luikham, Santosh Kumar and Ekta Kumari

2395 Effect of Seed Rhizome Size on Yield and Quality of Turmeric (Curcuma longa L.) cv. Salem 328 Chandalinga, N.K. Hegde, Ravi Pujari and P.M. Gangadharappa

2396 Quality Characterization in Carrot (Daucus carota L.) Germplasm 330 H.S. Dhillon, T.S. Dhillon and Ruma Devi

2397 Response of Drip Irrigated Spring Maize to Different Levels of Salinity 333 Kulwant Singh Dangon, Mukesh Siag and Rakesh Sharda

2398 Effect of Seaweed Extract on Morpho-Physiological Parameters of Rice 335 Prinka Goyal and S. K. Thind

2399 Evaluation of Different Substrates for Cultivation of Ganoderma lucidum (M.A. Curtis : Fr.) P. Karst 338 Pooja Kapoor, Renu Thakurand B.M. Sharma

2400 Fortification of Grape Juice with Probiotic Lactobacilli 341 Seema Ahuja, Gurleen Kaur and Reet Verma

2401 Effect of Rooting Media and IBA on the Rooting Behaviour and Vegetative Growth of Kiwifruit 343 (Actinidia deliciosa Chev.) Vishal Singh Rana and Babita

2402 Effect of Plant Growth Retardants on Flowering and Presentability of Primula malacoides Franch 346 Neha Dogra, Rajesh Bhalla and Bharati Kashyap

2403 Response of W. Murcott Mandarin to Wax Coating under Ambient Conditions 349 Monika Gupta, H.S. Rattanpal, Harsimrat K. Bons and G.S. Sidhu

2404 Comparative Toxicity and Susceptibility of Commonly used Insecticides against Brinjal Shoot and Fruit Borer, 351 Leucinodes orbonalis in Punjab

Jagdeep Kaur and B.K. Kang 2405 Efficacy of Tyre Bait Station for Rodenticide Application in Rice Crop Fields during Monsoon Season 354

Navdeep Kaur, Neena Singla and Rajwinder Singh 2406 Monitoring of Mosquito Larvae from Temporary Water Collections of Ludhiana, Punjab 357

Kamalpreet Kaur, S. Jamwal and D.K. Kocher 2407 Occurrence and Morphometric Variations of Lesion Nematodes (Pratylenchus Species) Infesting Ginger 359

(Zingiber officinale Rosc.) in Major Cultivation Belts of Himachal Pradesh Kanwar Pallavi Singh and Anju S. Khanna

2408 Esterase Polymorphism for Testing Hybridity in Okra [Abelmoschus esculentus (L.) Moench] 362 Mahesh Badiger, M. Pitchaimuthu and K. Bhanuprakash

2409 Effect of Crop Geometry and Drip Irrigation Levels on Growth, Yield and Water Use Efficiency of Pearl Millet 365 (Pennisetum glucam) in Irrigated Western Arid Rajasthan S.R. Bhunia, Mohd. Arif and I.M. Verma

2410 Performance of Front Line Demonstrations on Sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) in Kalaburagi Region of 368 Northern Karnataka Anand Naik, D.H. Patil,R.G. Teggelli and B. Zaheer Ahamed

2411 Correlation and Path Coefficient Analysis among Different Characters in Genotypes of Brinjal (Solanum melongena L.)

370

Pushpendra Kumar Pandey, G.C. Yadav and Vimlesh Kumar 2412 Effect of Region and Herd Size on Dairy Herd Performance Parameters in Punjab 373

Princejot Singh, J.S. Bhatti, J.S. Hundal and S.K. Kansal 2413 Efficacy of Plant Extracts against Tomato Late Blight under Net House Conditions 375

Manisha Dubey, T.S. Thind, R.K. Dubey and S.K. Jindal 2414 African Catfish, Clarias gariepinus: An Eco-terrorist Destroying Delicate Ecological Balance in Aquatic 378

Ecosystems of National Parks and Wildlife Sanctuaries in India Jagdish Chander

Indian Journal of Ecology (2016) 43 (2)

CONTENTS

2415 Monitoring Land use Land Cover Changes using Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques: A Case 383

Study around Papagni River, Andhra Pradesh, India E. Subbu Lakshmi and Kiran Yarrakula

2416 Lignocellulolytic Enzyme Profile of Pleurotus florida (Mont.) Singer on Wheat and Paddy Straw 388 Amritpal Kaur and Harpreet Singh Sodhi

2417 Extracellular Enzyme System Based Preferential Utilization of Lignocellulosic Agrowastes by 392 Agrocybe aegerita (Brig.) Singer Bhavish Sood and Shammi Kapoor

2418 Ecological Survey of Predominant Weed Flora in Bastar Region of Chhatisgarh, India 397 Supriya Singh, Shweta Gupta and A.P. Singh

2419 Nursery Management and Fertilizer Application for Better Weed Control as Well as Higher Yield of Kharif Rice 404 C. Majumder,P. Haldar and M. Ray

2420 Biodigested Slurry of Poultry Droppings Based Biogas Plant as Substrate for Protease Production 408 Using Thermophilic Fungi Humicola fuscoatra MTCC 1409 and Aspergillus (T-14) Milky Goyal, U.G. Phutela and R.K. Jaswal

2421 Distribution of Bivalves and Gastropods along Ratnagiri coast, Maharashtra, India 413 Mangesh M. Bhosale, R.R. Mugale, S.R. Yadav, Naveen Kumar B.T. and P. Barik

2422 Study of Horizontal Zonation of Water Quality Characteristics and Productivity Status of 418 Nanak Sagar Reservoir of Uttarakhand, India Nandkishor A. Ingole, R.N. Ram, A.S. Nainand Prem Kumar

2423 Parashi (Cleistanthus collinus Roxb.)-A Multipurpose Plant of Ethno-botanical Importance in South 426 West Bengal of India Sanjit Kumar Saha

2424 Carbon Mitigation Potential of Biomass and Soil under Different Density of Eucalyptus camaldulensis 431 in Arid Region of India Bhuvnesh Nagar and Sushma Rawat

2425 Rainfall-runoff Modeling using Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) and Multiple Linear 436 Regression (MLR) Techniques Vijay Kumar Singh, Pravendra Kumar and Bhaskar Pratap Singh

2426 Physico-chemistry and Phytoplankton Characteristics of Two Tropical Rivers in Ebonyi State, Southeast Nigeria 443 G.N. Nwonumara, O.I. Okogwu, C. Ani and A.J. Nwinyimagu

2427 Application of Artificial Neural Network For Modeling Rice Pest and Natural Enemy for Nadia 449 District of West Benga S. T. Pavana Kumar and Debasis Mazumdar

2428 Efficacy of Some Plant Powders against Lasioderma serricorne Fab. in Fennel 455 Krishna Rolania, Hemant Poonia and M.C. Bhargava

2429 Determinants of Household Probability to Take Up Non-Farm Activity-An Application of Logit Analysis 459 Y. Satish, Lakshmi Narsimhaiah, G. Sathish, Sh. Herojit Singh, Sudipta Ghoshand M. Gopinath Rao

2430 Community Participations in Disaster Management: A Case Study of Bangladesh 463 Isahaque Ali, Zulkarnain A. Hatta , Azlinda Azman, Kaizar Hossain, Shariful Islam and Akthar Hossain Majumder

2431 Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Planktonic Fauna of Puzhal Lake, Chennai - A Pre 473 and Post Flood Analysis M.F. Yasmeen and A. Saboor

2432 Farmers Adaption Strategies in the Climate Vulnerable Agro-Climatic Zones of Tamil Nadu, India 477 A. Surendran, S.J. Balaji, N. Periasami, S. Senthil Kumar and A.R. Durga

2433 Demand for Forest Products in India-Role of Institutions 482 Kiran Kumar, R. Patil, G.R. Manjunathaand M.G. Chandrakanth

2434 Comparative Biological Studies of Citrus Leaf Miner on Kinnow and Rough Lemon during different 491 seasons in Punjab D.R. Sharma, Gurjeet Singh and Hijam S. Devi

2435 Pathogenicity of Meloidogyne incognita (Kofoid & White) Chitwood race 2 in Okra, Abelmoschus esculentus L. 496 A. Rathod, A. Singh, V. Kadam and K. Roy

2436 Diversity of Springtails (Collembola: Insecta) in Different Tree Ecosystems of Varanasi, India 500 Tsering Toldan, Santeshwari, M. Raghuraman and Dharmendra Kumar

2437 Evaluation of Aqueous Extracts of Certain Botanicals against Two Spotted Spider Mite, T 505

etranychus urticae Koch (Tetranychidae: Acarina) in Okra, Abelmoschus esculentus (L.) M. Gajalakshmi, S. Jeyaraniand M. Ranjith

2438 Cultural and Physiological Study of Leaf Spot Diseases on Aloe vera (L.) Burm Caused by Alternaria alternata 509 Suresh Kumar Verma, Pradeep Kumar, Arjun Lal Yadavand Ratan Lal Sharma

2439 Influence of Foliar Application of Urea and GA3 on Growth and Nutritional Status of Rough Lemon 513 (Citrus jambhiri Lush.) Seedlings under Modified Environment Conditions H.S. Dhaliwal and N. Rohela

2440 Assessing Organic Nutrition Sources for Sustainable Soil Health of Kiwifruit Orchard 519 Babita Khachi, Som Dev Sharma, Vikas Kumar Sharma, Ghumare Vikas and Angel View N Marak

2441 Impact of Evaporation Based Drip Irrigation Schedules on Yield and Quality of Kinnow Mandarin in Kandi Area 525 Yogesh Khokhar

2442 Genetic Diversity Analysis in Sweet Orange (Citrus sinensis Obseck) Genotypes on the Basis of 529 Morphological and Physico-chemical Traits A.K. Baswal, H.S. Rattanpal, Gurupkar Singh Sidhuand Gurteg Singh Uppal

2443 Development of Process Technology for Making Tomato Powder and its Quality Evaluation 533 Ankur Srivastava, Sirisha Adamalaand Sivala Kumar

2444 Detection of Components of Genetic Variation in Triple Test Cross Families in Bread Wheat 537 Divya Phougat and I.S. Panwar

2445 Multivariate Analysis of Genetic Diversity Using Agro-morphological and Quality Traits in Different 542 Accessions of Aromatic Rice (Oryza sativa L.) Vikas Kumar, N.K. Rastogi, Pratibha Chandraker, Hemant Sahu and B. Sharma

2446 Genetic Analysis of Bacterial Wilt Resistant Genotypes of Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) 548 Under Organic and Inorganic Farming Conditions Nisha Thakur, Sanjay Chadha and Mayanglambam Bilashini Devi

2447 Diversity of Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L. Walp) in Terms of Some Germination Components under 554 Drought Stress Chinkita Jain and Raghvendra Saxena

2448 Genetic Variability and Association Analysis for Morpho-Physiological Traits and Seed Yield in Mungbean 559 (Vigna radiata (L.) Wilczek) Under Water Stress Condition Sunayana, M.S. Punia and Rajesh Yadav

2449 Effects of Waterlogging, Salinity And Combination at Different Stages of Development on Survival and 564 Root Anatomy of Pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.) Genotypes Savita Duhan and Sunita Sheokand

2450 A non-Destructive Approach for Identification of Newly Released Rice Hybrid (KRH-4) and its Parental Lines 569 C. Pushpa, Rame Gowda, N. Nethra and Shivakumar

2451 Assessment of Groundwater Quality for Irrigation Purposes using Chemical Indices 574 Mohammad Amin Bhat, M.S. Grewal, Ramprakash, Rajpaul,Sheeraz Ahmad Waniand Eajaz Ahmad Dar

2452 Water Management Strategies for Sustainable Agriculture 580 Lakhwinder Kaur and Rajinder Kaur Kalra

2453 Introduction of New Insect-Pests on Apricot and Its Preliminary Management Options in Cold Arid 590 Region of Ladakh M.S. Raghuvanshi, Vikas Gupta, Jigmat Stanzin, Nawang Dorjey and S.K. Chauhan

2454 Growth and Productivity of Turmeric (Curcuma longa L.) as Influenced by Different Types of Planting 593 Material and Growth Regulators Anmoldeep Singh, S.S. Walia, Rajender Kumar and A.S. Brar

2455 Genetic Diversity Analysis in Egyptian Cotton (Gossypium barbadense L.) 596 B. Balakrishna, V. Chenga Reddy and M. Lal Ahamed

2456 Knowledge Status of Masumbi (Citrus sinensis) Cultivating Farmers of Haryana (India): A Sustainable Fruit Crop 599 Pawan Kumar, P.S. Shehrawat, Anil Kumar Rohila, B.S. Ghanghasand Ansul

2457 Expectations of Fishers from Different Service Providers: A Case of Tehri Reservoir, Uttarakhand 602 Arvind Singh Chauhan, S.N. Ojha and Arpita Sharma

2458 Residual Effect of Integrated Nutrient Management Practices on Soil Nutrient Status and Yield Attributes 605 Gayatri Verma and Satwinderjit Kaur

2459 Quantification of Egyptian Clover Trifolium alexandrinum as Source of Honey and Pollen 607 M.K. Jat, O.P. Chaudhary and A.S. Tetarwal

2460 Torrefaction of Bagasse for Improving its Usability as a Fuel in Cyclone Gasifier 610 M. Bhardwaj and R. Soni

2461 Management of Reniform Nematode, Rotylenchulus reniformison Cowpea by using Botanicals 613 Jaydeep Patil, M.K. Sharma and Saroj Yadav

Indian Journal of Ecology (2017) 44 (1)

CONTENTS

2462 Studies on Effect of Cd and Hg on Biochemical Characteristics of Populus deltoides (W. Bartram ex Marshall) and its Uptake

1

K.R. Phimu, Meena Thakur, Anchal Rana and Shreya Handa 2463 Effective Eco-Friendly Micro-Flora for Early Degradation of Herbicide and Enhancing Chickpea Productivity 7

Uma, Tapas Chowdhury, Ravindra Soni and G.L. Sharma 2464 Meta Analysis for Impact Assessment of Chenani Watershed Development Programme of J&K (India) 12

N.D. Singh and Rakesh Kumar 2465 Isolation and Screening of Lipase Producing Microorganisms from Natural Sources 19

M.G. Singh, Chandraveer and Abhishek M. Tripathi 2466 Economic and Environmental Consequences of Bio-pesticide (Pseudomonas fluorescens) Use in Paddy

Farms of Southern India 24

M. Thilagavathi and M. Chandrasekaran 2467 Response of Broadbean (Viciafaba) to Irrigation and Phosphorus Levels in Alluvial Zone of West Bengal 29

S. Sarkar and A. Sarkar 2468 Effect of Silicon and Nitrogen Application on Yield and Micronutrient Contents in Rice (Oryza sativa L.) 35

Jugal K. Malav and V. P. Ramani 2469 Effect of Planting Method and Nutrient Management Practices on Seed Yield of Brown Sarson (Brassica

rapa L.) 40

Shabir H. Wani, Gowhar Ali, M. Ashraf Bhat, Javeed A. Lone, Asif M. Iqbal, Zahoor A Dar, Ajaz A. Lone and Mojtaba Kordrostami

2470 Response of Bt Cotton to Nutrient Omission and Site Specific Nutrient Management in Vertisols under Irrigation

45

B.M. Chittapur, P.S. Pyati, M.R. Umesh, A.S. Halepyati and T. Satyanarayana 2471 Effect of Planting Season, Interval and Nitrogen Fertilizer on Survival and Growth of Populus deltoides

Under Degraded Sites of North Western Himalayas 50

Tahir Mushtaq, Rakesh Banyal and Mir Awsaf Ahmad 2472 Use of Municipal Garbage as Potting Media in Nursery Production of Ailanthus triphysa (Dennst.) Alston

Seedlings 54

K. Vidyasagaran and Vikas Kumar 2473 Human Leopard Conflict in Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve: The Emerging Drift and Community Perspective 58

Sandeep Chouksey, Somesh Singh, Virat Singh Tomar, R.P.S.Baghel, S.B. Lal and Arvind Bijalwan 2474 Osmotic Pre-treatment of Kinnow Peel Slices 63

Navneet Sidhu, Maninder Arora and Mohammed Shafiq Alam 2475 Status and Distribution Pattern of Sour Cherry (Prunus cerasus l.) in Moist Temperate Region of Jammu &

Kashmir 68

P.A. Paray and R. Banyal 2476 An Analytical Study on the Tolerance Level of Livestock Owners' towards Wildlife Conflict in the vicinity 72

of Kalesar National Park, Haryana Mukesh Kumar, H.R. Meena, Pampi Paul, B.S. Meena and Ashutosh

2477 Survey and Screening of Quantitative Trait Loci (QTL) Associated with Early Stage Cold Tolerance 77 in Different Genotypes of Rice (Oryza sativa L.) Ashutosh Gautam, J. Suresh and M.S. Madhav

2478 Genetic Diversity within Commercialized Paddy (Oryza Sativa L.) Cultivars 81 Pradip Kumar and G. Singh

2479 Genetic Variability, Correlation Coefficient and Path Coefficient Analysis for Yield and Component Traits in Groundnut85

85

Ashutosh Kushwah, Soma Gupta, Sheetal Raj Sharma and K. Pradhan 2480 Morpho-Agronomic Characteristics of Farmers Rice Variety “Safri” from Different Regions of

Chhattishgarh 90

Hemant Sahu, Ritu R. Saxena, Satish B. Verulkar, V. Pratibha Mohan and R. K. Rao 2481 Effect of Hand and Chemical Thinning on Growth and Production of Nectarine cv. Snow Queen 95

Rajiv Kumar, N. Sharma, Rimpika and D.P. Sharma 2482 Principal Components Analysis for Yield and Yield Attributing Traits in Sesame 99

Ajay Tanwar and Rajani Bisen

2483 Effect of Post Harvest Treatments on Quality of Pomegranate in Zero Energy Cool Chamber and Ambient Conditions

103

V.P. Kad and J.K. Dhemre 2484 Evaporation Estimation by Multilayer perceptron Based Artificial Neural Network and Multiple Linear

Regression Techniques 108

Bhagwat Saran, P.S. Kashyap and Pankaj Kumar 2485 Impact of Disasters on Farm Households and Assessment of Farmer's Awareness to Disaster 113

Events-An Economic Approach S. Usha Nandhini, P. Paramasivam and R. Sangeetha

2486 Effect of Fish waste, Fish Guano and Compost on Growth, Yield and Quality of Broccoli 120 (Brassica oleracea var. italica) Ravi Kiran, Sutanu Maji and Abha Mishra

2487 Participation of Marine Fisheries Cooperative Societies in Social Development of Fisher community 124 Suhas Wasave, Arpita Sharma, S. K. Datta, K. D. Kokate,Shekhar Ojha, Asha Landge and Sangita Wasave

2488 Optimization of Stocking Density for Duckweed (Spirodela polyrrhiza L.Schleiden) Fed Semi-intensive Carp 130 Poly-Culture System Brahma Nand Shukla, Meera D. Ansal, Vaneet Inder Kaur and Asha Dhawan

2489 Genetic Architecture of Seed, Yield and Contributing Characters in Cowpea [Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp.] 136 C.A. Babariya, L.K. Dhaduk, M.H. Sapovadiya and K.S. Mungra

2490 Post Harvest Quality Analysis of Chickpea Seeds Grown under Rainfed Conditions 140 Harpreet K. Oberoi, Anil K. Gupta, Satvir Kaur, and Inderjeet Singh

2491 Evaluation of Crude Plant Extracts and Biopesticides for Eco-friendly Management of Lepidopterous 148 Insect Pests in Cabbage S.D. Sharma and Ramesh Lal

2492 Mode of Perpetuation and Impact of Weather Parameters in Development of Anthracnose Disease of 153 Walnut Marssonina juglandi (Lib.) Magnus Mudasir Hassan, Khurshid Ahmad, N.A. Khan and M.A. Bhat

2493 Effect of Organic and Inorganic Sources of Fertilizers on Plantand Soil in Pomegranate Orchard 159 N. Thirupathi, S.N. Ghosh and D. Roy

2494 Differences in Peer-Relationship among Adolescents across Socio- Economic Variables 163 Rupika Chopra, Shakuntla Punia and Santosh Sangwan

Indian Journal of Ecology (2017) 44 (2)

CONTENTS 2495 Simulation of Nitrogen Uptake, Nitrogen Utilization Efficiency and Yield of Wheat under Tillage, Residue 167 and Nitrogen Management using DSSAT-CERES-Wheat Model Alka Rani, K.K. Bandyopadhyay and P. Krishnan 2496 Evaluation of Sediment using GIS Approach in Southern Tamilnadu, India 179 R. Ninija Merina 2497 Scientific Methods of Assessing Groundwater for Irrigation Purpose – A Case Study in a Part of Cauvery 185 River Basin, South India S. Hema and T. Subramani 2498 Application of Parametric and Nonparametric Regression Models for Area, Production and Productivity 192 Trends of Tea (Camellia sinensis) in India B.S. Dhekale, P.K. Sahu, K.P. Vishwajith, P. Mishra and Lakshmi Narsimhaiah 2499 An Ecological Study for Diatomic Epiphytic Algae Population on Phragmits australis and Ceratophyllum 201 demersum Plants in Bani-Hassan River in Holy Kerbala Province-Iraq Mohammed J. Mohammed, Hassan J. Jawad and Abdoun H. Alwan 2500 Effect of Land Use on Fertility Status of Some Old Alluvial Soils of Eastern India 210 Amarjeet Kumar, Yanendra Kumar Singh, Rajeev Padbhushan and Anshuman Kohli 2501 Iron Content in Soil, Water, Fodder, Grain, Organs and Muscular Tissues in Cattle of Western Siberia (Russia) 217 Kirill Nikolaevich Narozhnykh, Tatyana Valerievna Konovalova, Jury Ivanovich Fedyaev NikolayIosifovich Shishin, AlexandrIvanovich Syso, Olga Igorevna Sebezhko, Valeriy Lavrentievich Petukhov, Olga Sergeevna Korotkevich,EvgeniyVarisovich Kamaldinov and Ludmila Vladimirovna Osadchuk 2502 Effect of Long-term Fertilization and Algalization on Active Soil Organic Pools, Crop Yield and Dehydrogenase 221 Activity under Rice- Wheat Cropping Sequences S.K. Joshi, Prahalad Kumar and Poonam Kumari 2503 Assessment of Soil Fertility Status of Mid Himalayan Region, Himachal Pradesh 226 Sudheer Kumar Annepu, Mahantesh Shirur and V.P. Sharma 2504 Characterization of Rainfall and Length of Growing Period Over North Western Zone of Tamil Nadu 232 N.K. Sathyamoorthy, A.P. Ramaraj, G. Dheebakaran, B. Arthirani, K. Senthilraja and R. Jagannathan 2505 Influence of Anthropogenic Activity on Transformation of Landscapes by Natural Hazards 239 Elena V. Kyul, Aslan K. Apazhev, Anatoliy B. Kudzaev and Natalya A. Borisova 2506 Influence of Phosphorus Application on Growth Pattern, Physiological Attributes and Productivity 244 of Indian Mustard (Brassica juncea) Cultivars Haridarshan Chouksey, Virender Sardana and Pushp Sharma 2507 Effects of Short and Long Term Salinity Stress on Physiological and Oxidative Metabolism in 250 Chickpea (Cicer arietinum) and Its Possible Alleviation by Nitric Oxide Anita Kumari, Savita Duhan, Sunita Sheok and and Vikender Kaur 2508 Yield and Nutrient Uptake of Potato as Influenced by Different Weed Management Approaches 259 R. Poddar, R.K. Ghosh, S. Bera and H. Das 2509 Physico-Chemical and Biological Characteristics of Mountainous Streams Under Different Land 265 Uses of Mid Hills of Himachal Pradesh Preeti Sharma, S.C. Vermaand Meena Thakur 2510 Evaluation of the Moderately Halophilic Bacteria Resistant to Mercury from Saline Soil 271 Marziyeh Noroozi, Mohammad Ali Amoozegar, Ahmad Ali Pourbabaee,Nafiseh Sadat Naghavi and Zahra Nourmohammadi 2511 Impact of Soil on Corrosion of Pipes on Basis of Construction 275 À.S. Gulyaev, V.B. Koltsov and A.A. Golovlev 2512 Community Dynamics: Competition and Facilitation Studies of Tree Species in Temperate Forest 279 of the Indian Himalaya Nazir A. Pala, Manish Mathur, Kaiser Iqbal, A. K. Negi, Gopal Shukla and Sumit Chakravarty 2513 Wild Edible Plants: A Viable Option for Sustaining Rural Livelihood in Western Himalaya 289 Sushma Rawat and Bhuvnesh Nagar

CONTENTS

2514 Impact of Climate Change on the Proliferation of Invasive Alien Plant Species in Almora district 295

of Uttarakhand Himalaya Ashaq Hussain Khan and Dhani Arya

2515 Assessment and Management of the Effects of Illegal Grazing on River Water Quality in Old Oyo 300 National Park, Nigeria A.Y. Sangodoyin and E.O. Opebiyi

2516 Regeneration Status and Soil Physico-Chemical Analysis of Dominant Forest Communities of Chail Wildlife 304 Sanctuary in Himachal Pradesh Rakesh Kumar, Prabhat Tiwari and Lalit Thakur

2517 Abundance, Species Diversity and Spatial Distribution of Rotifer Community of Dal Lake, Kashmir, India 308 Irfan Jamila, A.R. Yousuf and M. Parveen

2518 Agroforestry Impacts on SOC and Aggregate Stability in Different Textured Soils in Shiwalik Regions of 314 Northwest India Jeevanjot Dhaliwal, S.S. Kukal and Sandeep Sharma

2519 Effect of Vermicompost on Growth and Yield of Stevia rebaudiana Bert. Under Plum Based Agroforestry 320 System in Mid hill Zone of Himachal Pradesh Silpa V. Kumar, C.L. Thakur, P.L. Bhutia, D.R. Bhardwaj and K.G. Bhutia

