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Table:2 A comparative account of floristic richness of trees of some tropical forests.

Area No. of Tree
Forest Location Reference
(ha) Species

Sal forest of Gorakhpur division 24 93 Pandey and Shukla (2003)

Similipal Biosphere Reserve 1.2 69 Mohanty et al (2005)
Hadagarhwildlife sanctuary 6.4 48 Present Study

CONCLUSION
In the sanctuary Shorea robusta and Carey aarborea are considered climatic climax. The

sites studied in the sanctuary are not so much rich in associated species that this may be due
to the anthropogenic pressure imposed on the sanctuary by the residents of the marginal

villages. Distribution of different vegetation layers of the sanctuary uncovered a heterogenous
nature of vegetation on showing almost unstable population in these areas.Analysis of the

distribution pattern of different vegetation layers of the sanctuary is contiguous. In a

community each species has its own ecological amplitude and its distribution is determined
by the communication between physical and biological environments.

In the present study, the vegetation of the sanctuary in all the layers of the vegetation is
characterized by the preponderance of contiguous distribution. The general preponderanceof

nearbydistribution in natural vegetationis also in accordance with Mishra et al.(A. Mishra,
2007)and Mohanty et al. (Mohanty et al., 2005). According toOdum, nearbydistributions is

commonest in nature, haphazard distribution is found only in very uniform environment and

regular distribution occurs where severe competition exists between individuals(Odum &
Barrett, 1971). However, nearby distribution depends on local habitat difference, daily and

seasonal weather changes and reproductive processes. The distribution pattern of the
vegetation showed that there was no severe competition among the species. Moreover,

uniform environment is also absent, which confirms absence of random and regular type of

distribution pattern.
Needless to say, that, disturbance indicators are important limitation to study the

exteriorpressure on the community and serve as the markers for denudation of forest stands.
Revealation of these will go long way to serve in the conservation strategy which needs to be

unique and essentially different for a sanctuary. The forest authorities may impose ban on the

misuse of these species to save life support process and ecological turn over in a forest
community. But it does not mean that the strategy for conservation should not be included for

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