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Unlike a flora a revision provides more reliable information on various aspects particularly identity since typification of names is involved and overall distribution of a taxon in the whole country. The latter particularly on endemics is more desirable in the present scenario of fast-vanishing forests, depleting populations, disturbed habitats and disappearing species to adopt conservation measures. Such information is also needed to sensitise the conservation ...
The Indian MAB Committee following the UNESCO Programme identified a network of 14 representative ecosystems to be designated as biosphere reserves. Twelve biosphere reserves have already been set up. The Gulf of Mannar, the first marine biosphere reserve in Southeast Asia, was established on 18 Feb. 1989. A biosphere reserve is intended to fulfil three basic objectives: "of conserving in situ of biodiversity of natural and seminatural ecosystems and ...
It is often assumed and truly so that a viable and practical option to achieve near completion of the flora of India is by giving a serious stress to revisions of certain major genera under different families. They are pretty small in number, between 50 and 80, and Strobilanthes of the Acanthaceae is one such genus under and represented by ca 150 species in the mountainous region of Peninsular India and the Himalayas of northeast and northwest India. ...