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Pak. J. Bot., 48(1): 115-119, 2016. |
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ORDINATION STUDY OF VEGETATION ANALYSIS AROUND WETLAND AREA: A CASE STUDY OF MANGLA DAM, AZAD KASHMIR, PAKISTAN
RABAIL UROOJ1, SHEIKH SAEED AHMAD1*, MUHAMMAD NAUMAN AHMAD2, HAROON AHMAD3 AND MUHAMMAD NAWAZ4
Abstract: Present study was conducted at Mangla Dam for vegetation ordinal classification by applying multivariate analysis in order to find relationship between vegetation and their edaphic factors. Samples of soil and herbaceous vegetation were randomly collected by using 1*1 square meter quadrats. Total 37 plant species belonging to 17 families were identified. Canonical Correspondence Analysis as direct ordination technique was applied by using CANOCO software. Results of analytical tests revealed that concentration of micro and macro nutrients along electrical conductivity and pH in different soil samples were varying to a greater level in study area while Cynodon dactylon showed higher abundance over broad range of all edaphic factors concentration.
Key words: Canonical correspondence analysis; Herbaceous flora; Edaphic factors.
1Department of Environmental Sciences, Fatima Jinnah Women University, Mall Road, Rawalpindi, Pakistan 2Department of Agricultural Chemistry, University of Agriculture, Peshawar 3Department of Biosciences, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan 4Department of Environmental Sciences, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan *Corresponding author’s e-mail: drsaeed@fjwu.edu.pk; Ph: 92 321 5167726 |
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