K P Singh
29 books
The present book reveals the presence of important medicinal plants with their traditional and genomic based importance in Uttarakhand. The medicinal plants are placed in the alphabetical order for ease to the reader. The numerous snaps will make the visual identification much easier. The purpose of the book is to broadly indicate the traditional and genomic information including botanical name, common name, taxonomy, genomic taxonomical ID, habit, habitat, ...
Sociology of aging is the final phase of an individual’s life, where an elderly confronts many difficulties with regard to their physical condition, mental health, and support system. The challenges of aging of course require intervention. One of the interventions that can support wellbeing of the aging population is the profession of social work. This book designs the interventions intended to assist the elderly clients in alleviating problems impeding ...
Foliicolous lichens one of the important components of biodiversity in wet or moist, high humid, foggy tropical and subtropical forests are confined mostly on the upper surface of live leaves of plants. This interesting group of epiphytic lichens in the phyllosphere is also regarded as one of the best potential indicators of environmental disturbances and forms least studied group of lichens in India. Therefore the present contribution is made towards this ...
The Lichen Flora of Sundarbans Biosphere Reserve, West Bengal deals with the systematic account of 167 species under 56 genera and 25 families supported by 4 maps, 159 colour photographs and 67 text figures. This includes 9 new species, 2 new generic and 28 specific records for India published during the course of investigation. In addition to lichens, five non-lichenized and one lichenicolous Ascomycetes taxa, which resemble as lichens are also dealt at the end ...
Geomorphology is the study of the form and structure of the earth. The size and shape of the earth’s surface, on land and beneath the sea, is constantly changing. This is due to landform evolution and the processes of weathering, which have altered the original geological shape of the rocks. Landform evolution and weathering are controlled by many different processes, the most important being climate and earth movements, or plate tectonics. The book is very ...
Population and Settlement geography focuses on population clusters, why they arose, and what sustains them. Settlement geography is archaeology’s younger sibling. As archaeologists unearthed ancient civilizations, three settlement patterns emerged: dispersed, linear and nuclear. Dispersed settlements had no central point. It is the study of the ways in which spatial variations in the distribution, composition, migration, and growth of populations are ...
This annotated checklist of Lichens of India comprises 2303 species under 305 genera and 74 families.All the genera and species within genera are arranged alphabetically. Each taxon is provided with currently accepted name, full citation, basionyms, and synonyms reported from India.The information like habitat, distribution, chemistry and notes on known taxa, and habit photographs of most of the representative genera are also provided in this checklist to make it ...
The present work is an important addition to the literature on socio-religious History of Modern India with Western U.P. under focus. Based on a variety of original and secondary sources, this pioneering work attempts at looking on the activities of the Arya Samaj in social and religious fields and its contribution towards rejuvenating the Hindu society through a Non-Arya Samajist's eyes. A full chapter has been devoted to the Shuddhi movement to understand its ...
The Flora of Mizoram is proposed to be published in three volumes. The present volume, dealing with general chapters, like introduction, physiography, climate, geology and soil, forests and forest types, botanical studies, forestry, economic plants, floristic diversity, references, key to the families etc. includes taxonomic account of 884 taxa belonging to 403 genera and 90 families from Ranunculaceae to Asteraceae. Of these 172 species and one variety have been ...
"India possesses a rich lichen flora, both in luxuriance and species diversity. For proper exploitation of lichen resources and planning effective conservation means, it is always essential to have their floristic inventories from different parts of the country. The present contribution of Nagaland lichens is a step towards this direction. This flora is the result of extensive field work in Nagaland and critical laboratory investigations of ca 4297 lichen ...
Rapid growth of population is a major road block to the economic progress of the country. All methods so far adopted by the people for controlling it have failed to make any dent. The present study suggests a painless solution. It highlights the fact that by raising the status of women population growth would be effectively controlled with additional socio-economic benefits.