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2221 Quantification of Greenhouse Gas Emission from Five Agroforestry Systems in Semi-arid Alfisols of 1 during Rainy Season 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 35 Punjab 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 44 (Fabricius) 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 69 (Banks) In Jute 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 90 in Sugarcane 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, 96 Densities and Butachlor in Temperate Conditions 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 126 Manure-based Media Mixtures 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 135 Latitude? Shrikant V. Gunaga and R. Vasudeva 2248 Evaluation of Management Practices for Rice -Wheat System Under On-farm Condition for Low Hill Zone 139 of Himachal Pradesh 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 207 Punjab 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 230 Madhya Pradesh 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 251 Kashmir 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 [ umbellata (Thumb) Ohwi and Ohashi] in North 256 Western Hills Neelam Bhardwaj and Parveen Sharma 2279 Assessment of Strength of Self-incompatibility in S-allele Lines of Cabbage (Brassica oleracea var. capitata 259 L.) 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 270 Cotton 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 Supplementation on Production Status of Buffaloes Fed on Forage Based Diet 282 Raminder Singh Ghuman and Aparana Indian J. Ecol. (2015) 42(2)

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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 397 Punjab 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 454 Karnataka 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, 456 India 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. 559 Soto 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

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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 39 Region, India 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 239 Ornamental Fish, Koi Carp, Cyprinus carpio (Linnaeus) 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 296 Adolescents 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 , 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 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 370 L.) 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

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2415 Monitoring Land use Land Cover Changes using Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques: A Case 383 Study around Papagni River, , 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 , 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)

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2462 Studies on Effect of Cd and Hg on Biochemical Characteristics of Populus deltoides (W. Bartram ex 1 Marshall) and its Uptake 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 24 Farms of Southern India 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 40 rapa L.) 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 45 Irrigation 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 50 Under Degraded Sites of North Western Himalayas Tahir Mushtaq, Rakesh Banyal and Mir Awsaf Ahmad 2472 Use of Municipal Garbage as Potting Media in Nursery Production of Ailanthus triphysa (Dennst.) Alston 54 Seedlings 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 & 68 Kashmir 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 85 Groundnut85 Ashutosh Kushwah, Soma Gupta, Sheetal Raj Sharma and K. Pradhan 2480 Morpho-Agronomic Characteristics of Farmers Rice Variety “Safri” from Different Regions of 90 Chhattishgarh 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 103 Conditions V.P. Kad and J.K. Dhemre 2484 Evaporation Estimation by Multilayer perceptron Based Artificial Neural Network and Multiple Linear 108 Regression Techniques 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

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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, 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 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 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 Mechanical Characterization of Discarded Monofilament Fishnet/Glass Fiber and Polyester Hybrid 2537 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 Indian Journal1 Indian Journal of Ecology (2017) 44(3) of Ecology

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

2542 Economic Growth and CO2 Emissions in India: An Environmental Kuznets Curve Approach 428 G. Makarabbi, Vijayalaxmi D. Khed, G. Balaganesh and A. Jamaludheen 2543 Watershed Prioritization Based on Morphometric Parameters Using Remote Sensing and Geographical 433 Information System Himanshu Kandpal, Anil Kumar, C.P. Reddy and Anurag Malik 2544 Assessing Decline in Open Water Area of Vellayani Fresh Water Lake Ecosystem: A Remote 438 Sensing Approach Aswathy Vijayan, T Radhakrishnan and Elsamma Job 2545 Strategic Ecological Assessment of the State of the Transboundary Catchment Basin of the Dnieper 442 River under Extensive Agricultural Load Vitalii Ivanovich Pichura, Yevghenii Alexandrovich Domaratsky, Yury Ivanovich Yaremko, Yevghenii Georgievich Volochnyuk and Victor Valerievich Rybak 2546 Runoff Estimation and Water Management Options for Coastal Odisha 451 Ranu 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 456 Aminul Islam, D.R. Mailapalli and Anuradha Behera 2548 Daily Pan Evaporation Modeling in Hilly Region of Uttarakhand Using Artificial Neural Network 467 Bhagwat 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 483 Budgam, Kashmir Sabeena Nabi, Burhan Nabi, Shabir Ahmad Rather and K.N. Qaisar 2551 Phytoplankton Assemblages in the River Barak, South Assam, India: A Study to Know its Composition in 492 Changing Space and Time Hussain Mahammad Hany, Arpita Dalal and Susmita Gupta 2552 Water Properties as Influenced by Abattoir Wastes in Abakaliki and Ezzamgbo Southeastern Nigeria 500 C. Njoku, M.O. Alu, O.C. Okafor, J.N. Nwite and E.N. Uchewa 2553 Qualitative and Quantitative Study of Epiphytic Diatoms on Two Macrophytes In A lotic Ecosystem, Iraq 504 Ali O. Shaawiat and Fikrat M. Hassan 2554 Phosphorus, Potassium and Sulphur Uptake by Rice as Influenced by Different Levels of Nitrogen and 516 Silicon in Typic Ustochrepts Soil J.K. Malav and J.K. Patel 2555 Response of Irrigation Regimes and Nitrogen Doses on Consumptive Water Use, Water Use Efficiency and 521 Moisture Extraction Pattern of Late Sown Wheat Mukesh Kumar, R.K. Pannu and Bhagat Singh 2556 Spatial Distribution for Major Nutrients through GIS Technique and Site Specific Nutrient Recommendations 527 for Arecanut Gardens in Karnataka, India M. 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 534 Kinnow Mandarin Hidayatullah Mir and H. Itoo 2558 Response of Nutrient Management Practices in Pigeonpea [Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.] and Clusterbean 539 [Cymopsis tetragonoloba (L.) Taub.] Intercropping System Manjula Udikeri and B.G. Koppalkar 2559 Long Term Effect of Integrated Nutrient Management on Distribution of Total Zn, Cu, Fe and Mn under 543 Rice-Wheat System S.S. Dhaliwal, M.K. Dhaliwal, A.K. Shukla and J.S. Manchanda

