A Study of Phytogeographical Aspects of Flora of Namibia

Exploring the Phytogeography and Ecology of Namibia's Flora

by Pradeep Kumar*, Dr. Komal Lata,

- Published in Journal of Advances and Scholarly Researches in Allied Education, E-ISSN: 2230-7540

Volume 12, Issue No. 2, Jan 2017, Pages 1019 - 1026 (8)

Published by: Ignited Minds Journals


ABSTRACT

In this study we will discuss about the Study of Ecology and Phytogeography Namibia Is Divided into Nine Phytogeography Groups, Based Exclusively on Distribution Patterns of Plant Species. Results Are Presented In The Form Of A Map Based On Representative Species From Each Of The Nine Groups. The Characteristics, Floristic Composition And Relationships Of Each Group Are Presented. Conceivable Ecological And Historical Causes For These Divisions Are Discussed. Proof From Studies Of The Palaeo-Environment Proved To Be Of Little Use, But (Pan-) Phytogeographic Relationships Of The Extant Flora Provided Clues, Along With Climate And Topography Was Introduced In Indian Subcontinent Dating Back To 1800s As An Ornamental Plant. Maxent, As Regards To Their Ability To Predict The Geographic Distributions Of Species. The Results Mirror The Known Distribution Of The Lantana Camara Fairly Well With Various Degrees Of Predictions. Maxent Succeeded In Anticipating Most Of The Invasion Potential Distributions Whereas GARP And Biomapper Produced An Odd Pattern Of Over-Predictive And Under-Predictive Models Respectively. These Findings Are Relevant As Model Projections Provide A Useful Way To Visualize Spatial Spread And Extent Of Invasion Potential Distribution. Such Predictions Are Useful For Conservation Practices Including Decisions For Early Detection And Formulation Of Targeted And Timely Mitigation Measures To Curb Invasion.

KEYWORD

phytogeographical aspects, flora, Namibia, ecology, phytogeography, distribution patterns, plant species, map, phytogeography groups, floristic composition, ecological causes, historical causes, palaeo-environment studies, phytogeographic relationships, climate, topography, ornamental plant, Maxent, geographic distributions, Lantana camara, invasion potential distributions, GARP, Biomapper, conservation practices, early detection, mitigation measures

INTRODUCTION

Vascular cryptogams shapes a fascinating gathering of plants that occupied land out of the blue, along these lines framing an essential piece of regular vegetation of any zone however in this time of cutting edge biological sciences the established science has endured an extraordinary set back bringing about holes of our present learning of Pteridophytes. The present study is an endeavor to feature the Systematics of Pteridophytes of Dehradun area. Dehradun locale is honored with great measure of Pteridophytic verdure, despite the fact that they have been generally supplanted by angiosperms in the present day greenery yet they structure a critical and undoubted focal position in the transformative history of the Plant kingdom. Part of work has been done on the angiosperms of study territory however pteridophytes are as yet disregarded gathering of plants. The present study is an outcome of comprehensive work amid the period 2008-2012. The study fuses a general record of the vegetation, nature, phytogeography, appropriation of plant and plant partners. Other than it likewise incorporates scientific keys to the families, genera and species. Pichi Sermolli, (1971) arrangement of grouping with slight alteration of Ching (1978) has been followed in the efficient treatment of 167 species having a place with 60 genera and 34 families in this original copy. A point by point shaded micro photographic portrayal of greatest number of plant species alongside filtering electron micro photographic (SEM) of spores of firmly associated taxa is given. The examples which are not gathered by me amid the field investigations were considered from the examples housed at various herbaria viz. Timberland Research Institute, Dehradun (DD), Botanical Survey of India, and Dehradun (BSD). It is trusted that the work will help in seeing every one of the parts of pteridophytes including ordered works, ecological connections and its protection.

