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Effects of Sulphur and Micronutrients on Forest Floral Diversity of West Bengal


     

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Concentrations of micronutrients and macronutrients like sulphur in the forest soils are highly correlated though the forest vegetation that require small quantities of soil sulphur and micronutrients for their growth and development. To examine such relationships among important soil nutrients, soil chemical parameters of the collected forest soils from different forest patches of West Bengal are analyzed. The analytical results show that most of the soil micronutrients are positively correlated among them. The obtained sulphur (S) content in the sampled forest soils of the selected forest pedons ranges between 0.24 and 14.01 mg kg-1.The average concentrations of soil micronutrients like Fe, Mn, B, Cu, and Zn are not adequate in the selected pedons of the forest patches in West Bengal.

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Soil pH, Correlation Coefficients, Micronutrients, Forest Floral Assembly, Low Sulphur Concentrations
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Concentrations of micronutrients and macronutrients like sulphur in the forest soils are highly correlated though the forest vegetation that require small quantities of soil sulphur and micronutrients for their growth and development. To examine such relationships among important soil nutrients, soil chemical parameters of the collected forest soils from different forest patches of West Bengal are analyzed. The analytical results show that most of the soil micronutrients are positively correlated among them. The obtained sulphur (S) content in the sampled forest soils of the selected forest pedons ranges between 0.24 and 14.01 mg kg-1.The average concentrations of soil micronutrients like Fe, Mn, B, Cu, and Zn are not adequate in the selected pedons of the forest patches in West Bengal.

Keywords


Soil pH, Correlation Coefficients, Micronutrients, Forest Floral Assembly, Low Sulphur Concentrations

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.24906/isc%2F2021%2Fv35%2Fi5%2F210551