TY  - GEN
A1  - Alam, Afroz
A1  - Behera, Kambaska Kumar
A1  - Vats, Sharad
A1  - Sharma, Deepak
A1  - Sharma, Vinay
T1  - Impact of Bryo-Diversity depletion on Land Slides in Nilgiri Hills, Western Ghats (South India) –A Study
T2  - 122
N2  - Since the existence of Nilgiri hills, bryophyte- the miniatures of plant kingdom play an important and crucial role in the stabilization of Blue Mountains ecology. Unlike Himalayas, the landslides were rare in the area, but with the time and changing global environment it had become a common sight. Significantly ever increasing population and vehicular traffic is the prime reason for them, to cater the need, roads are periodically broadened by cutting road sides destroying the habitat as also the inhabiting species. Bryophytes, are efficient soil binders that regulate the soil moisture and provide substrate for future plant succession. The habitat loss and nudeness of substratum gives impetus to rapid soil erosion that further enhances the problem of their very survival. The present communication provides significance of these avascular cryptogams in environmental assessment, ecological balance and their role in decreasing the pore pressure to check land slides.
T3  - Archive for Bryology - 122 
KW  - Bryophyte
KW  - Nilgiri hills
KW  - Pore pressure
KW  - Landslides
KW  - Soil binders
Y1  - 2012
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/35171
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-351717
PB  - Universität Bonn, Arbeitsgruppe Bryologie
CY  - Bonn
ER  -