Spatial assessment of ecological health of riverine forest ecosystem using Floristic Quality Index.

ABSTRACT: Field based ecological studies are efficient tools enabling decision makers to keep an eye on the health of forest ecosystem especially under anthropogenic stress. In current work, by employing the Floristic Quality Index (FQI) technique, we have evaluated the ecological health status of 3 riverine forests comprising of 110 plants species. The results revealed a negative connection of anthropogenic activities with the FQI. FQI scores and Principal Component Analysis (PCA) exhibited a good correlation and co-variance at the places with high degree of human interference. The mean FQI score of these forests was 25.31. The Coefficient of Conservatism (CC value) score ranked 40 species at grade 0, 33 species into the range 1-3, 25 species into the range 4-6, 9 species in the range 7-8 and only

SUBMITTER: Khalid S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12712037 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature