Quantitative vegetation analysis of tree species in the forest adjacent to villages on the periphery of Kedarnath wildlife sanctuary
Article Main
Abstract
The study was carried out in the forest adjacent to three villages located on the periphery of Kedarnath Wildlife Sanctuary with the objective to evaluate the quantitative characters of tree species of the forest vegetation near these villages in relation to the species diversity, equitability and concentration of dominance of the selected villages. A total of eleven tree species were recorded. While the IVI values ranged from 9.78 to 84.33, the density values ranged between 0.3 and 1.9 and TBC values between 13.55 cm2/100m2 and 4080.80 cm2/100m2. Distribution
pattern varied for different species. The recorded values viz. density, Shannon-Weiner Index (H), Concentration of Dominance (cd) and Equitability (Eq) were within the reported range for these types of forests.
Article Details
Article Details
Forest, Vegetation analysis, Quadrat, Dominant species
Curtis, J.T. (1959). The vegetation of Wisconsin University. Wisconsin Press, Madison.
Curtis, J.T. and McIntosh, R.P. (1950). The interrelations of certain analytic and synthetic phytosociological characters. Ecology, 31: 434-455.
Kumar, M., Sharma, C.M. and Rajwar, G.S. (2004). A study on the community structure and diversity of a sub-tropical forest of Garhwal Himalayas. Indian For., 130: 207-214.
Mishra, R. (1968). Ecology Work Book. Oxford and IBH Publ. Co. Calcutta.
Odum, E.P. (1971). Fundamentals of Ecology. W.B. Saunders Co., Philadelphia.
Prasad, S.K. and Pandey R.K. (1989). An observation on the effect of closure for rehabilitation of degraded forest lands – A case study of protected and unprotected wasteland at Bhopal. J. Trop. For., 5: 128-137.
Ralhan, R.K., Saxena, A.K. and Singh, J.S. (1982). Analysis of forest vegetation at and around Nainital in Kumaun Himalaya. Proc. Ind. Nat. Sci. Acad., 48(B): 122-128.
Rana, J.C., Singh, A., Sharma, Y., Pradheep, K. and Mendiratta, N. (2010). Dynamics of plant resources in Western Himalayan region of India – watershed based study. Curr. Sci., 98(2): 192-203.
Saxena, A.K. and Singh, J.S. (1982). A phytosociological analysis of wood species in forest communities of a part of Kumaun Himalaya. Vegetation, 50: 3-22.
Shannon, C.E. and Wiener, W. (1963). The Mathematical Theory of Communication. University Illinois Press, Urbana.
Sharma, B.D. and Rana J.C. (2005). Plant genetic resources of Western Himalaya - status and prospects. Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh, Dehradun, India.
Simpson, E.H. (1949). Measurement of diversity. Nature, 163: 688.
Thakur, A.S. and Khare, P.K. (2009). Composition of forest vegetation and floristics of Sagar district, Central India. J. Ind. Bot. Soc., 88 (1&2): 11-17.
Tiwari, J.C. and Singh, S.P. (1985). Analysis of woody vegetation in a mixed oak forest of Kumaun Himalaya. Proc. Ind. Nat. Sci. Acad., 51(B): 232-247.
Upreti, N., Tiwari, J.C. and Singh, S.P. (1985). Oak forest of Kumaun Himalaya - composition, diversity and regeneration. Mt. Res. Dev., 5: 163-174.
Whittaker, R.H. (1972). Evolution and measurement of species diversity. Taxon, 21: 213.
This work is licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) © Author (s)
