A Study on Plant Diversity

The Decline of Plant Diversity in Asian Forests

Abstract

Plantdiversity reaches an astonishing level in tropical forests. At the same time,it is changing at an unprecedented rate as a complex response to severalhuman-impacts. Documenting such impacts, which date back to antiquity and evento pre-history, on genetic diversity of forests is a difficult matter andlittle quantitative data exist. Primary forests of Asia, particularly those ofthe Western Ghats and the Eastern Ghats of peninsular India are disappearing atan alarming rate due to human-impacts.