Range Forest Officer recruitment (state exams) · India · State Public Service Commissions and state forest departments (e.g. MPPSC, UKPSC, UPPSC)
Original practice questions written to the published syllabus · not past papersHow forests are classified and mapped: world biomes and forest formations, and national forest-type classifications such as Champion and Seth's for South Asia.
In the exams: ICAR AICE-JRF 59 Unit 1 (forest types, world forest types, phytogeographical regions); ICAR AIEEA-PG Group 09 (types, classification); IFoS Forestry Paper I Section A (temperate, tropical, mangrove and cold-desert silviculture)
How our questions for Range Forest Officer recruitment spread across the units of Forest Types, Phytogeography & World Biomes. Difficulty: 10 easy, 10 medium, 2 hard.
| National forest-type classifications (e.g. Champion and Seth, European forest types, US forest-type groups) | 4 | |
| Tropical forest formations: evergreen, semi-evergreen, moist and dry deciduous | 3 | |
| Temperate, subalpine and alpine forests | 3 | |
| Forest cover mapping, national forest-cover reports and the FAO Forest Resources Assessment | 3 | |
| Forest classification systems: physiognomic, floristic, ecological | 2 | |
| Mangrove and littoral forests | 2 | |
| Dry, thorn and cold-desert vegetation | 2 | |
| Phytogeographic regions of the world | 1 | |
| Biodiversity hotspots and endemism | 1 | |
| World biomes: boreal, temperate, Mediterranean, tropical moist and dry forests | 1 |
Choose an answer, then open the working. Each explanation says why the right answer is right and why the others are not.
D. Chatterjee's 1939 work is known for:
D. Dividing India into its phytogeographical regions
Chatterjee proposed botanical regions; Champion and Seth classified types; FSI maps cover; Myers defined hotspots.
Further reading: Champion & Seth, A Revised Survey of the Forest Types of India (1968); FSI, India State of Forest Report; FAO, Global Forest Resources Assessment 2020
Champion and Seth's classification is best described as:
A. A combined climatic, floristic and site-based system
It combines several criteria in a hierarchy.
Further reading: Champion & Seth, A Revised Survey of the Forest Types of India (1968); FSI, India State of Forest Report; FAO, Global Forest Resources Assessment 2020
In Champion and Seth's numbering, type group 3 is:
A. Tropical moist deciduous forests
Group 3 is tropical moist deciduous; 5 dry deciduous; 6 thorn; 9 subtropical pine.
Further reading: Champion & Seth, A Revised Survey of the Forest Types of India (1968); FSI, India State of Forest Report; FAO, Global Forest Resources Assessment 2020
Which pair of type groups together cover the largest share of India's forest area?
A. Tropical dry and moist deciduous
Dry and moist deciduous forests dominate India's forest area.
Further reading: Champion & Seth, A Revised Survey of the Forest Types of India (1968); FSI, India State of Forest Report; FAO, Global Forest Resources Assessment 2020
Tropical dry evergreen forests occur on the Coromandel coast because:
D. Much of the rain falls from the north-east monsoon
This small type depends on north-east monsoon rainfall; Manilkara hexandra is characteristic.
Further reading: Champion & Seth, A Revised Survey of the Forest Types of India (1968); FSI, India State of Forest Report; FAO, Global Forest Resources Assessment 2020
Which statement about sal is correct?
D. It forms gregarious, nearly pure stands
Sal forms extensive nearly pure deciduous stands.
Further reading: Champion & Seth, A Revised Survey of the Forest Types of India (1968); FSI, India State of Forest Report; FAO, Global Forest Resources Assessment 2020
Shola forests of the Nilgiris and Anamalais are classed as:
C. Montane wet temperate forest
Sholas are stunted evergreen forests of the southern hills, type group 11.
Further reading: Champion & Seth, A Revised Survey of the Forest Types of India (1968); FSI, India State of Forest Report; FAO, Global Forest Resources Assessment 2020
Khejri, the key tree of Thar desert agroforestry, is:
C. Prosopis cineraria
Prosopis cineraria is khejri; P. juliflora is an introduced invasive.
Further reading: Champion & Seth, A Revised Survey of the Forest Types of India (1968); FSI, India State of Forest Report; FAO, Global Forest Resources Assessment 2020
The India State of Forest Report is published every:
D. Two years
The Forest Survey of India publishes the ISFR biennially, every two years; FAO's global assessment, not the ISFR, is about five-yearly.
Further reading: Champion & Seth, A Revised Survey of the Forest Types of India (1968); FSI, India State of Forest Report; FAO, Global Forest Resources Assessment 2020
Which of these hotspots includes part of India?
B. Indo-Burma
India's four: Himalaya, Indo-Burma, Western Ghats and Sri Lanka, Sundaland (Nicobars).
Further reading: Champion & Seth, A Revised Survey of the Forest Types of India (1968); FSI, India State of Forest Report; FAO, Global Forest Resources Assessment 2020
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