Quantitative and Qualitative Study of Trees and Shrubs in Pune Hills, Maharashtra, India

Lalitha Tilming``, Rajendra Shankar Zunjarrao

Abstract


In the present study 49 families, 137 genera and 187 species of trees and shrubs from five selected hills namely Hanuman, Chaturshrungi, Vetal, Katraj and Taljai in Pune city in Maharashtra were taken for study. The quantitative and qualitative studies carried out in this study are frequency, density, abundance, frequency percentage, relative density, relative frequency, relative dominance, importance value index (IVI) beta diversity and species association between hills. Stratified random sampling technique, Jaccard’s index and Nonmetric Multidimensional Scaling (NMDS) methods were used. Species of plants belonging to the family Fabaceae were found to be most abundant on the selected hills. Taljai hills showed maximum diversity and highest species richness with 13.561 and lowest species richness were found in Katraj hill with 6.733. Jaccard’s index indicated significant similarity. This was also reflected in the beta diversity values which showed a high dissimilarity between Katraj and other hills (<0.3 for all hills as compared to Katraj). The results imply significant effect of anthropogenic activities. This research indicates that there could be more effective conservation measures to preserve the biodiversity of the Katraj hills. Although the dissimilarity was not as significant for the other hills, preservation of the biodiversity of all the hills is the need of the hour.


Keywords


Conservation, Vegetation, Biodiversity, Species area curve, Jaccard’s index.

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