ArticleFrontiers in plant science2024
Floristic diversity and species composition along altitudinal gradient in the alpine ecosystem of the cold desert region in Western Himalaya, India.
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- Phytosociological analysis and floristic composition of fabaceae species assessing human impact and edaphic variables.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Environmental Filtering Effect Drives the Plant Species Distribution in Alpine Grasslands on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
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Abstract
In India, the Trans-Himalayan zone lies in the rain shadow of the main Himalayan region and is usually described as a "high-altitude cold desert". These regions are represented by sparse but unique vegetation composition. The present study is an attempt to investigate the vegetation composition in the alpine ecosystem of the cold desert landscape of the Nelang Valley in Western Himalayas (Uttarakhand), India. The result of the study reveals the existence of a total of 68 taxa of higher plants (56 genera and 28 families). These include herbs (51 species), shrubs (13 species), climbers (one species), and trees (three species). Herbaceous species (52 species) contributed the maximum species richness; Artemisia, Astragalus, and Juniperus were the dominant genera, followed by Aster, Lonicera, Oxytropis, Poa, and Salix. The valley showed irregular distribution of plant species richness along the altitudinal gradient, and maximum taxa exhibited between 3,500 m and 3,600 m of altitude band. In the Nelang Valley, the total number of phytodiversity individuals exhibited a significant linear decline with increasing altitude (3,100-4,300 m). Further, the study recorded 33 important medicinal plants used in the traditional system of herbal medicine in the Himalayan region. Juniperus semiglobosa shows dominance with a maximum important value index (IVI) (31.77), followed by Pinus wallichiana (29.19) and Cedrus deodara (10.72) in the treeline ecotone of the valley. Rapid Threat Assessment shows that
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