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ArticlePlants (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Classification and Characterization of the Manoor Valley's (Lesser Himalaya) Vegetation from the Subtropical-Temperate Ecotonal Forests to the Alpine Pastures along Ecological Variables.

Inayat Ur Rahman, Aftab Afzal, Zafar Iqbal, Mashail Nasser Alzain, Al-Bandari Fahad Al-Arjani, Abdulaziz A Alqarawi, Elsayed Fathi Abd Allah, Niaz Ali, Shazia Sakhi, Muhammad Azhar Khan and 4 more

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Article in Plants (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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Inayat Ur RahmanDepartment of Botany, Hazara University, Mansehra 21300, Pakistan.ORCID 0000-0003-3312-7975
Aftab AfzalDepartment of Botany, Hazara University, Mansehra 21300, Pakistan.
Zafar IqbalDepartment of Botany, Hazara University, Mansehra 21300, Pakistan.
Mashail Nasser AlzainDepartment of Biology, College of Sciences, Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia.
Al-Bandari Fahad Al-ArjaniBotany and Microbiology Department, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia.
Abdulaziz A AlqarawiDepartment of Plant Production, College of Food and Agriculture Science, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia.
Elsayed Fathi Abd AllahDepartment of Plant Production, College of Food and Agriculture Science, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0002-8509-8953
Niaz AliDepartment of Botany, Hazara University, Mansehra 21300, Pakistan.ORCID 0000-0003-3814-5531
Shazia SakhiCenter of Plant Sciences and Biodiversity, University of Swat, Swat 19200, Pakistan.
Muhammad Azhar KhanDepartment of Botany, Hazara University, Mansehra 21300, Pakistan.
Uzma KhanDepartment of Botany, Hazara University, Mansehra 21300, Pakistan.
Farhana IjazDepartment of Botany, Hazara University, Mansehra 21300, Pakistan.
Samina MumtazDepartment of Animal Sciences, Karakoram International University, Gilgit-Baltistan 15100, Pakistan.
Eduardo Soares CalixtoDepartment of Biology, University of Missouri, St. Louis, MO 63166, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3617-2464

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Abstract

Plant species are distributed in different types of habitats, forming different communities driven by different sets of environmental variables. Here, we assessed potential plant communities along an altitudinal gradient and their associations with different environmental drivers in the unexplored Manoor Valley (Lesser Himalaya), Pakistan. We have implemented various ecological techniques and evaluated phytosociological attributes in three randomly selected 50 m-transects within each stand (a total of 133) during different seasons for four years (2015-2018). This phytosociological exploration reported 354 plant species representing 93 different families. The results revealed that the Therophytic life form class dominated the flora, whereas Nanophyll dominated the leaf size spectra. There were a total of twelve plant communities identified, ranging from the lowest elevations to the alpine meadows and cold deserts. The maximum number of species were found in

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