2520 Growth and Performance of Trees and Green Gram (Vigna radiata L. Wilczek) in Agri-silvicultural System 326 in the Dryland Conditions of Jammu Region R.K. Gupta and S.K. Gupta

2521 Leaf Decomposition and Nutrient Release of Poplar Plantations in Moist Plain Area of Central 330 Himalaya, Uttarakhand L.S. Lodhiyal, Neelu Lodhiyal, Bijendra Lal and Jyoti Pandey

2522 Character Association for Fruit Yield and Yield traits in Holostemma ada-kodien Schult. 337 - A Vulnerable Medicinal Plant Siddharuda Tuppad, G. Raviraja Shetty, K. Souravi, P.E. Rajasekharan, C.S. Ravi and M.S. Sandesh

2523 Genetic Divergence for Growth, Leaf Nutrient and Biochemical Traits in Open Pollinated Families 340 of Dalbergia sissoo Suman Kumar Jha and R.N. Sehgal

2524 Growth and Quality Indices of Different Nitrogen Fixing Tree Nursery Plants 344 Sanjeev K. Chauhan and Rajni Sharma

2525 Assessment of Micro Nutrients Status under Seabuckthorn (Hippophae rhamnoides L.) Soils in 348 Spiti, Himachal Pradesh Abhay Sharma and Virendra Singh

2526 Effect of Irrigation on Young Crop of Common Bamboo Raised from Culm Cuttings in Rainfed Upland 352 N. Bhol

2527 Growth Performance of Soybean Varieties under Different Light Intensities 356 Arvind Kumar

2528 Effect of Seed Infestation in Albizia lebbeck Under Different Conditions 360 V.D. Tripathi and Chitra Shanker

2529 Horticultural and Yield Related Traits as Influenced by Grafting Tomato Cultivars on Potato Rootstocks 364 for Higher Returns Viplove Negi, Pardeep Kumar, Parveen Sharma, Desh Raj, Amar Singh and Binny Vats

2530 Population Diversity and Cyclicity of Fruit Fly (Bactrocera spp.) in Sapota Orchard under South 369 Gujarat Condition K.D. Bisane

2531 Estimation of Optimal Pesticide Application Time on Guava (Psidium guajava) Based on Temporal Foraging 375 Activity of Pollinators A.K. Singh and R.K. Thakur

2532 Studies on the Multiplication of Apple Clonal Rootstocks through Cuttings 379 Ajender Negi, Manish Thakur and Babita

2533 Dissipation of Pre-mix Chlorpyrifos and Cypermethrin in Cauliflower Grown under Mid hill Conditions of Himachal Pradesh 385 Tanuja Banshtu and Surender Kumar Patyal

2534 Effect of Shoot Pruning on Polyhouse Grown Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) 390 Navjot Singh Dhillon, Parveen Sharma and Pardeep Kumar

2535 Breeding Biology of the Mallard duck (Anas platyrhynchos) in Barrage Oued Charef (Souk Ahras, 393 Northeastern Algeria) Nadhra Boukrouma

2536 Effect of Aqueous Leaf Extracts of Flemingia semialata Roxb. on Seedling Growth of Maize (Zea mays L.) 398 and Rice (Oryza sativa L.) Paul Lalremsang, B. Gopichand and Kalidas Upadhyaya

2537 Mechanical Characterization of Discarded Monofilament Fishnet/Glass Fiber and Polyester Hybrid Composites 401

Michael Raj F, V.A. Nagarajan and S. SahayaElsi

2538 Biofouling on Cages in Chhirpani Reservoir, Kabirdham (Chhattisgarh) India 409 Pabitra Barik, H.K. Vardia, B.R. Honnananda and M.M. Bhosale

2539 Synthesis and Mycocidal Evaluation of Hybrid 1,2,4-Triazolylcarbamodithioates against Phytopathogens 413 of Wheat Khushbu Gumber, Anjali Sidhu and Vineet K Sharma

2540 Prevalence and Severity of Rhizoctonia Aerial Blight of Soybean in Uttarakhand 417 Mamta Mathpal and K.P. Singh

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of EcologyIndian Journal of Ecology (2017) 44(3)

2541 Comparison and Extraction of Watershed Using Arc Swat and Arc Hydro from High Resolution Digital 421Elevation Model S. Sreechanth and Kiran Yarrakula

2542 Economic Growth and CO Emissions in India: An Environmental Kuznets Curve Approach 4282

G. Makarabbi, Vijayalaxmi D. Khed, G. Balaganesh and A. Jamaludheen

2543 Watershed Prioritization Based on Morphometric Parameters Using Remote Sensing and Geographical 433 Information SystemHimanshu Kandpal, Anil Kumar, C.P. Reddy and Anurag Malik

2544 Assessing Decline in Open Water Area of Vellayani Fresh Water Lake Ecosystem: A Remote 438Sensing Approach

Aswathy Vijayan, T Radhakrishnan and Elsamma Job

2545 Strategic Ecological Assessment of the State of the Transboundary Catchment Basin of the Dnieper 442River under Extensive Agricultural LoadVitalii Ivanovich Pichura, Yevghenii Alexandrovich Domaratsky, Yury Ivanovich Yaremko, Yevghenii Georgievich Volochnyuk and

2546 Runoff Estimation and Water Management Options for Coastal Odisha 451Ranu Rani Sethi, R.C. Srivastava, Anuradha Behera, Madhumita Das, P.S. Brahman and Jugal Kishore Tripathy

2547 Evaluation of Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity Methods for Different Land Uses 456Aminul Islam, D.R. Mailapalli and Anuradha Behera

2548 Daily Pan Evaporation Modeling in Hilly Region of Uttarakhand Using Artificial Neural Network 467Bhagwat Saran, P.S. Kashyap, B.P. Singh, V. K. Singh and Vivekanand

2549 Floral Diversity of A Sacred Grove Nai-Ka-Nath BassiJaipur, Rajasthan 474 Vijay Choudhary and Varsha Gupta

2550 Farmland Biodiversity: Seasonal Variation in Phytosociological Attributes of Vegetation in District 483Budgam, Kashmir

2551 Phytoplankton Assemblages in the River Barak, South Assam, India: A Study to Know its Composition in 492Changing Space and TimeHussain Mahammad Hany, Arpita Dalal and Susmita Gupta

2552 Water Properties as Influenced by Abattoir Wastes in Abakaliki and Ezzamgbo Southeastern Nigeria 500

2553 Qualitative and Quantitative Study of Epiphytic Diatoms on Two Macrophytes In A lotic Ecosystem, Iraq 504Ali O. Shaawiat and Fikrat M. Hassan

2554 Phosphorus, Potassium and Sulphur Uptake by Rice as Influenced by Different Levels of Nitrogen and 516Silicon in Typic Ustochrepts SoilJ.K. Malav and J.K. Patel

2555 Response of Irrigation Regimes and Nitrogen Doses on Consumptive Water Use, Water Use Efficiency and 521Moisture Extraction Pattern of Late Sown Wheat

2556 Spatial Distribution for Major Nutrients through GIS Technique and Site Specific Nutrient Recommendations 527for Arecanut Gardens in Karnataka, IndiaM. Dinesh Kumar, Binny Gopal, B.C. Dhananjaya and M.Y. Ullasa

2557 Effect of Foliar Sprays of 2,4-D and Frequency of Application on Preharvest Fruit Drop, Yield and Quality in 534Kinnow Mandarin

2558 Response of Nutrient Management Practices in Pigeonpea [Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.] and Clusterbean 539[Cymopsis tetragonoloba (L.) Taub.] Intercropping System

2559 Long Term Effect of Integrated Nutrient Management on Distribution of Total Zn, Cu, Fe and Mn under 543Rice-Wheat SystemS.S. Dhaliwal, M.K. Dhaliwal, A.K. Shukla and J.S. Manchanda

Victor Valerievich Rybak

Sabeena Nabi, Burhan Nabi, Shabir Ahmad Rather and K.N. Qaisar

C. Njoku, M.O. Alu, O.C. Okafor, J.N. Nwite and E.N. Uchewa

Mukesh Kumar, R.K. Pannu and Bhagat Singh

Hidayatullah Mir and H. Itoo

Manjula Udikeri and B.G. Koppalkar

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Date of Publication 01.09.2017

2560 Growth Pattern and Productivity of Component Crops in Intercropping of Indian Rape (Brassica rapa var. 548Toria) with Canola Oilseed Rape (Brassica napus) and Ethiopian Mustard (Brassica carinata)Mandeep Kaur, Virender Sardana and Pushp Sharma

2561 Phenological Behaviour of Indian-Mustard Genotypes Under Different Sowing Environments at Hisar 555

2562 Effect of Proline and Salicylic Acid on Physiological and Biochemical Parameters in Squash Melon (Citrullus 559vulgaris var. fistulosus) at Low TemperatureDimple Parcha, Namarta Gupta and Hira Singh

2563 Influence of Varying Dates of Shield Budding on Scion Growth and Insect-Pest Incidence in Kinnow Nursery 564 under Lower ShiwaliksYogesh Khokhar and Rakesh Kumar Sharma

2564 Phenological Development and Agrometeorological Indices in Dual Purpose Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) 570as Influenced by Planting Techniques and Cutting Practices in Indo-Gangetic Plains of IndiaManohar Lal, K.S. Saini and Prabhjyot Kaur

2565 Yield, Quality and Economics of different Sweet Corn (Zea mays L. Var. Saccharata) Cultivars at different 575 Planting and Harvesting Dates under Shiwalik Foothills of J&KM. Banotra, B.C. Sharma, B. Nandan, Vivak M. Arya, R. Kumar, A. Verma, I.A. Shah and Vikas Gupta

2566 Hill Reaction Activity and Starch Content in Wheat Seedlings under Heat Stress as Affected by Trehalose 579Application

2567 Diet Composition of Barn Owl, Tyto alba as Determinant for its Potential as Biocontrol Agent of Rodent 583Pests in Punjab, IndiaRenuka Malhotra and Neena Singla

2568 Prevalence of Papaya Mealy Bug, Paracoccus marginatus Williams and Granara de Willink in Consistency 590with Natal and Non-Natal Host PlantsR. Nisha and J.S. Kennedy

2569 Distribution and Prevalence of Bacterial Blight of Pomegranate in Southern Rajasthan 594 S.C. Meena, M.K. Meena, A. Chattopadhyay and B.L. Mali

2570 Bioefficacy of Plant Extracts and Biocontrol Agents against Some Plant Pathogenic Fungi 598Ashlesha and Y.S. Paul

2572 Waterfowls Diversity of Morna Reservoir 608M.R. Abdar

2573 Morphological Markers to Identify Ceratophyllum demersum L. and C. muricatum Cham.] 612Manjula K. Saxena

2574 Effect of High Pressure Processing and Thermal Treatments on Physical, Chemical and Microbiological 618Characteristics of Silver Pomfret (Pampus Argenteus) Fillets

Arvind Kumar Verma, Pavuluri Srinivasa Rao, Aminul Islam and Sirisha Adamala

2575 Biometric Characteristics of Pacific White Shrimp, Litopenaeus vannamei (Boone, 1931) Cultured in the Salt 628Affected Area of District Fazilka (Punjab), IndiaAjeet Singh, Surjya Narayan Datta and Meera D. Ansal

2576 Evaluation of Aquaculture Units Established in Salt Affected Areas of District Sri Muktsar Sahib, Punjab 632

2577 Trends of Fish Marketing Strategy and Trade in Punjab-A Survey 637Surjya Narayan Datta, Asha Dhawan and Ajeet Singh

2578 Natural Regeneration of Quercus glauca Thunberg Forests and its Relation with Site Conditions 644T. Amare and D.R. Bhardwaj

2579 Effect of Moisture Conservation Methods and Nutrients Application on Biomass in Eucalyptus pellita 651 Shivaputra Bammanahalli and K.R.Swamy

2580 Lichens as Key Indicators of Forest Health in Sauni-Binsar Grove, Kumaun Himalaya, India 654Sonam, Balwant Kumar, Vijay Arya and D.K. Upreti

Yogesh Kumar, Raj Singh, Anil Kumar and A.K.Dhaka

Aparjot Kaur and S.K. Thind

Aparna Kumari, Meera D. Ansal, Prabjeet Singh and Shanthanagouda Admane Holeyappa

2571 Technology Gaps Analysis and Prominence of Blossom Midge, Contarinia maculipennis Felt of Jasmine 604(Jasminum sambac l.) In Tamil NaduI. Merlin Kamala, J.S. Kennedy and I.I. Devanand

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2581 Performance of Pre-treatment on Germination and Initial Growth Attributes of Hydnocarpus pentandra 658(Buch. Ham.) Oken

2582 Comparative Assessment of Radioactive Strontium and Cesium Contents in the Feedstuffs and Dairy 662Products of Western SiberiaOlga I. Sebezhko, Valeriy L. Petukhov, Victor A. Sokolov, Olga S. Korotkevich, Tatyana V. Konovalova, Evgeniy V., Kamaldinov, Alexandr I. Syso, Nadezhda I. Marmuleva, Kirill N. Narozhnykh, Evgeniy Y. Barinov, Ludmila V. Osadchuk

2583 Biogas Production from Paddy Straw using Thermophilic Fungi 667

2584 Impact of Dietary Intervention of High Bioactive Compound Beverages on the Lipid Profile of Hyperlipidemic 671 SubjectsGopika Puri, Balwinder Sadana and Neerja Singla

2585 Mineral and Antinutritional Composition of Doughnuts from Pearl Millet Blended Composite Flour 675

2586 Dust Interception Capacity of Common Plant Species Growing Alongside National Highway Sirmaur, 680Himachal Pradesh, IndiaJyotsana Pandit, Anil Sood and Anish Kumar Sharma

2587 Amelioration of Perturbed Phosphorus Metabolism in Mungbean Seedlings Exposed to Sodium Arsenate 683by Phytohormones and Phosphate SaltsArpita Swarnakar

K. Vidyasagaran, V.K. Silpa and Vikas Kumar

Nidhi Sahni and Urmila Gupta Phutela

Paramjot Kaur, Monika Sood and Julie D. Bandral

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of EcologyIndian Journal of Ecology (2017) 44(4)

2588 Spatial Assessment of Water Quality in Kondurupalem Lagoon Inlet, South East Coast of India 687V. Vandhana Devi and R. Nagendran

2589 Canonical Correspondence Analysis for Determining Distributional Patterns of Benthic Macroinvertebrate 697 Fauna in the Lotic EcosystemAsheesh Shivam Mishra and Prakash Nautiyal

2590 Biology of Macrofauna in Lotic and Lentic Facies at Dam "El Ghoress" on Za river (Morocco) 706Khalid Bouraada and Mariam Essafi

2591 Evaluation of Water Quality by Trophic Diatom Index (TDI) in Tigris River within Wasit Province 711Shaimaa F. Ali, Fikrat M. Hassan and Reidh A. Abdul-Jabar

2592 Seasonal Micro-Climatic Variation in Physical and Chemical Characteristics of the Soil on Different Forest 717Ecosystems under Mid hills Conditions of Himachal PradeshPurnima Mehta, P.K. Baweja and S.K. Bhardwaj

2593 Tree Species Diversity, Community Composition and Distribution Across Six Forest Stands of Uttarakhand, 722Central Himalaya, India Vijay Arya, Balwant Kumar and J.S. Rawat

2594 Seasonal and Temporal Variation of Fluoride Level in Different Water Resources over Western Zone 729of Tamil NaduP. Jothimani, K. Senthilraja and S. Vinothkanna

2595 People Perceptions of Climate Change and its Impacts on Phyto-diversity and Livelihood of the Inhabitants 735of Almora Kumaun Himalaya, Uttarakhand (India)Ashaq Hussain Khan and Dhani Arya

2596 Modelling and Forecasting of Black Pepper Production in India 741P. Mishra, K. Padmanaban and Meenakshee Dwivedi

2597 Biomass and Carbon Density in Relation to Altitude and Aspect in Moist-temperate Western 746Himalayan EcosystemDurgesh Kumar Nagar, Bhuvnesh Nagar, Amba Lal Nagar and S.D. Kashyap

2598 Assessment of Human Essential Trace Elements in Soil and Ground Water of Gonda District, 755Uttar Pradesh, IndiaChandana Suman, Sandeep Kumar Tripathi and Priyankar Raha

2599 Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Habitat Change in and Around Lala Bustard Sanctuary-Gujarat, India 759Dayesh Parmar and Prafulla Soni

2600 Remediation of Heavy Metal Contaminated Soil using Different Techniques 765S.P. Jeyapriya and L. Shazli

2601 Soil Quality and Heavy Metal Contamination of Soils in Mindi Industrial Area, Visakhapatnam, 774Andhra Pradesh, IndiaPushpanjali, P.B. Tejaswi, K.L. Sharma, U.K. Mandal, A.J. Solomon Raju, K. Venkanna, Rahul Masanne, Josily Samuel and K. Karthikeyan

2602 Statistical Model for Profit Maximization of Homesteads in Southern Laterite Agro-Ecological Unit 778P.K. Muhammed Jaslam, Brigit Joseph, Vijayaraghava Kumar and Neethu S. Kumar

2603 Risk Assessment of Toxicity of Agricultural Pesticides on Brine Shrimp (Artemia salina) 784Nwokwu Gilbert Nwogboduhu

2604 Litter Decomposition Vis-a-Vis Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics of Tephrosia candida Components in 791Different Fallow Periods Following Shifting Cultivation in MizoramWapongnungsang, Ramchhanliana Hauchhum and S.K. Tripathi

2605 AMMI Biplot and Regression Analysis for Grain Yield of Basmati Rice Genotypes in Different 797Production SystemsBharat Taindu Jain, Ashok Kumar Sarial and Navish Kumar Kamboj

2606 Effect of Integrated Nutrient Management on Soil Biological Properties and Yield of Rice in Inceptisol 804Yugal Kishor Sahu, A.K. Chaubey, Prahalad Kumar, L.K. Kulhary and T. Chowdhury

2607 Effect of Different Land Use on Quality of Water in Solan Block of Himachal Pradesh 808Shalini Chauhan and S.K. Bhardwaj

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Date of Publication 01.12.2017

2608 Impact of Scientific Interventions into Existing Farming Systems on Productivity, Soil Properties and 813 Income Enhancement of Tribal Farmers of Jorhat District of AssamA. Baishya, P. Sutradhar, M. Borah, Bhabesh Gogoi, J. Hazarika, A.S. Borah, B. Borah and S. Ekka

2609 Optimal Operating Microclimatic Conditions for Drip Fertigated Cucumbers in Soilless Media under a 821Naturally Ventilated GreenhouseMahesh Chand Singh, J.P. Singh and K.G. Singh

2610 Effect of Varying Drip Irrigation Levels and Different Methods of NPK Fertilizer Application on Growth and 827Productivity of Broccoli (Brassica oleracea L.var. Italica)Juvaria Jeelani and Nayar Afaq Kirmani

2611 Promotion of Crop Diversification in Mountainous Areas using Geospatial Technologies 832Kunal Sood, Sharda Singh, Arun Kaushal, Vaibhav Kalia, R.S. Rana and Tanu Kumari

2612 Effect of Biocolours and Inorganic Dyes on Ornamental Dry Flower Grasses 837Bharati Kashyap, Y.C. Gupta, Rakesh Gupta, Meenakshi Sharma and Ranjna Sharma

2613 Productivity and Profitability of Different Rice (Oryza sativa) Rice Based Cropping Systems in Cauvery 843 Delta ZoneS. Porpavai and R. Marimuthu

2614 In Vitro Multiplication of Cleopatra mandarin from Nodal Explants 847Shashi Prakash, Suneel Sharma and Subhash Kajla

2615 Effect of Irrigation and Mulch on Linseed (Linum usitatissimum) for Improving Growth, Yield and Water 851Extraction PatternS. Sarkar and A. Sarkar

2616 Ornamental Fish Production Sector of Maharashtra state: A Constraint Analysis 856Bharat Yadav, Arpita Sharma, Sandesh Patil and Shweta Kumari

2617 Effect of Neem Leaf Extract Incorporated Diet on Survival, Growth and Flesh Quality of Common Carp 860(Cyprinus carpio)Yadwinder Kaur, Asha Dhawan, A.H. Shanthanagouda

2618 Physiological Responses of Freshwater Ornamental Fish Koi Carp, Cyprinus carpio (L.) in Inland Saline 864 Water: Growth and Haematological ChangesMamta Sharma, Vaneet Inder Kaur and Meera D. Ansal

2619 Investigation of Genetic Variability for Yield and Yield Related Traits in Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) 869GenotypesSunil, K.D. Sehrawat and Mujahid Khan

2620 Effect of Presowing Guava Seed Treatments Influence Seedling Growth Behaviour in the Nursery 873Aditi Guha Choudhury, Jahnavi Sen, Anant Tamang and B.C. Das

2621 Genetic Variability and Interrelationships of Yield and Yield Components in Faba Bean (Vicia faba l.) 877Yudhvir Singh, Simran Sharma, Bhallan Singh Sekhon, Arti Verma, Surbhi Sharma and Vishalakshi

2622 Assessment of Earthworm Abundance and Diversity in Wheat fields of Different Regions of Punjab 883Shilpa Panjgotra, G.K. Sangha and Sandeep Sharma

2623 Storage Studies of Jam Prepared from Different Aonla Cultivars under Lower Foothills of Shivaliks 888Neeraj Gupta, Meenakshi Trilokia, V.B. Singh and Vijay Kumar

2624 Thermal Indices of Pink Stem Borer, Sesamia inferens Walker on Maize in North-Western Plains of India 893K. Viswajyothi, Naveen Aggarwal and Jawala Jindal

2625 Role of Value-addition in Agrarian Farming System in Enhancing the Farmer's Income 898Sanjeev Kumar ,Vinita Kanwal, Chandan Kumar Rai and Abul K Azad

2626 Assessment of Stunting and Malnutrition among School-going Children from different Cultural Regions 903of Punjab, IndiaSukhdeep Kaur, Kiran Bains and Harpreet Kaur

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of EcologyIndian Journal of Ecology (2018) 45(1)

2626 Studies on Air Pollution Tolerance Index of Native Plant Species to Enhance Greenery in Industrial AreaP. Rupa and T. Venkatachalam 1

2627 Agriculture Drought Analysis using Remote Sensing based on NDVI-LST Feature SpaceV. Vani, Pavan Kumar K and Venkata Ravibabu Mandla 6

2628 Exploring the Rainfall Scenario of Periyar Vaigai Command Area for Crop PlanningN.K. Sathyamoorthy, A.P. Ramaraj, K. Senthilraja, C. Swaminathan and R. Jagannathan 11

2629 Modelling Reference Evapotranspiration of Pantnagar using Various Training Functions in Artificial Neural NetworkBasant Ballabh Dumka, P.S. Kashyap and Bhagwat Saran 19

2630 Solar Power Based DC-DC Converter Fed Brushless DC Motor Drive for Agricultural ApplicationsSathish Kumar Shanmugam and Meenakumari Ramachandran 25

2631 Seasonal variations in Physico chemical characteristics of Dal lake KashmirIrfan Jamila and A.R. Yousuf 33

2632 Meteorological Drought Assessment for Agricultural Planning at Mungeli District of Chhattisgarh PlainPushpendra Kumar Singh, R.K Sahu and M.P. Tripathi 44

2633 Floristic Composition and Structure of Urban Landscapes of Agartala, TripuraTamal Majumdar and Thiru Selvan 48.

2634 Seasonal Variation in Physicochemical Parameters and its Relationship with Zooplankton Abundance in River Asu, NigeriaNwinyimagu Amaechi Joshua, Okogwu Okechukwu Idumah, Nwonumara Godwin Nkwuda and Ani Chijioke 60

2635 Hierarchical Clustering of Wild Edible Mushrooms used by Tribes based on Ecological CharacteristicsN.K. Shahina, K. Madhusudhanan and T.A. Ferose Babu 66

2636 Native, Endemic and Utilization Pattern of Woody Species of Dandachali Forest of Tehri Forest Division, North-West HimalayaPankaj Lal, D.S. Chauhan, J.S. Butola and V.P. Khanduri 70

2637 Organic Carbon Stocks in Various Land-use Types of Karst Landscape in North Eastern IndiaBshar Samir Bdoor 77

2638 Rural Households' Perception on Forest Resource Utilization during Climatic Adversities in Garhwal HimalayaSushma Rawat, Bhuvnesh Nagar and Rekha Dhanai 84

2639 Insect Community in Agroforestry: Role of Weather Parameters on Population DynamicsMd Ruhul Amin, Md Raju Mia, Habibur Rahman, Md Giashuddin Miah and Feng Ge 88

2640 Structure and Diversity of Associated Plant Communities along the Age Series in Sal Plantations of North-Eastern U.P.Sanjay Kumar Pandey 93

2641 Estimation of Biomass and Carbon Stock Variations in Vegetation of Differently Managed Quercus leucotrichophora Forests along an Elevation Gradient in Western Himalaya, India

Pradeepen Raiand Bhupender Gupta 100

2642 Avifaunal Diversity and Status of Jhalawar Forest Division, South-Eastern Rajasthan, IndiaVijay Kumar Yadav and P.S. Chauhan 107

2643 Water Bird Diversity of Madjen Djedj Marsh, Northeastern AlgeriaNadhra Boukrouma, Houda Khedir and Selma Zemouli 117

2644 Land Use Effect on Soil Properties in Abakaliki Southeastern NigeriaC. Njoku 122

2645 Influence of Mineral Nutrition and Combined Growth Regulating Chemical on Nutrient Status of SunflowerE.O. Domaratskiy, V.V. Bazaliy, O.O. Domaratskiy, A.V. Dobrovol'skiy, N.V. Kyrychenko and O.P. Kozlova 126

2646 Estimation of Heavy Metal Tolerance & Antibiotic Susceptibility of Alcaligenes faecalis Isolated from Polluted Sites of Chambal Region SoilAkanksha Gupta, Sonia Johri and Swati Chitranshi 130

