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- Title
PLANT DIVERSITY OF SONADIA ISLAND -- AN ECOLOGICALLY CRITICAL AREA OF SOUTH-EAST BANGLADESH.
- Authors
AREFIN, M. S.; HOSSAIN, M. K.; HOSSAIN, M. AKHTER
- Abstract
The study focuses the plant diversity in different habitats, status and percentage distribution of plants in Sonadia Island, Moheshkhali, Cox's Bazar of Bangladesh. A total of 138 species belonging to 121 genera and 52 families were recorded and the species were categorised to tree (56 species), shrub (17), herb (48) and climber (17). Poaceae represents the largest family containing 8 species belonging to 8 genera. Homestead vegetation consists of 78% species followed by roadside (23%) and cultivated land (10%), mangroves (9%), sandy beaches (4%) and wetland (1%). The major traditional use categories were timber, food and fodder, fuel, medicine and fencing where maximum plant species (33% of recorded) were traditionally being used for food and fodder.
- Subjects
PLANT species diversity; PLANT ecology; PHYTOGEOGRAPHY; MANGROVE plants; GRASSES
- Publication
Bangladesh Journal of Plant Taxonomy, 2017, Vol 24, Issue 1, p107
- ISSN
1028-2092
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3329/bjpt.v24i1.33037