Biomass and productivity in sal and miscellaneous forests of Satpura plateau (Madhya Pradesh) India英文文献资料.docVIP

Advances in Bioscience and Biotechnology, 2010, 1, 30-38 ABB doi:10.4236/abb.2010.11005 Published Online April 2010 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/abb/). Biomass and productivity in sal and miscellaneous forests of Satpura plateau (Madhya Pradesh) India Pramod Kumar Pande , A. K. Patra 1 2 1 2 Wood Anatomy Discipline, Botany Division, Forest Research Institute, Dehradun, India; Conservator of Forest, Bokaro (Jharkhand), India. Email: Pandep123@ Received 18 January 2010; revised 25 January 2010; accepted 28 January 2010. ABSTRACT tree productivity. So, gap filling plantation in side the forest is suggested to improve the productivity of open forests. The paper deals with the biomass and productivity of sal (SF) and miscellaneous forests (MF) of Satpura plateau (Madhya Pradesh) India. These forest types were divided into four sites namely open miscellane- ous (OMF, site-I), closed miscellaneous (CMF, site-II), open sal (OSF, site-III) and closed sal (CSF, site-IV). The degree of disturbance followed the order: III (0.70) I (0.12) II (0.054) IV (0.018) while con- sidering total trees as measure. OSF (III) and CSF (IV) were most and least disturbed sites among the four. The percent allocation of above ground tree biomass followed the order: 85.08 (II) 85.51 (I) 81.31 (III) 78.09 (IV). The higher above ground tree biomass was produced by MF than of SF. Closed canopy forests produced higher above ground tree biomass than of the open forests. OMF produced 9.5% less biomass than of the CMF whereas, OSF has 39.91% less bio- mass than of the CSF. The contribution of above ground biomass of shrubs (%) are as follows: 8.3 (IV) 32.72 (I) 33.77 (III) 52.63 (II). The percent contribution of root biomass was higher for closed sites as compared with open and sites. The root: shoot Keywords: Biomass; Net Ecosystem Productivity; Net Primary Productivity; Li