Forest Health and Protection

The book delves into the various factors, agents, and events that surround the functioning of a forest ecosystem. It discusses in detail the various concepts regarding Forest health and its implications. It gives readers a broad understanding of the factors affecting forest health like diseases, biotic injuries, abiotic injuries, pathogens, insects, etc. It also discusses the various management techniques and procedures that can be or need to be followed in the process of mitigating those factors affecting forest health effectively. The book also goes into detail about the event of Forest Fire and its implications on the broad ecology of the forests and beyond. The various aspects of a forest fire, from a destructive agent to a cause of effective succession to a management tool for various afflictions, are discussed in the book. The book also discusses a broad phenomenon like Forest Decline, Insect management in forests, and Forest Fires. It also goes into specifics, in discussing the various kinds of pathogen or insect induced afflictions, their symptoms, their cause, and their management. This book is designed by its authors as a handbook for gleaning basic knowledge regarding all facets of the forest ecosystems (flora), be it the factors affecting it, or its impact on the society and the region in general. Vivid specifics have not been delved into in this book. However, the concepts regarding a variety of topics have been discussed for the easy reference of the readers.