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2560 Growth Pattern and Productivity of Component Crops in Intercropping of Indian Rape (Brassica rapa var. 548 Toria) 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 Yogesh Kumar, Raj Singh, Anil Kumar and A.K.Dhaka 2562 Effect of Proline and Salicylic Acid on Physiological and Biochemical Parameters in Squash Melon (Citrullus 559 vulgaris var. fistulosus) at Low Temperature Dimple 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 Shiwaliks Yogesh Khokhar and Rakesh Kumar Sharma 2564 Phenological Development and Agrometeorological Indices in Dual Purpose Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) 570 as Influenced by Planting Techniques and Cutting Practices in Indo-Gangetic Plains of India Manohar 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&K M. 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 579 Application Aparjot Kaur and S.K. Thind 2567 Diet Composition of Barn Owl, Tyto alba as Determinant for its Potential as Biocontrol Agent of Rodent 583 Pests in Punjab, India Renuka Malhotra and Neena Singla 2568 Prevalence of Papaya Mealy Bug, Paracoccus marginatus Williams and Granara de Willink in Consistency 590 with Natal and Non-Natal Host Plants R. 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 598 Ashlesha and Y.S. Paul 2571 Technology Gaps Analysis and Prominence of Blossom Midge, Contarinia maculipennis Felt of Jasmine 604 (Jasminum sambac l.) In Tamil Nadu I. Merlin Kamala, J.S. Kennedy and I.I. Devanand 2572 Waterfowls Diversity of Morna Reservoir 608 M.R. Abdar 2573 Morphological Markers to Identify Ceratophyllum demersum L. and C. muricatum Cham.] 612 Manjula K. Saxena 2574 Effect of High Pressure Processing and Thermal Treatments on Physical, Chemical and Microbiological 618 Characteristics 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 628 Affected Area of District Fazilka (Punjab), India Ajeet Singh, Surjya Narayan Datta and Meera D. Ansal 2576 Evaluation of Aquaculture Units Established in Salt Affected Areas of District , Punjab 632 Aparna Kumari, Meera D. Ansal, Prabjeet Singh and Shanthanagouda Admane Holeyappa 2577 Trends of Fish Marketing Strategy and Trade in Punjab-A Survey 637 Surjya Narayan Datta, Asha Dhawan and Ajeet Singh 2578 Natural Regeneration of Quercus glauca Thunberg Forests and its Relation with Site Conditions 644 T. 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 654 Sonam, Balwant Kumar, Vijay Arya and D.K. Upreti 2581 Performance of Pre-treatment on Germination and Initial Growth Attributes of Hydnocarpus pentandra 658 (Buch. Ham.) Oken K. Vidyasagaran, V.K. Silpa and Vikas Kumar 2582 Comparative Assessment of Radioactive Strontium and Cesium Contents in the Feedstuffs and Dairy 662 Products of Western Siberia Olga 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 Nidhi Sahni and Urmila Gupta Phutela 2584 Impact of Dietary Intervention of High Bioactive Compound Beverages on the Lipid Profile of Hyperlipidemic 671 Subjects Gopika Puri, Balwinder Sadana and Neerja Singla 2585 Mineral and Antinutritional Composition of Doughnuts from Pearl Millet Blended Composite Flour 675 Paramjot Kaur, Monika Sood and Julie D. Bandral 2586 Dust Interception Capacity of Common Plant Species Growing Alongside National Highway Sirmaur, 680 Himachal Pradesh, India Jyotsana Pandit, Anil Sood and Anish Kumar Sharma 2587 Amelioration of Perturbed Phosphorus Metabolism in Mungbean Seedlings Exposed to Sodium Arsenate 683 by Phytohormones and Phosphate Salts Arpita Swarnakar Indian Journal1 Indian Journal of Ecology (2017) 44(4) of Ecology

