Dynamics of the dense moist evergreen forests. Long term monitoring of an experimental station in Kodagu (Karnataka, India)

Claire Elouard (1) , François Houllier (1) , Jean-Pierre Pascal (2) , Raphaël Pelissier (2) , B.R. Ramesh (1)

1 IFP - Institut Français de Pondichéry
2 LBBE - Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive - UMR 5558

This working paper reviews the various research activities undertaken in a permanent experimental field station near Uppangala village at the foot of the western slope of the Western Ghats. Three forest compartments, all situated in a lowelevation moist evergreen dense forest type dominated by dipterocarps, are being monitored since the mid-80s and early 90s. Different types of research projects are being carried out in these compartments on: the impact of selective logging on forest composition, structure and dynamics; the forest structure and diversity and their local variation in relation to topography and silvigenesis; tree architecture and growth; phenology and litterfall; relationships between forest composition and pollen rain; impact of human activities on the vegetation around the village. This station thus provides a common field for new methodological developments and for various ecological and socio-ecological studies.

Mots clés: rain forest; permanent plot; forest dynamics; silvigenesis; biodiversity; structure; phenology; litterfall; logging.; logging

Domaines: Biodiversité et Ecologie

Claire Elouard, François Houllier, Jean-Pierre Pascal, Raphaël Pelissier, B.R. Ramesh. Dynamics of the dense moist evergreen forests. Long term monitoring of an experimental station in Kodagu (Karnataka, India). Institut Français de Pondichéry, pp.23, 1997. ⟨hal-00373536⟩