2647 Comparison of Water Requirement and Water Released in Command Area of Branch Canal 70 of Jayakwadi Irrigation ProjectTarate Suryakant Bajirao and Harish W. Awari 135

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Date of Publication 01.03.2018

2648 Geochemical Studies on Surface Water Quality in Lower Noyyal Sub – Basin, Cauvery River, Tamil Nadu, IndiaT. Pradeep and S. Ananda Kumar 140

2649 Molecular Diversity Analysis based on Microsatellite Markers in Pearlmillet Hybrids [Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br.] and their Parental LinesHemender, Shikha Yashveer, V.P.S. Sangwan, Sushma Sharma and V.S. Mor 146

2650 Per Se Performance of Parents and Hybrids of Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) A.K. Vermaand A.K. Naidu 152

2651 Optimization of Onion, Garlic and Tomato Fortification in Dehusked Mungbean Preparation for Enhanced Iron BioaccessibilityPardeep Kaur, Kiran Bains and Renuka Aggarwal 158

2652 Modeling Rice-Wheat Yield Estimation over a Sub-Humid Climatic Environment of Bihar, IndiaS. Sheraz Mahdi, Mizanul Haque, Sunil Kumar, R.K. Sohane, Swaraj Kumar Dutta, Suborna Roy Choudhury 163 and S.K. Gupta

2653 Micro-climatic variations in maize (Zea mays L.) as affected by agronomic interventions and their relationship with biological parametersTodar Mal, S.S. Walia and Som Pal Singh 168

2654 Evaluation of Benzyl-butyl Phthalate Induced Germination and Early Growth Vulnerability to Barley Seedlings (Hordeum vulgare L.)Arpna Kumari and Rajinder Kaur 174

2655 Estimation of Land Use Land Cover Change Relationship with Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) Different Method and Land Surface Temperature (LST)

, Nagaveni Chokkavarapu Pavan Kumar K and Mandla Venkata Ravibabu 178

2656 Development of Integrated Farming System model for marginal farmers of Cauvery Delta ZoneS. Porpavai and R. Marimuthu 183

2657 Physico-chemical Characteristics of Bottle Gourd and Strawberry Blended ToffeeTsering Norzom, Julie Dogra Bandral, Monika Sood and Awsi Jan 187

2658 Development and Characterization of Natural Food Colorant from Microalgae Chlorella sp. (Abca-17) and its Use in Food ProductsPrashant Sahni and Rajiv Kumar Aneja 194

2659 Interactive Effect of GA3 and Proline on Nutrients Status and Growth Parameters of Pea (Pisum sativum L.)Abbas J. Husain , Amel G. Muhmood and Abdoun H. Alwan 201

2660 Optimization of Machine Parameters for Grading of Sapota through Trommel Screen GraderAnkit Kumar, Smita U. Khodke, Gurdeep Lal and Aminul Islam 205

2661 Potential of Entomopathogens in Managing Potato Whitegrubs in Himachal PradeshR.S. Chandel, Abhishek Rana, Suman Sanjta and P.K. Mehta 210

2662 Manuscripts Preserved at the Al-Hussein Holy Shrine: Isolation and Diagnosis of Fungi Causing Potential DamageBan T. Mohammed , Mohammed, H. Dakhil and Thikra M .Almutiry 214

2663 Present Status and Future Prospects of Fisheries in ManipurM.S. Dorothy, S.J. Monsang, W. Sribidya, J. Parhi and S. Bidyasagar 222

2664 Assessment of Contamination Levels and Ecological Risk Indices of Environmentally Hazardous Metals. for Granite Mining WasteG. Koteswara Reddy and Kiran Yarrakula 227

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of EcologyIndian Journal of Ecology (2018) 45(2)

2665 Degradation of Western Algerian Steppes Lands: Monitoring and Assessment 235Fatima Zohra Bahlouli, Abderrezak Djabeur, Abdelkrim Kefifa, Fatiha Arfi and Meriem Kaid-harche

2666 Double Harmonization of Transcontinental Allometric Model of Picea spp. 244Vladimir Andreevich Usoltsev, Seyed Omid Reza Shobairiand Viktor Petrovich Chasovskikh

2667 Habitat Selection for Lemongrass (Cymbopogon citrates Stapf.) Cultivation in Non-Reserve Forests of 253Southern Western Ghats, Tamil Nadu, IndiaSangeeth Thekkan and S. Paulsamy

2668 Pattern of Floristics and Biodiversity of Angiosperms of Purna Wildlife Sanctuary, Mahal, Gujarat 260Vikas Kumar, Anjali Tiwari and Bimal S. Desai

2669 Habitat Distribution Modelling of Seabuckthorn (Hippophae salicifolia D. Don.) in Sikkim, Eastern 266Himalaya, IndiaArun Chettri, Aditya Pradhan, Ghanashyam Sharma, Bharat K. Pradhan and Dhani Raj Chhetri

2670 Effect of Container and Growing Media on Terminalia bellirica Roxb. Seedling Performance under Nursery 270ConditionsKamal Kishor Sood, Fayaz Ahmed and N.S. Raina

2671 Biomass and Carbon Stocks in Agroforestry Land use System in Sub-tropics of J&K 276Vishal Mahajan, N.S. Raina and L.M. Gupta

2672 Rainfall-Runoff Modelling Using Artificial Neural Network and Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System 281Pratibha Kumari, Pravendra Kumar and P.V. Singh

2673 GIS based Multi-Criteria Decision Making System for Assessment of Landslide Hazard Zones: Case 286 Study in the Nilgiris, IndiaD. Suresh and Kiran Yarrakula

2674 Weekly Pan-evaporation Simulation using MLP, CANFIS, MLR and Climate-based Models at Pantnagar 292Anurag Malik, Anil Kumar and Priya Rai

2675 Landscape Analysis Using GIS and Remote Sensing for Assessing Spatial Pattern in Forest Fragmentation 299 in Shendurney Wildlife Sanctuary, Western Ghats, IndiaS.K. Aditya, V. Smitha Asok, Jenitha Jerome and Rajesh Reghunath

2676 Harmonization and Comparative Evaluation of Evapotranspiration Estimates in Data Scarce Conditions 305Nikul Kumari and Ankur Srivastava

2677 Effect of Real Time Nitrogen Management on Productivity of Rice (Oryza sativa L) 311Rama Kant Singh, Pankaj Kumar, Pankaj K. Yadav, S.B. Singh and R.N. Singh

2678 Effect of Weed Control by Containment and Weeding Frequency on the Growth and Yield of Cucumber in 316Abakaliki, Southeastern NigeriaN.L. Aniekwe and C.I. Akabueze

2679 Effects of Paclobutrazol on Growth and Yield Attributes of Groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.) 321Manashi Barman, S.K. Gunri, A.M. Puste and Pankaj Das

2680 Performance of Groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L) Varieties as Affected by Weeding Frequencies 325G.N. Nwokwu, L.G. Ekwu and E.B. Utobo

2681 Delineation of Rice-wheat Cropped Area using Geo-spatial Techniques 330Ranu Rani Sethi, A. Sarangi, Amiya Sagar Sahu, K.G. Mandal, R. Aggarwal, K.K. Bandyopadhyay and S.K. Ambast

2682 Effect of Flucetosulfuron on Soil Health in Rice Ecosystem 337S.R. Arya, Elizabeth K. Syriac, K.S. Meenakumari and Vijayaraghava Kumar

2683 Towards Unsustainable Resource use in Punjab Agriculture 342Garima Taneja, Swati Rawat and Kamal Vatta

2684 Water Use Efficiency of Different Mustard Cultivars under Varying Thermal Conditions in Ludhiana, Punjab 347K.K. Gill, Baljeet Kaur and Kavita Bhatt

2685 Isolation and Identification of Extremely Halophilic Bacteria Producing Extracellular Hydrolyses from Khur 352Elaheh Fallahnezhad Naeini, Manoochehr Sattari Naeini and Marziyeh Noroozi

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Date of Publication 01.06.2018

2686 Effect of Silver and Zinc oxide Nanocompound Mixture on Growth and Some Physiological Properties of 358Sclerotinia sclerotiorumHusham A. Mehdi, Ban T. Mohammed and Abbas M. Bashi

2687 Incidence of Blossom Midge, Contarinia maculipennis Felt on Jasmine (Jasminum sambac L.) 367 and its Natural Enemies in Tamil NaduI. Merlin Kamala

2688 Multivariate Analysis of Water Quality Parameters in the Seasonal Wetland Ecosystem 373S. Rameshkumar and Kalidos Radhakrishnan

2689 Evaluation of Groundwater Quality by using Water Quality Index Near Magnesite Mines, Salem District, 380Tamil Nadu, IndiaP.S. Kumar and P. Balamurugan

2690 Water Quality Index Assessment of Domestic Water Supplies in System Tank 384S. Ragunath and M. Lenin Sundar

2691 Removal of Chromium (VI) from Aqueous Solution using Azolla Caroliniana as Adsorbent 388S. Evany Nithya, A. Sabeek Mohamed and R. Viji

2692 Feathers of Feral Pigeons (Columbia livia) as Bioindicator for Heavy Metals Pollution in Jaipur, India 393Varsha Gupta

2693 Zoning and Trends of LGP Sowing Period in North-west India under Changing Climate using GIS 397Mohan Singh, Satish Kumar Bhardwaj and Aditya

2694 Effect of Different Drying Techniques on Quality of Red Chilli Powder 402Shuchi Gupta, S.R. Sharma, T.C. Mittal, S.K. Jindal and S.K. Gupta

2695 Assessing and Prioritizing Training Needs of Shrimp Farmers of Palghar District, Maharashtra 406Sandesh Patil and Arpita Sharma

2696 Assessment of Nutrition Knowledge of Elite Athletes and their Coaches in Punjab 411Aditi Sewak and Neerja Singla

2697 Fixed-Bed Biosorption of Nitrate using Tamarind Fruit Shells 419M. Senthil Rajan and R. Saraswathi

2698 Genetic Diversity for Yield and Its Attributes in Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) under Irrigated Condition 425Yogender Kumar, Naveen Kumar and Suman Devi

2699 Quality Evaluation of Elephant Foot Yam (Amorphophallus paeoniifolius Dennst- Nicolson) Cultivars during 430Growth and DevelopmentAmit Kumar Singh, Arvind Kumar Chaurasiya and Surajit Mitra

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1Indian Journal

of EcologyIndian Journal of Ecology (2018) 45(3)

2700 Wild Edible Plant Resources of Kedarnath Valley, Garhwal Himalaya, India 433Chandi Prasad and Ramesh C. Sharma

2701 Anthropogenic Transformation of Hydrological Regime of the Dnieper River 445Vitalii Ivanovich Pichura, Daria Sergeevna Malchykova, Pavel Aleksandrovich, UkrainskijIryna Aleksandrovna Shakhman, Anastasiia Nikolaevna Bystriantseva

2702 Tree Species Composition and Diversity in Tropical Moist Forests of Mizoram, Northeast India 454Ningthoujam Linthoingambi Devi, Dipendra Singha and S.K. Tripathi

2703 Structural and Floristic Diversity of Different Landscape in Western Ghats of Kodagu, Karnataka, India 462V. Maheswarappa and R. Vasudeva

2704 Eucalyptus-based Agroforestry System under Semi-Arid Condition in North-Western India: 470An economic AnalysisR.S. Dhillon, S.B. Chavan, K.S. Bangarwa, K.K. Bharadwaj, Sushil Kumari and Chhavi Sirohi

2705 Morphometric Analysis and Prioritization of Sub-Watershedsin Bino Watershed, Uttarakhand: 475 A Remote Sensing and GIS PerspectiveHimanshu Kandpal, Anil Kumar1and Anurag Malik

2706 Carbon Sequestration by Trees-A Study in the Western Ghats, Wayanad Region 479P.J. Jithila and P.K. Prasadan

2707 Mapping of Natural Hazards and Expected Incidences in Great Himalayan National Park Conservation 483Area, Himachal PradeshSuneet Naithani, Ashutosh Singh and Akshaya Verma

2708 Human-Panther Conflicts in the Aravalli Hills of Southern Rajasthan-A Case Study 489Puneet Sharma and Nadim Chishty

2709 Joint Forest Management for Conservation and Auxiliary Income in Himachal Pradesh 494Chandresh Guleria, Manoj Kumar Vaidya, Chaman Lal and Amit Guleria

2710 Diversity of Endophytic Fungi in Few Lianas of West Medinipur, South-West, India 499Biplab Bagchi

2711 Biodiversity of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal (AM) Fungi in Agroecosystems of Semi-Arid Region Jaipur, India 505Ajay Pal and Sonali Pandey

2712 Aquatic Insects as Indicator of Water Quality: A Study on a Small Stream of Shillong, Meghalaya 511North-east IndiaIdenticia Marwein and Susmita Gupta

2713 Appraisal of Nutritional Values and Antimicrobial Activities of Garlic, Cinnamon, Black Pepper 518and Aloe Vera PowderJaswinder Singh, Paviter Kaur, Sushma Chhabra, A.P.S. Sethi and S.S. Sikka

2714 Effect of Different Land Use Systems on Soil Carbon Storage and Structural Indices in Abakaliki, Nigeria 522J.N. Nwite, J.E. Orji and C.C. Okolo

2715 Plant Diversity at Fly Ash Disposal Site of Thermal Power Plant Gandhinagar, Gujarat 528Krishna Rawat, Bhawana Pathak and M.H. Fulekar

2716 Estimation and Mapping Chlorophyll-a Concentration in Pulicat Lagoon, South India Using Sentinel 2A 533R. Saraswathy and P. Kasinatha Pandian

2717 Effects of Soil Amendments with Bio-inoculants on Biomass Production of Flemingia semialata Seedlings 538R.K. Kar, K. Upadhyaya and P.C. Panda

2718 Groundwater Potential Mapping Using Dempster – ShaferTheory of Evidence for Tiruvannamalai 542District, IndiaS. Evany Nithya and J. Jeeva

2719 Time Variant Growth Approximation Model for Estimation of Crop Yield and Water Regulation using 550Environmental Factors (FCG)R. Srinivasan and P. Uma Maheswari

2720 Calibration and Validation of CERES-Wheat (DSSAT v4.6) Model for Wheat under Irrigated Conditions: 555Model Evaluation and ApplicationS. Sheraz Mahdi and Mizanul Haque

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Date of Publication 01.09.2018

2721 Effect of Bioclogging and Biocementation on Permeability and Strength of Soil 560S.P. Jeyapriya

2722 Spatial and Temporal Land Surface Temperature Analysis of Kashmir Valley (India) 566Latief Ahmad and R.H. Kanth

2723 Effect of Subspecies, Detasseling and Gibberellic Acid on Growth, Yield, Corn Silk and Its Content of 570Some Antioxidant CompoundsH.S. Maher, Al-Mohamma and Ahmed S.K. AL-Khafaji

2724 Impact of Repeated Applications of Chemical Fertilizers in Mulberry Cropping System on Ground Water 575 in Sericulture Villages of Tamil NaduS. Arulmozhi Devi and N. Sakthivel

2725 Nutrient and Organic Components Mobilization in leaves of Excoecaria agallocha L. during Senescence 579Ajit B. Telave, Sourabh R. Chandankar and Kedar B. Deshmane

2726 Effect of Cladophora crispate Extract on Potassium Release from Soil 583Hashim H. Kareem, Aldhahim, Abdulameer Raheem Obaed and Qais Hussain Abbas Al-Semmak

Ravikiran, Elizabeth K. Syriac and S.R. Arya

2728 Qualitative Decline of Pollinator Spectrum in Sunflower Agro-ecosystem 592O.P. Chaudhary and Rinku Poonia

2729 Salinity Tolerance and Survival of Freshwater Carp, Cyprinus carpio Linn. in Inland Saline Water 598Gulgul Singh, Meera D. Ansal* and Vaneet Inder Kaur

2730 Development and Testing of Rotary Mechanism with Manual Feeding for Husking Coconut 602Edwin Benjamin, A.N. Rajesh1, Aminul Islam and Jippu Jacob

2731 Impact of Drip Irrigation Scheduling and Water Use Efficiency on Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum) 607In Western Uttar Pradesh, IndiaRam Kumar, Anurag Malik and Gurcharan Singh

2732 Quantification of the Pine Processionary Caterpillar Thaumetopoea pityocampa (Notodontidae) Haemocytes 611I. Boudjahem, M.F. Brivio, S. Berchi and M. Mastore

2733 Morphological Study of Genetic Variability of Banana Genotypes for Crop Improvement 615Prasenjit Kundu, Fatik Kumar Bauri and Sutanu Maji

2734 Effect of Pre-seed Treatment and Growing Media on Germination Parameters of Gmelina arborea Roxb. 623Rashmiprava Maharana, Manmohan. J. Dobriyal, L.K. Behera, R.P. Gunaga and N.S. Thakur

2735 Biometric Characteristics of Giant River-Catfish Aorichthys seenghala (Sykes, 1839) from 627Harike Wetland – A Ramsar SiteAbhijeet Singh, Surjya Narayan Datta and Ajeet Singh

2736 Effect of Pretreatments on Shelf life and Nutritional Quality of Moth Bean 632(Phaseolus aconitiflius Jacq.) SproutsSimran Arora, Saleem Siddiqui and Rakesh Gehlot

2737 Technological Adoption for Livelihood Security of Small Holder Farmers’ in Uttarakhand, India: Issues 638and OpportunitiesRekha Dhanai, R.S. Negi, Santosh Singh and Sushma Rawat

2738 Floristic Composition and Structure of Urban Landscapes of Agartala, Tripura 642Tamal Majumdar and Thiru Selvan.

2739 Performance of Aonla with in-situ Moisture Conservation Techniques 654Manish Kumar, Dev Narayan, R.S.Yadav, Prabhat Kumar, Rajeev RanjanMonalisha Pramanik and Raj Kumar

2740 Physico-chemical and Nutritional Changes during Fruit Development in Mango (Mangifera indica ) cv. Dusehri 659Ramandeep Kour, M.S. Gill, P.P.S. Gill and Nav Prem Singh

2741 Effect of Surface Coatings on Physico-Chemical Characteristics of Stored Baramasi Lemon Fruits 663Jaskirat Singh, S.K. Jawandha, Anita Arora and Ramandeep Singh Sidhu

2727 Impact of Penoxsulam Integrated with Stale Seedbed on Soil Health of Upland Rice Ecosystem 587

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1Indian Journal

of EcologyIndian Journal of Ecology (2018) 45(4)

2742 Agriculture Scenario with Changing Climate: Impacts, Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies 667Amarjeet Kaur, Kanu Priya, Neeraj Gandhi and Poonam Aggarwal

2743 Ecological and Taxonomical study of Epipelion Community in Diyala River in Diyala Province- Iraq 680Khazal Dh. Wadi Al-Jibouri, Fikrat M. Hassan and Athmar A. Hakman

2744 Diversity of Soil Algae from Vegetable Crop Fields of Cachar District, Assam, India 689L. Bidyalaxmi Devi and Jayashree Rout

2745 Identify Suitable Classification Algorithm for Water Pixel Count Extraction – A Case Study of Puzhal Lake 697Abhinav Wadhwa, K. Santhi, K. Pavan Kumar and Jithin Jose

2746 Tree Diversity and Structure Around Galela Lake, North minush Halmahera Indonesia 704Hendro Christi Suhry, Tri Retnaningsih Soeprobowati and Jumari

2747 Assessment of Floristic Diversity of different Coniferous Forests in Himalayan Temperate Climate 711of Western HimalayasVipasha, D.R. Bhardwaj and Rakesh Kumar

2748 Spatial Assessment of Net Canopy Photosynthetic Rate and Species Diversity in Pichavaram Mangrove 717Forest, Tamil NaduP. Pandi Selvam, Gejo Anna Geevarghese, Purvaja Ramachandran and Ramesh Ramachandran

2749 Population Structure and Regeneration of Mahua (Madhuca longifolia Var. latifolia (Roxb.) A. Chev.) in 724Disturbed and Undisturbed SitesH.T. Hegde, R.P. Gunaga, N.S. Thakur, S.K. Jha and M.J. Dobriyal

2750 Classification of Al-Hammar Marshes Satellite Images in Iraq using Artificial Neural Network based on 728Coding RepresentationAshraf S. Abdulla, Bushra Q. Al-Abudi and Mohammed S. Mahdi

2751 Traditional Knowledge and Innovative Practices for Water Management and Conservation in Indian Cold 737Desert, Leh LadakhStanzin Namtak and Ramesh C. Sharma

2752 Growth Performance Assessment of Melia dubia Cav. Germpalsms Grown under Semi-arid Conditions 745R.S. Loushambam, A.S. Devakumar and M. Shankar

2753 Performance Evaluation of Water Delivery System for Command Area of Branch Canal 70 of Jayakwadi 750Irrigation ProjectTarate Suryakant Bajirao and Harish W. Awari

2754 Determination of Artificial Ground Water Recharge Adequacy in Vaniyar Sub-Basin, Tamil Nadu, India 756K.R. Kalphana and R. Velkennedy

2755 Study of Deterioration Level of Water Quality along Mahim Creek of Mumbai 763Pravin H. Sapkale, Neelam Saharan, Sanath Kumar, Vidya Shree Bharati and Kundan Kumar

2756 Air Quality Index for Environmental Impact Assessment of the Port Development at Beypore 768S. Praveen, J. Jegan and T. Bhagavathi Pushpa

2757 Water Quality of Fresh Water Pond Ecosystem under Sub-Temperate Conditions of Palampur, 774Himachal PradeshKalyani Supriya, Ramesh C. Chauhan and Balwinder Singh

2758 Application of Simple Remote Sensing Techniques for the Detection and Extraction of Coastline- 778A Case Study of Diu Island, IndiaIndra Prakash and Binh Thai Pham

2759 Influence of Sowing Periods and Seeding Rates on Yield of Grain Sorghum Hybrids under Regional 785Climatic TransformationsYe.O. Domaratsky, O.G. Zhuykov and M.O. Ivaniv

2760 Predicting Mustard Yield in Different Agroclimatic Zones of Punjab through Statistical Models 790K.K. Gill and Kavita Bhatt

2761 Influence of Provenance Variation on Seedling Characteristics of Celtis australis in Nursery Environment 797Raj Kumar, Harsh Mehta, Rajesh Kaushal, Rakesh Banyal and Manish Kumar

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Date of Publication 01.12.2018

2762 Effect of Chemical and Organic Fertilizers and Interactions With High Potash and Silicon Spraying on 802Vicia faba L. Antioxidants in Salinity SoilAli H. Jasim, Evan I. Merhij, Huda A. Atab and S.H. Abdalwahed

2763 Rooting Response of Acer acuminatum Cuttings to IBA, Girdling and Season 806Suresh Kumar, G.S. Shamet, Neena Kumari and Nagaraj Hegde

2764 Effects of Canopy on Seed Germination and Initial Growth Parameters of Some Agriculture Crops 810U.K. Sahoo and Kalidas Upadhyaya

2765 Seed Quality Enhancement through Plasma Treatment: A Review 814Cherry Nalwa and Ashok K. Thakur

2766 An Ergo-economical Study on Paddy Transplanting Methods in Kangra, Himachal Pradesh 822Radhna Gupta and Rakesh K. Gupta

2767 Competitive Ability and Neighbor Relation of Parthenium hysterophorus with Crotalaria striata 826Sanjay Kumar Pandey and Ravindra P. Shukla

2768 Effects of Different Land Use on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics in Zunheboto District of Nagaland, 831Northeast IndiaWapongnungsang, Adangnaro and S.K. Tripathi

2769 Relationship of Physico-Chemical Properties with Chromium Content in Sewage and Tubewell Water 835Irrigated Soils of PunjabNeeraj Rani, Dhanwinder Singh and Rajeev Sikka

2770 Managing Saline Soils of Indo-Gangetic Plains with Eucalyptus and Melia based Agroforestry Systems 841R. Banyal, R.K. Yadav, Parvender Sheoran, A.K. Bhardwaj, Parveen Kumar, Rajkumar and Rahul Tolia

2771 Effect of Abattoir Wastes on Selected Soil Properties in Ebonyi State Southeastern Nigeria 850M.O. Alu, C. Njoku, O.C. Okafor and J.N. Nwite

2772 Diversity of Insects in Sweet Gourd Field of Bangladesh 854Nabanita Paul Nancy, Md Ruhul Amin, Md Ramiz Uddin Miah and Md Giashuddin Miah

2773 Biomonitoring Persistent Organic Pesticides Residues in Indonesian Farmers and Agricultural Products 858Hasnawati Amqam, Ema Hermawati, Budi Hartono, Satria Pratama and Anwar Mallongi

2774 Lead Content in Soil, Water, Forage, Grains, Organs and the Muscle Tissue of Cattle in Western Siberia 866(Russia)Kirill N. Narozhnykh,Tatyana V. Konovalova, Jury I. Fedyaev, Nikolay I. Shishin, Alexandr I. Syso, Olga I. Sebezhko,Valeriy L. Petukhov, Olga S. Korotkevich, Evgeniy V. Kamaldinov, Vladimir G. Marenkov, Lubov A. Osintseva, Vaychaslav A. Reimer, Anatoliy G. Nezavitin, Viktor N. Demetiev and Ludmila V. Osadchuk,

2775 Salinity Tolerance and Survival of Freshwater Carp, Labeo rohita Ham. (rohu) in Inland Saline Water 872Manti Uday Kumar, Meera D. Ansal and Vaneet Inder Kaur

2776 Salinity Tolerance of Freshwater Shubunkin Gold Fish, Carassius auratus (Linn.): Suitability for Rearing 876in Inland Saline WaterDeepa Bhatt, Vaneet Inder Kaur, Meera D. Ansal and Pavan Kumar

2777 Perception of Extension Personnel and Farmers towards Effect on Open Burning in Rice and Wheat 881Cropping SystemL. Lyngdoh and R.K. Dhaliwal

