Volume 58, No. 4
December 2017

Research Papers
Two principal precipitation regimes in Himalayas and their influence on tree distribution–Surender Pratap Singh, Ripu Daman Singh, Surabhi Gumber & Sparsh Bhatt View PDF		679
Marked reproductive plasticity in response to contrasting fire regimes in a neotropical palm–Linton Lee Arneaud, Aidan D. Farrell & Michael P. Oatham View PDF		693
Root exudates reduce electrical conductivity and water potential of rhizospheres and facilitate non-halophytes to survive in dry land saline soils–C. B. Pandey, Praveen Kumar & S. K. Chaudhari View PDF		705
Modelling photosynthetic rates of Indian red mangroves (Rhizophora mucronata Poir.) to climatic factors–Tanumi Kumar, T. V. R. Murthy, Prabakaran Chellamani, Vanitha Krishnan, T. Thangaradjou & R. Mani Murali View PDF      Supplementary File		717
An investigation on rattan taxonomic diversity in four selected forest reserves of northern Peninsular Malaysia–Wan Nur Fasihah Zarifah Binti Wan Rozali, Kazi Mohammad Masum, Amirrudin Bin Ahmad, Rahmad Zakaria, Asyraf Mansor & Ahmad Sofiman Othman View PDF		731
Study on foraging response of Trichogrammatids governed by volatile cues–Udai Pratap Singh, Surabhi Singh, Rajendra Kumar & Archna Kumar View PDF		741
Estimating bat abundance and diversity in a modified tropical environment in central Ghana–Evans E. Nkrumah, Bismark A. Opoku, Ebenezer K. Badu, Emmanuel Danquah, Marco Tschapka & Samuel K. Oppong View PDF		751
Ecosystem productivity and its response to environmental variable of moist Indian sal forest–Taibanganba Watham, S. P. S. Kushwaha, N. R. Patel, V. K. Dadhwal & A. Senthil Kumar View PDF		761
Variations in fine root growth during age chronosequence of moist tropical forest following shifting cultivation in Mizoram, northeast India–Dipendra Singha & S. K. Tripathi View PDF		769
Annual seasonality and diversity patterns of the plant community in a fog oasis ecosystem in the city of Lima-Jose L. Rolando, Juan D. Del Castillo, Diego Padilla, Zulema Quinteros & Edgar Sánchez View PDF		781
The traits of frugivores and diaspores are corrected with the number of fruits eaten in the Cerrado gallery forest–Adriano Antonio Brito Darosci, José Carlos Motta-Junior & E. Cássia Beatriz Rodrigues Munhoz View PDF      Supplementary Files		793
Effect of N application on emergence and growth of weeds associated with rice–Vartika Singh, Hema Singh & A. S. Raghubanshi View PDF		807
Short Communications
Spatial and temporal variation of black cotton soil organic carbon in Guinean forest zone in West Africa–Cedric A. Goussanou, Sabin Guendehou & Brice Sinsin View PDF		823
Host preferences, spatial distribution and interaction of oxpeckers with wild ungulates in and around southern Gonarezhou National Park, Zimbabwe– Tawanda Tarakini, Sophie Sithole, Beaven Utete, Victor K. Muposhi, Daphine Madhlamoto & Edson Gandiwa View PDF		833