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Poonam Khurana

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The present study deals with quantitative analysis of vegetation of forest area in Hastinapur, India. A total 3 sites were selected for the study. The values of density and total basal area for different species ranged from 0.5 Ind100m-2 to 2.2 and 16.50 cm2tree-1 to 1055.0cm2tree-1. Most of the species on different sites were randomly and regularly distributed, none of the species were found with contagious distribution. The values of Cd and H’ were ranged from 0.003 to 0.035 and 0.000 to 0.014.

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Community structure and diversity of a tropical dry deciduous forest of Hastinapur region, India. (2009). Journal of Applied and Natural Science, 1(2), 227-230. https://doi.org/10.31018/jans.v1i2.61