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DOI	10.15666/aeer/1806_78137827
	PHYTOSOCIOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT OF BROWSING VEGETATION IN ASSOCIATION WITH EDAPHIC FACTORS IN THE CHOLISTAN RANGELANDS OF PAKISTAN
	Abdullah, M.; Rafay, M.; Rasheed, F.; Ahmad, M.; Kamran, Z.; Azhar, M. F.; Akram, M.; Ishan, M. Z.; Ali, L.; Ahmad, T., I
通讯作者	Abdullah, M (corresponding author), Islamia Univ Bahawalpur, Cholistan Inst Desert Studies CIDS, Bahawalpur, Pakistan.
来源期刊	APPLIED ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH
ISSN	1589-1623
EISSN	1785-0037
出版年	2020
卷号	18 期号:6 页码:7813-7827
英文摘要	Rangelands are temporally and spatially unique socioecological systems supporting natural vegetation and livestock production. The browsing vegetation of Cholistan rangelands in Pakistan is degrading due to multiples stresses therefore a phytosociological survey was carried to determine the browse community structure and their association with edaphic features. In this study a total of 25 browse species belonging to 12 families and 17 genera were identified among which Chenopodiaceae, Mimosaceae, and Rhamnaceae were found to be the dominant families. According to vegetation analysis, twenty browse communities were documented based on the Importance Value Index (IVI) of each species. Multivariate analysis has delineated three vegetation associations inhabiting the sand-dune, interdune sandy and clayey saline habitats. Detrended Correspondence Analysis (DCA) of sites has maintained the coherency with vegetation groups identified by cluster analysis (CA). In Canonical Correspondence Analysis (CCA) soil electrical conductivity, sodium, organic matter, phosphorus, potassium were most important variables influencing range site distribution. Soil physicochemical analysis revealed that texture of sand-dune habitat was sandy; inter-dune was sandy loam while clayey saline was clayey. This study has revealed that browsing vegetation pattern was predominantly associated to soil attributes. Results showed that organic matter, and soil nutrients were better at inter-dune sandy habitat whereas pH, electrical conductivity, sodium, and soil moisture were high at clayey saline habitat. The outcome of this research suggested that browse cover of Cholistan rangelands was under stress and varied according to seasons. Consequently, plant species with low IVIs need priority measures for conservation and those with high IVIs need monitoring ultimately to make these rangeland resources sustainable.
英文关键词	range vegetation degradation physicochemical multivariate conservation
类型	Article
语种	英语
开放获取类型	gold
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000604344600023
WOS关键词	MULTIVARIATE-ANALYSIS ; PLANT-COMMUNITIES ; ARID RANGELANDS ; LIVESTOCK ; DESERT ; PALATABILITY ; DEGRADATION ; RIVER
WOS类目	Ecology ; Environmental Sciences
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/348716
作者单位	[Abdullah, M.; Ishan, M. Z.; Ali, L.] Islamia Univ Bahawalpur, Cholistan Inst Desert Studies CIDS, Bahawalpur, Pakistan; [Rafay, M.] Islamia Univ Bahawalpur, Dept Forestry Range & Wildlife Management, Bahawalpur, Pakistan; [Rasheed, F.] Univ Agr Faisalabad, Dept Forestry & Range Management, Faisalabad, Pakistan; [Ahmad, M.] Islamia Univ Bahawalpur, Dept Soil Sci, Bahawalpur, Pakistan; [Kamran, Z.] Islamia Univ Bahawalpur IUB, Univ Coll Vet & Anim Sci, Bahawalpur, Pakistan; [Azhar, M. F.] Bahauddin Zakariya Univ, Dept Forestry & Range Management, Multan, Pakistan; [Akram, M.] COMSATS Inst Informat Technol, Dept Environm Sci, Vehari, Pakistan; [Ahmad, T., I] Islamia Univ Bahawalpur, Dept Econ, Bahawalpur, Pakistan
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Abdullah, M.,Rafay, M.,Rasheed, F.,et al. PHYTOSOCIOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT OF BROWSING VEGETATION IN ASSOCIATION WITH EDAPHIC FACTORS IN THE CHOLISTAN RANGELANDS OF PAKISTAN[J],2020,18(6):7813-7827.
APA	Abdullah, M..,Rafay, M..,Rasheed, F..,Ahmad, M..,Kamran, Z..,...&Ahmad, T., I.(2020).PHYTOSOCIOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT OF BROWSING VEGETATION IN ASSOCIATION WITH EDAPHIC FACTORS IN THE CHOLISTAN RANGELANDS OF PAKISTAN.APPLIED ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH,18(6),7813-7827.
MLA	Abdullah, M.,et al."PHYTOSOCIOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT OF BROWSING VEGETATION IN ASSOCIATION WITH EDAPHIC FACTORS IN THE CHOLISTAN RANGELANDS OF PAKISTAN".APPLIED ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH 18.6(2020):7813-7827.