A Survey of Fodder Plants in Mid-altitude Himalayan Rangelands of Uttarakhand, India

A Survey of Fodder Plants in Mid-altitude Himalayan Rangelands of Uttarakhand, India

Vir Singh;RD Gaur;Babita Bohra

【期刊名称】《山地科学学报（英文版）》 【年(卷),期】2008(005)003

【摘要】Himalayan rangelands, the crucial but by and large the neglected ecosystems, are an integral part of mountain farming systems. The present investigation is based on the extensive survey and collection of mid-altitude range plants from Almora and Champawat districts of Kumaun division in the Uttarakhand Himalaya in India, from September 2003 to June 2007. The rangelands studied were oak types, chirpine types, grass types and mixed ones. Some 300 species of grasses, other herbaceous plants, trees and shrubs were found in the mid-altitude rangelands. A sizeable number of species belonged to the family of Poaceae. The grass-dominated rangelands especially harboured a variety of grass species of good fodder value. The diversity of fodder plants is a proportion of the enormous biodiversity occurring in the parts of the Himalaya. A panorama of the biodiversity emerged in this study, which is of both intangible value and direct value for the livestock- and rangeland- dependent mountain communities, suggests a very high scope of the utilization of this natural and uncultivated biodiversity for supporting livestock- based livelihoods of the region.

This biodiversity also has enormous bearing on the cultivated area of the region.

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Rangelands;mid-altitude;fodder

plants;biodiversity;Himalaya;Uttarakhand 【作者】Vir Singh;RD Gaur;Babita Bohra

【作者单位】Professor, Department of Environmental Science, College of Basic Sciences and Humanities, GB Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar-263145, Uttarakhand, India;Emeritus Professor, Department of Botany, HNB Garhwal University, Srinagar-246174, Uttarakhand, India;Regional Rangeland Consultant, International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development ICIMOD, P.O. Box 3226, Khumaltar, Kathmandu, Nepal 【正文语种】中文 【中图分类】P93 【文献来源】

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