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Composition of plant communities driven by environmental gradients in alpine pastures and cold desert of northwestern Himalaya, Pakistan

机译:在巴基斯坦高山牧场的环境梯度和寒冷的沙漠导致的植物社区的构成

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Alpine life zones exist at the cold edge above the tree line in mountains where tree species do not grow, however, a large plant diversity thrives due to alpine climate adaptations to short growing seasons and low temperatures. Keeping this phenomenon in view, study was designed to determine the influential environmental variables responsible for structuring the plant communities in the alpine pastures and cold desert of Northwestern Himalayas, Pakistan. The vegetation of the aforementioned study area was quantified by following the Line transect (50 meters) method along the geographic, slope, edaphic and climatic gradients. All the recorded data of plant species and environmental variables were analyzed by various statistical softwares’ ( i.e., PCORD, CANOCO and R 3.6.1). Thirty-nine species recorded in 13 stands were grouped into two major plant communities (i.e., Poa-Bistorta-Primula and Bistorta-Poa-Primula) . Poa-Bistorta-Primula community has the highest number of plant species (39 species) as well as the highest value of alpha and beta diversity (2.785 and 0.916, respectively) and Pielou’s evenness (0.865) in Bistorta-Poa-Primula community. Due to the high elevation, severe low temperature is the feature throughout the growing season. Such severe climatic environment is worsened by xeric conditions which led to very short growing season from July to September. The recognized indicators of such harsh environment might be useful in monitoring variations in plant communities resulted in response to environmental changes.
机译:山区生命区存在于山脉中的树线上方的冷缘,然而,由于高寒的气候适应季节和低温,因此由于高寒的气候适应而茁壮成长的大型植物多样性。保持这种现象的观点,旨在确定有影响力的环境变量,负责构建高山牧场和喜马拉雅山,巴基斯坦西北部的寒冷沙漠的植物群落。通过沿着地理,坡度,俯视物和气候梯度的线路横断(50米)法量化上述研究区域的植被。各种统计软件(即PCORD,Canoco和R 3.6.1)分析了植物物种和环境变量的所有记录数据。记录在13种展台中的三十九种分为两种主要植物群群(即,Poa-Bistorta-Primula和Bistorta-Poa-Primula)。 Poa-Bistorta-Primula群落具有最多的植物物种(39种)以及α和β多样性的最高值(分别为2.785和0.916)和Pielou的均匀度(0.865),在Bistorta-Poa-Pua-Primula社区中。由于高升高,严重的低温是整个生长季节的特征。这种严重的气候环境受到Xeric条件恶化的,从7月到9月的生长季节很短。这种恶劣环境的公认指标可能在监测植物社区的变化时有用,导致环境变化导致。

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