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2588 Spatial Assessment of Water Quality in Kondurupalem Lagoon Inlet, South East Coast of India 687 V. Vandhana Devi and R. Nagendran 2589 Canonical Correspondence Analysis for Determining Distributional Patterns of Benthic Macroinvertebrate 697 Fauna in the Lotic Ecosystem Asheesh Shivam Mishra and Prakash Nautiyal 2590 Biology of Macrofauna in Lotic and Lentic Facies at Dam "El Ghoress" on Za river (Morocco) 706 Khalid Bouraada and Mariam Essafi 2591 Evaluation of Water Quality by Trophic Diatom Index (TDI) in Tigris River within Wasit Province 711 Shaimaa 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 717 Ecosystems under Mid hills Conditions of Himachal Pradesh Purnima Mehta, P.K. Baweja and S.K. Bhardwaj 2593 Tree Species Diversity, Community Composition and Distribution Across Six Forest Stands of Uttarakhand, 722 Central 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 729 of Tamil Nadu P. Jothimani, K. Senthilraja and S. Vinothkanna 2595 People Perceptions of Climate Change and its Impacts on Phyto-diversity and Livelihood of the Inhabitants 735 of Almora Kumaun Himalaya, Uttarakhand (India) Ashaq Hussain Khan and Dhani Arya 2596 Modelling and Forecasting of Black Pepper Production in India 741 P. Mishra, K. Padmanaban and Meenakshee Dwivedi 2597 Biomass and Carbon Density in Relation to Altitude and Aspect in Moist-temperate Western 746 Himalayan Ecosystem Durgesh 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, 755 Uttar Pradesh, India Chandana Suman, Sandeep Kumar Tripathi and Priyankar Raha 2599 Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Habitat Change in and Around Lala Bustard Sanctuary-Gujarat, India 759 Dayesh Parmar and Prafulla Soni 2600 Remediation of Heavy Metal Contaminated Soil using Different Techniques 765 S.P. Jeyapriya and L. Shazli 2601 Soil Quality and Heavy Metal Contamination of Soils in Mindi Industrial Area, Visakhapatnam, 774 Andhra Pradesh, India Pushpanjali, 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 778 P.K. Muhammed Jaslam, Brigit Joseph, Vijayaraghava Kumar and Neethu S. Kumar 2603 Risk Assessment of Toxicity of Agricultural Pesticides on Brine Shrimp (Artemia salina) 784 Nwokwu Gilbert Nwogboduhu 2604 Litter Decomposition Vis-a-Vis Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics of Tephrosia candida Components in 791 Different Fallow Periods Following Shifting Cultivation in Mizoram Wapongnungsang, Ramchhanliana Hauchhum and S.K. Tripathi 2605 AMMI Biplot and Regression Analysis for Grain Yield of Basmati Rice Genotypes in Different 797 Production Systems Bharat 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 804 Yugal 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 808 Shalini Chauhan and S.K. Bhardwaj

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2608 Impact of Scientific Interventions into Existing Farming Systems on Productivity, Soil Properties and 813 Income Enhancement of Tribal Farmers of Jorhat District of Assam A. 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 821 Naturally Ventilated Greenhouse Mahesh 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 827 Productivity of Broccoli (Brassica oleracea L.var. Italica) Juvaria Jeelani and Nayar Afaq Kirmani 2611 Promotion of Crop Diversification in Mountainous Areas using Geospatial Technologies 832 Kunal 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 837 Bharati 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 Zone S. Porpavai and R. Marimuthu 2614 In Vitro Multiplication of Cleopatra mandarin from Nodal Explants 847 Shashi Prakash, Suneel Sharma and Subhash Kajla 2615 Effect of Irrigation and Mulch on Linseed (Linum usitatissimum) for Improving Growth, Yield and Water 851 Extraction Pattern S. Sarkar and A. Sarkar 2616 Ornamental Fish Production Sector of Maharashtra state: A Constraint Analysis 856 Bharat 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 Changes Mamta Sharma, Vaneet Inder Kaur and Meera D. Ansal 2619 Investigation of Genetic Variability for Yield and Yield Related Traits in Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) 869 Genotypes Sunil, K.D. Sehrawat and Mujahid Khan 2620 Effect of Presowing Guava Seed Treatments Influence Seedling Growth Behaviour in the Nursery 873 Aditi 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.) 877 Yudhvir 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 883 Shilpa Panjgotra, G.K. Sangha and Sandeep Sharma 2623 Storage Studies of Jam Prepared from Different Aonla Cultivars under Lower Foothills of Shivaliks 888 Neeraj 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 893 K. Viswajyothi, Naveen Aggarwal and Jawala Jindal 2625 Role of Value-addition in Agrarian Farming System in Enhancing the Farmer's Income 898 Sanjeev Kumar ,Vinita Kanwal, Chandan Kumar Rai and Abul K Azad 2626 Assessment of Stunting and Malnutrition among School-going Children from different Cultural Regions 903 of Punjab, India Sukhdeep Kaur, Kiran Bains and Harpreet Kaur Indian Journal1 Indian Journal of Ecology (2018) 45(1) of Ecology

