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(Tamil Nadu). Curtis, J.J 1146 Indian Forester [October 2011] 1147 Champion, H.G. and S.K. Seth, (1968). The Forests Types of India. Government of India Press, New Delhi. A HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF WILDLIFE PROTECTION AND MANAGEMENT IN TAMIL NADU Chaturvedi, A.N. and L.S. Khanna (1982). Forest Mensuration. International Book Distributors, DehraDun. Cowlishaw, G., C.S. Mendelson and J.M. Rowcliffe (2005). Structure and composition in a bushmeat commodity chain in Southwestern Ghana, Conservation Biology, 19: 139-149. T. SEKAR Cullen, L., R.E. Jr. Bodmer and C.V. Padua (2000). Effects of hunting in habitat fragments of the Atlantic forests, Biological Conservation, 95: 49-56. O/o. Principal Chief Conservator of Forests, Tamil Nadu, Chennai – 600 015 (Tamil Nadu). Curtis, J.J. and R.P. Mcltonish (1950). The inter relationship of certain analytic synthetic phyto-sociological characters, Ecology, 31: 434-455. Diamond, J. and T.J. Case (1986). 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