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Useful Plant Species Diversity in the Forests and Environments of Siwalik Hills, Dehra Dun District, Uttaranchal
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pepper in view of its vast occurrence and diverse distribution in wild The lndian lnstitute of Spices Research, Calicut, has made a considerable collection of Piper nigrum and its wild relatives from southem lndia and north eastern lndia. Sixteen important qualitative morphological characters of '15 wild species of Piper ol southern lndia were studied and plotted for the hierarchical clustering. A dendrogram was drawn using Centroid average linkage between groups, using SPSS software.

Anand Prakash
National Botanical Research lnstitute, Lucknow pranand_1 @yahoo.com

Siwalik hills of the study area is stretching in south-eastern direction, between river Yamuna in the northwest and Ganga in the southeast. The area is botanically very rich and rich diversity of the wild plants is the source of food, medicine, fiber, oil, fuels, housing, clothing, contraceptive and other material needs for humankind. The area is inhabited by large number of local tribals, Gujjars who have been living in the forests of the area for centuries. They are well acquainted with the plant species, their uses occurring in different forests ecosystems of the area. Present paper highlights some useful plant species utilized by the local inhabitants, tribals and rural populations. Some important useful plant species of the area are Acacia catechu, A. nilotica subsp. indica, Adina cordifolia, Aegle marmelos, Albizia lebbeck, A. procera, Bauhina purpurea, Berberis asiatica, Boerhavia

Four major clusters and seven sub-clusters were found, whereas species like P argyrophyllum, P. attenuatum are found forming first

pair between low to medium altitude 50-700 m MSL, while

P.

peepuloides of the first cluster has a wide range 150-1000 m MSL. P

diffusa, Buchanania lanzan, Corchorus capsularis, Curculigo

orchioides, Costus speciosus, Dalbergia sissoo, Eulaliopsis binnata, Grewia hirsuta, Helicteres isora, Hemidesmus indicus, Limonia

elephantum, Moringa oleifera, Oxalis corniculata, Schleichera oleosa, Spondias pinnata, Withania somnifera elc.
Plant resources of the area have great potentialfor establishing small-

hymenophyllum is the only member of second cluster and forming a separate group its relation with all other groups are below 35"/". P. longum and P. thomsoniforming the third cluster with a similarity value of 82o/" a.nd both occur at low altitude while P thomsoni persists at high range (1000 M) of N.E. Himalayan foot hills. P. nigrum and P. babubudani which are very close with a correlation value ol 0.942 (94'/") showed similarity with the member of fourth cluster. P nigrum has a wide range of altitude 100-700 M. Presence of the same group of species in the same location or the nearby location indicates greater degree of geographic relatedness among the species and their origin. Species richness and species diversity index was also studied which shows Wayanad and Palghat district of Kerala, Nilgid and Tirunelvely of Tamilnadu are the hotspot of species richness. Biodiversity, GlS, cluster analysis, species richness

scale industries, cottage industries, herbal drug industries for the

development and welfare of the tribals, gujjars and other rural populations in the state.

Madhya Pradesh and their Use in

Biomonitoring Studies in the Area
Satya*, D.K. Upreti and S. Nayaka
Lichenology Laboratory National Botanical Research lnstituto tlana Pralap Mars' Lucknow - 226 001' INDIA

Lichen Communities of Amarkantak Hills,

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Siwalik hills, Dehra Dun District, Uttaranchal Key worda: Siwalik hills, plant diversity, tribes,

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occurrence and Distribution of Lichens

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Lichens ar recognisod to be the most reliable bioindicators lor

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pressure throughout the year, The tast pace of developmeni, urbanDes, 6n;entat Science, Assam University, iztion and population pressure is enough lo threat the flora and launa

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quality monitoring. The present invgatigation deals with occurrenc exhibil iheir sensitivity in various ways such as absenc of sensitive distribution ol lichen communities near a paper mill in Panchgram (Sodh- species, decline in dtuersity, modifi;ation of morphology, anatomy, em Assam) in North East lndia. The suryey reveated 55 tichen specjes p;ysiotogy etc.. in li]e area, of which 45 are crustose and 10 foliose.The Pwenulaceae (17 species) dominated the community followed by Artho;iacae 11g The groups ol lichens or communities can also be used as a yardspeci;), craphidaceae (9 species) ani physciace;e (6 species). Five stict to assess tho impact ol human activities across th range of genen Pyrenul4 Afthonb, Parmotema, Grapnis and'eyine er[;6;1"6 habitats. Ama*antak hills are represented by the occurrenco of 7l their dominance in the community with 14, 8, 6 and 3 species, respec- species of lichens belonging to 37 genera and 21 families. The two tively. The number of species per tre, colonios p6r spcies, ar6a maior lichen communitios of the area are the corticolous communities with 40 sPecies while 2'l species lalls under saxicolous communities. covereA ry species in a iree, largest colony attaineO Oy d species The epiphytic communities aro grouped into 12 alliances and the saxitre and area covered per colony are observed al a diaan; of 0.5, colous has five alliances' and 9 km lrom the pollution

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Among the clrlicolous communities alliances domi' Assam nated the area with 9 species ol 3 th Physciaceouscocoes (Swafiz\ gene'a. Pyxine SIUP'20 Biodlverslty of Pipe'rsp. ln South lndia and tyt. and P subcinerea *rton, are Se rwo mosr commonty growing Application ol GIS and Clustel Analysis in lichen species in the area, recordsd in five localities surveyed for lichen exploration. Among the saxicolous communities, the Search Of its Distfibution Physciaceous, Teloschistiaceous and Verucareous alliances exhibit

Key wolda: Air pollution, distibution, lichen, paper industry,

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Utpala Parthasdrathy, K.V. Saji*, K. Jayardj and

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their dominance in the area.

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tes i; the;rea clearly indicates that the area is still not badly

The good growth of both saxicotous and corticolous tichen communiinflu-

enced by the human activity. A regular and periodic surveillance of the The Westem Ghab ot south lndia and the nodh eastem lndia are two hotspots ot diversity ol the genus Pipat in lndia. The Western preseni lichen communities will be helpful in the assessment of the Ghats ot peninsular lndia presumed to be the centre ot origin of black impacl of human ac{ivities across the range of habitats in future,