Plant Biodiversity Assesment in Galikonda Forest, Eastern Ghats of Alluri Sitaramaraju District, Andhra Pradesh, India

Abstract

A landscape level plant diversity and population inventory was made in High altitude forest of eastern Ghats, Visakhapatnam District, Andhra Pradesh, India comprising mostly dry deciduous and moist deciduous forests. In all the three study sites, two belt transects of 5 × 1000 m size (totaling 1 ha) were laid in each site during 2022–2023 and all trees with ≥15 cm girth at breast height (gbh) were enumerated. Within each transect of 1000 x 5 m, quantitative data in respect of herb species was collected from two numbers of small sample plots each measuring 1m x 1 m. A total of 246 species was recorded on enumeration, of which 54 Trees, 50 Shrubs and 90 Herbs were noted.