Box MS-021 Box 16

Content Description From the Collection: The collection consists primarily of Prabhakar’s research on the Nilgiri Biosphere Area as part of his doctoral work at CES (Centre for Ecological Sciences), IISc in Bangalore, India, between mid-1980 to 1995. The papers have been arranged into 4 series - notes and writing, research work related to thesis on Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, cartographic work related to thesis on Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, and research references, reports and datasheets related to Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve. The...

Content Description From the Collection: The collection consists primarily of Prabhakar’s research on the Nilgiri Biosphere Area as part of his doctoral work at CES (Centre for Ecological Sciences), IISc in Bangalore, India, between mid-1980 to 1995. The papers have been arranged into 4 series - notes and writing, research work related to thesis on Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, cartographic work related to thesis on Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, and research references, reports and datasheets related to Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve. The...

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Folder contains a key to collecting and mapping Survey of India maps for the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve..

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Folder contains notes and drafts for the curation of a legend for a land use and vegetation map of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve.

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Folder contains 3 notebooks with handwritten notes on map-making..

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Folder contains 1 notebook and loose sheets with handwritten notes on map-making..

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Folder contains 1 notebook with handwritten notes on map-making..

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Folder contains loose sheets with handwritten notes on map-making..

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Folder contains loose sheets with notes on satellite image collection, list of SPOT satellite images from LANDSAT and drawings of the key in preparation of a map of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve..

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Folder contains loose sheets, partly in french, with records of rainfall across various distrcts of the Nilgiris..

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Folder contains excerpted maps and figures such as a map of ootacamund and neighbouring area for average rainfall density, northern-tropical semi-moist eco-systems, tropical moist and dry ecosystems, illustrations of various kinds of evergreen forests, and a map of india with biogeographic regions and potential area of vegetation types marked..

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Folder contains maps of Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve with markings for border and land zones.

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Folder contains map of the study area in Pudu Panchayat, map of the Nilgiiri area with the reserve and interstate boundary marked, and a vegetation map of the Nilgiri Biosphere Area .