2778 Use of Edible Coating to Enhance Shelf Llife of Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum L.) 888S. Maji, R. Yadav, D.H. Dwivedi, M. Ali and M. Prasad

2779 Effect of Seed Treatment on Seed Germination and Vigour Parameters in Seeds Subjected to Salt Stress 892in Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.)Ritika Gaba, Namarta Gupta and S.K. Jindal

2780 Effect of Sources of Organic Manure and Levels of N and P on Weed Infestation and Dry Matter Production of Cassava in Lowlands 895A.P. Pooja and O.K. Swadija

2781 Assessment of Physicochemical Parameters to Investigate Pollution Status of White Bein: A Tributary of 898Sutlej RiverSabmeet Singh, Priyadarshini Sorokhaibam, Ramandeep Kaur and Rahul Singh

2782 Effect of Enclosure on Biodiversity and Similarity of Rangeland Plant Species 901Jamal Bakhshi, Seyed Akbar Javadi, Ali Tavili and Hossein Arzani

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1Indian Journal

of EcologyIndian Journal of Ecology (2019) 46(1)

2782 Suitability of Ground Water for Irrigation Purpose in Omalur Taluk, Salem, Tamil Nadu, India 1 P.S. Kumar and P. Balamurugan

2783 Spatio-temporal Salinity and Mapping of Irrigated Perimeter of Abadla Bechar, SW Algeria 7 Houcine Hegui, Mohamed Nabou and Mohamed Gliz

2784 Assessment of Tannery Wastewater Based on OLR using Anaerobic cum Aerobic Sequential 13 Batch Reactor (SAAR) P. Prabhu and S. Ramesh

2785 Economic Analysis and Constraints of Irrigation by Dry S2875eason Rice Farmers in Ikwo Local Government 18 Area of Ebonyi State, Nigeria S.U. Nwibo, A.V. Eze, C. Nwofoke, B.N. Mbam and G.N. Umeh

2786 Assessment of Ground Water Quality Based on Socio Economical Activities in Cauvery River 23 Bed of Tamil Nadu T. Natarajan and V. Sekaran

2787 Impact of Check Dam in Groundwater level and Water Quality of Vaigai River Madurai District, 29 Tamil Nadu, India R. Vijayakumar and V. Sekaran

2788 Socio-Economic Vulnerability of Riverbank Erosion of Displacees: Case Study of Coastal 34 Villages in Bangladesh Tariqul Islam, Azlinda Azman, Paramjit Singh, Isahaque Ali, Tahmina Akhtar, Mohd Rafatullah, Norli Ismail and Kaizar Hossain

2789 Hydrochemical Analysis of Groundwater Quality in Virudhunagar district, Tamil Nadu, India 39 Saranya and M.C. Sashikkumar

2790 Assessment of Water Quality of Surface Water in Kalingarayan Canal for Heavy Metal Pollution, Tamil Nadu 49 T. Mohanakavitha, R. Divahar, T. Meenambal and Keredin Temam Siraj

2791 Physico-chemical Characteristics of Groundwater in and Around Tirunelveli Corporate Dumpsite 55 S. Sidhardhan and S. Adish Kumar

2792 Effect of Manure on Physico-Chemical Properties of Soil and the Yield of Cucumber (Cucumis sativus) 60 in Abakaliki C. Njoku and B.C. Okoro

2793 Influence of Zinc Nutrition and Green Leaf Manuring on Dry Matter Yield, Nutrient Uptake and Economics 65 of Rice Cultivation P. Prakash, M. Hemalatha and M. Joseph

2794 Changes in Weed Diversity and Biomass during Crop Growth in Three Age Chronosequence of Forest 70 Fallows in Muallungthu Village, Mizoram Wapongnungsang, SH. B. Singh and S.K. Tripathi

2795 Analysis on Variations in Spectral Reflectance Characteristics of Coral Reef Benthic Compositions from 76 Gulf of Mannar, Tamil Nadu, India Muniappan Thanikachalam and Kandasami Nimalan

2796 Precipitation and Rainy Day Trends in Kashmir Valley, Jammu & Kashmir, India 83 Latief Ahmad and Sameera Qayoom

2797 Snow Cover Estimation of Western Himalayas using Sentinel- High Spatial Resolution Data 88 V. Nagajothi, M. Geetha Priya and Parmanand Sharma

2798 Diversity, Structure and Regeneration Pattern of Tree Communities in Kanawar Wildlife Sanctuary of 94 Himachal Pradesh, North West Himalaya, India Kaushalya Devi, S.S. Samant, Sunil Puri and Manohar Lal

2799 Depth Wise Assessment of Soil Fertility in Seabuckthorn in Comparison to Willow and Poplar in Cold Arid 104 Himalayas Diksha Rana, Virendra Singh and Gourav

2800 Dynamics in Biomass Expansion Factor, Root-to-Shoot Ratio and Wood Quality Parameters in 111 Different Girth Class of Gmelina arborea Roxb. Sanjeev K. Chauhan, Krishan K. Gumber, Rajni Sharma and Harmeet S. Saralch

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2801 Carbon Sequestration and Tree Diversity of Thimmalapura Reserve Forest, Tumakuru, Karnataka 116 S. Mouna, F.T.Z. Jabeen, J. Dakshayini, C. Haleshi and Y.N. Seetharam

2802 Machine Learning Based Modelling of Human Panther Interactions in Aravalli Hills of Southern Rajasthan 126 Puneet Sharma and Nadim Chishty

2803 Shift in Phenology of Some Dominant Tree species due to Climate Change in Mizoram, North-East India 132 Soibam Lanabir Singh and Uttam Kumar Sahoo

2804 Impact of the Aridity Gradient on the Physico-chemical Parameters of the Needles of Pinus halepensis Mill. 137 in the Western Algeria Mohamed Zouidi, Amine Habib Borsali, Abdelkrim Kefifa, Ayoub Allam, Naima Keddouri and Raphael Gros

2805 Growth and Development of Seedlings in Relation to Container Size and Potting Media under Nursery 143 conditions in Oroxylum indicum- A Multipurpose Medicinal Plant Kamal Kishor Sood and Jainar Ram

2806 Determination of Synergistic, Antagonistic effects of Pesticides and Co-toxicity Co-efficient 149 Nwokwu Gilbert Nwogboduhu

2807 Effects of Micro-credit Policy on Fishery Agribusiness in Abakaliki Local Government Area of 154 Ebonyi State, Nigeria Nwofoke, Christian and Nwibo Simon Uguru

2808 Validation of Residue Analysis Method for Sulfadiazine and Trimethoprim Drugs and their Residue 162 Depletion in Chicken Eggs Manjusha Jadhav, Prakash Raut and Kaushik Banerjee

2809 Removal of Rhodamine B Dye from Aqueous Solution by Advanced Oxidation Process using 167 ZnO Nanoparticles R. Rathinam and S. Pattabhi

2810 Effect of Antioxidant Reagentsand Silicon Spraying on Phenol, Flavonoid and Anthocyanin in Oat Varieties 175 Sabreen H. Abdel Wahed, Taha Y.Al-Eidani and Ali H. Jasim

2811 Ecological Niche Modeling of Salacia Species in Western Ghats 180 Shrikant Gunaga and R. Vasudeva

2812 Socio-personal Dynamics of Adoption of Different Agroforestry Systems in Sub-tropics of Jammu and Kashmir 184 S.K. Gupta, P.V. Khare, S. Sehgal, Rakesh Kumar and P.S. Slathia

2813 Combination of Agricultural Waste and Saw Dust into Biomass Material for Briqutte 188 R. Arulkumar, H. Kanagasabapathy and I. Neethi Manickam

2814 Variation in Esterase Activity among Various Populations of Helicoverpa armigera (Hubner) in Northern India 192 V.G.S. Chandel, K.C. Sharma, R.S. Chandel and Arvind Kumar

2815 Evaluation of Aquaculture Units Established in Inland Salt Affected Areas of District Fazilka, Punjab 196 Aparna Kumari, Meera D. Ansal, Prabjeet Singh and Shanthanagouda Admane Holyappa

2816 Effect of Jasmonic Acid on the Physiological Properties and Yield in the Maize Hybrid under Salt Stress 201 Hussein Fouad Hamzah Al-Shreefy and Qais Hussain Al-Semmak

2817 Assessing Rice Growers' Knowledge on Plant Protection Measures in Sub-tropics of Jammu and Kashmir 204 Avinash Panigarhi, Rakesh Nanda, Rajinder Peshin and Yudhishther Singh Bagal

2818 Vegetative Propagation of an Endangered Tree Species Tecomella undulate 208 Amanpreet Kaur, Avtar Singh and Rajesh Monga

2819 Variability in Secondary Metabolites during Developmental Stages and Seasons in Corbichonia decumbens 211 and Withania coagulans from Indian Thar Desert Kavita Daiya and Pawan K. Kasera

2820 Diversity of Insects in Okra Agro-ecosystem at Gazipur in Bangladesh 214 Md Ruhul Amin, Khushi Tripura, Md Ramiz Uddin Miah, Emrul Kayesh and Md Arifur Rahman Khan

2821 Evaluation and Performance of CERES-Wheat DSSAT v.6 Model for Growth, Development and Yield 217 in Southern Bihar Koushik Sar and S. Sheraz Mahdi

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of EcologyIndian Journal of Ecology (2019) 46(2)

2822 Use of Hissopus officinalis L. Culture for Phytomelioration of Carbonate Outcrops of Anthropogenic 221 Origin the South of European Russia Vladimir I. Cherniavskih, Elena V. Dumacheva, Nikolay I. Sidelnikov, Fedor N. Lisetskii and Larisa Ch. Gagieva

2823 Assessment of Physicochemistry, Periphyton Species Composition, Diversity and Biomass of Asu River 227 Southeast, Nigeria Ani Chijioke, Nwonumara Godwin Nkwuda, Okogwu Idumah Okechukwu and Nwinyimegu Amaechi Joshua

2824 Conservation Agriculture Based Annual Intercropping System for Sustainable Crop Production: A review 235 Yayeh Bitew and Merkuz Abera

2825 Impact of Rice Mill Wastes Dump on Soil Physicochemical Properties in Abakaliki, Southeastern, Nigeria 250 J.N. Nwite and C.V Azuka

2826 Physicochemical Analysis of Ground Water for Irrigation and Drinking Purposes around Moth Block of 255 Jhansi District, Uttar Pradesh, India Naseem Akhtar and Shive Prakash Rai

2827 Rural Natural Resource Management (RNRM) and Social Capital: Contribution of Grassroots Women's 265 Organisations in Rural India Dhanraj A. Patil

2828 Assessing Fluoride Intensity of Ground Water in Dindigul District, Tamil Nadu 272 S. Vinothkanna, R. Rajee and K. Senthilraja

2829 Impact of Gaseous Pollution in Surgical Theatres and Its Management 278 N. Sumathi, R. Lakshmi and K. Jayaprakash

2830 Ecological Risk Assessment in Port Harcourt Jetty Polluted by Petroleum Products Spillage 282 M.A.N. Anikwe, D.D. Anthony-Cookey, E.E. Ikenganyia and V.O. Okwu-Delunzu

2831 Study on Paddy Phenomics Eco-System and Yield Estimation using Multi-Temporal Remote Sensing Approach 288 Mahesh Palakuru and Kiran Yarrakula

2832 Identification of Soil Quality Indicators for New Alluvial in Rice Based Cropping Systems of Jorhat 293 District, Assam Saurabh Baruah, Nandita Baruah, Binoy Kumar Medhi, R.K. Thakuria and Niloy Borah

2833 Temporal Analysis of Rainfall Trend for Udaipur District of Rajasthan 301 Saroj Rana, Vaibhav Deoli and P.S. Kashyap

2834 Clonal Variability in Mango (Mangifera indica L.) Orchards cv. Dashehari 306 S. Kishor, D.H. Dwivedi, S. Maji, N. Singh and M. Gond

2835 Factors Effecting Change in Rice Production Practices and Technologies among Smallholder Farmers in 311 Kamwenge District, Uganda

Gabriel Karubanga, Jacob Godfrey Agea, Florent Okry, Steven Kiwewesi and Joseph Lwanga Kiggundu Mugerwa

2836 Utilization of Agri-horticultural Crops/Wastes for Making Dry and Value-added Products to 320 Generate Employment Kashyap Bharati, S.R. Dhiman, Sharma Puja and Sharma Meenakshi

2837 Carbon Stock Assessment of Selected Tree Species in Maharshi Dayanand University Campus, 325 Rohtak (Haryana) India Abhishek Nandal, Neetu Singh, S.S. Yadav, A.S. Rao and V.S. Yadav

2838 Assessment of Germination Attributes in Candidate Plus Trees (CPTs) of Malabar Neem (Melia dubia Cav.) 330 R.S. Chauhan, N.S. Thakur, R.P. Gunaga, D.C. Bhuva and D.B. Jadeja

2839 Fuelwood Profile of the Mapulana of Ehlanzeni district in Mpumalanga Province, South Africa 335 S.P. Mashile, M.P. Tshisikhawe and N.A. Masevhe

2840 Recycling of Wood Bark of Azadirachta indica for Bio-oil and Chemicals by Flash Pyrolysis 342 C. Sowmya Dhanalakshmi and P. Madhu

2841 Studies on Intercropping of Maize (Zea mays L.) with Pea (Pisum sativum L.) Genotype 349 Gurkirat Singh Aulakh, Gurbax Singh and Amarinder Singh

2842 Assessment of Aboveground Biomass and Carbon Storage in Bamboo Species in Sub-Tropical Bamboo 353 Forests of Mizoram, North-East India Ramchhanliana Hauchhum and M.Z. Singson

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2843 Impact of Land use and Land Cover on Aquatic Macrophyte Community Composition in Small Streams: 358 A Case Study from Cachar District of Assam in Northeast India Nami Prasad and Tapati Das

2844 Crop diversification for Sustainable Management of Blossom Midge (Contarinia maculipennis Felt) of 366 Jasmine (Jasminum sambac L.) I. Merlin Kamala

2845 Rainfall analysis of Ludhiana and Bathinda Districts using Markov Chain model 373 Nilesh Biwalkar

2846 Analysing Drought and Wet Conditions Using Standardized Precipitation Index at Pantnagar 381 Anurag Malik and Anil Kumar

2847 Modeling of Tidal Inlet of Pulicat Lagoon 386 V. Vandhana Devi and R. Deepak

2848 Study of the Adaptation and Gene expression in Coffee Beans after Exposure to Mutation 394 M. Kh. Jabbar

2849 Retrospective and Forecast of Heterochronal Climatic Fluctuations Within Territory of Dnieper Basin 397 Vitalii Ivanovich Pichura, Larisa Aleksandrovna Potravka, Dudiak Natalia Vasylivna, Petro Mikhalovich Skrypchuk and Natalia Vladimirovna Stratichuk

2850 Evaluation of Carp Gut Isolated Probiotic Bacteria Lactobacillus Plantarum FLB: Hematological and 403 Biochemical Alterations in Rohu Labeo rohita (Ham.) Prem Kumar, Vaneet Inder Kaur, Anuj Tyagi and Shanthanagouda A. Holeyappa

2851 Detection of Enzymes and Proteins Produced From Some Algae Isolated from Iraqi Aquatic Environment 408 Ahmed Aidan Al-Hussieny, Adel Saadi Alsaadi and Manal A. Hasan

2852 Bioaccumulation of Anionic and Nonionic Surfactants in Ceratophyllum demersum Plant in Tigris River, 412 Baghdad, Iraq Rana R. Al-Ani, Abdul Hameed, M.J. Al-Obaidy and Fikrat M. Hassan

2853 Histological Alterations in the Gills of Crab, Paratelphusa jacquemontii after Chronic Exposure to Silver 417 Nanoparticles (AgNP) G.H. Kadam and P.D. Raut

2854 A Case-Study of Uranium and Heavy Metal Detoxification 422 Chanda Siddoo-Atwal

2855 Eco-friendly Arecanut Leaf Sheath Products: An Economic Analysis 426 Kiran Kumar R. Patil, B. Chinnappa, G.R. Manjunatha and H.S. Sowmya

2856 Ethnomedicinal Plants used by the Halam Tribe of North Tripura, Northeast India 432 Nirmal Debnath and Ajit Kumar Das

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2858 Agricultural Land Suitability Analysis for Yen Khe Hills (NgheAn, Vietnam) using Analytic Hierarchy 445 Process (AHP) Combined with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Tran Thi Tuyen, Hoang Phan Hai Yen, Hoang Thi Thuy, Nguyen Thi Trang Thanh, Nguyen Kim Quoc, Indra

Prakash and Binh Thai Pham

2859 Modelling Dissolved Oxygen Concentration Using Artificial Neural Networks 455 Sirisha Adamala, Bachina Harish Babu and B. Gangaiah

2860 Use of Fuzzy Logic in Modeling Gully Erosion for Modified Bergsma using Remote Sensing Data and 460 Geographic Information Systems Zarkatah Valley, Erbil, Iraq A.M. Rukaya, Amin and Amal H.K. Aljaberi

2861 Application of Remote Sensing and GIS in Conventional Weightage Modelling for Landslide Hazard 464 Zonations (LHZ) in Nilgiri District, Tamil Nadu, India R. Chandrasekaran, P.S. Kumar and Nibedita Nayak

2862 Crop Acreage and Crop Yield Estimation using Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques, Bulandshahr District 470 Abdul Qadir, Ismail Ahmad Abir, Sabbah Nawaz, Nizamuddin Khan, Mohammad Adil Aman, Rauff Kazeem

Olukunle, Naseem Akhtar, Mohd Talha Anees, Kaizar Hossain and Akil Ahmad

2863 Morphometric Analysis of Song Watershed: A GIS Approach 475 A. Qadir, T.M. Mallick, I.A. Abir, M.A. Aman, N. Akhtar, M.T. Anees, K. Hossain and A Ahmad

2864 Use of GIS For Hypsometric (Area-Elevation) Analysis of Gagas Watershed (Uttarakhand) 481 Anurag Malik and Anil Kumar

2865 Development of One cell or One individual Direct PCR of Protozoan or Metazoan 8S rRNA Gene for 486 Molecular Ecology Watcharapong Thakong, Duangduean Yuenyongkirimard, Kazuya Shimizu, Norio Iwami, Niwooti Whangchai,

Rameshprabu Ramaraj and Tomoaki Itayama

2866 Model-Based Clustering Approach for Regional Flood Frequency Analysis 493 G. Shiyamalagowri and G.P. Ganapathy

2867 Irrigation Water Quality Assessment using Principal Component Analysis of Hydrological Data from 505 Parakai Lake, Tamil Nadu, India S. Sahaya Vasanthi and S. Adish Kumar

2868 Spatial Variability Modeling of Field Infiltration Capacity 510 Aminul Islam, Akhtar Uz Zaman and Dhrubajyoti Sen

2869 Assessing Human Dependency on the Provisioning Ecosystem Services of Chatla Floodplain Wetland 516 of Barak Valley, Assam, Northeast India Priyanka Sarkar, Tapati Das and Raju Mandal

2870 Application of Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery for Spatio-temporal Assessment of Flood in Nagavali River 521 P.M. Thameemul Hajaj and Kiran Yarrakula

2871 Design, Development and Evaluation of Power Operated Drip Lateral Winder 525 A. Rama Rao, Muddineni Naresh, K. Murali Naik and Bibek Shrestha

2872 Changes in Physical Properties and Content of Total Organic Carbon in Postagrogenic Soils 529 Anatoly Trushkov, Mary Odabashyan, Kamil Kazeev and Sergey Kolesnikov

2873 Soil and Climatic Bonitation of Agricultural Lands of the Steppe Zone of Ukraine 534 Nataliia Vasylivna Dudiak, Larisa Aleksandrovna Potravka and Alexander Alexandrovich Stroganov

2874 Response of Soil Properties to Different Tillage Methods and Wood-Ash Application on Productivity of 541 Castor (Ricinus cumunis L.) C.N. Mbah and C. Njoku

2875 Influence of Pinus kesiya on Soil Properties 547 Marcy D. Momin, Augustson Marbaniang and Shri Kant Tripathi

2876 Phosphorus Fractionation in Some Calcareous Soils in Sulaimani Gogveronrat, Kurdistan, Iraq 551 J.K. Kassim and S.H.G. Faraj

2877 Horizontal Variability of Some Soil Properties in Wasit Governorate by Using Time Series Analysis 558 Amel Radhi Jubair, Nada Farouq Abboud and Abdul-Ghafour Ibrahim Hamad

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2878 Assessment of Biogeochemical Soil Variability using a Geo-statistical Approach: A Case Study in the Steppe 566 Crimea

Fedor N. Lisetskii, Zhanna A. Buryak and Olga A. Marinina

2879 Development and Analysis of Flow Characteristics of Mini Sharp Crested Weir Energy Conservation 572 V.V. Tejaswini, A. Rama Rao, K. Manogna and D. Ayyanna

2880 Algal Diversity in Rice Fields of Southern Assam, North-East India 577 Bhaswati Sarma, Dharitri Borah, Jayashree Rout and Mahuya Sengupta

2881 Effect of Different Land Configuration and Establishment Methods on Productivity of Aerobic Rice 586 P. Prakash, T. Ragavan, V. Geethalakshmi, P. Saravana Pandian and R. Amutha

2882 Bio-Efficacy of Sequential Application of Herbicides in Dual Purpose Wheat and Residue Estimation of Pre 590 Emergence Herbicide

Meenakshi Sangwan, V.S. Hooda, Jagdev Singh and Anil Duhan

2883 Dependence of Winter Wheat Yielding Capacity on Mineral Nutrition in Irrigation Conditions of Southern 594 Steppe of Ukraine Ye. Domaratskiy, O. Berdnikova, V. Bazaliy, V. Shcherbakov, V. Gamayunova, O. Larchenko, A. Domaratskiy and I. Boychuk

2884 Generation of Variability in Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) through Mutagenesis 599 Neha Sharma, G. Katna, Archana Joshi Saha and Kamal Dev Sharma

2885 Rapid Assessment of Variability in Water Chestnut (Trapa natans var. bispinosa Roxb.) through Fruit 604 and Stomatal Analysis M. Gond, D.H. Dwivedi, S. Maji and S. Kishor

2886 Rainfall Variation and Frequency Analysis of Tiruppur District for Crop Planning, Tamil Nadu, India 610 S. Vivek, M.C. Sashik Kumar and V. Priya

2887 Impact of Salinity on Primary Production in the Marshes 614 Hiba Ibrahem Al-khalidy and Mohammed Jawad Salih Al-Haidarey

2888 Estimation of Reference Evapotranspiration Using Cropwat- 8 Model In Semi-Arid Region 619 Gudida Gopi, B.S. Madhusudan and Ayyanna

2889 Public Perception on Climate Change and Its Impacts on Various Aspects: A Case Study of Great 623 Himalayan National Park (India) Vandna Devi, M.H. Fulekar and Bhawana Pathak

2890 Population Density and Damage of Invasive Giant African Snail Achatina fulica in Organic Farm in East 631 Sikkim, India Bishal Thakuri, Bhoj Kumar Acharya and Ghanashyam Sharma

2891 Effects of Feeding Floral Resource on Potential of Bemisia tabaci Parasitoids 636 A.I. Abd-Elkareim, Ahmed. Sh. Jabbar and A.E. Marouf

2892 Studies on Soil Nematodes in Al-Muthanna Province, Iraq 640 Sura S. Alkhuzaie, Moyed A. AL-Saadawe and Mohenned A. Alsaadawi

2893 Seasonal Variation of Physico-chemical Parameters of Chilika Lagoon, East Coast of India 643 Sairendri Maharana, Mrutyunjay Jena and Malaya Kumar Misra

2894 Impact of Wildfire on Biological Activity of Sandy Soil in the South of Russia 648 Mary Yurevna Odabashyan, Anatoly Vladimirovich Trushkov, Kamil Shaghidullovich Kazeev and Sergey Ilyich Kolesnikov

2895 Estimation of Biological Filter of Closed Fish Farming System 654 Abbas Alhamadani, Ali H. Salman and Hassan Iowaid Altobi

2896 Effect of Physico–chemical and Biological Parameters on Growth of Indian Major Carps in Micro 657 Watershed of Southern Rajasthan M.L. Ojha, A.K. Suman, V.P. Saini and S.R. Surnar

2897 Using Pre-chemical and Membrane Bioreactor for Dairy Effluent Treatment 662 Hamdia M.S. Al-Hamdani, Azhar Qais Getan, Anwar N. Dobeash, Raad A. Ali and Ahmed K. Hardan

2898 Soil Organic Carbon and Soil Respiration in Dry Deciduous Forest and Grass Land of Kadapa hill ranges, 668 Andhra Pradesh, India C. Venkata Ramana and M. Sridhar Reddy

2899 Assessment of Energy Potential of Muskmelon Crop for Power Generation 672 Harpreet Singh Johal and Amandeep Kaur

2900 Prevalence and Risk Factors of Metabolic Syndrome among Overweight/Obese Female College Students 677 Ravleen Kaur, Harpreet Kaur and Kiran Bains

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2901 Land Use Land Cover Change Detection Using Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System in Canal Command Area, KarnatakaAyyanna, B.S. Polisgowdar, A. Rama Roa and B. Harish Bachina

683

2902 Tree-Based Classification of Mangrove Forest using Hyperspectral Remote Sensing DataAyyakkannu Selvaraj and Subbarayan Saravanan

691

2903 Land Degradation Index using Salinity Index by GIS-MCDM Method in Al-Hashimiya Irrigation Project in Babil Province, IraqAyad Kadhim Ali and Waleed M. Mukhlif Al Shafei

697

2904 Application of Artificial Intelligence to Estimate the Reference Evapotranspiration at North Bihar, IndiaNamrata Sah, P.S. Kashyap and Priyanshu Raj

703

2905 Meteorological Drought Assessment Based on Standardized Precipitation IndexPriya Rai, Praveen Vikram Singh and Akhilesh Kumar

