PRESENT STATUS OF CERTAIN PLANT DIVERSITY RICH REGIONS/AREAS OF INDIA AND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE LONG TERM ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN FORESTRY

摘要

During the last two decades much has been written about the biodiversity richness of country. Avoiding all the numerical details about the documented species an attempt has been made to provide information about the relative forest systems of India. For classifying the vegetation the altitude has been adopted as vital factor in detailing the vegetation. The Darjeeling district has been cleared off the forest for tea plantation while in Sikkim this has been done for cultivation. Prime forests in Indiaare left in a few localities because of tremendous amount of population increase. The high density biodiversity rich forests may be listed as the Sacred Groves of Meghalaya, Silent Valley, Valley of Flowers, Pachmarhi Forest, Kala Top, Chadwick Falls, Glen, Deoban, Kalamuni, Jabcr Khet, Chitray Forest, Chungthang, Lachung, Shem Bagnaur, etc.