Volume 52, No. 1
January 2011

Research Papers
Guillermo Castro-Marín, Mulualem Tigabu, Benigno González-Rivas & Per Christer Odén –Germination requirements and seedling establishment of four dry forest species from Nicaragua View PDF		1
Alemnew Alelign, Yonas Yemshaw, Demel Teketay & Sue Edwards. –Socio-economic factors affecting sustainable utilization of woody species in Zegie Peninsula, northwestern Ethiopia View PDF		13
Fabio Rossano Dario & Maria Cristina Veiga de Vincenzo –Avian diversity and relative abundance in a restinga forest of Sao Paulo, Brazil. View PDF		25
W. D. Eaton, S. Mcdonald, M. Roed, K. L. Vandecar, J. B. Hauge & D. Barry –A comparison of nutrient dynamics and microbial community characteristics across seasons and soil types in two different old growth forests in Costa Rica View PDF		35
P. S. Chaudhuri & Subhalaxmi Bhattacharjee –Reproductive biology of eight tropical earthworm species of rubber plantations in Tripura, India ; View PDF		49
Serekebirhan Takele, Afework Bekele, Gurja Belay & M. Balakrishnan –A comparison of rodent and insectivore communities between sugarcane plantation and natural habitat in Ethiopia View PDF		61
Anjum Farooqui & B. Sekhar –Climate change and vegetation succession in Lalitpur area, Uttar Pradesh (India) during late holocene View PDF		69
B. Raviprasad Rao, M. V. Suresh Babu, M. Sridhar Reddy, A. Madhusudhana Reddy, V. Srinivasa Rao, S. Sunitha & K. N. Ganeshaiah –Sacred groves in southern eastern ghats, India: are they better managed than forest reserves? View PDF		79
Bharat Babu Shrestha, Pramod Kumar Jha & Dhan Raj Kandel –Reproductive ecology and conservation prospects of a threatened medicinal plant Curculigo orchioides Gaertn. in Nepal View PDF		91
Asheesh Shivam Mishra & Prakash Nautiyal –Factors governing longitudinal variation in benthic macroinvertebrate fauna of a small Vindhyan river in Central Highlands ecoregion (central India) View PDF		103
Lekha Ghosh & Lalji Singh –Variation in seed and seedling characters of Jatropha curcas L. with varying zones and provenances View PDF		113
Arvind K. Jha, S. K. Singh, G. P. Singh & Prabhat K. Gupta –Sustainable municipal solid waste management in low income group of cities: a review View PDF		123
Short Communication
Rupesh R. Bharti, Ishwari D. Rai, B. S. Adhikari & G. S. Rawat –Timberline change detection using topographic map and satellite imagery: a critique View PDF		133