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Tree Species Diversity and Distribution Patterns in Tropical Forests of Garo Hills RESEARCH ARTICLES Tree species diversity and distribution patterns in tropical forests of Garo Hills Ashish ~urnar''~**,Bruce G. ~arcot)and Ajai saxenals4 'wildlife Institute of India, Post Box 18, Chandrabani, Dehradun 248 001, India 'present Address: National Tiger ConservationAuthority, Bikaner House, Annexe 5, Shahjahan Road, New Delhi 110 01 1, India 'USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, 620 S.W. Main Street, Portland, OR 97205, USA 'Present address: Department of Ocean Development, Block 12, C.G.O. Complex, Lodhi Road, New Delhi 110 003, India pressure, particularly shifting cultivation (locally known We analysed phytosociological characteristics and diver- sity patterns of tropical forest tree species in Garo asjhzun)'. Nevertheless, pristine PFs of Garo Hills still occur Hills, western Meghalaya, Northeast India. The main as remnant patches in remote localities mainly in the inte- vegetation of the region included primary forests rior hills. SF growth originates from many years of prac- (PFs), secondary forests (SFs), and sal (Shoreu ro- tising jhm, resulting in patches of various forest ages bust~)plantations, with 162, 132, and 87 tree species dispersed across the area. Many recent studies4-' have des- respectively. The Shannon-Wiener diversity index of cribed vegetation characteristics and diversity of the tropical trees in PF was 4.27 (n = 21 one-ha belt-transects), forests of India and other parts of the world. Meghalaya, which is comparable to the world's richest tropical however, has remained, largely unstudied, except for our forests. Statistical results revealed that primary for- work and another landscape level asse~sment".~.Here, we ests were more tree-rich and diverse than secondary present empirical data on diversity of tree species in the forests or sal plantations. Results of the study will help forest managers in conservation planning of the tropi- tropical forests of Garo Hills. cal forest ecosystem of Northeast India. Study area Keywords: Distribution pattern, Garo Hills, tree species diversity, tropical forests, rarefaction. The study area covers 2459 sq. km in the South Garo Hills district (1850 sq. km) and part of the East and West TROPICAL forests often are referred to as one of the most Garo Hills districts (609 sq. km) in Meghalaya (Figure 1). species-diverse terrestrial ecosystems. Their immense bio- The study area belongs to biogeographic zone 9B (north- diversity generates a variety of natural resources which eastern ~ndia)~and occurs between 9O007'-9 1"E long. help sustain the livelihood of local How- and 25O02' and 2S032'N 1at.l. Elevation ranges from 100 to ever, many tropical forests are under great anthropogenic 1500 m amsl. Forests of the study area occur in three pressure and require management intervention to maintain main land-use classes: (i) protected areas (PAS), which the overall biodiversity, productivity and sustainabilityl. include Nolcrek National Park and Biosphere Reserve, Understanding species diversity and distribution patterns Balpakram National Park, Siju Wildlife Sanctuary and is important for helping managers evaluate the complexity Baghrnara Pitcher Plant Sanctuary; (ii) managed forests and resources of these forests. Trees form the major (MFs) which include four reserved forests (RFs), namely structural and functional basis of tropical forest ecosys- Angratoli RF, Baghmara RF, Imangiri RF and Rewak RF; tems and can serve as robust indicators of changes and and (iii) privately-owned Garo community land (see Figure stressors at the landscape scale3. The present study focused 1 for location). The government manages only 15% on analysing distribution and abundance pattern of tree (362 sq. km) of the total land in PAS and RFs. The re- species over a landscape covering 2459 sq. km area in the maining land belongs to the local Garo communities, who tropical hills of Northeast India. use it widely for jhumming and as sources of non-timber The old native forests of the Garo Hills in western forest resources. Meghalaya- one of the seven northeast Indian States - Although PF is mainly confined to PAS, a few intact support one of the most diverse and luxuriant tropical patches of PF still exist in the interior hills within com- vegetation conditions in the world1. The native primary munity land. SF is confined mainly to community land forests (PFs), secondary forests (SFs), and sal (Shorea and some newly acquired portions of PAS. RFs of the re- robwta) plantations comprise the main forest vegetation gion, where sal plantations are found, have been managed types, the first two of which are subjected to anthropogenic through forestry working plans since the initiation of formal forest management during the late 19th century. An intensive study in Balpakram National Park, one of *For correspondence.