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2626 Studies on Air Pollution Tolerance Index of Native Plant Species to Enhance Greenery in Industrial Area P. Rupa and T. Venkatachalam 1 2627 Agriculture Drought Analysis using Remote Sensing based on NDVI-LST Feature Space V. Vani, Pavan Kumar K and Venkata Ravibabu Mandla 6 2628 Exploring the Rainfall Scenario of Periyar Vaigai Command Area for Crop Planning N.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 Network Basant Ballabh Dumka, P.S. Kashyap and Bhagwat Saran 19 2630 Solar Power Based DC-DC Converter Fed Brushless DC Motor Drive for Agricultural Applications Sathish Kumar Shanmugam and Meenakumari Ramachandran 25 2631 Seasonal variations in Physico chemical characteristics of Dal lake Kashmir Irfan Jamila and A.R. Yousuf 33 2632 Meteorological Drought Assessment for Agricultural Planning at Mungeli District of Chhattisgarh Plain Pushpendra Kumar Singh, R.K Sahu and M.P. Tripathi 44 2633 Floristic Composition and Structure of Urban Landscapes of Agartala, Tripura

Tamal Majumdar. and Thiru Selvan 48 2634 Seasonal Variation in Physicochemical Parameters and its Relationship with Zooplankton Abundance in River Asu, Nigeria Nwinyimagu 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 Characteristics N.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 Himalaya Pankaj 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 India Bshar Samir Bdoor 77 2638 Rural Households' Perception on Forest Resource Utilization during Climatic Adversities in Garhwal Himalaya Sushma Rawat, Bhuvnesh Nagar and Rekha Dhanai 84 2639 Insect Community in Agroforestry: Role of Weather Parameters on Population Dynamics Md 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 Rai and Bhupender Gupta 100 2642 Avifaunal Diversity and Status of Jhalawar Forest Division, South-Eastern Rajasthan, India Vijay Kumar Yadav and P.S. Chauhan 107 2643 Water Bird Diversity of Madjen Djedj Marsh, Northeastern Algeria Nadhra Boukrouma, Houda Khedir and Selma Zemouli 117 2644 Land Use Effect on Soil Properties in Abakaliki Southeastern Nigeria C. Njoku 122 2645 Influence of Mineral Nutrition and Combined Growth Regulating Chemical on Nutrient Status of Sunflower E.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 Soil Akanksha 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 Project Tarate Suryakant Bajirao and Harish W. Awari 135

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2648 Geochemical Studies on Surface Water Quality in Lower Noyyal Sub – Basin, Cauvery River, Tamil Nadu, India T. 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 Lines Hemender, 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. Verma and A.K. Naidu 152 2651 Optimization of Onion, Garlic and Tomato Fortification in Dehusked Mungbean Preparation for Enhanced Iron Bioaccessibility Pardeep Kaur, Kiran Bains and Renuka Aggarwal 158 2652 Modeling Rice-Wheat Yield Estimation over a Sub-Humid Climatic Environment of Bihar, India S. 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 parameters Todar 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 Zone S. Porpavai and R. Marimuthu 183 2657 Physico-chemical Characteristics of Bottle Gourd and Strawberry Blended Toffee Tsering 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 Products Prashant 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 Grader Ankit Kumar, Smita U. Khodke, Gurdeep Lal and Aminul Islam 205 2661 Potential of Entomopathogens in Managing Potato Whitegrubs in Himachal Pradesh R.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 Damage Ban T. Mohammed , Mohammed, H. Dakhil and Thikra M .Almutiry 214 2663 Present Status and Future Prospects of Fisheries in Manipur M.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 Waste G. Koteswara Reddy and Kiran Yarrakula 227 Indian Journal1 Indian Journal of Ecology (2018) 45(2) of Ecology

