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Participation
3
8.
Plan For Mitigation Of Adverse Impact On Environment
1
9.
Options For Mitigation of Impact on Water, Air, Land And on
Flora and Fauna
3
10.
Addressing The Issues Related To The Project Affected People.
Post Project Monitoring
3
Total
32
Practical
1.
Environmental auditing – History of environmental auditing
4
2.
Introduction to the types of environmental audit
4
3.
Analyze proposed development project plans for possible
environmental effects and prepare appropriate initial studies
4
4.
Utilize EIA documents for policy development, project planning
or for legal or political action planning
4
Total
16
I. Course Title
: Forest Soil Management
II. Course Code
: FRM 606
III. Credit Hours
: 2+1
IV. Aim of the course
To acquire knowledge on advances in forest soil management. Hydrology of forest
plantation. Stand development and soil productivity. Harvest removal and nutrient
budgeting.
V. Theory
Unit I
Soils and their management for plantation forestry: Soils of the tropics, Soil
requirements for plantation forestry, physical properties of major soils of India,
soil erosion and erodibility, Erosion control.
Unit II
Dynamics of nutrient supply in plantation soils: variability of nutrient stores in
forest soils, changes in nutrient content, nutrient losses and their assessment,
Sr. No
Topic
No. of Lecture(s)

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Forestry–Forest Resource Management
701
nutrient gains, Nutrient transformation in soils. Nitrogen fixation in Tropical forest
Plantations: N fixation process, species, rates of N fixation, factors influencing N
fixation; Nutrient cycling – comparison of plantation productivity – case studies.
Unit III
Organic matter: Decomposition and mineralization; Litter accumulation, litter
decomposition, effect of litter on soil, Interpretation of accumulation, decay and
mineralisation processes, management of litter and soil organic matter in forest
plantations. Soil and stand management for short rotation plantations; Water
availability, Nutrient supply, uptake and tree growth, constraints on production,
nutrient amendments and correction of nutrient deficiency.
Unit IV
Nutritional factors controlling stand growth. Reforestation of salt affected, acid
soils and coastal soils. Effects of fire on soils: Types of fires, effects of fire on soil
properties, effects of fire on air and water quality.
Unit V
Management and long term soil productivity – soil compaction and erosion – Harvest
removal and nutrient Budgeting – Harvest effect on water quality – strategies for
future management.
VI. Practical
• Nutrient budgeting for different plantation systems;
• Quantification of physical and chemical soil constraints in plantation and
Agroforestry systems;
• Evolving new strategies for development.