ICAR AICE-JRF/SRF (PhD) — Subject 59 Forestry · India · National Testing Agency for ICAR
Original practice questions written to the published syllabus · not past papersRe-establishing tree cover and ecosystem function on degraded and hostile sites, including mangroves, sand dunes, ravines, saline land, mine spoils and cold deserts, and controlling invasive species.
In the exams: ICAR AICE-JRF 59 Unit 2 (afforestation on difficult sites) and Unit 8 (wastelands); IFoS Forestry Paper I Section A (mangrove and cold-desert silviculture); ICAR AIEEA-PG Group 09 (wasteland management)
How our questions for ICAR AICE-JRF/SRF spread across the units of Forest Restoration & Afforestation of Difficult Sites. Difficulty: 2 easy, 41 medium, 16 hard.
| Assisted natural regeneration and framework-species methods | 7 | |
| Wastelands: extent, characteristics and reclamation | 6 | |
| Principles of ecological restoration and forest landscape restoration | 5 | |
| Saline and alkaline soils | 5 | |
| Coastal sands and sand-dune fixation | 5 | |
| Mangrove ecology and mangrove plantation | 5 | |
| Mine-spoil reclamation | 5 | |
| Invasive plant species and their control | 5 | |
| Lateritic, rocky and dry sites | 4 | |
| Ravines and gullies | 4 | |
| Wetlands and waterlogged sites | 4 | |
| Cold-desert afforestation | 4 |
Choose an answer, then open the working. Each explanation says why the right answer is right and why the others are not.
The correct sequence for stabilising mobile dunes is:
A. Reduce sand movement, pioneers, then trees
Follow natural succession.
Check dams in gullies are spaced so that the top of one dam is level with:
C. Toe of the next dam
Head-to-toe spacing stabilises the whole gully bed.
Large-scale levelling of Chambal ravines for farming has been criticised because it:
D. Costly; destroys habitat
Ravines support gharial, chinkara and birds.
Avicennia excretes excess salt mainly through:
A. Salt glands in leaves
Rhizophora excludes salt at the roots.
Afforestation of natural cold-desert steppe is discouraged mainly because it:
A. Harms native wildlife
Focus on village and riverine areas.
After clearing invasive plants, what is essential to prevent reinvasion?
B. Native restoration, follow-up
Seed banks need years of follow-up.
Assisted natural regeneration was developed and promoted with FAO support in:
B. The Philippines
Pressing Imperata grass is a key technique.
Framework species are planted about 1.8 m apart in a square grid. Trees per hectare are about:
B. 3,086
10,000 / 1.8^2 = 3,086. 5,556 divides by 1.8 only once.
Land degradation neutrality is a target under the:
A. UNCCD and SDG 15.3
India aims for LDN by 2030.
National wasteland mapping classifies wastelands into how many categories?
D. 23
Wastelands are mapped in 23 categories.
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