<p>ISSN 0564-3295 TROPICAL ECOLOGY © International Society for Tropical Ecology</p><p>Vol. 54, No. 2 Abbreviation : Trop. Ecol. May 2013</p><p>CONTENTS</p><p>Research Papers</p><p>Sourabh Deb, Marbakor Mary Lynrah & B. K. Tiwari – Technological innovations in shifting 133 agricultural practices by three tribal farming communities of Meghalaya, northeast India G. M. Devagiri, S. Money, Sarnam Singh, V. K. Dadhawal, Prasanth Patil, Anilkumar Khaple, A. S. 149 Devakumar & Santosh Hubballi – Assessment of above ground biomass and carbon pool in different vegetation types of south western part of Karnataka, India using spectral modeling Abhra Chanda, Anirban Akhand, Sudip Manna, Sachinandan Dutta, Indrani Das & Sugata Hazra 167</p><p>– Spatial variability of atmosphere-biosphere CO2 and H2O exchange in selected sites of Indian Sundarbans during summer</p><p>M. Anbarashan & N. Parthasarathy – Tree diversity of tropical dry evergreen forests dominated by 179 single or mixed species on the Coromandel coast of India Alfred Maroyi – Use and management of homegarden plants in Zvishavane district, Zimbabwe 191 E. C. Nzegbule, M. C. Onyema & S. C. Ndelekwute – Plant species richness and soil nutrients in a 35- 205 year old cashew nut plantation in Isuochi, Southern Nigeria M. S. Nizam, A. R. Jeffri & A. Latiff – Structure of tree communities and their association with soil 213 properties in two fan-palm dominated forests of east coast Peninsular Malaysia G. P. Obi Reddy, Dipak Sarkar, Jagdish Prasad & V. Ramamurthy – Geospatial modeling in 227 assessment of biophysical resources for sustainable land resource management G. Areendran, Prakash Rao, Krishna Raj, Sraboni Mazumdar & Kanchan Puri –Land use/land 239 cover change dynamics analysis in mining areas of Singrauli district in Madhya Pradesh, India A. Raizada, J. Jayaprakash, A. C. Rathore & J. M. S. Tomar – Distribution of fine root biomass of 251 fruit and forest tree species raised on old river bed lands in the north west Himalaya Short Communication P. Chutia & G. S. Solanki – Patterns of bird hunting in Arunachal Pradesh and implications for 263 biodiversity conservation Pandisamy Ragavan, Alok Saxena, P. M. Mohan, Tarun Coomar & Ambika Ragavan – Leaf 269 reddening in seagrasses of Andaman and Nicobar Islands</p>