This book explains several basic concepts of forests and forestry research like social distancing of trees, solitary trees, green infrastructure of trees including typical forest stands like pocket forests, forgotten forests, community forests, and social forestry from one forest stand to another scattered in the districts of West Bengal.
Gautam Kumar Das, a researcher, is well known in the field of environmental assessment, monitoring, and modelling of forests and forestry related research works.
Chapter 1. Forest Scenario of West Bengal.- Chapter 2. Forest Covers of West Bengal - District-wise Review.- Chapter 3. Characteristics of forest soils.- Chapter 4. Forest Stands.- Chapter 5. Application of Statistical Methods in Forest studies.- Chapter 6. Strategies for Forest Restoration – Fact Finding Surveys.- Chapter 7. Impact of Climate Change.- Chapter 8. Deforestation and Zoonosis.