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2665 Degradation of Western Algerian Steppes Lands: Monitoring and Assessment 235 Fatima Zohra Bahlouli, Abderrezak Djabeur, Abdelkrim Kefifa, Fatiha Arfi and Meriem Kaid-harche 2666 Double Harmonization of Transcontinental Allometric Model of Picea spp. 244 Vladimir Andreevich Usoltsev, Seyed Omid Reza Shobairiand Viktor Petrovich Chasovskikh 2667 Habitat Selection for Lemongrass (Cymbopogon citrates Stapf.) Cultivation in Non-Reserve Forests of 253 Southern Western Ghats, Tamil Nadu, India Sangeeth Thekkan and S. Paulsamy 2668 Pattern of Floristics and Biodiversity of Angiosperms of Purna Wildlife Sanctuary, Mahal, Gujarat 260 Vikas Kumar, Anjali Tiwari and Bimal S. Desai 2669 Habitat Distribution Modelling of Seabuckthorn (Hippophae salicifolia D. Don.) in Sikkim, Eastern 266 Himalaya, India Arun 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 270 Conditions Kamal Kishor Sood, Fayaz Ahmed and N.S. Raina 2671 Biomass and Carbon Stocks in Agroforestry Land use System in Sub-tropics of J&K 276 Vishal Mahajan, N.S. Raina and L.M. Gupta 2672 Rainfall-Runoff Modelling Using Artificial Neural Network and Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System 281 Pratibha 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, India D. Suresh and Kiran Yarrakula 2674 Weekly Pan-evaporation Simulation using MLP, CANFIS, MLR and Climate-based Models at Pantnagar 292 Anurag 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, India S.K. Aditya, V. Smitha Asok, Jenitha Jerome and Rajesh Reghunath 2676 Harmonization and Comparative Evaluation of Evapotranspiration Estimates in Data Scarce Conditions 305 Nikul Kumari and Ankur Srivastava 2677 Effect of Real Time Nitrogen Management on Productivity of Rice (Oryza sativa L) 311 Rama 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 316 Abakaliki, Southeastern Nigeria N.L. Aniekwe and C.I. Akabueze 2679 Effects of Paclobutrazol on Growth and Yield Attributes of Groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.) 321 Manashi Barman, S.K. Gunri, A.M. Puste and Pankaj Das 2680 Performance of Groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L) Varieties as Affected by Weeding Frequencies 325 G.N. Nwokwu, L.G. Ekwu and E.B. Utobo 2681 Delineation of Rice-wheat Cropped Area using Geo-spatial Techniques 330 Ranu 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 337 S.R. Arya, Elizabeth K. Syriac, K.S. Meenakumari and Vijayaraghava Kumar 2683 Towards Unsustainable Resource use in Punjab Agriculture 342 Garima Taneja, Swati Rawat and Kamal Vatta 2684 Water Use Efficiency of Different Mustard Cultivars under Varying Thermal Conditions in Ludhiana, Punjab 347 K.K. Gill, Baljeet Kaur and Kavita Bhatt 2685 Isolation and Identification of Extremely Halophilic Bacteria Producing Extracellular Hydrolyses from Khur 352 Elaheh Fallahnezhad Naeini, Manoochehr Sattari Naeini and Marziyeh Noroozi

Date of Publication 01.06.2018 CONTENTS

2686 Effect of Silver and Zinc oxide Nanocompound Mixture on Growth and Some Physiological Properties of 358 Sclerotinia sclerotiorum Husham 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 Nadu I. Merlin Kamala 2688 Multivariate Analysis of Water Quality Parameters in the Seasonal Wetland Ecosystem 373 S. Rameshkumar and Kalidos Radhakrishnan 2689 Evaluation of Groundwater Quality by using Water Quality Index Near Magnesite Mines, Salem District, 380 Tamil Nadu, India P.S. Kumar and P. Balamurugan 2690 Water Quality Index Assessment of Domestic Water Supplies in System Tank 384 S. Ragunath and M. Lenin Sundar 2691 Removal of Chromium (VI) from Aqueous Solution using Azolla Caroliniana as Adsorbent 388 S. Evany Nithya, A. Sabeek Mohamed and R. Viji 2692 Feathers of Feral Pigeons (Columbia livia) as Bioindicator for Heavy Metals Pollution in Jaipur, India 393 Varsha Gupta 2693 Zoning and Trends of LGP Sowing Period in North-west India under Changing Climate using GIS 397 Mohan Singh, Satish Kumar Bhardwaj and Aditya 2694 Effect of Different Drying Techniques on Quality of Red Chilli Powder 402 Shuchi 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 406 Sandesh Patil and Arpita Sharma 2696 Assessment of Nutrition Knowledge of Elite Athletes and their Coaches in Punjab 411 Aditi Sewak and Neerja Singla 2697 Fixed-Bed Biosorption of Nitrate using Tamarind Fruit Shells 419 M. Senthil Rajan and R. Saraswathi 2698 Genetic Diversity for Yield and Its Attributes in Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) under Irrigated Condition 425 Yogender Kumar, Naveen Kumar and Suman Devi 2699 Quality Evaluation of Elephant Foot Yam (Amorphophallus paeoniifolius Dennst- Nicolson) Cultivars during 430 Growth and Development Amit Kumar Singh, Arvind Kumar Chaurasiya and Surajit Mitra Indian Journal1 Indian Journal of Ecology (2018) 45(3) of Ecology

