{"title":"Ecological study of an Indian village ecosystem: Biomass production and consumption","authors":"Surendra K. Nisanka, Malaya K. Misra","doi":"10.1016/0144-4565(90)90030-N","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Bhabinarayanpur — an agriculture-based village on the east coast of India — was studied as an ecosystem during 1985–1987. The village ecosystem comprises 125 ha of land with 98 households. Land-use patterns showed utilization of 94% of total land for agriculture; the products were mainly paddy (rice), ragi (millet), pulses (legume seeds) and oil-seeds. Quantitative data on biomass components comprising both animals (humans, cattle and birds) and plants (agriculture crop, grassland and plantations) of the ecosystem were described. Above-ground biomass productivity, its consumption pattern by human beings and livestock, and its imports and exports, along with non-biomass sources in the ecosystem, were studied.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100179,"journal":{"name":"Biomass","volume":"23 2","pages":"Pages 117-136"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1990-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0144-4565(90)90030-N","citationCount":"14","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Biomass","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/014445659090030N","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Bhabinarayanpur — an agriculture-based village on the east coast of India — was studied as an ecosystem during 1985–1987. The village ecosystem comprises 125 ha of land with 98 households. Land-use patterns showed utilization of 94% of total land for agriculture; the products were mainly paddy (rice), ragi (millet), pulses (legume seeds) and oil-seeds. Quantitative data on biomass components comprising both animals (humans, cattle and birds) and plants (agriculture crop, grassland and plantations) of the ecosystem were described. Above-ground biomass productivity, its consumption pattern by human beings and livestock, and its imports and exports, along with non-biomass sources in the ecosystem, were studied.