707

2906 Evaluation of Land Degradation Assessment Studies: Attributes Applicable to Various Geographical RegionsManish Mathur and S. Sundaramoorthy

714

2907 Dendrochronological Potential of Tectona grandis, Pinus kesiya and Quercus serrata from Mizoram, Northeast India for GrowthKeshav Kumar Upadhyay, Santosh K. Shah, Arijit Roy, Nivedita Mehrotra and S.K. Tripathi

722

2908 Systematic Position of Tamarix in the Region of Tlemcen (Western Algeria)Khadoudja Benkelfa and Hassiba Stambouli-Meziane

729

2909 Population Dynamics of Midrib Folder, Banisia myrsusales elearalis (Walker) in Sapota and its Rootstock, KhirneeK.D. Bisane and B.M. Naik

733

2910 Development of Ecological Regional Maximum Permissible Concentrations of Fuel Oil in Arid Soils of South of RussiaDaoud Rama Mohammed, Kolesnikov Sergey Ilyich and Kazeev Kamil Shagidullovich

740

2911 Effects of Overgrazing on the Physico-chemical and Biological Properties of Semi-arid Forest Soils in Western AlgeriaAllam Ayoub, Borsali Amine Habib, Kefifa Abelkrim, Zouidi Mohamed and Gros Raphael

745

2912 Preparation of Activated Charcoal from Wood SawdustAli Omairi Mohammed

751

2913 Study on Some Threatened, Rare and Endangered Plant's Species in Reserve Forest Area of Jhunjhunu District, RajasthanAnita Jeph and J.B. Khan

755

2914 State of Benthic Macroinvertebrate Community in Bhagirathi River Ecosystem Impacted by Hydroelectric ProjectsSandeep Kumar and Prakash Nautiyal

760

2915 Capsule Maturation Timing in Rhododendron arboreum Smith in the Central Himalayan RegionBhawna Tewari and Ashish Tewari

768

2916 Physico-chemical Properties of Soils Underneath Tuberous Medicinal Plants from Sitamata Wildlife SanctuaryArti Soni and Pawan Kumar Kasera

772

2917 Effect of Abiotic Factors on Seed Germination of Anacyclus pyrethrum (L.) Link, and Modeling of Habitat Suitability in Saida (Algeria)Djebbouri Mohammed and Terras Mohamed

777

2918 Nutrient Release Pattern in Different Growth Media for Container Cultivation of Elephant Foot YamN.P. Limisha and O.K. Swadija

783

2919 Inducing Systemic Resistance in Tomato Plants against Fusarium Wilt Disease using Salicylic AcidJasim Mahmood Abed, Theyab A. Farhan, Hayder H, Nawar and Ali A. Khadhum

788

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2920 Evaluation of the Spread of Orobanche crenata in Carrot (Daucus carota L.)Toufik Chedadi, Omar Idrissi, Abdelmajid Haddioui and Mohammed Elhansali

792

2921 Effect of Ascophyllum Extract and Water Stress on Soil Biological Properties and Growth of Onion (Allium Cepa L. )Salwan Al-Maliki, Ameer Adnan, Kifah Abd Alhussain Huda AL-Mammory and Alaa A. ALmoslimawi

796

2922 Marker-assisted Selection for Incorporating Bacterial Blight Resistance Genes in the Segregating Generation of Rice Variety CO 43Navaneetha Krishnan J., N. Kumaravadivel, A. Ramanathan, A. Chandrasekar and M. Bharathi

803

2923 Combining Ability of Early Segregating Generation RGR F Lines of Heteroticbox in Cotton4

Girish Tantuway and Shreekant S. Patil810

2924 Bio-monitoring and Detection of Water Quality using Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera and Trichoptera (EPT) Complex in Karanthamalai Stream of Eastern GhatsSrinivasan Pandiarajan, Sivaruban Thambiratnam, Isack Rajasekaran and Barathy Sivaruban

818

2925 Impact of Industrial Wastewater Disposal on Surface Water Bodies in Kalingarayan Canal, Erode districtR. Divahar, P.S. Aravind Raj, S.P. Sangeetha and T. Mohanakavitha

823

2926 Fertility Status of Soils under Different Land Uses in Lesser Himalayan region of Himachal PradeshDeepika Suri, V.K. Sharma, Gazala Nazir, Anjali and Ankit Gill

828

2927 Impact of Probability of Well Success on Unit Cost of Irrigation in KarnatakaKiran Kumar R. Patil, M.G. Chandrakanth and G.R. Manjunatha

835

2928 Water Use Efficiency and Yield of Baby Corn under Different Drip Irrigation Regimes in Sandy Loam SoilK. Sai Manogna, A. Rama Rao, V.V. Tejaswini and K. Murali Naik

839

2929 Assessment on the Water Quality of Tsurang River, Nagaland Affected by Coal Mining DrainageKhikeya Semy and M.R. Singh

845

2930 Physico-chemical Properties of Soil Affected by Different Sources of NutrientsArvind Chahal, G.D. Sharma, Naveen Kumar and Ashish Kumar

850

2931 Nutrient Status of Runoff Water from Rice and Wheat Fields of Ludhiana District of Indian PunjabNandita Sharma, Mahesh Chand Singh and J.P. Singh

853

2932 Fishery Policies and Acts in Present Context-Experiences from Coastal BangladeshParamjit Singh Jamir Singh, Mohammed Mamun Rashid, Azlinda Azman and Isahaque Ali

857

2933 Food Availability and Diet Composition of the Eurasian Otter Lutra lutra (L. 758) in Saharan Aquatic Ecosystem, Dam of Djorf Torba's, Bechar-AlgeriaZ. Kaci, M. Biche and M. Sellami

862

2934 Native Species Displacement by Invasive Alien Species Yellow Crazy Ant: Anoplolepis gracilipes (Smith 857) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)Jaya Kishor Seth, Sandeep Kumar Mohapatra, Pabitra Mishra, Rajashree Behera and D. Suresh Lingam

867

2935 Optimization of Compost Quantity for Fruit Body Yield in Button Mushroom (Agaricus bisporus)R.S. Netam, S.C. Mukherjee, Poonam Kumari and P.S. Netam

871

2936 Acute and Chronic Toxicity of Fluoroquinolone Antibiotics through Fresh Water cladoceron Daphnia magnaAijaz A. Mala and Joydeep Dutta

874

2937 Cell Growth and Carotenoids Production by Moroccan Strain of Dunaliella SalinaFZ. EL Fihri, F. Hmimid, F. Bellali, F. Souilmi , R. Flower, M. Ramdani and N. EL Khiati

880

2938 Arthropod Diversity in Horticultural Ecosystems in Keelaiyur Block, Nagapattinam District, Tamil NaduM.P. Sugumaran and B. Duraimurugan

889

2939 Antropogenic Factors of Azov Sea Bioproductivity Transformation: Ecological History of Industrial EpochIhor Olegovych Pylypenko, Daria Serhiivna Malchykova, Oleksiy Vitaliyovych Davydov and Kira Mykolayivna Baysha

892

2940 Influence of Elevated Zn on the Hematology, Serum Biochemistry and Productive Indicators in Laying HensV.L. Petukhov, I.A. Afonina, M.A. Kleshev, O.I. Sebezhko, O.S. Korotkevich, N.M. Kostamakhin, T.V. Konovalova, K.N. Narozhnykh, D.S. Adushinov, G.M. Goncharenko, A.G. Nezavitin, I.I. Klimenok, A.V. Nazarenko, E.A. Klimanova and L.V. Osadchuk

901

2941 Incidence and Population Dynamics of Land Snails at Sharkia Governorate, EgyptSalwa, A.E. Abd-El-Haleem, M.F.N.G. Farag and M.M.H. Kandeel

907

2942 Evaluation of Local Design Machine for Corn ThreshingMousa A. Aljibouri and Salih K. Alwan Alsharifi

913

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2943 An Investigation of Firewood Species used by Community of Gundani Village in Vhembe District, Limpopo Province, South AfricaO. Leshabana and M.P. Tshisikhawe

921

2944 Study on Work Pattern and Drudgery Experience of Hill Farm Women of HimachalRadhna Gupta and Rakesh K. Gupta

926

2945 Iron and Zinc Status of Adult Women from Low Income Rural Families of Punjab, IndiaKiran Bains, Harpreet Kaur and Navjot Kaur Bajwa

933

2946 Impact of Mid-Himalayan Watershed Development Project on Employment, Income Generation and Problems Faced by Farmer's in Himachal PradeshKapil Dev, Ravinder Sharma and Amit Guleria

938

2947 Effectiveness of Nutritional Intervention on Food and Nutrient Intake and Hemoglobin Level of Moderately Anemic Adolescent GirlsPreeti Chaudhary and Radhna Gupta

943

2948 Contribution of “Green Libraries” for Cycling into a Sustainable Greener PlanetDhiraj Kumar and Nirmal Singh

949

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CONTENTS

2949 Water Quality Assessment of Pond Water of Kalanaur Block, Rohtak, HaryanaAbhishek Nandal, Naveen Kaushik, S.S. Yadav, A.S. Rao, Neetu Singh and S.S. Gulia

1

2950 Freshwater Diatoms as Bio-Indicators in Urban Wetlands of Central Gujarat, IndiaMeenakshi Singh and Punita Parikh

7

2951 Impact Climate Change on Crop Water Requirement of Different Orchard Crops for Agro-Climatic Condition of Udaipur, RajasthanVikas Sharma

12

2952 Impact of Climate Change on the Shift of Landscape and Climate BoundariesElena V. Kyul and Sergey L. Alita

17

2953 Assessing Ground Water Quality for the Suitability of Irrigation in Dindigul District, Tamil Nadu, IndiaS. Vinothkanna, R. Rajee and K. Senthilraja

23

2954 Flood Inundation Mapping of Lower Godavari River Basin using Remote Sensing and GISB. Vaishnavi, Kiran Yarrakula and J. Karthikeyan

30

2955 Delineation of Recharge Zones for Panapatti Watershed of Coimbatore DistrictA. Valliammai and J. Prabhakaran

36

2956 Impact of Declining Groundwater Levels on River Flows in the Ganga Alluvial Plain-A Case Study of Gomti River, IndiaUrvashi Sharma, Adeeba and Venkatesh Dutta

40

2957 Barley Crop Yield Forecasting using Ensemble Method-Adaptive Boosting of Weak RegressorsE. Dhivya, K. Santhi and R. Balamurugan

49

2958 Estimation of Rice Crop Biophysical Parameters Using Multi-Temporal Sentinel-2 MSI Sensor DataMahesh Palakuru, S.K. Khadar Babu and Parimala Renganayaki

53

2959 Vertical Distribution of Nutrients vis-a-vis Soil Properties in Different Geomorphic Units of North-Eastern Haryana, IndiaDinesh, Mohammad Amin Bhat, Jyotirmaya Sahoo and M.K. Sharma

58

2960 Preparation of Osmo-dried Peel Sticks From GalgalNeeraj Gupta, Julie D. Bandral, Monika Sood and Anju Bhat

68

2961 Epicotyl Grafting: A New Method for Propagation in Walnut (Juglans regia L.)Tanzin Ladon, J.S. Chandel and Pramod Verma

72

2962 Quality Evaluation and Storage Stability of Spinach Puree Enriched Instant NoodlesP.D. Shere, Prashant Sahni and A.N. Devkatte

77

2963 Investigating Green Synthesis of Silver Nanoparticles from Orange Peel (Citrus sinensis) and the Effects of Chitosan, Sylamol, Nanosilver on Rhizopus stolanifer in Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum)Saeideh Bagheri, Pejman Moradi, Fereshteh Nematollahi, Vahid Zarinnia and Vahid Abdossi

82

2964 Foliar Nutrition with Calcium Nitrate in Strawberries (Fragaria ×ananassa Duch.): Effect on Fruit Quality and YieldRamandeep Singh Sidhu, Nav Prem Singh, Satpal Singh and Rakesh Sharda

87

2965 Effect of Rhizobacterium on Growth, Yield and Quality of StrawberryAnuradha, R.K. Goyal, S.S. Sindhu and A.K. Godara

92

2966 Geo-Statistical Analysis to Understand Nature of Forest Patch Shape Complexity in Panchet Forest Division under Bankura District, West BengalMrinmay Mandal and Nilanjana Das Chattarjee

96

2967 Effect of Pre-Sowing Treatments on the Germination of Five Legume Species and Their Tolerance to DesiccationSuresh Kumar, Shijagurumayum Baleshwor Sharma, Milica Mary Nongrum, Thingujam Pritam Singh, Neena Kumari and K. Pung Rozar

102

2968 Ecosystem Services in Mountainous Area: A Case Study of Nghe an, VietnamHoang Phan Hai Yen, Nguyen Thi Viet Ha, Binh Thai Pham; Indra Prakash, Lai Van Manh, Nguyen Thi Thuy Dung, Phan Bui Quoc Manh, Tran Thi Tuyen

109

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2969 Impact of Fly Ash on Germination and Initial Seedling Growth of Leucaena leucocephala (Lam.) De WitM.C. Behera, O. Lachungpa and T.L. Mohanty

117

2970 Validation of Carbon Contents in Different Traits and Components of Herbaceous Species from Tropical GrasslandPratibha Chaturvedi, Preeti Verma, R. Sagar, Hariom Verma and Kuldeep Kumar

123

2971 Socio-economic Evaluation of Agroforestry SystemsDoddabasawa, B.M. Chittapur and Shivanand K. Kammar

129

2972 Effect of Seed Priming on Germination of Acacia niloticaArjun Singh, Sanjaykumar Bijakal B. and Avtar Singh

134

2973 Tree Diversity and Ecological Status of Madhuca latifolia (Roxb.) J.F. Macbr in Forests of OdishaSaswat Nayak and Uttam Kumar Sahoo

138

2974 Population Structure and Diversity of Trees in Amarkutir, A Tropical Dry Deciduous Forest of West Bengal, IndiaMohit Lal Kumar, Aniruddha Nag, Santu Malakar and Hema Gupta Joshi

150

2975 Renewable Biomass Growing in Low Fertile Land and Forest-Steppe of UkrainePetro M. Skrypchuk, Anastasiia S. Shcherbakova, Olena Y. Suduk and Viktor V. Rybak

155

2976 Seasonal Dynamics of Soil Microbial Biomass Carbon under Different Forests of North Western Himalaya, IndiaSharmistha Pal,, Pankaj Panwar, Nancy Loria, M.R. Verma and N.K. Sharma

164

2977 Diversity and Antibacterial Activity of Endophytic Fungi In Memecylon umbellatum Burm. F.- A Medicinal Plant in the Western Ghats of Karnataka, IndiaGagana Suryavamshi L. and M.B. Shivanna

171

2978 Extraction and Purification of α-amylase from Gastrointestinal Tract of Cyprinus carpioHussein Ali Sabtie and Luay Q. Hashim

181

2979 Efficacy Leaf Litters as Substrate on Reproductive Potential of Epigeic Earthworm Eudrilus eugeniaeRini Joseph and P. Kathireswari

186

2980 Survey of Molluscs in Killai Backwaters of South IndiaKollimalai Sakthivel

190

2981 Sex–Specific Extra Floral Feeding Preferences among Subtropical Butterfly Fauna of Terai Arc Landscape, Southern Himalaya, IndiaManoj Kumar Arya, Aman Verma and Hem Chandra

196

2982 Avifauna of Ghatigaon Wildlife Sanctuary of Gwalior Madhya Pradesh, IndiaHaneef Mohammad Bhat and R.J. Rao

205

2983 Ultrastructure of Coccidian Eimeria isabellae Lom and Dyková (Eimeriidae, Protozoa) in Conger conger L.Daoudi Fouad, Oudghiri Mounia and Roger Flower

211

2984 Mammalian Feces Used a Non-Invasive Tool to Indicate Heavy Metal Pollution in Galtaji, Jaipur, IndiaVarsha Gupta

218

2985 Characterization of Grain Amaranth Genetic Resources for Agro-Morphological TraitsM. Umadevi, P.S. Devanand and K. Kumaran

221

2986 Management Practices for Biodiversity Conservation through Community Conserved Areas in Meghalaya, IndiaWellberibellin Kharumnuid and Erach Bharucha

226

2987 Epipelion Community Structure in Tigris River within Baghdad City, IraqWarqaa Y. Salih and Fikrat M. Hassan

235

2988 Yield and Quality Analysis of Paneer from Cow Milk and Buffalo MilkBibek Bahadur Shrestha, G. Aditya, A. Rama Rao and D. Ayyanna

241

2989 Climate Change Vulnerability and Perception of Different Occupational Groups of Household in the Hill Regions of Darjeeling District, West BengalJyotish Prakash Basu

248

2990 Income Inequalities in Different Regions of Rural PunjabNaresh Kumar, Jasdeep Singh Toor and Gian Singh

259

2991 Design and Development of Walking Type Multi-Crop Power WeederJinukala Srinivas and S.S. Meena

266

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2992 Causal Regularities of Effect of Urban Systems on Condition of Hydro Ecosystem of Dnieper RiverVitalii Pichura, Larisa Potravka, Svetlana Skok and Nataliia Vdovenko

273

2993 Hydrological Appraisal of Nariganipalli Watershed (India) using Spatial Information TechnologyMahesh Palakuru, Venkat Reddy K, Sirisha Adamalaand Harish Babu Bachina

281

2994 Effect of Slum on Water Quality in Abakaliki Southeastern NigeriaC. Njoku, C.N. Mbah, J.N. Nwite, J.O. Agwu, O. Elom, T.S. Igwe and J.U. Ndem

286

2995 Effect of Land Reclamation on Water Using Remote Sensing Techniques, Penang IslandKazeem Olukunle Rauff, Ismail Ahmad Abir and Abdul Qadir

290

2996 Drought Assessment in Tiruchirapalli District using Varied Time ScalesS. Rathinavel, A. Mani, Jithendrakumar, P. Anbarasan, P. Soundharya and S. Soundharya

295

2997 Analysis of Groundwater Fluctuation using GRACE Satellite DataVaibhav Deoli and Deepak Kumar

299

2998 Study on Sentinel -OLCI Sensor Validation for Chlorophyll a and Total Suspended Matter in Coast Waters of Parangipettai, Bay of Bengal, Southeast coast of IndiaSuthagar Govindaraj, Ayyappan Saravanakumar and Mayakrishnan Machendiranathan

303

2999 Spatial Analysis of Groundwater Fluctuation in Nathusari Chopta Block of Sirsa District (Haryana, India) using Geospatial TechnologyVinod Kumar and Vipin Kumar

308

3000 Evaluation of Surface Temperatureand Prediction of Changes in Future Projections Using Quantile to Quantile Change Factor Methodologyover Cauvery River Basin-Peninsular IndiaParthiban Loganathan and Amit Baburao Mahindrakar

312

3001 Effect of Differential Substitution of Nutrients on Growth, Quality and Economics of Basmati Rice (Oryza Sativa) under Irrigated Sub-Tropics of Jammu RegionM. Banotra, B.C. Sharma and R. Kumar

316

3002 Characterization of Plant Based Low Cost Adsorbents in Chhattisgarh StateVarsha Joshi, Jayati Chatterjee Mitra and Santosh Kumar Sar

320

3003 Impact of Integrated Nutrient Management on Growth, Yield and Nutrient Uptake by Wheat (Triticum aestivum)Diksha Dhiman and Rajpaul Sharma

324

3004 Effect of Nitrogen Nutrition and Environmentally Friendly Combined Chemicals on Productivity of Winter Rapeseed under Global Climate ChangeYe. Domaratskiy, O. Kozlova, O. Domaratskiy, Iu. Lavrynenko and V. Bazaliy

330

3005 Measurement of Exhalation of Radon- from Soil of City of Rivne, UkraineOleksandr Lebed, Oleksandr Klymenko, Igor Fizyk, Larisa Potravka and Vitalii Pichura

337

3006 Effect of Zinc Soil Contamination on the Survival of Earthworms and Effect on Aporrectodea caliginosaProtein Content and their TissuesSafaa Mohammed Mahmood

345

3007 Effect of Spraying Urea and Addition of Potassium on Growth Parameters of Local Citrus Seedling (Citrus sinensis L.) Grafted on Sour Orange RootstockMohammed Tarkhan Abo Al-Meekh, Hassan Hadi Alkarawi, Sabah Lateef Asi and Hammed Kadhim Abd Al-Ameer

351

3008 Effects of Optimus Plus and Red Tea Extract Fertilizer on the Growth and Flowering of Freesia (Freesia hybrida)Karim M. Bhiah

357

3009 Spatial Mapping of Rice Crop Evapotranspiration in Godavari Command AreaMahesh Palakuru, Sirisha Adamala and Harish Babu Bachina

361

3010 Survey of Yield Losses by Orobanche crenata in Carrot ( L.) in MoroccoDaucus carotaToufik Chedadi, Omar Idrissi , Mohammed Elhansali and Abdelmajid Haddioui

365

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3011 Economic Analysis of Carnation under Protective Cultivation: A Study of Mid Hills Zone of Himachal PradeshArshdeep Singh Chahal, Ravinder Sharma and Kapil Dev

369

3012 Effect of Salycilic Acid on Antioxidant Enzymes and Biochemical Contents of Date Palm Plantlets (Phoenix dactylifera L. ) under Salt Stress ConditionsNaji Salim Jasim and Muntaha Abd-A. Ati

378

3013 Traditional Knowledge of Post-harvest Crop Handling by Tribal Farmers of Northern Andhra PradeshS.V.S. Gopala Swamy and B. John Wesley

383

3014 Assessment of Tree Diversity in Nithyapoojakona Dry Deciduous Forest of Sri Lankamalleswara Wildlife Sanctuary, Southern Eastern Ghats, IndiaT. Mastan, C. Ankalaiah, C. Venkata Ramana and M. Sridhar Reddy

390

3015 Seedling Mortality and Timing of Phenological Events in Dominated Forests in Quercus semecarpifoliaKumaun Himalayan RegionArti Verma and Ashish Tewari

397

3016 Anthropological Understanding of Climate Change: A Review EssayGurinder Kaur and Neetu Gaur

404

3017 Primary Productivity of Phytoplankton in Kosi River at Bhagalpur and Katihar district of North BiharRashmi Kumari and Arvind Kumar

410

3018 Population status of Hollock ( Heurck & Muell. Arg) in the Eastern Hollock Forest Terminalia myriocarpaType of North East IndiaLyngdoh, N, Kumar Mukul, M. Bishwapati Devi, R. Vasudeva and A.K. Pandey

414

3019 Succession of Microfungi on Leaf litter of in Datia, Madhya Pradesh, IndiaAnogeissus pendulaB. Kumar, T. K. Sharma and S. Dassani

419

3020 Anatomical Features a Moth Orchid , subsp. (O. Gruss & Roellke) from Phalaenopsis deliciosa hookerianaTripura, Northeast IndiaBiswajit Baishnab, Koushik Majumdar and Badal Kumar Datta

426

3021 Study on Biodiversity and Floristic at Wetland in Tirupattur TalukP. Ammu, R. Aswini and S. Murugesan

431

3022 Removal of Methyl Violet Dye from Industrial Waste Water Using Neem Leaf PowderP. Balamurugan and G. Vinnilavu

442

3023 Dynamics of Nutrients in Temperate Coniferous Forests of North Western Himalaya with Special Reference to Available and Total PhosphorusMuzamil Ahmad Sheikh, Avinash Tiwari and Jasra Anjum

446

3024 Seed Bank and Regeneration Studies of Roxb. - A threatened species of Western GhatsCanarium strictumC.N. Prasannakumar, R.K. Somashekar, B.C. Nagaraja and D. Shivaprasad

452

3025 Effect of Environmental Factors on Phenology of Wild Species of Anacardiaceae in Garhwal HimalayaDinesh Singh, A.K. Negi and J.C. Purohit

456

3026 Ecological Status of Aquatic Vascular Macrophytes of Nalbari Assam, North-East IndiaRupalim Sarmah and Ajit Kumar Das

462

3027 Vegetation Structure, Composition and Species Diversity in an Age Series of Coal Mine Overburden DumpsSantu Malakar and Hema Gupta Joshi

467

3028 Phytosociological Assessment of Tree Vegetation in Tropical Moist Deciduous Forest of Veerakkal area, Nilgiris, Western Ghats, IndiaE.K. Ramya, S. Sharmila and S. Mownika

480

3029 Efficacy of Different Bioassays for the Assessment of Toxicity of Plant ExtractsSudhir Kumar, M. Chauhan, Neerja Singh and Manjula K.Saxena

485

3030 Phytochemical Screening and Characterization of Leaves Extract for Antimicrobial Activity Meliadubiaagainst and Escherichia coli Staphylococcus aureusMustafa Mudhafar, Ismail Zainol, C.N. Aiza Jaafar, H.A. Alsailawi, Alhussein Arkan Majhool and Mofaq M.B. Alsaady

493

3031 Physical and Antimicrobial Properties of Stem Extract Incorporated Edible FilmsCissus quadrangularisK.N. Hanumantharaju, K. Thangavel, D. Amirtham and C. Indu Rani

497

3032 Economic Feasibility of - Sorgham Sudan Grass Based Silvi-pasture SystemsMelia dubiaD.R. Prajapati, N.S. Thakur, Narendra Singh, R.P. Gunaga and V.R. Patel

502

3033 Quantitative Analysis and Regeneration Status of Forest Trees Species in Kumaun Central HimalayaAmit Mittal, Nandan Singh and Ashish Tewari

507

3034 Estimation of Quantity and Economic Benefits Flowing From Non-Timber Forest Products: A Study from Valsad North and South Forest Divisions of Gujarat State, IndiaRajkumar Yadav, Ishan Pandya, R.D. Kamboj and Sweta Rajpurohit

514

3035 Prediction of Allometric Models of Stand Biomass of sp. in EurasiaBetulaVladimir Andreevich Usoltsev, Seyed Omid Reza Shobairi, Amirhossein Ahrari, Meng Zhang and Viktor Petrovich Chasovskikh