CONTENTS 2700 Wild Edible Plant Resources of Kedarnath Valley, Garhwal Himalaya, India 433 Chandi Prasad and Ramesh C. Sharma 2701 Anthropogenic Transformation of Hydrological Regime of the Dnieper River 445 Vitalii Ivanovich Pichura, Daria Sergeevna Malchykova, Pavel Aleksandrovich, Ukrainskij Iryna Aleksandrovna Shakhman, Anastasiia Nikolaevna Bystriantseva 2702 Tree Species Composition and Diversity in Tropical Moist Forests of Mizoram, Northeast India 454 Ningthoujam Linthoingambi Devi, Dipendra Singha and S.K. Tripathi 2703 Structural and Floristic Diversity of Different Landscape in Western Ghats of Kodagu, Karnataka, India 462 V. Maheswarappa and R. Vasudeva 2704 Eucalyptus-based Agroforestry System under Semi-Arid Condition in North-Western India: 470 An economic Analysis R.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 Perspective Himanshu Kandpal, Anil Kumar1and Anurag Malik 2706 Carbon Sequestration by Trees-A Study in the Western Ghats, Wayanad Region 479 P.J. Jithila and P.K. Prasadan 2707 Mapping of Natural Hazards and Expected Incidences in Great Himalayan National Park Conservation 483 Area, Himachal Pradesh Suneet Naithani, Ashutosh Singh and Akshaya Verma 2708 Human-Panther Conflicts in the Aravalli Hills of Southern Rajasthan-A Case Study 489 Puneet Sharma and Nadim Chishty 2709 Joint Forest Management for Conservation and Auxiliary Income in Himachal Pradesh 494 Chandresh Guleria, Manoj Kumar Vaidya, Chaman Lal and Amit Guleria 2710 Diversity of Endophytic Fungi in Few Lianas of West Medinipur, South-West, India 499 Biplab Bagchi 2711 Biodiversity of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal (AM) Fungi in Agroecosystems of Semi-Arid Region Jaipur, India 505 Ajay Pal and Sonali Pandey 2712 Aquatic Insects as Indicator of Water Quality: A Study on a Small Stream of Shillong, Meghalaya 511 North-east India Identicia Marwein and Susmita Gupta 2713 Appraisal of Nutritional Values and Antimicrobial Activities of Garlic, Cinnamon, Black Pepper 518 and Aloe Vera Powder Jaswinder 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 522 J.N. Nwite, J.E. Orji and C.C. Okolo 2715 Plant Diversity at Fly Ash Disposal Site of Thermal Power Plant Gandhinagar, Gujarat 528 Krishna Rawat, Bhawana Pathak and M.H. Fulekar 2716 Estimation and Mapping Chlorophyll-a Concentration in Pulicat Lagoon, South India Using Sentinel 2A 533 R. Saraswathy and P. Kasinatha Pandian 2717 Effects of Soil Amendments with Bio-inoculants on Biomass Production of Flemingia semialata Seedlings 538 R.K. Kar, K. Upadhyaya and P.C. Panda 2718 Groundwater Potential Mapping Using Dempster – ShaferTheory of Evidence for Tiruvannamalai 542 District, India S. Evany Nithya and J. Jeeva 2719 Time Variant Growth Approximation Model for Estimation of Crop Yield and Water Regulation using 550 Environmental Factors (FCG) R. Srinivasan and P. Uma Maheswari 2720 Calibration and Validation of CERES-Wheat (DSSAT v4.6) Model for Wheat under Irrigated Conditions: 555 Model Evaluation and Application S. Sheraz Mahdi and Mizanul Haque

