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Phytospectroscopy of Forest Patches in Bardhaman District, West Bengal


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1 Deptt. of Botany, APC Roy Govt. College, Siliguri, Darjeeling, West Bengal-734 010, India
2 Deptt. of Botany, Burdwan University, Bardhaman, West Bengal, India
     

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Forest patches under Bardhaman Forest Division, West Bengal (covering an area of 7024 km2) were chosen for phytospectroscopic study. Out of total of 382 species of vascular plants, percent values of phanerophytes, chamaephytes, hemicryptophytes, cryptophytes and therophytes are 46.86, 20.16, 12.83, 11.78 and 8.38. Phytoclimate is phanero-chamaephytic under moist, warm, humid tropical monsoonal geoclimate. In the forest patches, canopy is disturbed with gaps to allow sunlight, this would result in change in microhabitats, regenerationniche of trees and regeneration-status of the forest. Soil is at the risk of erosion and there prevail certain stress factors. Comparative phytospectroscopic study on different sites reveals that if proper conservational support is provided to the forest patches by including them in Protected Areas Network (PAN) in the form of Sanctuary or National Park, phanerophytes would gain further numerical strenth confering the ecossytem more purity and more active community metabolism. This is the signature of the still active potential of the community to nurture high level of biodiversity.

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Regeneration-status, Protected Areas Network, Biodiversity
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Archan Bhattacharya
Deptt. of Botany, APC Roy Govt. College, Siliguri, Darjeeling, West Bengal-734 010
India

Ambarish Mukherjee
Deptt. of Botany, Burdwan University, Bardhaman, West Bengal
India


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Authors

Archan Bhattacharya
Deptt. of Botany, APC Roy Govt. College, Siliguri, Darjeeling, West Bengal-734 010, India
Ambarish Mukherjee
Deptt. of Botany, Burdwan University, Bardhaman, West Bengal, India

Abstract


Forest patches under Bardhaman Forest Division, West Bengal (covering an area of 7024 km2) were chosen for phytospectroscopic study. Out of total of 382 species of vascular plants, percent values of phanerophytes, chamaephytes, hemicryptophytes, cryptophytes and therophytes are 46.86, 20.16, 12.83, 11.78 and 8.38. Phytoclimate is phanero-chamaephytic under moist, warm, humid tropical monsoonal geoclimate. In the forest patches, canopy is disturbed with gaps to allow sunlight, this would result in change in microhabitats, regenerationniche of trees and regeneration-status of the forest. Soil is at the risk of erosion and there prevail certain stress factors. Comparative phytospectroscopic study on different sites reveals that if proper conservational support is provided to the forest patches by including them in Protected Areas Network (PAN) in the form of Sanctuary or National Park, phanerophytes would gain further numerical strenth confering the ecossytem more purity and more active community metabolism. This is the signature of the still active potential of the community to nurture high level of biodiversity.

Keywords


Regeneration-status, Protected Areas Network, Biodiversity

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