(email: [email protected]) the most important PAS of Meghalaya, had identified eight 1370 CURRENT SCIENCE, VOL. 91, NO. 10,25 NOVEMBER 2006 RESEARCH ARTICLES Figure 1. Study area of Garo Hills in western Meghalaya, Northeast India PA, Protected area; MF, Managed forest also known as RF, reserved forest in Garo Hills; WLS, Wildlife sanctuary; PPS, Pitcher plant sanctuary. tropical forest formationss based on the classification it was counted as two (or more) trees and each measured scheme suggested by Holdridge et al.lO.The reported just above the branch point. formations included tropical moist evergreen forests, We stratified PF into three forest formations based on tropical semi-evergreen forests, tropical moist deciduous elevation: PF1 (n = 8 belt-transects) at <400 m elevation, forests, secondary formations, shola type forests, riverine PF2 (n = 9) at 400-800 m elevation, and PF3 (n = 4) at forests, grassland and tree-savannas and bamboo forests. > 800 m elevation. We stratified SF into three succes- Our present study identified forest types as PF, SF and sal sional stages based on age (years since stand-replacing plantation, which included these above-mentioned forest disturbance, principally jhum): SF1 as 15 years or younger formations. (n = 3), SF2 as 15-30 years (n = 4), and SF3 as > 30 years (n = 3). We plotted cumulative number of tree species as a function of cumulative number of belt-transects for all Methods PFs and SFs to evaluate the adequacy of sample size of belt transects in PF and SF for estimating tree species richness We used stratified random sampling to collect tree data in 1 ha areas (but not in sal plantations owing to their rela- within 1 ha belt-transects (1000 m x 10 m), which could be tive sparseness in the study area). used as an alternate of 1 ha square plots in rugged and We assessed the following phytosociological characteris- undulating hilly terrain, as suggested by Sykes and Hor- tics of the tree communities: per cent fiequency (per cent rills". We located the belt-transects along existing foot- of all belt-transects in whicha tree species was present), paths and elephant travel lanes, which often were the only density (ratio of total number of trees and total number of means of effectively entering the forest interiors. We esta- belt-transects laid out), abundance (ratio of total number blished 35 belt-transects of which 21, 10, and 4 were in PF, of trees and total number of belt-transects of occurrence), SF, and sal plantation respectively, to record the local basal area (m2/ha) and species importance value (sIv)~. names and circumference (girth) of all trees 2 30 cm girth In PFs and SFs (but not in sal plantations because of low at breast height (gbh). If a tree trunk was buttressed near sample size), we grouped each tree species into one of five breast height, the girth was measured just above the but- fiequency classes (FC): 1-20% (FCI), 2140% (FC2), tress, and if a tree was branched at or below breast height, 4140% (FC3), 61-80% (FC4) and 8 1-100% (FC5), ac- CURRENT SCIENCE, VOL. 91, NO. 10,25 NOVEMBER 2006 1371 RESEARCH ARTICLES cording to Raunkier's law of frequency, and we used the cma?pus gomezirmus, Oroxylum indicum, and Rhus accu- ratio of abundance to ffequency as a measure of conta- minata had the most regular distribution (low abundance gion of patterns tree distribution3.We computed tree density and high frequency) among both PFs and SFs forests. (number of trees/ha) and basal area (m2/ha) for each Other species with regular distributions included Maca- vegetation type to compute SIV of each tree species, ac- ranga indica, Moringa oleifera, Alstonia scholaris, Dua- cording to ~isra',who used the term 'importance value banga grandiflora, Albizia chinensis and Ficus newosa index' or IVI for same. in PF, and Garcinia tinctoria, Gmelina arborea, Pteiy- We computed similarity measures of tree species among gota alata, Mesua ferrea, Mallotus roxburghianus, Litsea the three forest vegetation types (PF, SF, sal), three PF for- sebifera and Smaasoca in SF. S. robusta, Boehmerea mations, and three SF successional stages using Jacard's (JI), hamiltoniana, and Saurauia nepaulensis had the most Smenson's (SI) and Czekanowski's (CI) indices. Jacard's clumped distribution (high abundance and low ffequency) and Smenson's indices were based on the presence or ab- in both PF and SF. Appendix 2 gives the distribution pattern sence of species shared between samples, and species or contagiousness of species in SF and sal plantations. unique to each sample respectively. CI is similar to JI or SI, except that it also considers abundance of the species12. We used the statistical software STATECOL to com- pute tree species richness (Menhinick index), species di- versity (Shannon-Wiener diversity index) and species evenness (modified Hill's ratio) based on the number of trees of each species in the forest vegetation types, PF formations, and SF successional stages". We also com- pared these index measures using rarefaction by plotting the expected number of species or E(Sn) against the number of trees to standardize the sample size for valid compari- son14.
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