REVIEW OF LITERATURE

Hackel (2012) had made the first taxonomic work on the sub tribe Dimeriinae. The first significant change in the concept of characters of Dimeria s. str. appeared in Bor's treatment (2013). He pointed out that a detailed study on the genus based on more specimens alone can reveal the full diversity and extent of variation within the genus. The major works of both Indian and foreign authors on the 2004; Smith 2004), which will guarantee the insurance of half of the most important territories of plant diversity, which is Target 5 of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (UNEP 2003), is priceless. It is additionally basically important to the present examinations on climate change. It is further important for the elucidation and comprehension of biotic dissemination examples of biological and abiotic wonders by specialists in various fields. Numerous vegetables, for instance, "adjust to occasionally dry, warm climates by delivering compound leaves that phytosynthesize quickly amid ideal periods (and show leaf nyctinasty to advance proficiency)" (Schrire et al. 2005). They maintain a strategic distance from exorbitant water misfortune by losing their pamphlets in troublesome periods. The high nitrogen digestion of all vegetables enables them to be increasingly focused when they colonize parched regions and they possibly produce leaves when the climate permits. 163 Some plants just produce leaves after downpour (for example Euphorbia damarana L.C.Leach, Adenia pechuelii) and afterward they are early deciduous. Another element that needs examination is the thing that has all the earmarks of being two kinds of leaves on certain species of Petalidium, a class that is very well-adjusted to this Center. The benefits of these adjustments are still ineffectively comprehended. Xeromorphic highlights that were watched, yet which need further documentation include: the position and size of stomata, fingernail skin thickness, leaf estimate (for example creation of littler hefty leaves), leaf thickness and additionally shape, and decreases in the size and number of vegetative and regenerative structures. Seed adjustments, for example, the creation of hard testas and delayed times of lethargy, and a scope of substance protections like alkaloid generation, are additionally liable to be basic to the survival of species under these unforgiving conditions. The variety Commiphora, which is normal for this locale, bears pseudo-aril, regularly viewed as an especially important wellspring of sustenance for winged animals and warm blooded creatures and subsequently methods for seed dispersal. Soares et al. (2007) found that ongoing accumulations were uncommon in Angola and hard to get to, accordingly their analysis of vegetables alludes for the most part to the period up to 1975, after which gathering exercises essentially stopped because of the war in that nation. The most gainful period for accumulations in Angola was somewhere in the range of 1960 and 1973, and a nonattendance of examples from the period is accepted to reflect irregularity (Soares et al. 2007). This suspicion isn't really right for the middle secured by this paper, as it is very parched and longer times of gathering are this middle, despite the fact that since area data is constrained, this number may likewise incorporate taxa from the Sera de Chela. A further issue is that petaloid monocotyledons (which may blossom for an exceptionally concise period just) and annuals are under-gathered because of the aridity of the region and the trouble of being in the zone when the plants are noticeable. The high number of succulent species recorded in Angola is without a doubt because of authority gathering, as living plants of these groups are for the most part taken and developed somewhere else. Determination of species as per the restricted data for Angola made the activity troublesome and tedious. The rundown isn't thorough therefore the greatest number of couldn't be followed.

STUDIES ON PHYTOGEOGRAPHY

The Kaokoveld Center of Endemism (KCE) contains more than 1600 species in almost 550 genera and one of the 130 families is endemic. The phytogeographic attributes were analyzed dependent on an examination of these indigenous families, genera and species. Nearby and more extensive disseminations just as taxa with disjunct appropriations both inside the KCE and in the Regions were looked into. The assorted variety of irregular basic highlights and ecological prerequisites in numerous species is condensed. The greenery is depicted as being wealthy in quantities of taxa and assorted variety, particularly for a dry region. The quantity of species and infraspecific taxa of indigenous vascular plants recorded for the Kaokoveld Center of Endemism (KCE) surpasses 1600. This figure is required to ascend as the bigger KCE is better studied. The genuine numbers are likewise changing always as new species are depicted and updates finished. It will be impressively improved when the Flora of Angola on the web (FLAN), which is presently still in planning, is finished (Soares et al. 2007). This paper centers around the vegetation of the KCE overall. It gives subtleties on the taxa at various dimensions (families, genera and species), at that point contrasts these information and taxa past the Center, yet at the same time present in the more extensive Region, and finishes up with a discourse of the living things, propensities and living spaces present in the KCE vegetation. In excess of 350 species are endemic to the KCE and a couple of species recently recorded as endemic are currently known to be close endemic KCE floristic components, for example they are barely present somewhere else. Plant Systematics is one of the most established fields of Biological sciences that incorporate

have been perceived as an indispensable piece of common vegetation of any locale and thus have been a most loved fascination in researchers, taxonomist and specialists. The present study explores the greenery vegetation of Tehri Garhwal. Tehri area harbors rich, assorted and brilliant greenery, which is very not the same as different pieces of India. Amid the previous decades, a great deal of work has been done on the angiospermic greenery, though plants have been investigated a bit. The present work is an outcome of thorough investigations and the examinations in the study region amid 2008-2012. A general record of vegetation, biology, Ethnobotany, phytogeography, dispersion, key to family, class and species is introduced. Pichi-Sermoli (1971) arrangement of characterization with slight alteration of Ching (1978) has been followed in exhibiting the orderly treatment of 154 species having a place with 55 genera and 28 families in this composition. A point by point pictorial portrayal of most extreme number of plant species alongside filtering electron microphotograph of some firmly associated taxa is given.

FLORISTIC STUDY AND PHYTOGEOGRAPHY OF THE STUDY AREA

So as to comprehend the present status of the flora in the study region containing the lake site, its limits and the catchments including abutting regular woodlands saves, floristic considers were embraced. Methodical gathering of plant examples and quantitative vegetation ponders in the study territory was done. New herbarium and dust gathering have been made for every specie. An extraordinary hand on work was done to gather the herbaceous and woody taxa around the study region, in various seasons. Broad investigation of the flora in close-by save backwoods of Tadoba - Andhari Tiger hold, Pench Tiger save, Pench stream valley with certain pieces of Chandrapur locale have been completed. Exhaustive arrangements of 500 plants, which are really gathered and captured, have been given in this section. The part additionally manages the methods of floristic study, measurable investigation of the parameters like recurrence, wealth and predominance of plant species to comprehend the floristic collections and kinds of vegetation zones. Over the span of the only remaining century, the scan for fossils in lake dregs prompted the disclosure of dust grains and spores (of size generally 10-50 m) all around protected as microfossils. They show extraordinary morphological assorted variety of dust grains and spores qualities of living plants, which made it conceivable to elude them to genera and species of similar living plants. Dust examination is worried about the study of fossil collections of dust grains and spores that have been detached from dregs having a place with Quaternary period. It incorporates the study of dust grains found in get by as microfossils under different ecological conditions. The present day flora and their relics spoke to in the crisp water lake stores have been investigated to study their decent variety and circulation with related ecological specialties. The near record on present status of flora and past records of these plants in Nagpur (Vidarbha) area is inadequately examined and subsequently the work has been taken up for Ph.D. inquires about. The study is explicitly gone for completing subjective and quantitative investigation of palynomorphs, and different confirmations from silt logy, mineral magnetics, sequence, phytogeography, at an archeological setting of Mansar (NAGPUR), with tbe help of Lake Store residue examination. Here the dust investigation is centered on fossil dusts and spores, in light of their particular kind, with explicit auxiliary element having a place with certain class/family. Along these lines, an ordered and phytogeographical approach is adjusted here to recognize the record taxa to remake the past vegetation and ecological histories, in late Holocene period especially amid the most recent 2000 years or something like that. India, with its rich biological decent variety, is dwelling place vast number of floral (45,500 plant species) and faunal (91,200 creature species) species. About 40% of the Indian flora comprises adventitive outsiders of different causes extending from American, Asian, Malaysian European and Central Asian. Species and among these 25% are obtrusive. A couple of these have prominently changed vegetation examples of the nation in earthly condition. In the midst of these, Lantana camara is one such species that has made extreme repercussions the local environs. Different investigations directed on intrusive outsiders demonstrate that once they begin growing the zone, little should be possible to annihilate them. This call for more research, particularly examine that will yield quantitative assessments of dissemination, is practically general in the writing of Lantana camera intrusion thinks about. Satellite remote detecting and GIS have effectively been connected to outline conveyance of a few uncovered intrusive species, their environments and scenes Be that as it may, making location of mysterious intruders, for example, Lantana camera is confused as the caught otherworldly data can't be legitimately inferable from these species, in this manner the expectation of its dissemination is troublesome . A blend of remote detecting, GIS and spatial modeling offers potential to identify understory attack through the improvement of models and hazard maps. Anyway no such endeavors have been made toward this path to

PHYTOGEOGRAPHICAL ASPECTS OF THE FLORA OF NAMIBIA

The phytogeographic attributes of Namibia were controlled by an investigation of the general conveyances of families, genera and species indigenous to the nation. Overall appropriation designs give pieces of information to the floristic connections and starting points of the flora of Namibia. Maybe a couple taxa have connections to South America, yet those that do, seem, by all accounts, to be among the most established taxa and the in all probability clarification for their quality in Namibia is by means of the Tethys Seaway. Most of taxa are African with expansions through Arabia to Asia. Disjunct and endemic taxa are rethought with reference to precedents and conceivable explanations behind their watched conveyance designs. As indicated by the Atlas of Namibia, Namibia covers 823,680 km2 , is 1,320 km long and 1440 km at its most stretched out focuses. It extends from 17˚ S to 29˚ S and to the extent 21˚ E, aside from the long thin Caprivi Strip in the far north east that achieves 24˚ E. In spite of being viewed as the second driest region in Africa after the Sahara, both subtropical components and desert species are available inside the nation. In spite of the fact that the known number of indigenous species and infra-explicit taxa is always showing signs of change as new species are found and corrections distributed, Namibia is thought to have ca. 4 000 higher plant species.

PLANT CHARACTERISTICS

A relatively high extent of taxa endemic to especially the western piece of the KCE comprises of monospecific genera or has a low normal number of species. This has been advanced as proof of extensive age for the flora, that speciation is most likely not happening and that nature has been steady for quite a while. The purpose for this conclusion is that the taxa are constrained in range, since they are toward the finish of their reality. Be that as it may, as Good (1974) out, species may likewise have exceptionally slender reaches when they are youthful. By and large there are no methods for knowing whether an individual species is new or old, anyway data from dated phylogenies, terminal versus basal taxa, just as the nearness of endemic genera contribute. In light of all accessible proof doubtlessly KCE endemics in 146 the Welwitschia-Desert Group are of significant age, be that as it may, those in the Kaoko Group (for instance some Petalidium species) are more youthful as there is proof of hybridization. appropriate Quaternary lacustral site in Nagpur and connecting zone. The lacustral site of Mansar close to the unearthed archeological site of Mansar (Tal-Ramtek, Dist. Nagpur) was chosen for study and the field work was attempted amid 2011-2015. Silt examining and environmental field preparing was attempted at Mansar lake site and close-by zone under the direction of Prof. M. D. Kajale, as a little piece of his continuous research project. The different parameters like precipitation, temperature, stickiness and wind speed which legitimately influencing the dust statement and safeguarding are taken in to thought. Impact of these factors on floristic creation and circulation of plant species is examined and herewith announced. General examples of conveyance can be recognized in Namibia and these are helpful methods for sorting out an alternate arrangement of data on the flora of Namibia. These floristic divisions depend on intermittent examples of plant dispersion by shared species, which are not really endemic duty, despite the fact that a striking number of endemic genera and species were observed to be constrained to specific Groups. The species don't demonstrate indistinguishable geographic reaches, yet rather runs that correspond in light of the fact that they have comparative ecological resilience’s, transformative chronicles or both. These examples have not been connected to historical clarifications; anyway recommendations are made in certain Groups. The commitment made by information of contemporary floras to understanding the past is unmistakably appeared. Studying the phytogeography of a nation instead of a district has its constraints, particularly with respect to its commitment to the comprehension of floristic areas of the world. It is, notwithstanding, important for the nation required to acknowledge what happens inside its outskirts, and to record and assess this. The size of such a study additionally permits the fuse of more subtleties on specific highlights and it features explicit information that is as yet inadequate. The rule phytogeographic components of the Namibian flora have been condensed trying to open the subject for further analysis, particularly utilizing numerical or other experimentally late philosophy. Balanites angolensis var. welwitschii, Boscia microphylla and Cadaba schroeppelii happen in the KCE in Namibia, yet additionally happen all the more broadly in Angola and are accordingly likewise called close endemics. 9.3.7 Highly disjunct taxa Commiphora oblanceolata Schinz and Dicoma cuneneensis Wild are endemics with

all the earmarks of being the equivalent, that of the Dicoma varies between the northern and southern populaces. These may comprise an alternate infraspecific taxon. Contrasts incorporate substantially less checked leaf dimorphism and for the most part shorter involucres, with glabrous or glabrescent phyllaries, standing out from the tomentose phyllaries of the common populaces (Ortiz and Netnou 2005). 9.3.8 Distributions of relatives Due to the absence of phylogenetic examinations on taxa present in the KCE, little is thought about the species that are the nearest relatives to KCE endemics. Priva auricoccea, which has not been re-gathered since 1974, is said to be firmly identified with an East African species P. curtisiae Kobuski (Meeuse 1960) and might be another pointer of the dry hall. 9.3.9 Adaptations, living things and living spaces No specific adjustment, be it in the morphology, conduct or physiology, is normal for the endemics of the KCE.

