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Biodiversity inventories of Little Andaman Island, India (Paperback)
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Biodiversity inventories of Little Andaman Island, India (Paperback)
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Tropical rainforests are distinguished from all other terrestrial
ecosystem with high diversity of species and life-forms and are the
most heterogeneous of the world ecosystems. Andaman Islands are a
treasure of plant and animal diversity and home to four aboriginal
tribes. namely the Andamanese, Onges, Jarawas and Sentenelese. A
century-old cultural history of human occupation in these islands
and indiscriminate utilization of plant resources by humans in the
recent past, have posed serious threat to biodiversity. The study
island Little Andaman although disturbed due to plantation of oil
palm, tourism and related activities, harbours rich flora including
endemics, and constitutes one of the important forests in the
Indo-Burma biodiversity hotspot. In the study, the tree species
richness, density and basal area were greater in all the
undisturbed forests as compared to the disturbed forests. In
understory plants, weeds formed about 1/4 of the species richness
and density and the maximum diversity of weeds were recorded from
the disturbed sites. The disturbed sites harboured lowest tree
species richness and the highest understory plant species richness
due to bioinvasion of weeds.
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