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Vol. 43, Iss. 2
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ArticlesPotential of rehabilitation of degraded rangelands of Balochistan
Javed Afzal, Abdul Sattar Alvi, Sarwat Naz Mirza
Balochistan, being the largest province of Pakistan area wise, constitutes 44% of total land mass of the country. It is characterised with fickle and unreliable rainfall, skeletal soil which induces high rate of albedo, and desiccating winds which all in combi…
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Cooling impact of Urban trees
Adnan Zahoor
Background: Human activities, over the past two million years, have drastically modified the environment. They cleared the large areas of forest, grass land and created new landscapes. Humans started replacing the vegetated landscape with constructed citiescap…
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Ecology of Chrysopogon aucheri and Cymbopogon jwarancusa III. Morphology and Defoliation Response
Mohammad Saleem, C. A. Call
Little is known about the defoliation responses of the palatable grass Chrysopogon aucheri (Boiss.) Stapf. and the co-occurring unpalatable grass. Chymbopogon jwarancusa (Jones) Schult., under managed and unmanaged conditions on Baluchistan rangelands. Both sp…
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Trial of insecticides and a fumigant against forest seed pests
Wali-ur-Rehman
In a laboratory trial against Hypsipyla robusta, a fruit borer of Cedrela toona, DDVP 50% EC killed 100% larvae each in 0.05 and 0.03% doses and 83% larvae in 0.01% dose while Laser 25% EC gave 80, 43 and 33% kill of larvae, respectively in 0.05, 0.03 and 0.01…
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Pakistan Experience in Dryland Afforestation
K. M. Siddiqui, B. H. Shah
Pakistan has a long history of and vast experience in the practice of dry affoestaiton because about 60-70% area in arid and semi-arid parts in Pakistan is subjected to desertification to varying degree for climatic reasons and due to misuse of land for agricu…
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Response of planted seedlings of Silver Fir (Abies pindrow) to site preparation and weed control in the moist temperate forests of Pakistan
Raza-ul-Haq
An experiment was conducted at Kund to study the effect of soil disturbance in combination with shrub and herb control on the survival and growth of the nursery raised 3 and 12 month old planted seedlings. Vegetation treatments included cutting and killings wi…
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Ecology of Chrysopogon aucheri and Cymbopogon jwarancusa II. Seedling development
Mohammad Saleem, C. A. Call
A description of shoot and root morphology is essential for understanding the seedling establishment process of dominant forage grasses found on arid and semiarid rangelands in Baluchistan. A controlled environment study was conducted to determine differences…
25 May 2024