Vegetation and Plant Diversity

Vegetation and Plant Diversity

by Ravindra P. Shukla, Sanjay Kumar Pandey
 
  • ISBN: 9789353870560
  • Binding: Hardbound
  • Year: 2021
  • Language: English
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The Monograph provides a comprehensive description and analysis of terrestril vegetation in minor details based on extensive field sampling and plant diversity analysis. It gives insight of general vegetation characteristics and diversity of plants to post graduate and research students, teacher forest personnel managers and planners, the gradual rarefaction and eventual local extinction of plant species of different habitats have been viewed in the light of perceived changes in the local climate conditions during the last few decades the spcial feathure of the monograph is the investigation of loss pattern of the species with change in landuse pattern and disturnances associated with socio-economic activities in the region since 1960s. The pressure on biodiversity and ecosystems services in ever increasing. Taking board and small scale environmental variation and historical disturbance regimes into consideration, the probable measures of the change in the pattern of species diversity and tha rate and reason of biodiversity loss may be made to devise mechanism for region-specific species conservation.

Prof. Ravindra P. Shukla Ex- Head, Department of Botany, DDU Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur-273 008, U.P., India

Dr. Sanjay Kumar Pandey Assistant Professor, Department of Botany, D. A. V. P.G. College, Gorakhpur-273 008, U.P., India

 

 

  • Vegetation of Uttar Pradesh- A Historical Perspective
  • a) Political History
  • b) Forest Conservation
  • c) Cultural Vegetation
  • d) Vegetational Landscape
  • e) Recent Past Vegetation of Gorakhpur Forest Division
  • f) Current Scenario
  • 2. Geography, Soil and Climate
  • a) Geographical Status
  • b) Soil
  • c) Geological History
  • d) Climate
  • e) Represented Ecoregions
  • Plant Communities and Major Vegetation Types
  • a) Terrestrial Plant Communities
  • b) Compositional Characteristic of Major Vegetation Types
  • i) Grasslands
  • ii) The Upland-plain
  • iii) The Old-field Vegetation
  • iv) The Wasteland Scrub Vegetation
  • v) The Forest Vegetation.
  • c) Sal Forests of Gorakhpur
  • Vegetation Analysis
  • I. Sampling of Plant Communities
  • II. Identification of Common and Rare Species
  • Rabinowitz’s Classification Scheme
  •  III. Analysis of Grassy Landscape
  • a) Species Composition
  • b) The Quantitative Analytic Characters.
  • c) Aggregation
  • d) Associations
  • e) Exclusives
  • f) Comparison of Grazed/Clipped and Ungrazed Grasslands
  • IV. Analysis of Forested Landscape
  • a) Species Composition and Diversity
  • b) Common vs. Rare Species
  • c) Invasive Aliens
  • d) Diversity of Liana and Vines and Their Climbing Strategy
  • i) Climber Diversity
  • ii) Common, Exclusive and Rare Climbers
  • iii) Stratification
  • iv) Modes of Climbing
  • V. Comparison of Vegetation Types
  • 5. Regeneration Strategy, Rarity and Diversity in Disturbed Sal Forests
  •  a) Sampling Methods
  • b) Population Status
  • c) Modes of Regeneration
  • d) Sal Rorest vs. Mixed Forest
  • 6. The Pattern of Generic Depletion and Species Loss
  • a) Current Species Content
  • b) Angiospermic Taxa During Different Decades
  • c) Decadal Changes in Plant Species Richness.
  • d) Causes of Diversity Changes
  • 7. Status of Regional Plant Taxa During 1960s
  •  I. Status of Families
  • a) Cosmopolitan Families
  • b) Tropical Families.
  • c) Temperate Families
  • d) Discontinuous Families
  • e) Endemic Families
  • f) Anomalous Families.
  • II. Status of Genera
  • a) Species Richness of Genera
  • b) Geographical Distribution of Genera:
  • i) Cosmopolitan Genera
  • ii) Sub-cosmopolitan Genera
  • iii) Pan-Tropical
  • iv) Temperate Genera
  • v) Wide Genera.
  • vi) Discontinuous Genera
  • vii)Endemic Genera.
  • III. Status of Species
  • a) Cosmopolitan.
  • b) Pan-Tropical.
  • c) Other Wide Species.
  • d) Endemic Species
  • e) Discontinuous Species
  • Summary Statement
  • References