FLORISTIC PHYTOGEOGRAPHY

Species dissemination territories and its portrayal methods. Essential promotion optional dissemination, consistent and disjunct circulation zones. Geographic and ecological vicariance. Endemic and cosmopolitan species: importance, advancement, adjustments. Chorological groups: definition and their application in phytogeographical considers. Floristic division of the Earth (topography and trademark taxa). Floristic districts of the Holartic (topography and trademark taxa). Life types of Raunkiaer and their developmental and ecological significance. Highlights of a flora: species wealth and its drivers, relations between the quantity of species and zone, chorological and life structure spectra. Quantitative floristics. The flora of Italy: birthplace, lavishness, endemic species, phytogeographical regions. Customary and present day floristic examination. Floristic information banks. Quantitative floristics.

Table 1. Summary of sub disciplines of ecological phytogeography indicating their main foci and results following Van Wyk & Smith (2001)

Biomes: a group of comparable sorts of networks described by the uniqueness of the life forms of the guideline peak species they contain, and by their reactions to that environment. Vegetation: the general impact created by the development of a few or these taxa in blend. Vegetation types: plants found in networks that share comparable climate, topographical and soil prerequisites. Veld types: units of vegetation whose scope of variety is little enough to allow it’s entire to have a similar cultivating potential. Historical phytogeography depends on the all-out land scope of taxa, paying little respect to their development frames, for example the flora (the constituent plant taxa of a territory, typically worldwide); or phytogeographic locale (a region with its very own unmistakable supplement of species). It is a duty concentric methodology focused on species, genera and additionally families. The scopes of individual assessment are not indistinguishable, however included taxa are perceived by pretty much correspondent range designs that were controlled by climatic, topographical, migrational or developmental occasions. Specific centrality is joined to the scientific classification and assumed transformative connections (phylogeny) of assessment, endemics and expense with disjunction conveyances. Information required after this methodology are gotten from ordered research.

ECOLOGICAL PHYTOGEOGRAPHY

The plant topographical convention of studying plant networks has ruled the study of Namibian vegetation. Irish (1994) recognized four biomes in Namibia, which were seen as substantial land networks recognized based on predominant (plant) living things and on climatic highlights. Terms utilized in this division (for example desert, savanna, and so on.), are additionally connected in expansive scale examines somewhere else on the planet, regardless of significant variety in the floristic structure. Vegetation maps displayed in the Atlas of Namibia (Mendelsohn et al. 2002) spread biomes, wide vegetation types and littler vegetation units. In complete 29 wide vegetation types are characterized for Namibia, each bound to a biome.

PLANT FORMATIONS AND GEOBOTANY

Which means of plant arrangements. Clime charts and their significance. Plant arrangements and Geobotany and vegetation overview. The phytosociological technique. This Group does not go as far south as the Welwitschia-desert Group (1), however a few species, for example, Cissus nymphaeifolia (Welw. ex Baker) Planch., Pachypodium lealii Welw. what's more, Stigmatorhynchus hereroensis Schltr. reach out to the 19° E longitude following the 1500 m form. The elevation goes somewhere in the range of 1200 and 1500 m, aside from only south of the Kunene, where mountains achieve a tallness of 1800 m (Baynes and Otjihipa Mts). The Kunene River catchment zone is in the north, yet no different rivers impact the region. Precipitation is in summer, with around 200 mm in the west and up to 350 mm in the east, and there is no ice in winter. The circulations of in excess of 150 species are harmonious with Sesamothamnus guerichii. The most speciose family is the Acanthaceae, trailed by Leguminosae, Euphorbiaceae and Asteraceae. There are likewise no less than 6 Lamiaceae species incorporated into this Group.

DATA ANALYSIS

One of the objectives of floristic analysis is the recognizable proof and grouping of floristic components and their relating regions. Results of this work have accomplished this goal for Namibia, as regions dependent on harmonious species circulations have been recognized. Assessment of these zones demonstrated an astounding number of physical credits that relate to these territories. Models include: a) The disjunct circulations of the Highland Group (3) were found to relate to peaks. b) Where the ledge separates in focal Namibia, species, for example, Welwitschia in the Welwitschia-desert Group (1) can be discovered further inland. c) The eastern augmentations of Kaoko (2) species pursue the karstveld, yet additionally the shape lines. In spite of the fact that limits between Groups are once in a while fluffy because of absence of detail, a sufficiently high level of species is recorded inside a particular territory to have the capacity to draw a temporary fringe. Layouts frequently included stream catchments, for instance the region secured by the Gordonia Group (7) is equivalent to the Orange River catchment in Namibia. There are not many taxa related with South American in the Namibian flora, however when present they appear to be related with northwestern Namibia. Also a number have NE-SW African circulations characteristic of the parched passage. The study of Bellstedt et al. (2008) indicates rehashed movement of Zygophyllum species from southern African to the parched territories in the Horn of Africa and Asia that Z. orbiculatum and Z. stapffii, which are important endemics to the Welwitschia-desert Group (1), are the most punctual separating taxa in family Zygophyllum. dependent on agent species from every one of the nine Groups. The attributes, floristic arrangement and connections of each Group are introduced. Conceivable ecological and historical foundations for these divisions are discussed. Proof from investigations of the palaeo-environment turned out to be of little use, yet (container) phytogeographic connections of the surviving flora gave signs, alongside climate and topography.