517

3036 Planktonic Diversity of Artificial Pond in Lower ShiwaliksSarbjeet Kour and Rajan Verma

523

3037 Nesting Behavior of Red Vented Bulbul ( , Linnaeus 766) in Udaipur District, Rajasthan, Pycnonotus caferIndiaNadim Chishty, Narayan Lal Choudhary, Puneet Sharma, Rehana Parveen, Pritesh Patel and Pushkar Kumawat

529

3038 Impact of Anthropogenic Activities on Length-weight Relationship and Condition Factor of SchizothoraxSpecies in River Jhelum (Jammu & Kashmir)Musharaf Gul, O.P. Gusain and R.A. Magray

533

3039 What Sustains Nepalese Agroforestry Practices?Amatya Swoyambhu Man, Nuberg Ian and Cedamon Edwin

540

3040 Mainstreaming Biofuels in India: Analysing Weaknesses and Opportunities for the Sustainability of Biofuel and its Future Policy MakingDhanraj A. Patil

543

3041 Short term Effects of Low Intensity Prescribed Biomass Combustion on Soil Physicochemical Properties in Degraded Paleudult in Enugu Area Southeastern NigeriaM.A.N. Anikwe, J.C. Eze and E.E. Ikengannyia

549

3042 Influence of Chemical Fruit Thinning on Thinning Level, Fruit Yield and Quality in Nectarine cv. May FireRimpika and N. Sharma

559

3043 Population Dynamics and Seasonal Occurrence of Mediterranean Fruit Fly ( Wiedemann, Ceratitis capitata8) in Moulouya Perimeter North East of MoroccoJamal Ben Yazid, Zouheir Chafik, Anwar Bousamid, Imane Bibi and Ez-Zahra Kharmach

564

3044 Rhizosphere Species from Major Crop Plants of Shifting Cultivation, Northeast IndiaStreptomycesMarcy D. Momin and Shri Kant Tripathi

570

3045 Phytobiological and Morphological Diversity of a Malvaceous in Rachgoune and Lavatera MaritimaOulhassa Region of TlemcenS. Ghalem and F. Hassani

575

3046 Seasonal Incidence and Influence of Weather Factors on Population Dynamics of Blossom Midge, Contarinia maculipennis Jasminum sambac Felt in Jasmine ( L.)I. Merlin Kamala

579

3047 Influence of Liquid Formulations of Beneficial Microorganisms on Biocontrol Efficiency, Seedling Vigour Index and Growth of Spinach ( ) under Green House ConditionSpinacia oleraceaH. Gurumurthy, M.K. Shivaprakash and C.C. Maina

582

3048 Spatial and Temporal Spread of Causing Pea RustUromyces viciae-fabaeSimranjit Singh, Amarjit Singh and Sandeep Jain

586

3049 Acaricide Resistance in Field Collected Two-spotted Spider Mite, from Okra in PunjabTetranychus urticaeHany M. Heikal, Manmeet Brar Bhullar and Paramjit Kaur

590

3050 Plant Nutrient Dynamics in Different Ecosystems of Cold Deserts of Himachal Pradesh, IndiaPoonam, Sanjeev Kumar, Avanish Sharma and Rajan Bawa

594

3051 Effect of Water on Birds and Insect Pests in the Rice Fields of Kannur district, Kerala, IndiaP.V. Prabhakaran and Aravindan Tharemmal

599

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3052 Effect of Chemical Characteristics of Soil on Orange Productivity: A Case Study of Nghe An Province, VietnamNguyen Thi Hoai, Takahashi Kazuya, Hoang Thi Thuy, Nguyen Thi Thuy Hà, Nguyen Thi Trang Thanh, Hoang Phan Hai Yen, Nguyen Thi Viet Ha, Nguyen Nam Thanh, Vo Thi Thu Ha, Phan Thi Quynh Nga, Hoang Anh The, Binh Thai Pham, Indra Prakash, Tran Thi Tuyen

607

3053 Comparative Study of Sugarcane Agro-Industrial Waste Raw Pressmud and Composted Pressmud: A Case StudyAmol Chougule, P.R. Bhosale and P.D. Raut

614

3054 Influence of Various Doses of Fertiliser and Crop Geometry on Growth Parameters and Productivity of Late Sown Indian Mustard ( L.)Brassica junceaNaveen Rathi, Bikram Singh, V.S. Hooda, Harender, and Mohammed Mohsin

619

3055 Economic Efficiency of Applying Environmentally Friendly Fertilizers in Production Technologies in the South of UkraineYe. Domaratskiy, O. Kozlova and A. Kaplina

624

3056 INM in Rice Based Integrated Farming System Model for Food Security and Enhanced ProductivityB. Sudha, J. John, A.V. Meera and A. Sajeena

630

3057 Effect of Integrated Nutrient Management on Nutrient Uptake by Lowland Cassava and Soil Physico-chemical PropertiesA.P. Pooja and O. K. Swadija

634

3058 Water Erosion of the Slopes of Tayyar Drainage Basin in the Desert of Muthanna in Southern IraqBashar F. Maaroof and Hashim H. Kareem

638

3059 Daily Gauge-Discharge Estimation using ANN and Wavelet-ANN Models for Muri Station, JharkhandAnuradha Kumari, Manish Kumar, Abhishek Kumar and Anupam Amitabh

645

3060 Annotated Checklist of Brachyuran Crabs of Karwar Mangroves, West Coast of Karnataka, IndiaPradnya D. Bandekar and V.S. Kakati

650

3061 Influence of Organic and Inorganic Farming Practices on Production Potential and Soil Health under Different Cropping Systems in Mid Himalayan RegionAshish Kumar, J.P. Saini, Arvind Chahal and Pankaj Chopra

655

3062 Use of Immobilized Polyphenol Oxidase in Removal of Phenol from Some Aqueous SolutionsM.A. Alsoufi and R.A. Aziz

663

3063 Effect of Conservation Tillage on Soil Quality of Southern RussiaKamil' Sh. Kazeev, Tatiana V. Minnikova, Gregory V. Mokrikov and Sergey I. Kolesnikov

668

3064 Hyper Spectral Imaging Technology for Seed Quality IdentificationD. Madhusudhana Rao, B. Naga Sudheer, K. Sarada and A. Ramarao

676

3065 Growth, Yield and Nutrient Uptake of Knol-Khol ( Var. ) as Influenced by Brassica oleracea gongylodesOrganic Manures, Inorganic Fertilizers and BiocharAshaq Hussain, Manzoor A. Ganai, Mudasir A. Shan, Intikhab Aalum Jehangir, Shabir H. Wani and Aziz M.A.

681

3066 Productivity of Spinach Beet as Influenced by Varieties and Nutrients in Humid Tropical Conditions of South KeralaVinod Alur and Sheeba Rebecca Isaac

686

3067 Comparison of CERES-Wheat and InfoCrop Model to Predict the Phenology and Yield of WheatAmarinder Singh, Gurbax Singh and Prabhjyot Kaur

690

3068 Structural Analysis of Shade Nets for Construction of Low-Cost Shade Net Houses in A Semi-Arid Climate of Trichy District, Tamil Nadu, IndiaG. Gopi, K. Shanmugasundaram and B.S. Madhusudan

697

3069 Impact of Drip Irrigation on Soil Biological Activity, Symbiotic Traits and Yield in Summer MungbeanHarpinder Singh, Mukesh Siag, Nilesh Biwalkar, Poonam Sharma and Rakesh Sharda

703

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3070 Assessment of Changes in Observed Rainfall and Prediction of Future Conditions Using Quantile Delta Mapping Bias Correction Technique over Cauvery River Basin, IndiaParthiban Loganathan and Amit Baburao Mahindrakar

708

3071 Nutrient Management of Garlic ( L.) cv. Bhima Purple in an Integrated WayAllium SativumK. Singh, S. Maji, D.H. Dwivedi and M. Prasad

712

3072 Evaluation of Strawberry Cultivars Under Sub-Mountane Zone of PunjabBikramjit Singh

716

3073 Growth Performance and Health Status of Pangas catfish ( Sauvage, Pangasianodon hypophthalmus878) Fingerlings Fed on Fish Silage and Linseed Oil Supplemented DietsInjeela Khan, Vaneet Inder Kaur and Surjya Narayan Datta

720

3074 Runoff Estimation of Machhu and Watrak Rivers Basins of Gujarat India using SCS-CN Method and GISDarji Kishanlal, Indra Prakash and Binh Thai Pham

726

3075 Rapid Exploration of Insect Pests and their Ecology along Chitwan Annapurna Landscape, NepalDaya Ram Bhusal, Shivish Bhandar, Tara Maya Gurung and Kishor Chandra Ghimire

733

3076 Status of Zooplankton Diversity, Abundance in Relation to Hydrography of Ganga River and its Tributaries at RishikeshD.S. Malik, Amit Kumar Sharma and Arvind Kumar Sharma

739

3077 Seasonal Variation of Physicochemical Parameters of Aquaculture Ponds in District Karimganj, AssamPiyali Das and Mithra Dey

746

3078 Isolation and Characterization of a Biosurfactant Producing and from Pseudomonas BacillusHydrocarbon-Contaminated SitePreeti N. Gajghate, Pranali A. Shete and Vishal R. Dhundale

751

3079 Algal Diversity and Physio Chemical Qualities of Achankovil River in Monsoon seasonsMeera Krishnan, T. Praveen Dhar, R. Sreejai and Sreeja Thankappan

755

3080 Ecological Future Scenario of Marine Macro Algal Flora of Karwar Coastal Area, Arabian Sea, IndiaGulnaz Qureshi and J.L. Rathod

759

3081 Effect of Physico-Chemical Properties of Water on Macrophyte Diversity with Special Reference to Bhoj WetlandPrerna Gupta, Sadhna Tamot and Vinoy K. Shrivastava

764

3082 Seasonal Aggregate Effects of Water Bird Populations on Tropical Rural LakeM. Saravanaraja, P.S. Aruna Devi and K. Nagarajan

769

3083 Issues and Problems of Small-Scale Fishing (SSF) Communities in South Asia: A Comprehensive OverviewMohammed Mamun Rashid, Azlinda Azman, Paramjit Singh Jamir Singh and Md Isahaque Ali

775

3084 Study of Environmental Conditions, Morphometric and Meristic of Mudskipper ( ) from PeriophthalmusAmbon Island Coastal Waters, IndonesiaD. Rumahlatu, K. Sangur, A.P. Leuwol, Y.N. Apituley, S.I.A Salmanu and I. Arini

782

3085 Comparison of Performance of Trimedlure and Enriched Ginger Root Oil ( ) in Zingiber officinalisAttracting Males of Mediterranean Fruit Fly ( )Ceratitis capitataJamal Ben Yazid, Zouheir Chafik, Imane Bibi and Ez-Zahra Kharmach

788

3086 Litter Mass Loss Rate Changes as Function of Soil Microbial Diversity and Litter Chemical Quality in Tropical and Sub-Tropical Forest of Mizoram: A Microcosm Study Ngangbam Somen Singh and S.K. Tripathi

792

3087 Delineation of the Major Soil Nutrients in Seabuckthorn ( sp.) Stand and its Comparison to HippophaeOther Land uses from Extreme Landscape of Trans-HimalayaPraveen Kumar, Pardeep Kumar, Munish Sharma, Nagender Pal Butail, Virendra Singh and Arvind Kumar Shukla

799

3088 Impact Analysis of Anacardiaceae family against Locust in Inventories of Dociostaurus maroccanus Algeria South-West RegionM. Bereksi Reguig, I. Abdelli and F. Hassani

803

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3089 Do Exotic Trees Threaten Southern Arid Areas of Tunisia? A Case StudyZouhaier Noumi

808

3090 Assessment of Tree Species Diversity and Their Carbon Sequestration Potential in Tumkur University Campus, TumkurH.B. Lakshmi and Vinod Kumar

815

3091 Floristic Diversity Assessment of Dhauligiri Hill and its Adjoining Areas of Bhubaneswar City, Odisha, IndiaSanjeeb Kumar Das, Padmini Bisoyi, Ashutosh Subudhi, Samarendranath Naik and Sourav Ranjan Pradhan

821

3092 Vegetation Analysis in Chora and Joyalbhanga Forest Area of Raniganj Coal Field, West Bengal, IndiaM. Saikat, P. Debnath and C. Pinaki

831

3093 Heterogeneous Landscape Assessment using Multi-Temporal LISS and Hybrid Approach: A Case Study in Barak Valley, IndiaDemsai Reang, Aparajita De and Ashesh Kumar Das

842

3094 Collection and Utilization Pattern of Non Timber Forest Products in Nagaland, an Eastern Himalayan State of IndiaSanjoy Das, Narokumla Longkumer, N.K. Patra, Nchumthung Murry and Mukesh Yadav

849

3095 Study on Mangroves of Zuari Estuary: Remote Sensing and GIS ApproachR.U. Sawaiker and P.M. Gaonkar

854

3096 Design, Development and Performance Evaluation of Manually Operated Groundnut PlanterB.S. Madhusudan and M. Naga Sasi Preetham

858

3097 Effect of Different Varieties and Spacings on Growth and Yield Attributes of Garlic ( L.)Allium sativumShatrunjay Yadav, Sanjay Kumar and Shubham Singh

863

3098 Assessment of Yield and Nutrient Uptake of Wheat in Agri-Silvi-Horticulture System under Semi-Arid Region of HaryanaSonia Devi, K.K. Bhardwaj, Garima Dahiya and Manoj Kumar Sharma

866

3099 Diversity and Distribution of Odonates in Alagar Hills of Southern IndiaT. Sivaruban, S. Barathy, Pandiarajan Srinivasan and Rajasekaran Isack

869

3100 Effect of Storage Media and Time on Germination, Vegetative Growth and Survival in Mango (Mangifera indica L.)Anishabahen Manojbhai Gangode, Tanzin Ladon Ankita Aman, and Priyanka Chauhan

872

3101 Study on Human Wildlife Conflict in Chenab Valley of Jammu and Kashmir IndiaKulbhushan Kumar and Satpal Singh Bisht

875

3102 Impact of Moisture Content of Different Seed Spices on Damage Caused by Cigarette Beetle, Lasioderma serricorne F.N.J. Chaudhari, C.M. Muralidharan and Manishkumar J. Joshi

878

3103 Leaf Litter Degradation by Microbes and Macro Invertebrates in Mid Reaches Stream of Eastern GhatsS. Barathy, M. Vimali, T. Sivaruban and Pandiarajan Srinivasan

881

3104 Prevalence of Foot Rot in Kinnow Orchards of Punjab StatePhytophthoraAnita Arora, Amrinder Kaur and Amarjit Singh

884

3105 First Record of Alexandrine Parakeet (Psittaculidae, Psittaciformes) (Linnaeus 766) in Psittacula eupatriaIraqSalwan Ali Abed, Mudhafar A. Salim and Saifulden M. Alsaffah

887

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3106 Impact Assessment of Water Quality for Ground Water Parameters on Kalingarayan Canal, Erode District, Tamil NaduR. Divahar, P.S. Aravind Raj, S.P. Sangeetha and T. Mohanakavitha

889

3107 Appraisal of River Water Quality Based on Field Observations: A Case Study on Narmada RiverDeepak Gupta, Reetika Shukla, Mahesh Prasad Barya, Gurudatta Singh and Virendra Kumar Mishra

897

3108 Development of Different Irrigation Systems Calculator using VB6N.V. Gowtham Deekshithulu, V.V. Tejaswini, D. Surekha and Y. Prem Shanti

902

3109 Delineation of Groundwater Potential Zone: Remote Sensing and GIS Approach in Doon Valley, Dehradun, UttarakhandHarish Khali, Arun P. Mishra and Raj Singh

910

3110 Physicochemical Properties and Heavy Metal Analysis of Avalahalli Lake, Bengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaM. Goswami, K. Goswami, C.V. Chalapathy, K. Shivasharanappa, P.K. Kalva and S.J. Patil

917

3111 Pre-Impoundment Study of Diatom and Benthic Macroinvertebrate Community in a Lesser Himalayan River, The TonsAsheesh Shivam Mishra and Sunil Prasad

924

3112 Microplastics Distribution in Freshwater Lake and Drinking Water Treatment Plant: A Case StudyP. Silambarasan and Merline Sheela A.

930

3113 Analysis of Groundwater Level Fluctuation using GIS Technique in Blocks of Ranchi District, JharkhandSarfraz Ahmad and Ajai Singh

934

3114 Estimation of Land Use and Crop Economics of Parasai-Sindh Watershed in Semi Arid Tropics of Central IndiaReena Kumari, Babloo Sharma and Pratibha Kumari

939

3115 Short-Term Flood Forecasting using Ensemble LearningEllakkia Venkatesan and Amit B. Mahindrakar

943

3116 Effect of Pollutants of the Tigris River Water on Activity of the Acetylcholinesterase Enzyme in Brain Tissues of and Cyprinus carpio Condrostoma regiumEman Sami Al-Sarraj and Muna Hussein Jankeer

949

3117 Stabilization of Marine Soil of Visakhapatnam Port Area by using Fly Ash MaterialV. Alekhya and A. Rama Rao

955

3118 Study on Carbon Sequestration Potential of Sal Forest in Dry Tropics: Allometric Biomass Assessment ApproachSaroni Biswas, Saon Banerjee, Anirban Biswas

959

3119 Phytoremediation of Zinc Ion Using Faba Bean Plant Vicia faba in vitroKhalid H. Alobaidi, Asma G. Oraibi, Haider N. Yahya and Jameel R. Al-Obaidi

965

3120 Spatial Characteristics and Heavy Metals Pollution in Urban Soils of Basrah, IraqSattar J. Al-Khafaji and Ghadeer K. Jalal

969

3121 Influence of Ameliorants on Soil Respiration of Volleyers of The Rostov ZooAlexander Vasilievich Zhadobin, Kamil Shaghidullovich Kazeev and Sergey Ilyich Kolesnikov

979

3122 Biochemical Analysis of Lead Induced Stress in Fodder Plants Pearl Millet ( L.) and Pennisetum glaucumAlfalfa ( L.)Medicago sativaChandra Prakash Sharma and Soumana Datta

984

3123 Appraisal of Soil Fertility Status in Vegetable Growing Soils of Outer Himalayan Region of Himachal PradeshAnjali, Vijay Kumar Sharma, Gazala Nazir and Deepika Suri

988

3124 Effect of Seed Invigoration Treatment with Nitrate Salt on Seedling Growth of Maize ( L) Under Zea maysShort Term Moisture Stress Induced by PEG-6000Varinder Singh, Manisha Sharma and Anaytullah Siddique

992

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3125 Causes of Air Pollution in Kabuland its Effects on HealthAhmad Tamim Mehrad

997

3126 Biodegradation of Pesticides in Soil Amended with Different Organic MattersFaris Mohammed Suhail and Alaa Hasan Fahmi

1003

3127 Dynamics of Traditional Information of Medicinal Plants from Hilly Terrains of Ramban (J&K) IndiaMunit Sharma, Amit Kumar Sharma, Rishi Thakur and Munish Sharma

1009

3128 Comparative Study on Diversity of Trees and Shrubs in Protected Areas - Vansda National Park and Ratanmahal Sanctuary of Gujarat State, IndiaRajkumar Yadav, Ashok Suthar, Ketan Tatu and R.D. Kamboj

1014

3129 Composition and Diversity of Riparian Forest in Region of Tlemcen (Western Algeria)Khedoudja Benkelfat, Hassiba Stambouli-Meziane and Brahim Babali

1019

3130 Growth, Proximate Composition and Condition Coefficient of Fingerlings Reared in Insitu Labeo rohitaand Exsitu Biofloc SystemArti Sharma and Rashmi Sangotra

1025

3131 Phenological Patterns of Selected Tree Species in Dry Deciduous Forests of Sri Lankamalleswara Wildlife Sanctuary in Southern Eastern Ghats, Andhra Pradesh, IndiaT. Mastan, C. Ankalaiah and M. Sridhar Reddy

1029

3132 Regeneration Status of Some Tree Species in Garhjungle Sacred Forest, West Bengal, IndiaSangita Ganguli and Hema Gupta Joshi

1033

3133 Wetland and Aquatic Angiosperm Flora of Denkanikottai, Krishnagiri, Tamil NaduV. Ravi, K. Samimalaimurugan, P. Kalpana, P. Vijayakanth and R. Ramamoorthy

1038

3134 Ecological Status of Fodder and Fuelwood Species in Banari Devi Sacred Grove of Kumaun Himalaya, UttarakhandNaveen Chandra, Vinod Chandra Joshi and Arun Pratap Mishra

1044

3135 Traditional Ecological Knowledge based Early Warning Systems for Adaptation to Climate ChangeBongurala Gangadha

1049

3136 Species Composition, Diversity and Distribution along an Elevational Gradient in Oak–dominated Forests of Pir Panjal Range in Jammu and KashmirMohd Junaid Jazib

1054

3137 Plant Diversity in The Natural Ecosystems of Kon Tum Province, VietnamDang Hung Cuong, Kolesnikov Sergey Illich, Nguyen Dang Hoi, Tran Thi Thanh Huong, Nguyen Van Hong, Ngo Trung Dung, Minnikova Tatyana Vladimirovna

1061

3138 Forest Dependence, Institutions and Enforcement: An Empirical Study in the Drought Prone District of Purulia, West BengalJyotish Prakash Basu

1068

3139 Floristic Diversity Pattern and Vegetation Analysis of Moist Sal Forest of Chilpi Range, Kawardha Forest Division, ChhattisgarhAnil Kumar Singh Chauhan, Neelam Tripathi and Vinod Kumar Soni

1074

3140 Seymska Population of Russian Desman ( L.) in North-Easten Part of Ukraine: A Desmana moschataHistory of Formation and Current StateOleksandr Mikhailovich Yemets, Volodymyr Anatoliyovich Vlasenko, Viktor Mikhailovich Demenko, Valentyna Ivanivna Tatarynova, Tetiana Oleksandrivna Rozhkova, Alla Oleksandrivna Burdulaniuk, Olha Mikolaivna Bakumenko, Olena Mikolaivna Osmachko, Yuliia Mikhailivna Shcherbyna

1077

3141 Floristic study of Urban Green Space of Purulia Region, IndiaRimi Roy

1084

3142 Ethnobotanical Uses of Medicinal Plants in Part of Pauri GarhwalKavita Negi, Amol Vasishth, Reena Joshi and Vinod Kumar

1091

3143 Aeroallergen Sensitizations with Special Reference to Fungi Sensitization among the Community of Sultan Idris Education University, MalaysiaGhassan Hadi Kttafah, Mai Shihah Abdullah, Muhammad Haidar Nasuruddin and Hasan Ali Alsailawi

1099

3144 Studies on Safety Evaluation of Carbosulfan on the Predator, Esben-Chrysoperla zastrowi sillemiPetersonI. Merlin Kamala

1107

CONTENTS

3145 Taxonomic and Ecological Studies on Trematode Parasite Euclinostomum heterostomum(Clinostomidae: Euclinostominae) from Freshwater Fishes of River Tawi of Jammu Region (J & K)Palaq, Seema Langer and Fayaz Ahmad

1111

3146 Dynamics of a Fractional Stage Structured Predator-Prey model with Prey RefugeChandrali Baishya

1118

3147 Production Potential of Soybean Based Cropping Sequence under Resource Conservation TechnologiesS.K. Nayak, W.N. Narkhede, V.K. Sutar and D.N. Gokhale

1125

3148 Influence of Mother Bulb Weight and Spacing on Quality Seed Yield of OnionT. Das, J. Mandal and S. Mohanta

1130

3149 Study on Off-season Performance of Some Vegetable Type Watermelon ( (Thunb.) Citrullus lanatusMatsum and Nakai) LandracesV. Anumala, J. Mandal and S. Mohanta

1135

3150 Time Series Modeling and Forecasting on Pulses Production Behavior of IndiaSoumik Ray and Banjul Bhattacharyya

1140

3151 Carryover and Dissipation of Imidazolinone Herbicides Application and their Effect on Succeeding Following Crops: A ReviewMahyoub Bzour, Muhamad Mispan and Fathiah Zuki

1150

3152 Integrated Resource Management for Sustainable Agricultural Land Use Plan in Hisar District Using Geo-Informatics- A Case StudySandeep Kumar, Sahab Deen and Sonu

1158

3153 Enhancing Productivity and Profitability of Pulses through Farmer Participatory Action ResearchRabiPriyanka Suryavanshi, Munish Sharma and Yashwant Singh

1164

3154 Prevalence and Partial Molecular Characterization of Citrus Psorosis Virus in MoroccoImane Bibi, Ezzahra Kharmach, Zouheir Chafik, Jamal Ben Yazid, Raied Abou Kubaa, Majid Mounir and Mohamed Afechtal

1168

3155 Effects of Different Salting and Drying Methods on Allergenicity of Purple Mud Crab (Scylla tranquebarica)Al Sailawi. H.A, Rosmilah Misnan, Zailatul Hani Mohd Yadzir, Noormalin Abdullah, Faizal Bakhtiar, Masita Arip, Mustafa Mudhafar and Haidr Msahir Ateshan

1173

3156 Reproductive Ecology of an Invasive Cichlid Fish Oreochromis mossambicusK. Roshni and C.R. Renjithkumar

1180

3157 Sex Ratio and Spawning Season of Blue Swimming Crab ( , Linnaeus, 758) in North Portunus pelagicusJava Sea, IndonesiaV. Rohmayani, E. Tunjung Sari and N. Romadhon

1185

3158 Eolian Sand Deposition Induced Constrains and Seedling Strategies in T. Anders: An Blepharis sindicaEndangered Serotinous Medicinal Herb of Indian Thar DesertPurushottam Lal and Sher Mohammed

1189

3159 Performance Assessment of Fisherwomen Self Help Groups in Kerala Enabling Financial OpportunitiesShalumol Salas

1192

3160 Changes in Color Attributes of Mock Meat Nuggets Prepared from Oyster Mushroom, Flaxseed and Amaranth in Response to StorageNadia Bashir and Monika Sood

