Floristic and structure of the herbaceous vegetation of four recovering forest stands in the Eastern Ghats of India

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 2263-2285

  Behera, Soumit K ^a   Misra, Malaya K ^a  

^a BERHAMPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Diversity index; Dominance index; Eastern Ghats; Floristic composition; Herb; Importance value index; Recovering forest; Similarity index

Indexed keywords

DECIDUOUS FOREST; DIVERSITY INDEX; DOMINANCE; FLORISTICS; HERB; STAND DYNAMICS;

ASIA; EASTERN GHATS; EURASIA; INDIA; KANDHAMAL; ORISSA; SOUTH ASIA;

ANDROGRAPHIS; ELEPHANTOPUS SCABER; HETEROPOGON CONTORTUS;

EID: 33745268892     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-004-8215-7     Document Type: Article

References (47)

1. S.K. Behera 2003 Ecological studies on the regenerating sal forest of Eastern Ghats (Kandhamal district), Orissa Berhampur University Berhampur, India 123 M.Phil. dissertation
2. G. Cottam J.T. Curtis 1956 The use of distance measures in phytosociology sampling Ecology 37 451 460
3. U. Devi N. Behera 2003 Assessment of plant diversity in response to forest degradation in a tropical dry deciduous forest of Eastern Ghats in India J. Trop. Forest Sci. 15 147 163
4. L.W. Edward R.N. Sah 2003 Structure and diversity of natural and managed sal (Shorea robusta Gaertn. f.) forest in the Terai of Nepal Forest Ecol. Manage. 176 337 353
5. S.C. Garkoti S.P. Singh 1997 Structure and function of herbaceous vegetation in high mountains of central Himalaya Trop. Ecol. 38 153 156
6. O.P. Gupta R.P. Shukla 1991 The composition and dynamics of associated plant communities of sal plantations Trop. Ecol. 32 296 309
7. Haines H.H. 1921-1924. The Botany of Bihar and Orissa. Reprinted 1961. Botanical Survey of India, Calcutta, pp. 1372.
8. M.A. Hare D.O. Lantagne P.G. Murphy H. Checo 1997 Structure and tree species composition in a subtropical dry forest in the Dominican Republic; comparison with a dry forest in Puerto Rico Trop. Ecol. 38 1 17
9. M.O. Hill 1973 Diversity and evenness: a unifying notation and its consequences Ecology 54 427 432
10. S.K. Jain R.R. Rao 1977 A Handbook of Field and Herbarium Methods Today and Tommorrow's Printers New Delhi 157
11. N. Khera A. Kumar A. Ram A. Tiwari 2001 Plant biodiversity assessment in relation to disturbances in mid-elevational forest of Central HimalayaIndia Trop. Ecol. 42 83 95
12. F. Kubicek V. Simonovic 1975 Dynamics and phenology of the total biomass of the herbaceous layer in two forest communities Biologia 30 505 522
13. Legris P. and Meher-Homji V.M. 1984. The Eastern Ghats: vegetation and bioclimatic aspects. In: Bhirava Murty P.V. (ed.), Proceedings of the Seminar on Resources, Development and Environment in the Eastern Ghats, March 24-27, 1982, Visakhapatna, pp. 1-17.
14. N. Lodhiyal L.S. Lodhiyal 2003 Biomass and net primary productivity of Bhabar Shisham forest in Central Himalaya, India Forest Ecol. Manage. 176 217 235
15. A.E. Magurran 1988 Ecological Diversity and its Measurement Cambridge University Press Cambridge 179
16. R.M. May 1975 Patterns of species abundance and diversity M.L. Cody J.M. Diamond Ecology and Evolution of Communities Harvard University Press Cambridge 81 120
17. S.J. [tmp] McNaughton L.L. Wolf 1970 Dominance and the niche in ecological systems Science 167 131 139
18. R. Misra 1968 Ecology Work Book Oxford and IBH Publishing Company New Delhi 244
19. M.K. Misra 1978 Phytosociology and Primary production of a grassland community at BerhampurOrissa (India) Berhampur University India 256 PhD thesis
20. M.K. Misra B.N. Misra 1981 Species diversity and dominance in a tropical grassland community Folia Geobotanica et Phytotaxonomica 16 309 316
