Biodiversity Under the Important Arid Zone Trees and It S Fodder Value s1

ISSN 0564-3295 TROPICAL ECOLOGY © International Society for Tropical Ecology Vol. 57, No. 1 Abbreviation : Trop. Ecol. January 2016

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Research Papers Yogesh Joshi, Manish Tripathi, Zoya Jinnah, Kapil Bisht & Dalip K. Upreti – Host specificity of 1 epiphytic macrolichens: a case study of Jageshwar forest (Uttarakhand) India Madhura Niphadkar, Gentile Francesco Ficetola, Anna Bonardi, Harini Nagendra & Emilio Padoa- 9 Schioppa – Effects of landscape context on the invasive species Lantana camara in Biligiri Rangaswamy Temple Tiger Reserve, India Takaomi Arai & Li Lian Wong – Validation of the occurrence of the tropical eels, Anguilla bengalensis 23 bengalensis and A. bicolor bicolor at Langkawi Island in Peninsular Malaysia, Malaysia K. V. Suryabhagavan, Misrak Alemu & M. Balakrishnan – GIS-based multi-criteria decision analysis 33 for forest fire susceptibility mapping: a case study in Harenna forest, Southwestern Ethiopia

Javier Álvarez-Sánchez, Guadalupe Barajas-Guzmán, Julio Campo & Ricardo León – Inorganic 45 nitrogen and phosphorus in stem flow of the palm Astrocaryum mexicanum Liebm. located in Los Tuxtlas, Mexico David L. Rogowski & Katharine R. Stewart – Effects of increased temperature on a Trichoptera 57 (Hydropsychidae) from premontane forest streams in Southern Costa Rica A. Egbert Selwin Rose & S. Senthilkumar – Studies on the mycorrhizal association of Rhododendron 69 arboreum Sm. ssp nilagiricum (Zenkar) Tagg Indu K. Murthy, Savithri Bhat, Vani Sathyanarayan, Sridhar Patgar, M. Beerappa, P. R. Bhat, D. 77 M. Bhat, N. H. Ravindranath, M. A. Khalid, M. Prashant, Sudha Iyer, Daniel M. Bebber & Raghuvansh Saxena – Vegetation structure and composition of tropical evergreen and deciduous forests in Uttara Kannada District, Western Ghats under different disturbance regimes Balmukund Chaurasia & R. P. Shukla – Changes in reproductive phenology and sex ratio of Trewia 89 nudiflora Linn. growing in sal forest of north-eastern UP, India D. Mohandass, Tarun Chhabra, Ramneek Singh Pannu & Kingsly Chuo Beng – Recruitment of 101 saplings in active tea plantations of the Nilgiri Mountains: Implications for restoration ecology Short Communication D. Balasubramanian, K. Arunachalam & A. Arunachalam – Dioecious Caesalpinia bonduc (L.) 119 Roxb. calls for conservation in Burachapori Wildlife Sanctuary, Assam