1196

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3161 Effect of Integrated Nutrient Management on Leaf and Fruit Characteristics of High Yielding Walnut Varieties of Kashmir Valley, IndiaImtiyaz A. Wani, Subaya Shahnaz, Nuzhat Rasool, Raghad Abdel Rahman, Hillal Ahmad, G.I. Hassan and S.S. Mahdi

1

3162 Evaluation of Ground Water Quality and Suitability for Irrigation in Nathusari Chopta Block of Sirsa District (Haryana, India) using Geo-informaticsVinod Kumar and Vipin Kumar

8

3163 Post Emergent Non Chemical Formulations for Weed Management in Maize P. Arunjith and P. Murali Arthanari

13

3164 Synthesis and Characterization of Nano Hybrid Gentamycin with Zinc Oxide Layered HydroxidesFadhel Y. Khudheyer

18

3165 Landslide Hazard Zonation Mapping using Power Method based AHP for Saklespur, IndiaN. Sreedevi and J. Karthikeyan

23

3166 Impact of different Fertilizers on Diazotrophic Community of Wheat Rhizosphere in The Semi-Arid Region, Jaipur, IndiaSushma Sharma and Dileep K. Singh

30

3167 Comparative Assessment on Physico-chemical Properties of Coal Mining Affected and Non-Affected Forest Soil at Changki, NagalandKhikeya Semy and M.R. Singh

36

3168 Influence of different NPK Doses on Plant Growth and Soil Nutrient Contents of Apple ( Malus × domesticaBorkh.) NurseryPriyanka Chauhan and Naveen C. Sharma

43

3169 Assessment of Spatial and Seasonal Water Quality Variation of the Upstream and Downstream of Oum Er-rabia River in MoroccoF. Souilmi and S. Tahraoui

47

3170 Groundwater Quality Analysis using WQI for Sahibabad (Uttar Pradesh)Vaibhav Deoli and Shivani Nauni

52

3171 Estimate of Cd, Pb and Physico-Chemical Properties in Soils of Kani-qrzhala Dumpsite in Erbil, Kurdistan Region of IraqIsmaeel Tahir Ahmed

55

3172 Contribution of Clay, Silt, Organic Matter, Free Iron Oxides and Active Calcium Carbonate in Cation Exchange Capacity in Wasit and Maysan SoilsAuatif HD AL-Shamare and Salman K. Essa

61

3173 Modeling Infiltration and Water Distribution Process of Layered Soils Using HYDRUS-1DE.M. Mohammed, E.A. Alani and M.M. Abid

66

3174 Evaluation of Botanical Oils against Red Flour Beetle (Herbst) Coleoptera: Tribolium castaneumTenebionidaeAli Abdulridha Alsudani, Waref M.H. Ismail, Mytham A.J. Al-Karhi and Manar Ahmed Abbas

72

3175 Documentation of Ethnomedicinal Plants used for Treating Rheumatoid Arthritis Disorder by Aboriginal Communities of Manar beat, Karamadai Range, Western Ghats, IndiaS. Mownika, S. Sharmila and E.K. Ramya

75

3176 Sustainable Nutritional Supplementation for Green Economy through Hydroponics SystemMd. Nazneen Bobby, M. Indira, K. Abraham Peele, T.C. Venkateswarulu and S. Krupanidhi

85

3177 Studies on Nesting Colonies of Heronry Birds in Bhavnagar City, Gujarat, IndiaTanvi Gohel, Tamanna Chaudhari, Pravinsang Dodia, Ashish Shukla and Devendra Solanki

91

3178 Study of Seed Dispersal by the Indian Sloth Bear ( ) in Nawada Forest Division, Bihar Melursus ursinus(India)Gourav Kumar and Dilip Kumar Paul

98

CONTENTS

3179 Population Control of by and Dociostaurus maroccanus Pistacia lentiscus P. veraM. Bereksi Reguig, I. Abdelli and F. Hassani

102

3180 Effect of Vehicular Traffic on Wild Animals in Anaikatty Hills, Southern Western Ghats, IndiaL. Prakash and P. Karthik

108

3181 Feeding Potential of Kapur and Munshi on Invasive Whitefly, Axinoscymnus puttarudriahi Aleurothrixus trachoides Capsicum annuum (Back) Infesting L.S.S. Anusree and N. Anitha

112

3182 Studies on Batch Adsorption of Gemifloxacin using Hybrid Beads from BiomassAijaz Ahmad Mala and Joydeep Dutta

116

3183 Comparative Analysis and Characterization of Lipase Producing Alkaliphilic Bacteria Isolated from Lonar Soda Lake, IndiaVishal R. Dhundale

123

3184 Patterns of Forest Bird Assemblages and Feeding Guild Structure in Lesser Garhwal Himalayas, Uttarakhand, IndiaMohan Kukreti

128

3185 Avifaunal Diversity from Shahpur Campus of the Central University, Himachal Pradesh IndiaPraveen Kumar

138

3186 Plant Community Analysis of Bhubaneswar Smart City, Odisha, IndiaM.K. Satapathy and S.K. Das

147

3187 Description of Embryonic Development of Prawn Henderson, 1893 Macrobrachium dayanum(Decapoda, Palaemonidae) based on the Staging MethodApurva Sharma, Seema Langer and Palaq

154

3188 Mapping of Total Suspended Matter based on Sentinel-2 data on the Hooghly River, IndiaR. Premkumar, R. Venkatachalapathy and S. Visweswaran

159

3189 Biological Degradation of Complex Crude Oil Refinery Waste Sludge by Consortia of Bacteria during Tailored CompostingUbani Onyedikachi and Atagana Harrison. I

166

3190 Segregating Direct and Indirect Dimensions in Ecosystem Services Valuation: The Case of A Coastal Wetland Ecosystem of South IndiaSulakshana Rao C and R. Balasubramanian

177

3191 A Proposed Role for Zinc Supplementation in Covid-19 PreventionChanda Siddoo-Atwal

184

3192 Impact of Seasonal Variations in Physico-chemical Characteristics of Forest Soil under Veerakkal area, Manar Beat, Western Ghats, IndiaE.K. Ramya, S. Sharmila and S. Mownika

187

3193 Carbon Storage Dynamics of different Forest Types in Central, NepalPramod Ghimire

196

3194 Floristic Composition, Diversity, and Structure in the Changing Landscape of the Bale Mountains National Park, South-eastern EthiopiaAnnissa Muhammed and Eyasu Elias

204

3195 Growth, Geographic Concentration and Stability Analysis of Coir Products Export from IndiaM. Anoop, C.N. Anshida Beevi and R. S. Bhawar

210

3196 Reforestation and Features of Forest-Forming Processes in Southeast of Western Siberia. Tomsk region, RussiaAlexey Myasnikov

216

3197 Invasive Alien Flora of Tropical Dry Deciduous Forest of Nauradehi Wildlife Sanctuary, Central IndiaTinku Kumar, Amit Jugnu Bishwas, Pramod Kumar Khare and Naveen Garg

219

3198 Phylogenetic Study of Chloroplast Genome of Solanaceae SpeciesAli Imad Mohammad Moner

226

3199 Forest Floor Diversity, Distribution and Biomass Pattern of Oak and Chir-pine Forest in the Indian Western HimalayaVinod Chandra Joshi, R.C. Sundriyal and Dhani Arya

232

CONTENTS

3200 Assessment of above Ground Biomass and Carbon Stock of Tropical Rain-forest Tree Species from Java, Yogyakarta, IndonesiaSajad, Jawad and Naseer Ahmed

238

3201 Urban Tree Species Diversity and Related Carbon Contribution: A Case Study of the Legon Botanical Garden (LBG), University of Ghana Main CampusMona Dave, Vincent Von Vordzogbe and Henry Nii Amponsah

243

3202 Bio-herbicidal Potential of Essential Oil of - A ReviewCallistemonMinakshi Sharma, Komal Arora and Rajneesh Kant Sachdev

252

3203 Influence of Invasive Alien Plants on Vegetation of Hailakandi District, Assam, North-East, IndiaZingthoi Khuppi Sakachep and Prabhat Kumar Rai

261

3204 Application of Sunflower Seed Oil in Preparation of Novel Low-Fat KefirBensmira Meriem and Bo Jiang

267

3205 Modeling Rainfall-Runoff using Artificial Neural Network (ANNs) and Wavelet based ANNs (WANNs) for Haripura Dam, UttarakhandBasant Ballabh Dumka and Pravendra Kumar

271

3206 Intensity Duration Frequency Curve Generation using Historical and Future Downscaled Rainfall DataSunny Agarwal, Sanjeet Kumar and Umesh K. Singh

275

3207 Bias Correction of Climate Model Outputs for Climate Change Impact Assessment in Central KashmirSyed Rouhullah Ali and Junaid N. Khan

281

3208 Multivariate Analysis in Two Rowed Genotypes of Barley ( L.)Hordeum vulgareYogender Kumar

287

3209 Floristic and Ecological Analysis of Weeds in Citrus Groves in the Oranian Phytogeographic Sector (Western Algeria)Karima Hanitet, Zoheir Mehdadi, Kouider Cherifi and Nadia Bemmansour

292

3210 Weed Composition and Nutrient Uptake by Weeds in Sole and Intercrops during SeasonRabiJiwan, Rajni Sharma and Sohan Singh Walia

300

3211 Energy Input-Output Analysis in Wheat, Barley and Oat ProductionAqeel Johny Nassir, Marwan Noori Ramadhan and Ali Abdul Majeed Alwan

304

3212 Gender Differentials in Occupational Structure and Employment Pattern in Agriculture in PunjabMonica Sharda

308

3213 Effect of Sedimentary Source on the Properties of Sphericity and Roundness of Feldspar Minerals in Some Soils of the Alluvial PlainShireen Mudhafar Ali AlKhalil and Salman Khalaf Essa

315

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CONTENTS

3214 Alpine Medicinal and Aromatic Plants in the Western Himalaya, India: An Ecological ReviewNaveen Chandra, Gajendra Singh, Shashank Lingwal, Ishwari Datt Rai and Lalit Mohan Tewari

319

3215 Structural Diversity and Regeneration Pattern of Forest Communities in Parbati Valley, North Western Himalaya, India: Implications for ConservationTanay Barman, S.S. Samant, Jyoti and Amit Singh

332

3216 Secondary Ecological Succession of Landscapes in Vietnam along Indochina T-JunctionNguyen Dang Hoi, Nguyen Cao Huan, Ngo Trung Dung, Dang Hung Cuong and Kolesnikov Sergey Ilyich

349

3217 Water Footprint of Crop Production: A ReviewB.S. Sidhu, Rakesh Sharda and Sandeep Singh

358

3218 MaxEnt Modeling for Predicting the Potential Distribution of Jones. in Chakrata Forest Valeriana jatamansiDivision of Garhwal HimalayaNeelam Rawat, Arun Pratap Mishra, Naveen Chandra, Vikas Painuly, Govind Singh NegiMahendra Pratap Singh Bisht and Saurabh Purohit

367

3219 Oxygen Productivity in Different Tree SpeciesM.V. Mokashi, S.M. Ghatanatti and S.M. Mutanal

373

3220 Effect of Forest Fire on Ammonification and Nitrification: A Study under Chir Pine ( ) Forest Pinus roxburghiiAreas of Himachal PradeshShubham, Uday Sharma and Arvind Chahal

376

3221 Assessment of Soil Seed Bank on Three Different Vegetation Types in Kumaun Central Himalayan ForestAmit Mittal, Ashish Tiwari, Nandan Singh and Shruti Shah

381

3222 Allometric Models for Predicting Above-Ground Biomass and Carbon Stock of Fodder Tree Species in Northwestern Himalayas Astha Kanwar, D.R. Bhardwaj, Pankaj Panwar and Sharmistha Pal

387

3223 Remote Sensing Techniques and Geographic Information Systems to Study Soil Characteristics in Baquba GovernorateBasem Rahem Bader and Ahmed Bahjat Khala

393

3224 Capsule Ripening and Seed Germination in (D. Don) in Aali Treeline area of Rhododendron campanulatumWestern Himalaya, IndiaNandan Singh, Ashish Tewari, Shruti Shah and Amit Mittal

398

3225 Gnomonia leptostyla Causer of Walnut Anthracnose in Iraq and Its Biochemical ResistanceGhaidaa Salah Hussein

404

3226 Effect of Osmotic Agents on the Quality Characteristics of Osmo-dried PlumMandeep Kour, Neeraj Gupta and Monika Sood

408

3227 Value Chain Analysis of Tomato in Himachal Pradesh: A Case Study of Kullu DistrictAnkita, Pardeep Singh and Amit Guleria

411

3228 Performance of Knolkhol ( L. Var Gongylodes) under Differential Substitution of Nutrients Brassica oleraceathrough Organics in Irrigated Plains of Shiwalik FoothillsM. Banotra, B.C. Sharma, B. Nandan, A. Verma and R. Kumar

418

3229 Assessment of Nutrient Status in Vermicompost Prepared from Fruit WasteMithra Dey, N. Mohilal Meitei and Sunita Mongjam

424

3230 Influence of Auxin on Rooting in Hardwood Cuttings of Apple ( × Borkh.) Clonal Rootstock Malus domestica 'M 116' under Mist Chamber ConditionsSahil Patial, J.S. Chandel, N.C. Sharma and Pramod Verma

429

3231 Inherent Vulnerability Profiles of Agriculture Sector in Temperate Himalayan Region: A Preliminary AssessmentMajid Farooq, Suraj Kumar Singh and Shruti Kanga

434

3232 Response of Annual Ryegrass ( Lam) to Sowing Dates and Nitrogen FertilizationLolium multiflorumMankaran Singh Sidhu, G.D. Sharma, Arvind Chahal and N.K. Sankhyan

442

CONTENTS

3233 Analysis of Air Temperature, Relative Humidity and Evaporation over Iraq using ECMWF ReanalysisWedyan G. Nassif, Farah H. Jasim and Osama T. Al-Taai

446

3234 Analysis and Interpretation of Rainfall Trend using Mann- Kendall's and Sen's Slope MethodSunny Agarwal, A.S. Suchithra and Surendra Pal Singh

453

3235 Property Rights and Technology Adoption for Agricultural Sustainability in Tamil NaduK. Damodaran

458

3236 Transfer Factor of Radionuclides from Soil to Plant in Natural and Radionuclides Polluted Soils of IraqNaseer Abduljabbar Alsaadie, Suad Abduljabbar Alsaedi and Ibrahim Bakry Razaq

466

3237 Detection of Air Pollution of Road Origin by a Bio-accumulating Plant Species ( ) and Pinus halepensisEvaluation of the Concentrations of Heavy Metals in Western AlgeriaEnnabaouia Hanene Bemmansour, Zahira Amel Bouyakoub, Djamila Harrache and Nadia Bemmansour

472

3238 Comparative Evaluation of Ecotoxicity of Different Chemical Compounds of Bismuth by Dehydrogenases Activity of SoilsL. Sudina, S. Kolesnikov, T. Minnikova and K. Kazeev

478

3239 Assessment of Microbial Diversity and their Role in Deterioration of Jantar-Mantar, Jaipur, IndiaMansvi Yadav and Varsha Gupta

483

3240 Spatial and Vertical Distribution of Sulphur in Acidic Soils of Western HimalayasGourav, Narender K. Sankhyan, Pardeep Kumar, G.D. Sharma and M.C. Rana

489

3241 Fluoride Health Hazard Assessment in Ground Water Resources of Tiruchirappalli District, Tamil NaduS. Vinothkanna, R. Rajee and K. Senthilraja

496

3242 Optimized Multiresolution Segmentation for Mapping GlaciersShikha Sharda and Mohit Srivastava

503

3243 Artificial Photoperiod Influence on Survivability, Pigmentation and Hematological Parameters in Live-Bearer Ornamental Fish, Poecilia sphenopsBela Zutshi and Aradhana Singh

508

3244 Comparative Study of Amino and Fatty Acids Synthesis in Two Different Groups of Common Carp ( L.) Cultured in Floated CagesCyprinus carpio Kadhim O.M. AL-Humairi, Sajed S. AL-Noor and Riyadh A. Al-Tameemi

513

3245 Causes of Outbreak in M'Diq Beach, Northwest Moroccan Mediterranean CoastlinePelagia noctilucaMajda Aouititen, Aravinda Ravibhanu, Mohammed Mrhraoui and Xiaofeng Luan

519

3246 Seasonal Habitat Selection of in Hirpora Wildlife Sanctuary, Jammu and KashmirGyps himalayensisHameem Mushtaq Wani, Mustahson F. Fazili and Riyaz Ahmad

524

3247 Examination of Power Relations in Fishers' Resilience: Evidences from Wetland Fisheries in BangladeshMohammed Anwar Hossain and Nor Hafizah Selamat

530

3248 Levels and Source of Aliphatic Hydrocarbons in Marine Fishes from Coast of Iraq Based on Biomarkers and Biogeochemical IndicesDhafar Dh. Al-Khion, Balqes S. Al-Ali , Hamid T. Al-Saad and Ahmed I. Rushdi

536

3249 Study on Acute Toxicity of Bifenthrin to (Linn.)Clarias batrachusShubhajit Saha and Nimai Chandra Saha

545

3250 Current Status of Rainbow Trout in Western Ghats, Southern India: A Fish Diversity and Water Quality Assessment StudyJ.C. Walter Devaa and U. Ramesh

549

3251 Seasonal Variation and Abundance of Zooplankton in Upper Manair Reservoir at Rajanna Sircilla, Telangana State, IndiaK. Ramesh and A.V. Rajashekhar

558

3252 Medicinal uses of Edible Wild Fruits of Chenab Valley of Jammu, IndiaGowhar Amin Mir and Sandeep Sehgal

563

3253 Inter-Regional Analysis of Indebtedness among Scheduled Caste Households in Rural PunjabRupinder Kaur, Gian Singh and Neha Jain

569

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3254 Economic Analysis of Carnation Cultivation under Polyhouse Conditions in Bilaspur District of Himachal PradeshNikhil and Brij Bala

577

3255 Climate Influence on Abscission Pattern and Efficacy of Chemical Thinners in Nectarine cv. May FireRimpika and N. Sharma

583

3256 Comparative study on Crop Water Requirement Using CROPWAT Model for Different Vegetable Crops Grown Under Protected and Open Field CultivationVikas Sharma and K.K. Yadav

588

3257 Effect of Ash from Different Agricultural Wastes on Soil Properties and Grain Yield of Maize ( L) in Zea Mays Degraded UltisolC.N. Mbah, C. Njoku, A.O. Agba, G.C. Okechukwu, P.N. Egwu, J. Orji and J.O. Agwu

592

3258 Profitability and Economic Efficiency of Input Use in Vegetable Cultivation in Himachal PradeshAtul Chaudhary, Ravinder Sharma, Samriti and Subhash Sharma

597

3259 Comparative Study of Earthworm population and depth distribution in two different land use systems of Kumaun Himalaya, Uttarakhand, IndiaShikha Bora, Deepak Chandra Melkani, Kulbhushan Kumar and Satpal Singh Bisht

601

3260 Monitoring and Evaluation of Tropospheric NO2 Columns Density and Ultraviolet Aerosol Index (UVAI) over Iraq during the Outbreak of COVID-19 Using Remote Sensing and GISLayali Y. Salih AL-Mashhadani and Sabah H. Ali

607

3261 Water Quality Assessment of the Cauvery and Vaigai River at Upstream and Downstream Locations: Impact of Domestic and Industrial EffluentsC. Ramprasad, Karthik Sona, Mohammed Afridhi and Ram Kumar

615

3262 Dam Break Analysis using HEC-RAS and Flood Inundation Modelling for Pulichinatala Dam in Andhra Pradesh, IndiaMeenakshi Ramola, P.C. Nayak, B. Venkatesh and T. Thomas

620

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3263 Spatial Modelling of Agro-Ecological Condition of Soils in Steppe Zone of UkraineDenys Sergiyovych Breus and Svitlana Viktorivna Skok

627

3264 An Empirical Study on Attitudes towards Willingness to Pay for Forest Ecosystem Services at Simlipal National ParkShradha Agarwalla and Debolina Saha

634

3265 Review on Water Holding Capacity of Soil Across the Tropical and Subtropical Forests in IndiaV. Sai Saraswathi, Merina Johnson and Kumaraguru

641

3266 Agricultural Sustainability in Indian Himalayan Region: Constraints and PotentialsPardeep Kumar, Pradeep K. Sharma, Praveen Kumar, Munish Sharma and Nagender Pal Butail

649

3267 Analysis of Land Use and Land Cover Dynamics and Forest Disturbance in Western Ghats Region of Maharashtra, IndiaKetki Metha and T.P. Singh

662

3268 Space-Time Modeling of Climate Change and Bioclimatic Potential of Steppe SoilsVitalii Pichura, Larisa Potravka, Nataliia Dudiak and Nataliia Vdovenko

671

3269 Forest Fire Monitoring of Wildlife Sanctuary using Geospatial TechniquesT. Pardhasree Chaitanya, Umesh Kumar Singh and Sunny Agarwa

681

3270 Analysis of Vegetation and Similarity in the Nature Tourism Forest of Gunung Meja, West Papua, IndonesiaJan Hendriek Nunaki and Insar Damopolii

686

3271 Assessing Shea Nut Access in the Savannah and Northern Regions of GhanaRomeo Oduro Akrasi, Irene Susana Egyir, Alhassan Wayo Seini, Martha Awo, Prince Eddico Ntrie and Rejoice Adarkwah

692

3272 Development of Biomass and Volume Models of Cav. for arly EstablishmentMelia dubia EN.S. Thakur, R.P. Gunaga, H.T. Hegde, R.S. Chauhan, D.C. Bhuva and J.B. Bhusara

698

3273 Floristic Composition of Tree Diversity in Mixed Broad - Needle Leaf Forest Communities in Bidoup-Nuiba National Park, Lamdong Province, VietnamTran Thi Thanh Huong, Nguyen Dang Hoi, Trieu Van Hung and Dang Hung Cuong

702

3274 Review on Ethno-medicinal Plants Used for Healing Skin Ailments in Madhya Pradesh, IndiaChayan Adhikari, Devanand, Tinku Kumar and Amit Jugnu Bishwas

709

3275 Impact of Essential Oils of Lamiaceae Family Against Tylenchulus semipenetransS. Bekkal Brikci, I. Abdelli, F. Hassani and M. Bereksi Reguig

716

3276 Micro-environmental Changes Under Poplar Canopy and Effect on Yield of Inter-cultivated CropsVikas Kumar, S.K. Chauhan and Deepak Arora

722

3277 Invasive Alien Species Yellow Crazy Ant- Hemipterans Mutualism and Assessment of UnicolonialitySandeep Kumar Mohapatra, Pabitra Mishra, Rajashree Behera and Jaya Kishor Seth

728

3278 Quantitative Assessment of Anthophilous Insects Associated with Medicinally Important Weed Plants of Genus CirsiumAarti Badoni and Manoj Kumar Arya

731

3279 Current Perspective on Optimising Economics of Beekeeping in PunjabAmandeep Singh, Narider Deep Singh and Satwinder Kaur Sohal

739

3280 Response of Predator MacLachlan to Varying Densities of Chrysoperla mutata Lipaphis erysimi(Kalt.)Hind Suhail Abdulhay

745

3281 Population Dynamics of in Butterfly GardenCatopsilia pyrantheAnusuya Devi, E. Joy Sharmila, K. Rangesh, S. Susaritha and B. Archana

748

3282 Symbiosis and Crisis: Study on Elephant-Fisher folks Ecology in Deepor Beel Ramsar Site, AssamManoj Kumar Das

751

CONTENTS

3283 Comparison of Streams Delineated using Various SRTM, ASTER and Cartosat DEMD. Suresh, M. Geetha Priya and B. Vaishnavi

756

3284 Geoinformation Methods for Development of Intensive Animal Husbandry in Catchment Basins of Small Rivers in the Belgorod RegionV.V. Kiselev, Ya. V. Pavlyuk, A.G. Kornilov and Zh. А. Buryak

759

3285 Karyotypic Analysis of Freshwater Crab, (Henderson, 1893) from Maydelliathelphusa masonianaJammu Region of J&KMenakshi Dhar, Seema Langer and Raman Jasrotia

765

3286 Diversity and Distribution of Trichoptera in Three Streams of Eastern Ghats, IndiaT. Sivaruban, S. Barathy and Pandiarajan Srinivasan

771

3287 Assessment of Impact of Sub-Lethal Dose of Mustard Oil Cake on Haematological Biomarkers in Indian Air-Breathing Fish, (Hamilton) Channa gachuaD.N. Pandit, S. Kumari and A. Sinha

775

3288 Investigation of Farm Pond Based Integrated Floating Cage Aquageoponic System under Scarce Rainfall Situation in Andhra PradeshP. Babu, K. Ashok Kumar, M. Gouri, G.B. Eswaramma and C. Ramana

779

3289 Analysis of Heavy Metals Concentrations in Water Samples Nearby Wadafiea Dumpsite of Solid Waste in the Khartoum North, SudanOmer A. Elamin, A.G. Elfadil and Abdelelah M. Elhassan

784

3290 Agromeliorative Efficiency of Phosphogypsum Application on Irrigation Saline Soils in the Northern Steppe of Ukraine T. Makarova, Ye. Domaratskiy G. and Нapich and O. Kozlova

789

3291 Geographical Assessment of Natural Resources at Abu-Hadair Drainage Basin in Al-Salman Desert, Southern IraqBashar F. Maaroof, Raheem H. Al-Abdan and Hashim H. Kareem

796

3292 Soil Physical and Hydraulic Properties of Irrigable Lands in the Northern Region of GhanaA. Salifu, F.K. Abagale and G. Kranjac-Berisavljevic

802

3293 Evaluation and Spatial Distribution Maps of Heavy Metals in Soil using Geomatic TechniquesAyad Abdullah Khalaf and Mohand Esaa Khuder