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2721 Effect of Bioclogging and Biocementation on Permeability and Strength of Soil 560 S.P. Jeyapriya 2722 Spatial and Temporal Land Surface Temperature Analysis of Kashmir Valley (India) 566 Latief Ahmad and R.H. Kanth 2723 Effect of Subspecies, Detasseling and Gibberellic Acid on Growth, Yield, Corn Silk and Its Content of 570 Some Antioxidant Compounds H.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 Nadu S. Arulmozhi Devi and N. Sakthivel 2725 Nutrient and Organic Components Mobilization in leaves of Excoecaria agallocha L. during Senescence 579 Ajit B. Telave, Sourabh R. Chandankar and Kedar B. Deshmane 2726 Effect of Cladophora crispate Extract on Potassium Release from Soil 583 Hashim H. Kareem, Aldhahim, Abdulameer Raheem Obaed and Qais Hussain Abbas Al-Semmak 2727 Impact of Penoxsulam Integrated with Stale Seedbed on Soil Health of Upland Rice Ecosystem 587 Ravikiran, Elizabeth K. Syriac and S.R. Arya 2728 Qualitative Decline of Pollinator Spectrum in Sunflower Agro-ecosystem 592 O.P. Chaudhary and Rinku Poonia 2729 Salinity Tolerance and Survival of Freshwater Carp, Cyprinus carpio Linn. in Inland Saline Water 598 Gulgul Singh, Meera D. Ansal* and Vaneet Inder Kaur 2730 Development and Testing of Rotary Mechanism with Manual Feeding for Husking Coconut 602 Edwin Benjamin, A.N. Rajesh1, Aminul Islam and Jippu Jacob 2731 Impact of Drip Irrigation Scheduling and Water Use Efficiency on Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum) 607 In Western Uttar Pradesh, India Ram Kumar, Anurag Malik and Gurcharan Singh 2732 Quantification of the Pine Processionary Caterpillar Thaumetopoea pityocampa (Notodontidae) Haemocytes 611 I. Boudjahem, M.F. Brivio, S. Berchi and M. Mastore 2733 Morphological Study of Genetic Variability of Banana Genotypes for Crop Improvement 615 Prasenjit Kundu, Fatik Kumar Bauri and Sutanu Maji 2734 Effect of Pre-seed Treatment and Growing Media on Germination Parameters of Gmelina arborea Roxb. 623 Rashmiprava 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 627 Harike Wetland – A Ramsar Site Abhijeet Singh, Surjya Narayan Datta and Ajeet Singh 2736 Effect of Pretreatments on Shelf life and Nutritional Quality of Moth Bean 632 ( aconitiflius Jacq.) Sprouts Simran Arora, Saleem Siddiqui and Rakesh Gehlot 2737 Technological Adoption for Livelihood Security of Small Holder Farmers’ in Uttarakhand, India: Issues 638 and Opportunities Rekha Dhanai, R.S. Negi, Santosh Singh and Sushma Rawat 2738 Floristic Composition and Structure of Urban Landscapes of Agartala, Tripura 642

Tamal Majumdar. and Thiru Selvan 2739 Performance of Aonla with in-situ Moisture Conservation Techniques 654 Manish Kumar, Dev Narayan, R.S.Yadav, Prabhat Kumar, Rajeev Ranjan Monalisha Pramanik and Raj Kumar 2740 Physico-chemical and Nutritional Changes during Fruit Development in Mango (Mangifera indica ) cv. Dusehri 659 Ramandeep 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 663 Jaskirat Singh, S.K. Jawandha, Anita Arora and Ramandeep Singh Sidhu Indian Journal1 Indian Journal of Ecology (2018) 45(4) of Ecology

