Land use alteration strategy to improve forest landscape structural quality in Radhanagar forest range under Bankura District

Mrinmay MANDAL, (Vidyasagar University, Mrinmay Mandal Department of Geography and Environment Management, West Bengal, India)
Nilanjana DAS CHATTARJEE (Vidyasagar University, Nilanjana Das Chattarjee Deparment of Geograpyh, West Bengal, India and Environment Management,)
Eurasian Journal of Forest Science
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Yıl: 2020 Cilt: 8 Sayı: 1 Sayfa Aralığı: 1 - 10 Metin Dili: İngilizce DOI: 10.3195/ejejfs.580431 İndeks Tarihi: 23-10-2020

Land use alteration strategy to improve forest landscape structural quality in Radhanagar forest range under Bankura District

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In a forest landscape, landuse pattern is changing due to intrusion of anthropogenic activities. Such kind of humannecessities restructured the existing landscape pattern which brings imbalance in regional biodiversity.Radhanagar Forest Range (RFR) in Bankura district has been faced same kind of activates since 1960. As a result,forest patch becomes isolated and structurally complex in nature which is an important cause for extinction ofwild animal. To control this damage forest department increased forest area through several plantation schemesin vacant or barren land. But plantation areas were not appropriate in the question of structural forest quality inthis region. The present study seems that forest structural quality is a vital consideration for balancing biodiversity,in concern of several ecological processes like species movement, connectivity, colonization and edge contrast.Suitable forest patch structure may possible when appropriate areas i.e. forest encroached areas will be select forplantation. To prove this statement, study considers two types of landuse alteration into forest land i) all barrenland altered into forest and ii) selected encroached areas altered into forest land in RFR. ArcGIS 10.3 versionsoftware is used for technical map editing and preparing these spatial alteration maps. After that several landscapeecological indexes like Total Core Area Index (TCAI), Mean Core Area (MCA) at 300 m specified edge depth,Total Edge (TE), Edge Density (ED), Area Weighted Mean Shape Index (AWMSI), Area Weighted Mean PatchFractal Dimension (AWMPFD) and Mean Patch Size (MPS) are calculated using FragStat 4.2 version softwareto compare both spatial alteration forest qualities. Comparison analysis explains that encroached areas alterationinto forest land is qualitative to improve forest structural quality. It is interesting to know that less area will beplanted in encroached area to get utmost forest structural qualities.
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APA MANDAL M, CHATTARJEE N (2020). Land use alteration strategy to improve forest landscape structural quality in Radhanagar forest range under Bankura District. , 1 - 10. 10.3195/ejejfs.580431
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AMA MANDAL M,CHATTARJEE N Land use alteration strategy to improve forest landscape structural quality in Radhanagar forest range under Bankura District. . 2020; 1 - 10. 10.3195/ejejfs.580431
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IEEE MANDAL M,CHATTARJEE N "Land use alteration strategy to improve forest landscape structural quality in Radhanagar forest range under Bankura District." , ss.1 - 10, 2020. 10.3195/ejejfs.580431
ISNAD MANDAL, Mrinmay - CHATTARJEE, Nilanjana DAS. "Land use alteration strategy to improve forest landscape structural quality in Radhanagar forest range under Bankura District". (2020), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.3195/ejejfs.580431
APA MANDAL M, CHATTARJEE N (2020). Land use alteration strategy to improve forest landscape structural quality in Radhanagar forest range under Bankura District. Eurasian Journal of Forest Science, 8(1), 1 - 10. 10.3195/ejejfs.580431
Chicago MANDAL Mrinmay,CHATTARJEE Nilanjana DAS Land use alteration strategy to improve forest landscape structural quality in Radhanagar forest range under Bankura District. Eurasian Journal of Forest Science 8, no.1 (2020): 1 - 10. 10.3195/ejejfs.580431
MLA MANDAL Mrinmay,CHATTARJEE Nilanjana DAS Land use alteration strategy to improve forest landscape structural quality in Radhanagar forest range under Bankura District. Eurasian Journal of Forest Science, vol.8, no.1, 2020, ss.1 - 10. 10.3195/ejejfs.580431
AMA MANDAL M,CHATTARJEE N Land use alteration strategy to improve forest landscape structural quality in Radhanagar forest range under Bankura District. Eurasian Journal of Forest Science. 2020; 8(1): 1 - 10. 10.3195/ejejfs.580431
Vancouver MANDAL M,CHATTARJEE N Land use alteration strategy to improve forest landscape structural quality in Radhanagar forest range under Bankura District. Eurasian Journal of Forest Science. 2020; 8(1): 1 - 10. 10.3195/ejejfs.580431
IEEE MANDAL M,CHATTARJEE N "Land use alteration strategy to improve forest landscape structural quality in Radhanagar forest range under Bankura District." Eurasian Journal of Forest Science, 8, ss.1 - 10, 2020. 10.3195/ejejfs.580431
ISNAD MANDAL, Mrinmay - CHATTARJEE, Nilanjana DAS. "Land use alteration strategy to improve forest landscape structural quality in Radhanagar forest range under Bankura District". Eurasian Journal of Forest Science 8/1 (2020), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.3195/ejejfs.580431
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