810

3294 Fertilizer Properties for Design of Tractor Operated Coconut Basin Lister cum Fertilizer ApplicatorJinukala Srinivas and P.R. Jayan

818

3295 Scour Countermeasures at Circular Pier by Using Modified W Weir under Clear Water ConditionsR. Karthik , U. Kumar and A.K. Barbhuiya

821

3296 Soil Loss Assessment for Palair Reservoir Catchment Area Based on Geoinformatics ApproachValluri Govardhan Subhash and Umesh K. Singh

830

3297 Assessment of Biological Water Quality Based on Functional Feeding Groups of Benthic Macroinvertebrates: A Case Study of Pampa RiverSreerenjini Kamal and R. Sunil Kumar

837

3298 Determining Ground Water Quality for Irrigation in Varahanadhi River Basin, Tamil Nadu, IndiaS. Vinothkanna, R. Rajee and K. Senthilraja

842

3299 Potable Water Treatment: Best Time to Measure Turbidity Hussein Janna and Nadhir Al-Ansari

850

3300 Genetic Variability and Diversity Analysis for Yield Attributing and Biochemical Parameters of Sorghum ( L.) GenotypesSorghum bicolorY. Navya, Prabhat Kumar Singh and B. Sushma

853

3301 Diversity of Cyanobacterial Population during Monsoon Season in Rice Fields of Hooghly, West Bengal, IndiaDebjyoti Mukherjee, Sri Narayan Ojha, Soma Sukul and Samit Ray

859

3302 Effect of Crop Establishment Methods and Weed Management Practices on Yield and Economics of Rice ( L.)Oryza sativaShriram Rajvanshi, Ghanshyam Singh, Priyanka Suryavanshi, Satyaveer Singh and Rajendra Prasad

866

3303 Impact of Palekar's Natural Farming on Farmers' Economy in Himachal PradeshR.S. Chandel, Manoj Gupta, Subhash Sharma, P.L. Sharma, Sudhir Verma and Ashu Chandel

872

3304 Productivity and Quality of Sweet Potato Leaves ( ) as Animal Feed in Integrated Ipomoea batatasSystem in the Abadoned Limestone Mining SiteDoso Sarwanto, Sari Eko Tuswati and Caribu Hadi Prayitno

878

3305 Impact of Different Planting Dates and Plant Spacing on Vegetative and Floral Characteristics of Zinnia elegans in Kashmir ValleyDivya Slathia, F.U. Khan, Madinat-ul-Nisa, R.A. Wani and R.K. Pandey

885

3306 Perception Based Climate Change Impacts on Forest Vegetation, Farming System and People Health in Uttarakhand HimalayaZoya Shah, Dhani Arya and K. Chandra Sekar

890

3307 Phenotypic and Molecular Diagnostic of spp. Isolates Associated with Potato RootsFusariumAmenah A. Al-Mosawi, Dareen S. Jamel and Ahmed K. Abdulrazzaq

898

3308 Spreading of spp. in Mycoflora of Winter Wheat Seeds in North-East of UkraineAlternariaTetiana Rozhkova, Alla Burdulanyuk, Olha Bakumenko, Oleksandr Yemets, Oleksandr Filenko and Rimma Filenko

904

3309 Response of Tomato Varieties to the Early Blight Disease Caused by Alternaria solaniAmani Hussein Hameed Alabbas and Labeed A. AL-Saad

909

3310 Review of Legal and Policy Framework for Groundwater Governance in IndiaJasleen Kaur Sidhu and Meenu Chopra

914

3311 Marketing Pattern and Processes of Layer Eggs Production in PunjabBaldeep Singh and S.K. Chauhan

925

3312 GIS-based Integrated Approach for Sustainable Management of Ecology and Environment with Green and Blue SpacesShakeena Mikkili, Sampad Kumar Panda and Sunny Agarwal

931

3313 Evaluation of Technical Efficiency of Agricultural Growers in Mid Hills of Himachal PradeshKapil Dev, Ravinder Sharma and Samriti

939

3314 Problems and Factors Affecting Adoption of Natural Farming in Sirmaur District of Himachal PradeshRohit Kumar Vashishat, Chinglembi Laishram and Subhash Sharma

944

3315 Effect of Methyl Jasmonate on the Production of Furanocoumarins in Callus Cultures of Ruta graveolens L.

950

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3316 Intercomparison of Trend Analysis using Multi Satellite Precipitation Products and Gauge MeasurementsA.S. Suchithra and Sunny Agarwal

955

3317 Impacts of Land Use/Land Cover on Surface Temperature and Soil Moisture in the Region of Nagavali BasinP.M. Thameemul Hajaj and Kiran Yarrakula

964

3318 Remote Sensing Planet Images Application in Mapping the Status of Tropical Forests: A Case Research in Kontum Province, VietnamNguyen Dang Hoi, Ngo Trung Dung, Nguyen Quoc Khanh, Dang Hung Cuong, Kolesnikov Sergey Ilyich and Ha Dang Toan

970

3319 Groundwater Vulnerability Assessment by Using Drastic and God MethodsAli H. Al-Aboodi , Husham T. Ibrahim and Tagreed Hameed Khlif

977

3320 Flood Vulnerability Mapping using Frequency Ratio Model and Dempster Shafer Theory: A Case Study on Devikulam and Udumbanchola Taluks of Ldukki District, Kerala, IndiaS. Evany Nithya, Jeno Blessy and R. Viji

982

3321 Use of Remote Sensing and GIS techniques in Monitoring of Land Use/ Land Cover Changes: Case Study of Kanaan area of Diyala Province, Central IraqAhmed Bahjat Khalaf and Mohammed Younis Al-alaf

990

3322 Analysis of Land Surface Temperature based on NDVI in Basavana BagewadiD. Suresh, M. Geetha Priya and B. Vaishnavi

995

3323 Assessment of Sedimentation in Maithon Reservoir using Remote Sensing and GISP. Santhoshi and Sanjeet Kumar

1001

3324 Prioritization of Sub-Watersheds in the Arasalar-Palavar Region using Sediment Production Rate (SPR)Rajesh Kumar V. and M. Ramaraj

1005

3325 Appraisal of Groundwater Potential Zonation Mapping in Coastal Track of Cuddalore District using Geospatial Techniques in Tamil Nadu IndiaR. Ayyandurai and S. Venkateswaran

1011

3326 Reproductive Phenology and Productivity Pattern of in Sal Forest of Gorakhpur, IndiaMoghaniaSanjay Kumar Pandey

1019

3327 Impact of Different Agroforestry Systems on Depth Wise Distribution of Physico-Chemical Properties and Soil Carbon Stock in North-West IndiaRahul Arya, Pooja Arora, Gaurav Rawal, Ajay Kumar Mishra and Smita Chaudhry

1026

3328 Variability in Stone Characters and Early Progeny Performance of Selected Genotypes from Melia dubiaNorthern Western Ghats of IndiaR.S. Chauhan, D.B. Jadeja, N.S. Thakur and S.K. Jha

1032

3329 Local Forest Institution and Participation of Local Communities: A Study in Bankura (South) Forest Division in West Bengal, IndiaPayal Ghosh and Jyotish Prakash Basu

1039

3330 Effect of Integrated Nutrient Management on Seedling Growth and Biomass of Sandalwood (Santalum album L.)Govind, V.M. Prajapati and M.B. Tandel

1047

3331 Effect of Different Growing Media on the Performance of Teak ( Linn.) Stump in NurseryTectona grandisMihir Ranjan Panda, Devbratha Pradhan and Amarendra Nath Dey

1051

3332 Assessment of Tree Species Composition and Diversity of Core and Buffer Zones in Pualreng Wildlife Sanctuary, Mizoram, IndiaP.C. Vanlalnunpuia, S.T. Lalzarzovi, P.C. Lalbiaknii and Joney Vanlalnunpuii Pachuau

1056

3333 Climate Change and Habitat Adaptability of (J. Koenig ex L.) J.F. Macbr.: An Madhuca longifoliaEndangered Tree Species of High Socio-Economic Significance to Tribal Community of Eastern IndiaSanjoy Garai, Ashish Ranjan, SK Mujibar Rahaman, Masjuda Khatun, Raj Kumar, Basant Kumar, Shambhu Nath Mishra and Sharad Tiwari

1062

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3334 Quantitative Analysis of Elements in Some Efficacious Medicinal Plants by Using ICPMS and IRMS MethodReena V. Mathai, Jayati Chatterjee Mitra and Santosh Kumar Sar

1068

3335 Asiatic Black Bear ( ) Activity Pattern and Human-Black Bear Conflict in the Nanda Devi Ursus thibetanusBiosphere Reserve, Western Himalaya, IndiaVijay Kumar Yadav, D.S. Chauhan and P.C. Lakhera

1075

3336 Assessment of Arsenic Induced Oxidative Damage and Modulation of Antioxidant Defence System in TomatoShraddha Rai and Arvind Kumar Singh

1083

3337 Screening Blackgram ( (L.) Hepper) Varieties for Shade Tolerance in Coconut Gardens of Vigna mungoSouthern Laterites of KeralaA.P. Pooja, M. Ameena and Jiji Joseph

1090

3338 Effect of Injecting Soils with Lime and Gypsum by Sawdust Extract and the Wetting and Drying Cycles on Physical Properties and Phosphorous Behavior in the SoilOmar S.M. Al-Fahdaw and Watheb S.S. Al-Nuaymy

1094

3339 Analysis of Physical Composition and Nutrient Content in Decomposed Municipal Solid Waste in Fonko Town of Analemo District, Southern EthiopiaAbebe Markos, Abebe Aschalew and Rejila Manikandan

1102

3340 Influence of Agronomic Management Practices on Rhizosphere Microbial Biodiversity in Coleus [ (Poir.) J.K. Morton]Plectranthus rotundifoliusArunjith P. and Sheeba Rebecca Isaac

1106

3341 Influence of Organic Formulations as Foliar Sprays on Yield Attributing Traits of Onion ( L.)Allium cepaVinay Kumar and Prabhat Kumar Singh

1111

3342 Influence of Foliar Application of Nano-Zinc and Iron Fertilizers on Growth and Yield of Bell Pepper ( L.)Capsicum annuumHassan Hadi Alkarawi and Sana Qasim Hasan

1115

3343 Assessment of Physico-chemical Parameters and Water Quality Index of Bhavanisagar Reservoir, Tamil NaduC. Rojamadhuvanthi, M. Harsita and P.B. Harathi

1120

3344 Analysis of Nitrate Contamination of Water in Deeg District -Bharatpur (Rajasthan), IndiaSunder Singh

1124

3345 Nutrient Release Pattern in Soil Incubated with Fly Ash, Inorganic Fertilizers and Organic ManuresK. Theresa, S. Sheeba and J. Vimalin Hena

1128

3346 Evaluation of the Efficiency of the Northern Project for the Water Purification and Transport, in Al-Dour City, Salahaldin, IraqEhab Mohammad Amen and Ayad Abdullah Khalaf

1134

3347 Study on Bioaccumulation and Translocation of Trace Metals by, and Eichhornia crassipes Pistia stratiotes from Selected Fresh Water Ecosystems of GoaRanjita U. Sawaiker and Bernard Felinov Rodrigues

1140

3348 Site Suitability Analysis for Development of Decentralized Solid Waste Processing unit for Coimbatore City, South IndiaP. Poornima and R. Nithya

1144

3349 Analysis of Groundwater Quality of Haridwar Region by Application of Nemerow Pollution Index MethodShekhar Singh, Sonali Kumara and Vinod Kumar

1149

3350 Ichthyofaunal Migration Causes Realized Niche Amplification Leading to Habitat Adaptation and Speciation in Rivers of Bengal DeltaArpita Rakshit and Sovan Roy

1155

3351 Feeding Habits of an Endemic Bagrid Catfish, from Western Ghats of IndiaMystus oculatusC.R. Renjithkumar and K. Roshni

1165

3352 Screening and Biochemical Characterization of PHB Producing Bacterium Isolated from Marine SampleA. Ranganadha Reddy

1169

3353 Micro Comparative Study on Diversity of Ants Species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in GoaMaria Lizanne A.C. and Maria Alvares

1173

3354 Comparison of Terrestrial Beetles in Cultivated and Natural Ecosystem of Semi-Arid Region of MoroccoH. El Harche, R. Fegrouche, G. Chavanon, D. Ghailoule, A. Benhoussa, M. Arahou, and M. Fadli

1184

3355 Invitro Toxicity of Pendimethalin using Ciliate Protozoa andParamecium caudatum Blepharisma intermediumNageswara Rao Amanchi and G. Archana

1191

3356 Insecticidal Activity of L. Essential Oil against the Stored Wheat Pest, Lantana camara Tribolium castaneum (Herbst) (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae)Karahacane Tahar and Kaci Zakia

1198

3357 Taxonomic Studies and Seasonal Variations in Density of Fresh Water Leech Erpobdella bhatiai(Nesemann, 007) Inhabiting Torrential Hill Stream in Greater HimalayasSuneha Uttam and Seema Langer

1203

3358 Levels and Pattern of Consumption Expenditure of Non-Farm Households in Rural PunjabAman Rani and Jasdeep Singh Toor

1209

3359 Does India Achieve Agenda 00 Targets: A Multiple Lens AnalysisSurendra Singh Jatav

1217

3360 Using as Natural Low-Cost Biosorbent for Rapid and Efficient Removal of Zinc(II) Ions from Imperata cylindericaAqueous Solutions Mohammed Jaafar Ali Alatabe and Nagam Obaid Kariem

1226

3361 Performance of Serrated Sickle and Pedal Operated Paddy Thresher for Harvesting of Paddy by Hill Farm WomenRadhna Gupta and Rakesh Kumar Gupta

1233

3362 Bioeconomic Appraisal of Wheat and Black Gram under Peach, Apricot and Pear based Agroforestry SystemShivani Sharma, C.L.Thakur and Aruna Mehta

1237

3363 Social Behaviour of Chital ( ) in Kota Zoo and In Mukandra Hills Tiger Reserve, IndiaAxis AxisRajendra Singh Rajawat

1240

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3364 Comparative Acute Toxicity of Mercury to Air Breathing Fish, (Ham.) and Non-Air Channa gachuaBreathing Fish (Linn.): Ethological and Haematological ConsiderationCyprinus carpioK. Dhara, S. Saha, D. Mukherjee and N.C. Saha

1243

3365 Estimation of Fish Production in India using ARIMA, Holt's Linear, BATS and TBATS ModelsPradeep Mishra, Soumik Ray, Abdullah Mohammad Ghazi Al khatib, MostafaAbotaleb, ShiwaniTiwari, AmrBadr and Ritisha Balloo

1254

3366 How Does Co-management Perform in Wetland Fisheries? Fishers' Perceptions from BangladeshMohammed Anwar Hossain and Nor Hafizah Selamat

1262

3367 Morphometric Characteristics of Some Selected Hill Stream Fishes from Hadauti Region, Rajasthan, IndiaK.S. Gaur and K.C. Nagar

1268

3368 Prediction of Effects of Climate Change Scenarios on Water Quality of Tungabhadra River Using Historical DataSaaniya Syed and Chandra Sekhar Matli

1273

3369 Studies on Heavy Metal Concentration and Evaluation of Water Quality Index in Selected Sites of River Tamiraparani, Tamil Nadu, IndiaK. Sabari, Sorna Devi, S. Sajen and R. Soranam

1278

3370 Temporal Changes in Physicochemical Parameters of Water of Gharana Wetland Reserve (J&K) and Assessment of its Pollution Status Using Comprehensive Pollution IndexArti Sharma and Radhika Singh

1284

3371 Analysis of Physico-chemical Factors and Estimation of Total Chromium in Water Samples Collected in and around TCCL Industry, Ranipet, Vellore District, Tamil Nadu, IndiaVidhya K., Regina Mary R. and Job Gopinath M.

1290

3372 Riverbank Erosion Induced Problems and Farmers Migration: A Case Study of Dhubri and Dhemaji District of AssamDimpal Dekaraja and Ratul Mahanta

1294

3373 Dendrochronological Study on Cedrus deodara in Kumrat Valley, Pakistan: The Relationship of Tree Age and Tree GrowthSajad, Jawad and Naseer Ahmed

1299

3374 Macro- proliferation Cup Technique for Mass Multiplication of (L.) Kurz ( ) in Woodfordia fruticosa DhawaiSub-humid Foothills of Eastern HimalayaS. Dinesha, Vineeta, Gopal Shukla, Hossain Ali Mondal and Sumit Chakravarty

1305

3375 Studies on the Effect of Different Doses of Nitrogen on Quality Parameters of Wheat under Eucalyptus Based Agri-Silvi-Horticultural SystemVishal Johar, R.S. Dhillon, K.S. Ahlawat and Avtar Singh

1313

3376 Estimation of Tree Biomass in Dry Deciduous Forests of Seshachalam Hill Ranges, Southern Eastern Ghats by Non- Destructive Method C. Venkata Ramana and M. Sridhar Reddy

1323

3377 Fungal Decomposition of Tree Leaf Litters in Tropical and Sub-Tropical Forests of Mizoram, Northeast India: A Laboratory Microcosm ExperimentNgangbam Somen Singh, Keshav Kumar Upadhyay and Shri Kant Tripathi

1328

3378 Diversity and Composition of Herbaceous Component in Behali Reserve Forest of Biswanath District, Assam, IndiaDipankar Borah, Babli Paul, Puranjoy Mipun and Sumpam Tangjang

1335

3379 Species Diversity, Population Structure and Regeneration of Tree Species in Kuldiha Wildlife Sanctuary, Odisha, IndiaM.C. Behera, T.L. Mohanty and R.K. Kar

1343

3380 Standardization of Fast, Efficient and Improved Genomic DNA Extraction Protocol for Cav. Melia dubia using RAPD and ISSR Marker AssayRavindra Kumar Dhaka, M.S. Sankanur, R.P. Gunaga, N.S. Thakur and C.K. Chaudhari

1353

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3381 Phytosociology of Invasive Alien Plant Species and Anthropogenic Disturbances in the Community Forests of Haryana, IndiaHarikesh Saharan, Himanshi Dhiman and Somveer Jakhar

1358

3382 Comparative Assessment on Riparian Soil Characteristics at Three Lateral Buffer Zones in Riparian Forest of Dikhu River, NagalandR. Konthoujam, M.R. Singh and K. Semy

1365

3383 Changes in Soil Microbial Population Following Decomposition of Different Litters Under Shifting Cultivation in MizoramShrayosee Ghosh and Shri Kant Tripathi

1370

3384 Population Dynamics and Land use Pattern in City of Bhubaneswar, India: A Case StudyS.K. Das and M.K. Satapathy

1376

3385 Biological Activity of Soils of Low-Mountain Reliefs in Adygeya after Forest FellingAslan K. Shkhapatsev, Vasiliy P. Soldatov, Kamil Sh. Kazeev, Evgeny A. Grabenko and Sergey I. Kolesnikov

1383

3386 Yield Advantage Assessment of Sweet Corn Based Intercropping Systems Through Indices Under Irrigated Condition of Kashmir ValleyMonika Menia, A.A. Saad and T.S. Akhoon

1389

3387 Optimum Dose of Phosphorus and Potassium Fertilization for Enhancing Productivity and Profitability of Rice ( L.) in Irrigated Sub Tropics of JammuOryza sativaSantosh Ola, Neetu Sharma, B.C. Sharma, Vikas Sharma and Rakesh Kumar

1393

3388 Assessment of Nutrient Management Practices on Productivity and Profitability of Fodder Maize+Ricebean Intercropping under Irrigated ConditionV. B.R. PraveenRundan, Magan Singh, Sanjeev Kumar, B.L. Meena, Susanta Dutta and

1397

3389 Sustainable Production of Sesamum through Legume Intercropping: A ReviewDinesh Kumar, R.B. Ardeshna, Magan Singh, Govind Makarana, R.K. Meena, Sanjeev Kumar, Rakesh Kumar and B.S. Prajapat

1403

3390 Effect of Organic Nutrients on Growth and Yield of Broccoli L. var. italica PlenckBrassica oleraceaNawal Mahdi Hammood

1414

3391 Economics of and Pea Cultivation in Kullu District of Himachal PradeshKharif RabiBrij Bala and D. Sharma

1419

3392 Organic Produce Market in India: Production, Market Size, Growth and PotentialChaman Lal, Smriti Nautiyal and Naresh Kumar

1425

3393 Essential Oil of Wild Marigold Induces Oxidative Stress in Senna occidentalisKomal Arora and Daizy R. Batish

1431

3394 Integrated Effect of Azolla in Combination with Graded Doses of Nitrogen on Growth and Agronomic Parameters of Rice CropAbdul Mateen Baktash, Naveen Datt, Deepika Suri, Deeksha Choudhary and Anjali Thakur

1435

3395 New Distributional Record of Khan and Ghai 1982 and Adult Beetle Host Range in Holotrichia nagpurensisTerai Region of UttarakhandMayank Kumar, A.K. Pandey and K. Sreedevi

1438

3396 Insect-pests, Natural Enemies and Soil Micro-flora in Cabbage Grown under Subhash Palekar Natural and Conventional Farming SystemsAkshay Rana, R.S. Chandel, P.L. Sharma, Panma Yankit, Sudhir Verma, S.C. Verma and Priyanka Sharma

1442

3397 Variable Host-pathogen Interactions in Resistant and Susceptible Barley ( ) Genotypes to Hordeum vulgareUstilago hordeiJashandeep Singh, Amrinder Kaur, Vineet K. Sharma and Anu Kalia

1449

3398 Impact of Stubble Burning on Environment and Agriculture: A ReviewArundhati and Navjot Singh Gill

1453

3399 Inter-linkage of Climate and Streamflow Dynamics in Kashmir HimalayasDurdanah Mattoo, M. Sultan Bhat and Sajad Ahmad Mir

1458

3400 Study on Mollusc Linnaeus 1758 Teredo navalisin Mangrove Vegetation Environment of East Halmahera, IndonesiaYumima Sinyo, Sutrisno Anggoro and Tri Retnaningsih Soeprobowati

1466

CONTENTS

3401 Chemical Composition and in Vitro Evaluation of Antioxidant and Antibacterial Activity of Rosmarinus officinalis L. ExtractNadia Bemmansour, B. Mahdjouba, H. Lamia and K. Hanitet

1474

3402 Rare Species of from Tlemcen Region (Western Algeria)AsteraceaeMahiaoui Youssouf, Stambouli Meziane Haciba, Babali Brahim and Bouchekif Hadjer

1483

3403 Design and Development of Smart Biomonitoring System using Internet of ThingsC.K. Akhila, V. Vandhana Devi and V. Gitanjali

1489

3404 Fortification of Food: Achieving Zero Hunger in Sub-Saharan AfricaSimran Kaur and Surabhi Sharma

1496

3405 Colour and Viscosity Attributes of Twin-Screw Extrusion Processed Potato StarchNeeraj Gandhi and Baljit Singh

1503

3406 Application of Fuzzy Logic for Sensory Evaluation of Pre-treated Vacuum Fried Carrot ChipsP. Babu and G.K. Rajesh

1509

3407 Food Consumption Pattern and Dietary Intake among Young Punjabi WomenRenuka Aggarwal and Kiran Bains

1515

3408 Scheduling of Planting Dates for Maximum Profitability in Carnation ( L.) under Mid Dianthus caryophyllusHills of Solan, Himachal PradeshArshi Sultanpuri, S.R. Dhiman, Y.C. Gupta, Puja Sharma, Bharati Kashyap, Meenakshi Basoli and Ch Momin Kalkame

1521\

3409 Seed Quality of CGMS Based Chilli ( L.) Hybrid Induced by Time of Pollination and Capsicum annuumNumber of Fruit PickingsNeha Thakur, S.N. Vasudevan, S.R. Doddagoudar and B.V. Tembhurne

1529

3410 Toxicological Evaluation of Aromatic Hydrocarbons Using Toxi-Chromo Test and Mice ModelUba Bright O., Chukwura Edna I., Okoye Ebele L., Ubani Onyedikachi and Odibo Frederick J.C.

1533

3411 Identification and Antimicrobial Susceptibility Profiles of spp. Isolated from Chicken Flocks and Salmonellatheir Feed and Water in Karbala, IraqThamer Obaid Hasan and Inam Jasim Lafta

1542

3412 Evaluation of the Efficacy of Asparagus ( L.) Root Powder and Aqueous Extract on Asparagus officinalisthe Physiological and Immunological Performance of BroilersRasool A.A. Al-Subaihawi and Rabia J. Abbas

1551

3413 Effect of Adding Phytase to Low Protein Diets on Some Productive Traits of QuailRusul A.M. Alkhashab and S. Faiz

1557

3414 Molecular Study of Cryptosporidiosis in Dogs in the Central Region of IraqYasir Sh. Aljuboori and Noaman N. A'aiz

1562

3415 First Record of Occurrence of Indian Tree Shrew ( ) in Gautam Buddha Wildlife Sanctuary, Anathana elliotiGaya, Bihar (India)G. Kumar, A. Alam, M. Maaz, M. Shahbaz, D. Kumari and A. Kumar

1566

3416 Decision Making of Maize Growing Farmers in Punjab StateJagjeet Singh Gill and Anil Sharma

1569

3417 Identification of Suitable Sites for Water Harvesting Structures in Wadi Al-Meleh Using GISMohammed F.O. Khattab and Basman Y. Al-Ta'ai

1574

3418 Prevalence of Monogenean Parasites in Some Freshwater Fishes of Jammu Region, IndiaSukanya Rajput and Seema Langer

1579

3419 Effect of Pre-sowing Seed Treatments and Time of Sowing on Retz. in the NurseryTerminalia chebulaSamanpreet Singh and Kamal Sharma

1583

3420 Determinants of Transfer of Agricultural Techniques to Farmers by Agricultural Extension Workers in Nineveh Governorate,IraqAhmed Awad Talb Altalb

1590