The origin of Shola Forest in the Nilgiris, South India

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  • Vishnu-Mittre Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, 53, University Road, Lucknow 226007, India
  • H.P. Gupta Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, 53, University Road, Lucknow 226007, India

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https://doi.org/10.54991/jop.1970.860

Abstract

The formation of Shola forest, the closed evergreen woods in the vicinity of Ootacamund in the Nilgiris in south India, commenced about 35,000 years ago through gradual invasion of the grasslands under a regime of low precipitation, absence of frost and high speed winds. The present disjunct distribution of the Shola forest is due to destruction of the forest probably by Man and much of the grasslands today seem due to anthropogenous activity.

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Grigg HB 1880. A manual of Nilgiri District in the Madras Presidency, Madras.

Vishnu-Mittre & Gupta HP 1968. A living fossil plant community in South Indian Hills. Curr. Sci. 37(23): 671-672.

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1970-12-31

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Vishnu-Mittre, & Gupta, H. (1970). The origin of Shola Forest in the Nilgiris, South India. Journal of Palaeosciences, 19(1-3), 110–114. https://doi.org/10.54991/jop.1970.860

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