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Assessing land use pattern and species diversity of a tropical dry deciduous forest ecosystem using geospatial techniques
Author(s): Vandenhawii Chawlkha, Lalji Singh*, A.O. Varghese, Ravi Kant Chaturvedi, Shalini Toppo and Tarun Kumar Thakur
The present investigation was conducted at tropical dry deciduous forest ecosystem in Pench Tiger Reserve, located in the part of Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra through RS and GIS techniques. Data were analyzed to work out the land cover, structure, and diversity, relationship between structural parameters and vegetation indices. Land cover was spatially analyzed by digitally classifying Land sat OLI data using supervised classification through MLA (maximum likelihood algorithm). Further, the distinction in structure composition and species diversity in various forest types of a dry deciduous forests were quantified by employed the quadratic random procedures, Tree and Shrubs layer in sampling unitsin each forest types were enumerated for their DBH. Six land cover types viz. water bodies, scrubland, open forest, dense forest, very dense forest and agriculture land were delineated. The.. View More»
DOI:
http:/dx.doi.org/10.14303/irjps.2023.48