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Decomposition and Nitrogen Dynamics of tree Pruned Biomass Under Albizia Procera Based Agroforestry System in Semi arid Region of Bundelkhand, India

Garima Gupta 1 * , R.S Yadav 2 and Deepak Maurya 3

1 1, Maya Collage of Agriculture and Technology, Dehradun, Uttarakhand India

2 Indian Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, RC-Datia, MP India

3 National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, RC-Kolkata, West Bengal India

Corresponding author Email: garima811@gmail.com

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12944/CWE.12.3.24

The spatial analysis of land use and land cover (LULC) dynamics is necessary for sustainable utilization and management of the land resources of an area. Remote sensing along with Geographical Information System emerged as an effective technique for mapping the LU/LC categories of an area in an efficient and cost-effective manner. The present study was conducted in Banjar river watershed located in Balaghat and Mandla district of Madhya Pradesh, India. The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) approach was adopted for LU/LC classification of study area. The Landsat-8 satellite data of year 2013 was selected for the classification purpose. The NDVI values were generated in ERDAS Imagine 2011 software and LU/LC map was prepared in ARC GIS environment. On the basis of NDVI values five LU/LC classes were recognized in the study area namely river & water body, waste land & habitation, forest, agriculture/other vegetation, open land/fallow land/barren land. The forest cover was found to be highly distributed in the study area with an extent of 115811 ha and least area was found to be covered under river and water body (4057.28 ha). This research work will be helpful for the policy makers for proper formulation and implementation of watershed developmental plans.

Albizia procera; Biomass decomposition; Nitrogen dynamics; Substrate quality

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Gupta G, Yadav R. S, Maurya D. Decomposition and Nitrogen Dynamics of tree Pruned Biomass Under Albizia Procera Based Agroforestry System in Semi arid Region of Bundelkhand, India. Curr World Environ 2017;12(3). DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.12944/CWE.12.3.24

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Gupta G, Yadav R. S, Maurya D. Decomposition and Nitrogen Dynamics of tree Pruned Biomass Under Albizia Procera Based Agroforestry System in Semi arid Region of Bundelkhand, India. Curr World Environ 2017;12(3). Available from: http://www.cwejournal.org?p=1039/

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