PJB-2016-186
MEDICINAL PLANTS DENSITY ALONG AN ALTITUDINAL GRADIENT IN AND AROUND AYUBIA NATIONAL PARK
AKASH TARIQ1, MUHAMMAD ADNAN1* AND SHAHEEN BEGUM2
Abstract
Medicinal plants are an essential source of livelihood for many rural populations and are currently facing several threats of extinction in temperate Himalaya, such as excessive grazing and collection along altitudinal gradients. The present study was designed to investigate the species density of medicinal plants at different mid-altitude levels (2200, 2300, 2400, and 2500 m above the sea level (a.s.l.) between two forest-use types and to examine the possible association between medicinal plant densities and forest-stand structural variables along the altitudinal gradient. Factorial design analysis of variance showed that the densities of all medicinal plants differed significantly between the forest-use types (p
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