1. Agarwal, A. (1996). A group size and successful collective action. A case study of forest management institution in the Indian Himalayas, Forest Trees and People Programme, Phase II, Working Paper, No. 3
2. Arnold, J.E.M. and Campbell, J.G. (1986). The collective management of Hill Forests in Nepal: The community forestry development project. In: Proc. Of the Conference on Common Property Resource Management, National Academy Press, Washington DC.
3. Bhandari, B.S. and Tiwari, S.C. (1997). Dominance and diversity along an altitudinal gradient in a montane forest of Garhwal Himalaya, Proc. Indian national Science Academy, B. 63(6):639-646.
4. Bhuyan, P., Khan, M.L. and Tripathi, R.S. (2003). Tree diversity and population structure in undisturbed and human-impacted stands of tropical wet-evergreen forest in Arunachal Pradesh, Eastern Himalaya, India, Biodiversity and Conservation, 12:
5. Chauhan, D.S., Negi, B.S. and Todaria, N.P. (2002). Status of forest Panchayats in Chamoli District of Garhwal Himalayas, Journal of World Forest Resource Management, 9:147-165.
6. Curtis, J.T. (1959). The vegetation of Wisconsin, An Ordination of Plant Communities, University of Wisconsin Press, madison Wisconsin, pp. 657.
7. Curtis, J.T. and McIntosh, R.P. (1950). The interrelations of certain analytic and synthetic phytosociological characters. Ecology, 31:434-455. https://doi.org/10.2307/1931497
8. Denslow, J.S. (1980). Gap partitioning among tropical rain forest trees. Biotropica (Suppl.), 12:47-55. https://doi.org/10.2307/2388156
9. Ganesh, T., Ganeshan, R., Devi, M.S., Davidar, P. and Bawa, K.S. (1996). Assessment of plant biodiversity at a mid-elevation evergreen forests of Kalakkad-Manduthurai Tiger Reserve, Western Ghats, India. Current Science, 71:379-392.
10. Grubb, P.J. (1977). The maintenance of species richness in plant communities. The importance of the regenerational niche, Bio. Rev., 52:107-145. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-185X.1977.tb01347.x
11. Knight, D.H. (1975). A phytosociological analysis of species rich tropical forests on Barro Colorado island, Panama. Ecological Monographs, 45:259-284. https://doi.org/10.2307/1942424
12. Margalef, R. (1968). Perspective in Ecological Theory. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
13. Mishra, B.P., Tripathi, O.P., Tripathi, R.S. and Pandey, H.N. (2004). Effects of Anthropogenic disturbance on plant diversity and community structure of a sacred groove in Meghalaya, North-East India. Biodiversity and Conservation, 13:421-436. https://doi.org/10.1023/B:BIOC.0000006509.31571.a0
14. Muller-Dombois, D. and Ellenberg, H. (1974). Aims and Methods of Vegetation Ecology. John Wiley, NewYork, pp. 547.
15. Pande, P.K., Bist, A.P.S. and Sharma, S.C. (1988). Comparative vegetational analysis of some plantation ecosystem. Indian Forester, 114(7):379-388.
16. Paijmans, K. (1970). An analysis of four tropical rain forest sites in New Guinea. J. Ecol., 58:77-101. https://doi.org/10.2307/2258170
17. Parthesarthy, N., Kinsal, V. and Praveen, L. (1992). Plant Sciences and University and Human Impact in the Tropical Wet-Evergreen Western Ghats. Indo-French workshop on tropical forest ecosystem, Natural functionary and anthropogenic impact, French Institute, Pondicherry.
18. Phillips, E.A. (1959). Methods of Vegetation Study. A Holt Dryden Book. Henry Holt and Co., New York, Inc: 107.
19. Pielou, E.C. (1996). The measurements of diversity in different types of biological collections. J. Theoretical Biol., 13:131-144. https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-5193(66)90013-0
20. Rao, P., Barik, S.K., Pandey, H.N. and Tripathi, R.S. (1990). Community composition and population structure in a sub-tropical broad-leaved forest along a disturbance gradient. Vegetation, 88:151-162. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00044832
21. Richard, P.W. (1952). The Tropical Rain Forest. Cambridge University Press.
22. Saxena, A.K. and Singh, J.S. (1982). A phytosociological analysis of woody species in forest communities of a part of Kumaun Himalaya. Vegetation, 50:3-22. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00120674
23. Shannon, C.E. and Wiener, W. (1963). The Mathematical Theory of Communication, University of Illinois Press, Urbana.
24. Simpson, E.H. (1949). Measurement of diversity. Nature, 163:688. https://doi.org/10.1038/163688a0
25. Singh, J.S., Rawat, Y.S. and Chaturvedi, O.P. (1984). Replacement of Oak forest with Pine in the Himalaya affects the nitrogen cycle. Nature, 311:54-60. https://doi.org/10.1038/311054a0
26. Visalakshi, N. (1995). Vegetation analysis of two tropical dry evergreen forest in Southern India. Tropical Ecology. 36(1):117-127.