Acceso usuarios
N.R. Wani, A.H. Mughal, S. Asif
The study was carried out on the North-Western afforested bank of Manasbal Lake, Kashmir during the year 2009 in order to study the vegetation of the area. The afforestation programme was launched with the aim of preventing the soil erosion and heavy influx of nutrients into the lake which otherwise causes heavy growth of aquatic biomass in the lake causing trouble not only to the fish flora but also to navigation. Restoration of pristine glory of lake is of paramount importance in the tourist industry of Kashmir. After survey of the entire area quadrats of different sizes, eight each for trees, shrubs and herbs were laid for vegetation analysis. During the course of study fourteen species of trees, five species of shrubs and twenty nine herbaceous species were recorded. Robinia pseudoacacia Linn. was found to be the dominant species in terms of density (9.0/m2), frequency (100%) , abundance (9.0) . Among shrubs, Rosa foetida Herrm.(2.50) was the abundant species while, Cytisus scoparius Linn. excelled in terms of density (0.87/m2) and frequency (75%). Tulipa stellata Hook. was dense (12.25/m2) and frequent (100%) among all the herbaceous species but Cynodon dactylon Pers. was most abundant (20.37).
