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Resilience of the tropical dry evergreen forest in the human-impacted region of Coromandel Coast, India
Abstract : An assessment of the resilience of Tropical Dry Evergreen Forest
(TDEF) formation was made using quantitative vegetation and
surface soil pollen surveys in 14 sites around Pondicherry within
the heterogeneous landscape of the Coromandel coast of
southern India. The sites for vegetation and soil surface pollen
samples were selected using a stratified random sampling.
Vegetation or land cover quantities were measured in quadrats
where 325 angiosperm species representing 75 families of
Angiosperms of the present vegetation were recorded. The
relative densities of species evaluated from three distinct sites
helped to compare them across time, the trajectory of individual
species and the TDEF itself. The vegetation study indicates that
some of the TDEF species have the ability to ‘recover’ and adapt
to changing conditions and anthropogenic pressures. The study
also demonstrated the significance of the use of pollen to
reconstruct the past land cover.
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