Phyto-sociological study of herbaceous vegetation of Darjeeling Govt. College Campus in West Bengal, India
Debabrata Das
Ecology Laboratory, Botany Department, Lalgarh Government College, Lalgarh, Paschim Medinipur-721516 (India) (Formerly Microbiology Laboratory, P. G. Department of Botany, Darjeeling Govt. College, Darjeeling, W.B.) (India)
ABSTRACT
Phytosociology is a common term applied in plant ecology to know the actual status of any vegetation. It broadcasts the quantitative parameters to locate the position of species in connection with their community structure. At a glance the structure is unique but as the vegetation is cryptic so the structure might be dynamic due to passing time. Unique pattern may change from time to time due to some factors locally fit to deliver the variability of structural change of vegetation. Nutritional factors may have the role to pre-deposition of seeds or propagules to develop the new vegetation in a place. Therefore, repeated study is essential to know the actual structure of vegetation pattern in any community even to continue the process to generate an overview and to draw a comment on it. The present study, therefore is a preliminary study of phytosociology of herbaceous vegetation in the campus of Darjeeling Govt. College under Eastern Himalaya. Frequency, density and abundance of some herbaceous plants have been made to justify the position or status in the ecosystem of college campus.