funded by Lumin S.A. and the Agencia Nacional de Investigación e Innovación (ANII)[POS_NAC_2016_1_130479]
Native grasslands in the Pampas of South America are increasingly being replaced by Eucalyptus and Pinus stands.The short rotation regimes used for the stands require high nutrient levels,with litterfall being a major...
The work was supported by FAO through GCP/BGD/058/USA(LOA Code:FAOBGDLOA 2017-008).
Biomass estimation using allometric models is a nondestructive and popular method.Selection of an allometric model can influence the accuracy of biomass estimation.Bangladesh Forest Department initiated a nationwide f...
United States Department of Agriculture(USDA) for funding this research
We collected soil samples from two representative sites at Aatmile of Khagarachari hill district in Chittagong Hill Tracts. One of the sites was under shifting cultivation and the other an adjacent 13-year old teak pl...
We investigated the floristic composition, woody species diversity and spatial distribution of trees in a tropical wet evergreen forest in Kaptai national park in Chittagong Hill Tracks, Bangladesh. We recorded 25 fam...
supported by United States Department of Agriculture(USDA)
This study reports the effects of shifting cultivation at slashing stage on soil physicochemical properties at Bandarban Sadar Upazila in Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh. At this initial stage of shifting cultiva...
Abstract: We report the effects of shifting cultivation on water quality in 16 creeks investigated once in 2007 and twice in 2008 in 16 apparently similar small neighboring watersheds, each of 3 to 5 ha, at four loca...
supported by the Funda-mental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No.TD2011-03);National Advanced Project of the 12th Five-year Plan (2011BAD38B05);National Forestry Public Welfare Industry Research Project(201104005)
We studied the impact of forest vegetation on soil erosion, surface runoff, and sediment generation by using field simulated rainfall apparatus. We measured runoff and sediment generation of five 4.5 × 2.1 m runoff p...
Soil samples were collected and analyzed from 25 sites of three hilly regions (Rangamati, Banderban and Khagrachari) for an understanding of the impact of denudation and land use on soils in Chittagong Hill Tracts, ...
A study was conducted in Kaptai reservoir, one of the largest man-made freshwater lakes of South-east Asia, to determine present status of water quality and its suitability for fishing and other uses. Water samplings ...
Land degradation in Chittagong hill tracts has been taking place due to shrinkage of forest cover, policy weakness, population explosion, and inappropriate hill farming system. Modem farming system in the Chittagong h...