Paper-I
Section A

1.Answer any four of the following (answer should not exceed more than 150 words for each question): (10 × 4 40)

a.What is the criteria to select number of clones and their deployment in plantation forestry?

b.How willow cultivation is life line in cold desert areas of the country?

c.Describe storage behaviour of recalcitrant seeds and name seven tree species producing seeds of this category.

d.Why do forest plantations fail?

e.Describe the storage methods of recalcitrant seeds and name seven tree species which fall under this category.

f.Importance and method of tree introduction.

2.Answer the following questions

a.Discuss the term site quality and describe the basis of its classification

b.What are different uses of vegetative propagation? Name the five different examples of topophysis

3.Answer the following questions

a.Describe briefly clear felling system with its merits and demerits

b.Write the importance of mangrove forests and methods of rehabilitation of degraded mangrove forests

4.Describe the silviculture of any four species (10 × 4 40).

a.Gmelina arborea.

b.Cedrus deodara

c.Santalum album

d.Populus spp.

e.Tectona grandis.

Section B

5.Answer any four of the following (Answer should not exceed more than 150 words for each question): (10 × 4 40)

a.Describe the different methods of plus tree selection in uneven aged forests.

b.Explain about water pollution and methods of their control with main emphasis on phytoremediation.

c.Suggest practical methods for the reclamation of saline and alkaline soils.

d.What do you mean by ethno botany, its importance and practice in nature conservation by tribal people?

e.Write a note on Environmental Impact Assessment.

f.Why the provenance testing is prerequisite before taking genetic improvement of any given species? How it can be done?

6.Answer the following questions

a.Describe the role of NGOs in JFM with special reference to biodiversity conservation. Justify with suitable example

b.What do you mean by shifting cultivation and improved fallows and its management under agro forestry system

7.Answer the following questions

a.Describe the basis of land classification in brief for watershed management

b.Explain the importance and different ways of carbon sequestration in terrestrial ecosystem

8.Write notes on any four of the following: (10 × 4 40)

a.Importance and types of Heritability. How it can be increased?

b.Specific combining ability and its utility in tree improvement.

c.Breeding value.

d.Acid rain.

e.Hybrid vigour and its utility in tree breeding.