Jadeyegowda Madegowda

• PhD Agronomy (Agriculture)
• Professor at College of Forestry, Ponnampet

Background and aims Biodiversity is the buzzword of the day when it comes to addressing environmental issues, and India’s Western Ghats are a goldmine of amazing beauty and biodiversity. Orchids, known as jewels of the plant kingdom, are “Keystone resources’’ that play a significant role in maintaining the forest canopies. The indigenous Kodava cul...

The Western Ghats are the treasure house of plants and animals next only to Himalayan tracts in terms of its diversity of unique species. Plant phenological study has great significance in providing knowledge about plant growth patterns and selective pressure of the environment on flowering and fruiting behaviour.

Broad leaf mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla King, Family: Meliaceae) is one of the best-known and most valuable tropical timber. It is almost unique silviculturally and occupies important position in the rural economy of India as a commercial plantation crop. This present study is mainly focused on temporal discrepancy of foliar nutrients and retran...

The recent advancement in data science coupled with the revolution in digital and satellite technology has improved the potential for artificial intelligence (AI) applications in the forestry and wildlife sectors. India shares 7% of global forest cover and is the 8th most biodiverse region in the world. However, rapid expansion of developmental pro...

A present study on the fern flora diversity in two different vegetation types of sacred groves of Kodagu was conducted and enumerated for the first time. A total of 36 fern taxa are recorded. Species diversity indices (Species richness, Shannon, Simpson, and Margalef) were more in Semi-evergreen (30, 2.90, 0.07 and 4.06) than moist deciduous (19, 2...

Woodfordia fruticosa (Dhawai) is an important medicinal gregarious woody shrub having potential for commercial cultivation due to its great demand in domestic and international markets. Usually, this multipurpose medicinal plant is sexually propagated which do not produce healthy and uniform seedlings due to tiny and micro-biotic nature of seed, lo...

Ethnopharmacological relevance: Interest in the medicinal pteridophytes for their traditional utility and associated pharmacological research is intensifying all over the world in the past few decades. This paper enumerated medicinal pteridophytes used by people in an unexplored and biodiversity rich Western Ghats in Southern India. Study aims to i...

an endamic orchid of Wester Ghats Found in southern India and Sri Lanka in tropical wet evergreen forests at elevations of 800 to 2000 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with grooved, swollen towards the apex, zigzag with few to many angles, yellowish, black hairy stems carrying 3 to 6, distichous, succulent, stiffly leather...

Bee Orchid endemic orchid of Western Ghats botanical name is Cottonia pedencularis resembles honey bee it is believed that flower of this orchid resembles female bee male try to copulate mean while pollination occur

Bulbophyllum mysorensis endemic orchid of Western Ghats bears beautiful flowers

SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION MEASURES FOR LANDSLIDE AFFECTED AREAS IN KODAGU DISTRICT

Indigenous knowledge on the usage of medicinal plants all over the world precedes the origin of modern medicine in healthcare system. Plants have given many health benefits to humans since ancient times. Drynaria quercifolia commonly called Oak Leaf Fern, is used in traditional medicinal system by different groups of people to treat various kinds o...

House sparrows (Passer domesticus) co-evolved with humans and are known for their close relationship and dependence on humans. However, the sudden decline in the population of P. domesticus has shocked the scientific community. The most common causes for this crisis were a rapid increase in radio waves from cell-phone towers, urbanization, use of p...

An extensive investigation of wild fern resources in the Western Ghats (Location: Mudigere area) was conducted and collected ferns with great ornamental value. Morphological characters and other traits have been recorded for 20 species which were grown in mist house of College of Horticulture, Mudigere. The number of fronds per plant and frond le...

A Field experiment was conducted during Kharif season of 2004 and 2005 at UAS, Hebbal Bangalore, to investigate the suitable intercrops performance under aerobic rice (Oryza sativa) cultivation. The experiment was laid out in a Randomized Complete Block Design (RCBD) with three replication having two factors, factor A (2) row patterns, and factor B...

A pot culture experiment was conducted to study the morphological characterization of wild orchids of Western Ghats in the Orchidarium of the Department of Floriculture and Landscape Architecture, College of Horticulture, Mudigere, during 2017-18.The present study deals with 14 wild species of orchids from the Western Ghats viz., Bulbophyllum fimbr...

A study was conducted in Central parts of Western Ghats of Virajpet taluk, Kodagu district to estimate carbon sequestration potential in soils of different land use systems. The land use systems viz., sacred grooves, coffee based agroforestry-indigenous, coffee based agroforestry-exotic and paddy land use systems. The soil samples were collected at...

Birding was carried out in Kodagu District which is one of the hottest hotspots of biodiversity located in the Central Western Ghats, Karnataka, India to know the impact of land use on bird diversity. Point count method was undertaken in Four landuses ie. Coffee based agroforestry, Monoculture plantation, Paddy land and Abandoned paddy lands. The f...

Kodagu district located in central Western Ghats has mosaic of vegetation types providing habitat for variety of fauna and avifaunal elements. This study was undertaken to know the diversity of bird species across the different vegetation types in the district. Natural Forest types representing Evergreen, Deciduous, Shola and Scrub vegetation were...

Tropical Fruit Tree (TFT) genetic resources are a subset of agro-ecosystems and natural forests of Kodagu, one of the worlds' natural heritage sites. Occurring mainly in home gardens of Kodagu, TFTs provide livelihood and nutrition benefits to people and contribute to ecosystem services. However, TFT genetic resources are vanishing at an alarming r...

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