FIGURE 1- The Kaokoveld in Northwestern Namibia

PYTOGEOGRAPHICAL CONSIDERATIONS

Floristic plant geography generally, manages disengaged species or groups of species as far as highlights appeared by them happening in constrained areas^ and,noting the distinctions appeared by them from winning aypes, makes inferences of more extensive criticalness. Here, an irregular species rathers than a standard one captures the consideration of laborers and causes them in remaking the past occasions. The inverse is valid for plant nature wherein we are for the most part concerned vjith plant networks, their history, development and conduct. Study of vegetation of oioimtain top^ is fascinating from both these purposes of viev;, yet it has gotten just little consideration in India, and works managing it are not many. To make reference to a couple of important ones we may refer to Burkill's (1924) study of the phyfeogeography of Aborland, nature of Deccan fields by Burns Kashyap's (1932) dialog of certain parts of Alpine vegetation in the Himalayas and Tibet, Champion's (1937) Survey of backwoods types happening in India and Burma . - 346 - Most of tile works alluded to above are spellbinding. Among later vvorks might be referenced Mahabale and Kharadi ('19^2), who have contemplated the vegetation of Mt.Abu and found that it is like that of the rainstorm deciduous woods on the external slants of the vjestern Himalayas.

INDIAN MANUAL OF PLANT ECOLOGY:

Khandesh areas. The vegetation in these extents is to a great extent comprised of species having a place with genera having wide geographic circulation in tropical and sub-tropical area. The erergreen types are not very many and are pretty much restricted to Betul Satpuras in Madhya Pradesh and to Eaver extend and confined tracts of Akrani woodlands considered here. In more youthful territories, particularly in parts of Taloda Range, Toranmall level deciduous woodland networks happen and are pretty much outlined in their appropriation, the sub-tropical eleinents being prominent in them. In more seasoned territories of Betul Satpuras, - 5^8 - portions of G-awilgiirh slopes, Mahadeo slopes, all in Eastern Satpuras, a greater amount of the tropical components are seen. Then again, in more youthful regions of Satpuras close waterfront fields of Tapti in the region of Surat, and in a couple of spots on Dhadgaon level and Taloda extend a portion of the plant networks give off an impression of being limited. Endemics are uncommon. In any case, plants like Qapparis decidua. Cassia auriculata, Clerodendron phlomoides, Vitex negundo, Helicteres isora, appear to he restricted in specific places just; yet they bit by bit broaden - cheir scope of dispersion in different pieces of Satpuras.

CONCLUSION

The present research supplements past investigations of relative analysis of model calculations w.r.t. plant attack, in any case, uniqueness of study lies in the way that it's a novel endeavor to show Lantana camara intrusions potential at smaller scale which has not been endeavored before in India. Additionally, observational proof is furnished that prescient models aligned with field data and increased with environment depicting indicator factors can altogether decide species nearness without genuine nearness in the field and the best models among all can be fundamentally evaluated and used to create the executives techniques. One of the significant contributions of the flow research work is the age of the principal map enumerating the displayed potential circulations of the It is obvious from the numerical analysis of more than 350, principally run confined species found in northwestern Namibia and the southwestern piece of Angola, that the Kaokoveld is a Center of Endemism. The complete zone is nonetheless, bigger than is traditionally given. In view of the bone-dry environment with low species numbers and individuals, there are countless with couple of species. Further examination is prescribed to counterbalance Lantana camara dependent on best model determination calculations, which can be powerfully refreshed with advancing data. Our results add to the expansive ecological comprehension and conceptualization of intrusive species the executives as it depends on adequacy of instrument and the board of obtrusive species in protection practice, their precision and right translation could help in limiting the ecological ramifications and monetary expense of attacks. Alongside these, illustrating the accurate area of intrusive plants, for example, Lantana camara will be urgent to create ecological conventions for channelizing the preservation measures and empower to monitor and anticipate potential attacks later on.

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Corresponding Author Pradeep Kumar*

Research Scholar of OPJS University, Churu, Rajasthan