21. B.P. Mishra O.P. Tripathi R.S. Tripathi H.N. Pandey 2004 Effect of anthropogenic disturbance on plant diversity and community structure of a sacred grove in Meghalayanorth India Biodiv. Conserv. 13 421 436
22. D. Mueller-Dombois H. Ellenberg 1974 Aims and Methods of Vegetation Ecology John Wiley and Sons New York 547
23. P.K. Pande 1999 Comparative vegetation analysis and sal (Shorea robusta) regeneration in relation to their disturbance magnitude in some sal forests Trop. Ecol. 40 51 61
24. N. Parthasarathy R. Karthikeyan 1997a Biodiversity and population density of woody species in a tropical evergreen forest in Courtallum reserve forestWestern Ghats, India Trop. Ecol. 38 297 306
25. N. Parthasarathy R. Karthikeyan 1997b Plant biodiversity inventory and conservation of two tropical dry evergreen forests of the Coromondal coast, south India Biodiv. Conserv. 6 1063 1083
26. B.S. Rana S.P. Singh R.P. Singh 1989 Biomass and net primary productivity in Central Himalayan forests along an altitudinal gradient Forest Ecol. Manage. 27 199 218
27. S.N. Rai A. Saxena 1997 The extent of forest firegrazing and regeneration status in inventoried forest areas in India Indian Forester 123 689 701
28. A. Raizada S.P. Joshi M.M. Srivastava 1998 Composition and vegetational diversity in alpine grassland in the Garhwal Himalayas Trop. Ecol. 39 133 141
29. G.S. Rawat N.S. Bhainsora 1999 Woody vegetation of Shivaliks and outer Himalaya in north western India Trop. Ecol. 40 119 128
30. Y.S. Rawat J.S. Singh 1988 Structure and function of oak forests in central Himalaya I. Dry matter dynamics Ann. Bot. 62 397 411
31. R. Sagar A.S. Raghubansi J.S. Singh 2003 Tree species composition, dispersion and diversity along a disturbance gradient in a dry tropical forest region of India Forest Ecol. Manage. 186 61 71
32. H.O. Saxena M. Brahmam 1994-1996 The Flora of OrissaVols. 4 Regional Research Laboratory and Orissa Forest Development Ltd. Bhubaneswar, Orissa 2918
33. M. Sharma 1996 Current environmental problems and future perspectives Trop. Ecol. 37 15 20
34. R. Shrestha S.B. Karmacharya P.K. Jha 2000 Vegetational analysis of natural and degraded forests in Chitrepani in Siwalik region of Central Nepal Trop. Ecol. 41 111 114
35. E.M. Simpson 1949 Measurement of diversity Nature 163 688
36. J.S. Singh 2002 The biodiversity crisis: a multifaceted review Curr. Sci 82 638 647
37. S. Singh 2003 Floristic and ecological studies on understorey herbaceous vegetation in central Himalaya forests Ann. Forestry 11 166 174
38. O.T. Solbrig 1991 From Genes to Ecosystems: A Research Agenda for Biodiversity IUBS-SCOPE UNESCO, Harvard Cambridge, Massachusetts 124
39. O.I. Sumina 1994 Plant communities on anthropogenically disturbed sites on Chukotka PeninsulaRussia J. Veg. Sci. 5 885 896
40. O.P. Tripathi H.N. Pandey R.S. Tripathi 2004 Distribution, community characteristic and tree population structure of subtropical pine forest of Meghalaya, northeast India Int. J. Ecol. Environ. Sci. 30 207 214
41. UNEP 2001. India: State of the Environment-2001. United Nations Environmental Programme.
42. T. Veblen 1986 Age and size structure of sub alpine forests in the Colorado Forest Range Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 113 225 240
43. R.H. Whittaker 1965 Dominance and diversity in land plant communities Science 147 250 260
44. R.H. Whittaker 1970 Communities and Ecosystems Macmillan New York 158
45. R.H. Whittaker 1972 Evolution and measurement of species diversity Taxon 21 213 251
46. R.H. Whittaker W.A. Niering 1965 Vegetation of the Santa Catalina Mountains II. A gradient analysis of the south slope Ecology 45 429 452
47. J. Zavitkovski 1976 Ground vegetation biomass, production and efficiency of energy utilization in some northern Wisconsin forest ecosystems Ecology 57 694 706