Research Article | Published: 01 March 2009

Vegetational heterogeneity of woody plants in Himalayan landscape of Himachal Pradesh, India

Poonam Sharma, R. N. Sehgal and Anup Raj

Indian Journal of Forestry | Volume: 32 | Issue: 1 | Page No. 39-44 | 2009
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54207/bsmps1000-2009-590893 | Cite this article

Abstract

Species diversity, relative dominance and spatial distribution of woody plants species in the high hills of Western Himalayas were studied. The study area was poor in species diversity, both in terms of species richness and evenness. The highest values of Shannon’s index were 1.984 and 2.136 for trees and shrubs respectively. Maximum sites were having lower values of Jaccard’s index (J’) and higher values of concentration of dominance (Cd). Evenness in the shrub communities was more as compared to tree communities. Twenty of the 24 sites were dominated by conifers. Pinus gerardiana dominated maximum number of sites (8) followed by Cedrus deodara (6 sites). Most of the species were contagiously distributed in most of the communities and only a few had random or regular distribution.

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Sharma, P., Sehgal, R.N. and Raj, A., 2009. Vegetational heterogeneity of woody plants in Himalayan landscape of Himachal Pradesh, India. Indian Journal of Forestry, 32(1), pp.39-44. https://doi.org/10.54207/bsmps1000-2009-590893

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