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2742 Agriculture Scenario with Changing Climate: Impacts, Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies 667 Amarjeet Kaur, Kanu Priya, Neeraj Gandhi and Poonam Aggarwal 2743 Ecological and Taxonomical study of Epipelion Community in Diyala River in Diyala Province- Iraq 680 Khazal 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 689 L. Bidyalaxmi Devi and Jayashree Rout 2745 Identify Suitable Classification Algorithm for Water Pixel Count Extraction – A Case Study of Puzhal Lake 697 Abhinav Wadhwa, K. Santhi, K. Pavan Kumar and Jithin Jose 2746 Tree Diversity and Structure Around Galela Lake, North minush Halmahera Indonesia 704 Hendro Christi Suhry, Tri Retnaningsih Soeprobowati and Jumari 2747 Assessment of Floristic Diversity of different Coniferous Forests in Himalayan Temperate Climate 711 of Western Himalayas Vipasha, D.R. Bhardwaj and Rakesh Kumar 2748 Spatial Assessment of Net Canopy Photosynthetic Rate and Species Diversity in Pichavaram Mangrove 717 Forest, Tamil Nadu P. 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 724 Disturbed and Undisturbed Sites H.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 728 Coding Representation Ashraf S. Abdulla, Bushra Q. Al-Abudi and Mohammed S. Mahdi 2751 Traditional Knowledge and Innovative Practices for Water Management and Conservation in Indian Cold 737 Desert, Leh Ladakh Stanzin Namtak and Ramesh C. Sharma 2752 Growth Performance Assessment of Melia dubia Cav. Germpalsms Grown under Semi-arid Conditions 745 R.S. Loushambam, A.S. Devakumar and M. Shankar 2753 Performance Evaluation of Water Delivery System for Command Area of Branch Canal 70 of Jayakwadi 750 Irrigation Project Tarate Suryakant Bajirao and Harish W. Awari 2754 Determination of Artificial Ground Water Recharge Adequacy in Vaniyar Sub-Basin, Tamil Nadu, India 756 K.R. Kalphana and R. Velkennedy 2755 Study of Deterioration Level of Water Quality along Mahim Creek of Mumbai 763 Pravin 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 768 S. Praveen, J. Jegan and T. Bhagavathi Pushpa 2757 Water Quality of Fresh Water Pond Ecosystem under Sub-Temperate Conditions of Palampur, 774 Himachal Pradesh Kalyani Supriya, Ramesh C. Chauhan and Balwinder Singh 2758 Application of Simple Remote Sensing Techniques for the Detection and Extraction of Coastline- 778 A Case Study of Diu Island, India Indra Prakash and Binh Thai Pham 2759 Influence of Sowing Periods and Seeding Rates on Yield of Grain Sorghum Hybrids under Regional 785 Climatic Transformations Ye.O. Domaratsky, O.G. Zhuykov and M.O. Ivaniv 2760 Predicting Mustard Yield in Different Agroclimatic Zones of Punjab through Statistical Models 790 K.K. Gill and Kavita Bhatt 2761 Influence of Provenance Variation on Seedling Characteristics of Celtis australis in Nursery Environment 797 Raj Kumar, Harsh Mehta, Rajesh Kaushal, Rakesh Banyal and Manish Kumar

Date of Publication 01.12.2018 CONTENTS

2762 Effect of Chemical and Organic Fertilizers and Interactions With High Potash and Silicon Spraying on 802 Vicia faba L. Antioxidants in Salinity Soil Ali H. Jasim, Evan I. Merhij, Huda A. Atab and S.H. Abdalwahed 2763 Rooting Response of Acer acuminatum Cuttings to IBA, Girdling and Season 806 Suresh Kumar, G.S. Shamet, Neena Kumari and Nagaraj Hegde 2764 Effects of Canopy on Seed Germination and Initial Growth Parameters of Some Agriculture Crops 810 U.K. Sahoo and Kalidas Upadhyaya 2765 Seed Quality Enhancement through Plasma Treatment: A Review 814 Cherry Nalwa and Ashok K. Thakur 2766 An Ergo-economical Study on Paddy Transplanting Methods in Kangra, Himachal Pradesh 822 Radhna Gupta and Rakesh K. Gupta 2767 Competitive Ability and Neighbor Relation of Parthenium hysterophorus with Crotalaria striata 826 Sanjay Kumar Pandey and Ravindra P. Shukla 2768 Effects of Different Land Use on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics in Zunheboto District of Nagaland, 831 Northeast India Wapongnungsang, Adangnaro and S.K. Tripathi 2769 Relationship of Physico-Chemical Properties with Chromium Content in Sewage and Tubewell Water 835 Irrigated Soils of Punjab Neeraj Rani, Dhanwinder Singh and Rajeev Sikka 2770 Managing Saline Soils of Indo-Gangetic Plains with Eucalyptus and Melia based Agroforestry Systems 841 R. 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 850 M.O. Alu, C. Njoku, O.C. Okafor and J.N. Nwite 2772 Diversity of Insects in Sweet Gourd Field of Bangladesh 854 Nabanita 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 858 Hasnawati 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 872 Manti Uday Kumar, Meera D. Ansal and Vaneet Inder Kaur 2776 Salinity Tolerance of Freshwater Shubunkin Gold Fish, Carassius auratus (Linn.): Suitability for Rearing 876 in Inland Saline Water Deepa 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 881 Cropping System L. Lyngdoh and R.K. Dhaliwal 2778 Use of Edible Coating to Enhance Shelf Llife of Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum L.) 888 S. 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 892 in 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 895 A.P. Pooja and O.K. Swadija 2781 Assessment of Physicochemical Parameters to Investigate Pollution Status of White Bein: A Tributary of 898 Sutlej River Sabmeet Singh, Priyadarshini Sorokhaibam, Ramandeep Kaur and Rahul Singh 2782 Effect of Enclosure on Biodiversity and Similarity of Rangeland Plant Species 901 Jamal Bakhshi, Seyed Akbar Javadi, Ali Tavili and Hossein Arzani Indian Journal1 Indian Journal of Ecology (2019) 46(1) of Ecology

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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 CONTENTS

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 Indian Journal1 Indian Journal of Ecology (2019) 46(2) of Ecology CONTENTS 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 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 CONTENTS

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 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