Environmental variables drive plant species composition and distribution in the moist temperate forests of Northwestern Himalaya, Pakistan.

ABSTRACT: By assessing plant species composition and distribution in biodiversity hotspots influenced by environmental gradients, we greatly advance our understanding of the local plant community and how environmental factors are affecting these communities. This is a proxy for determining how climate change influences plant communities in mountainous regions ("space-for-time" substitution). We evaluated plant species composition and distribution, and how and which environmental variables drive the plant communities in moist temperate zone of Manoor valley of Northwestern Himalaya, Pakistan. During four consecutive years (2015-2018), we sampled 30 sampling sites, measuring 21 environmental variables, and recording all plant species present in an altitudinal variable range of 1932-3168 m.a.s.l. We us

SUBMITTER: Rahman IU 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8870539 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature