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DOI	10.3390/plants11010087
	Classification and Characterization of the Manoor Valley's (Lesser Himalaya) Vegetation from the Subtropical-Temperate Ecotonal Forests to the Alpine Pastures along Ecological Variables
	Rahman, Inayat Ur; Afzal, Aftab; Iqbal, Zafar; Alzain, Mashail Nasser; Al-Arjani, Al-Bandari Fahad; Alqarawi, Abdulaziz A.; Abd Allah, Elsayed Fathi; Ali, Niaz; Sakhi, Shazia; Khan, Muhammad Azhar; Khan, Uzma; Ijaz, Farhana; Mumtaz, Samina; Calixto, Eduardo Soares
通讯作者	Rahman, IU ; Afzal, A ; Ijaz, F (corresponding author)，Hazara Univ, Dept Bot, Mansehra 21300, Pakistan. ; Rahman, IU (corresponding author)，Missouri Bot Garden, William L Brown Ctr, 4344 Shaw Blvd, St Louis, MO 63110 USA.
来源期刊	PLANTS-BASEL
EISSN	2223-7747
出版年	2022
卷号	11 期号:1
英文摘要	Plant species are distributed in different types of habitats, forming different communities driven by different sets of environmental variables. Here, we assessed potential plant communities along an altitudinal gradient and their associations with different environmental drivers in the unexplored Manoor Valley (Lesser Himalaya), Pakistan. We have implemented various ecological techniques and evaluated phytosociological attributes in three randomly selected 50 m-transects within each stand (a total of 133) during different seasons for four years (2015-2018). This phytosociological exploration reported 354 plant species representing 93 different families. The results revealed that the Therophytic life form class dominated the flora, whereas Nanophyll dominated the leaf size spectra. There were a total of twelve plant communities identified, ranging from the lowest elevations to the alpine meadows and cold deserts. The maximum number of species were found in Cedrus-Pinus-Parrotiopsis community (197 species), in the middle altitudinal ranges (2292-3168 m). Our results showed that at high altitudes, species richness was reduced, whereas an increase in soil nutrients was linked to progression in vegetation indicators. We also found different clusters of species with similar habitats. Our study clearly shows how altitudinal variables can cluster different plant communities according to different microclimates. Studies such as ours are paramount to better understanding how environmental factors influence ecological and evolutionary aspects.
英文关键词	vegetation structure environmental variables PC-ORD plant community assembly Himalaya
类型	Article
语种	英语
开放获取类型	Green Published, gold
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000742042200001
WOS关键词	NANDIAR KHUWAR CATCHMENT ; COMMUNITY DIVERSITY ; SPECIES-DIVERSITY ; PLANT-COMMUNITIES ; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENTS ; MULTIVARIATE APPROACH ; FLORISTIC DIVERSITY ; CLIMATE-CHANGE ; ORDINATION ; RICHNESS
WOS类目	Plant Sciences
WOS研究方向	Plant Sciences
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/376756
作者单位	[Rahman, Inayat Ur; Afzal, Aftab; Iqbal, Zafar; Ali, Niaz; Khan, Muhammad Azhar; Khan, Uzma; Ijaz, Farhana] Hazara Univ, Dept Bot, Mansehra 21300, Pakistan; [Rahman, Inayat Ur] Missouri Bot Garden, William L Brown Ctr, 4344 Shaw Blvd, St Louis, MO 63110 USA; [Alzain, Mashail Nasser] Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman Univ, Dept Biol, Coll Sci, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia; [Al-Arjani, Al-Bandari Fahad] King Saud Univ, Coll Sci, Dept Bot & Microbiol, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia; [Alqarawi, Abdulaziz A.; Abd Allah, Elsayed Fathi] King Saud Univ, Coll Food & Agr Sci, Dept Plant Prod, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia; [Sakhi, Shazia] Univ Swat, Ctr Plant Sci & Biodivers, Swat 19200, Pakistan; [Mumtaz, Samina] Karakoram Int Univ, Dept Anim Sci, Gilgit Baltistan 15100, Pakistan; [Calixto, Eduardo Soares] Univ Missouri, Dept Biol, St Louis, MO 63166 USA; [Calixto, Eduardo Soares] Univ Florida, Dept Entomol & Nematol, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Rahman, Inayat Ur,Afzal, Aftab,Iqbal, Zafar,et al. Classification and Characterization of the Manoor Valley's (Lesser Himalaya) Vegetation from the Subtropical-Temperate Ecotonal Forests to the Alpine Pastures along Ecological Variables[J],2022,11(1).
APA	Rahman, Inayat Ur.,Afzal, Aftab.,Iqbal, Zafar.,Alzain, Mashail Nasser.,Al-Arjani, Al-Bandari Fahad.,...&Calixto, Eduardo Soares.(2022).Classification and Characterization of the Manoor Valley's (Lesser Himalaya) Vegetation from the Subtropical-Temperate Ecotonal Forests to the Alpine Pastures along Ecological Variables.PLANTS-BASEL,11(1).
MLA	Rahman, Inayat Ur,et al."Classification and Characterization of the Manoor Valley's (Lesser Himalaya) Vegetation from the Subtropical-Temperate Ecotonal Forests to the Alpine Pastures along Ecological Variables".PLANTS-BASEL 11.1(2022).